1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Michael. 2 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 2: I know you didn't mean to, but I think you 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 2: just hit on a brilliant idea. The Michael Dragon Show 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 2: has national syndication just written all over it. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: Good luck with that well in my dreams, in my dreams, nightmares, 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: and in Dragon's nightmare, exactly Dragon's nightmare. 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 3: I want to finish this Paxton versus Cornin issue because 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 3: I really do want you to understand not just my 9 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 3: thought process, but the retail politics that are involved here. 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: And we had left it with the. 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 3: Primary polling showed Paxton up by about on an average 12 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 3: three four point I'm sorry, four point three percent, and 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 3: then we were looking at a map of Texas and 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 3: you would have thought I would have And actually a 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 3: friend of mine said, sent me this map, and I'd 16 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: looked at it and I'm like, wow, that really is weird. 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 3: You would have thought that Cornan's bread and butter where 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 3: he got most of his votes were the I three 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 3: five corridor, which runs from the Red River down through 20 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 3: Dallas Fort Worth into Austin, a little bit over into 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 3: Houston Harris County, and it makes a turn right through 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 3: Austin into San Antonio. And indeed it shows that's where 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 3: Cornyan won the majority of his vote. But then you 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: look at places like El Paso, and then you look 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 3: into Texas Panhandle, Amarillo and all of those counties. I 26 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: shouldn't say all, but probably what I consider at least 27 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: to be the Texas Panhandle, which would be about the 28 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: first four rows of those square counties in the Panhandle. 29 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 3: It was corning slightly ahead in those rural areas that 30 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 3: I know from going up in the Oklahoma Panhandle that 31 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 3: are traditionally hardcore conservatives, and Cornyn's winning those. So that 32 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: leaves you with a what's going on. 33 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: Now? 34 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 3: I suspect that even without Trump's intervention, Paxton will prevail 35 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: in the runoff, but it's going to be a squeaker. 36 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: And this is based now what people in Texas are 37 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 3: telling me something along the lines I say fifty two 38 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 3: to forty eight. And when I started asking questions about, well, 39 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: why why the flip and why close, it turns out 40 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 3: that Texas really still is red. But you combine that 41 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 3: with Cornan's power of incumbency and his war chest, and 42 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: then the Coudi Grass for me was the what if 43 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 3: that everybody in tech this tells me is setting in 44 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 3: and that what if stems from one race out of 45 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 3: a one hundred and eighty nine to zero streak that 46 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 3: Texas Republicans have piled up over thirty years without a 47 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: single Democrat statewide win. You know what that what what if? 48 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 4: Is? 49 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: It's the general election between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke 50 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: on November six, twenty eighteen. You remember the numbers for that. 51 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: Ted Cruz won with fifty point nine he barely got 52 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: above a majority. Beto Beta male Beto O'Rourke came in 53 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: with forty eight point three percent. Now that doesn't add 54 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: up to one hundred percent because there was a there 55 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 3: was a libertarian running Neil Dittman with libertarians just stop it, 56 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: stop it. But the votally was Ted Cruz at four million, 57 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 3: two hundred and sixty thousand to Beto O'Rourke's four million, 58 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 3: forty five thousand. Now that tells me and something I've 59 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: always believed that Ted Cruz is a horrible candidate. And 60 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: I'm sorry if that offends any of you true conservatives 61 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 3: out there, but he really is. Ted Cruz underperformed Trump 62 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: by more than five points in twenty twenty four, and 63 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 3: he was probably saved from another race like the one 64 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 3: he had against Beta O'Rourke when he won again by 65 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 3: the hair on his chin. I think the problem is 66 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 3: was that Ted Cruz was busy believing the polls, trying 67 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 3: to run up the score by visiting Laredo and Pampa, 68 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 3: Texas up in the Panhandle, while Beto sat in Lewisville, 69 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: at the confluence of four suburban county lines, sucking up 70 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 3: soft Republican votes, basically Austin San Antonio. 71 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: And that's why we're having this conversation. Now. 72 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 3: Tall Rico is no Beto Arourke, but he does fit 73 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 3: the mold of a say Willie Nelson style weirdo white 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 3: Texas Democrat because he will energize the Austin Nutt jobs, 75 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 3: which is, when you think about it, that's why tallerco 76 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 3: beat Jasmine Crockett in those counties and then hope to 77 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 3: benefit from John Cornan's sixty million dollar blooding just gutting 78 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 3: of Ken Patson over his personal problems. Now, I think 79 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 3: Paxson will win and he should be the next US 80 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 3: Senator from Texas, particularly considering all of the voting record 81 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: of John Cornyan, and in particular, you know this whole 82 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 3: idea of him Cornyn and Thun butting up together to 83 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 3: withhold the Save Act from coming to the floor for 84 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 3: a vote and going through that process and hanging that 85 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 3: as a sort of dominicles over Donald Trump probably going 86 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 3: to backfire. The United States Senate should easily remain being 87 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: run by Republicans. And the last thing I want, or frankly, any. 88 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: Of us need. 89 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 3: Our Democrats getting a foothold in Texas after Trump all 90 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 3: but erased a decade of progress in one evening on 91 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 3: November of twenty twenty four. There must be no endorsement 92 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 3: of Cornyon until the same actors passed, and soon as 93 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: you know, he's chomping at the bit to keep Corny 94 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 3: in office. And I suggest if he wants him in 95 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 3: there that bad, he should beg barter and steal until 96 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 3: Lisa Murkowski or John Curtis or Tom Tillis or even 97 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: Miss McConnell pop their heads out of their butt and 98 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 3: they get it across. And I think Paxton is sensing 99 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 3: the moment. He has offered to drop out if and 100 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: only if that negotiation play works. 101 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: Now. 102 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: The Senate, if they wanted to, could easily pass that 103 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: eighty five fifteen issue, but they're stalling because they clearly 104 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 3: answer to different interests. Want to save Cornon, then do 105 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 3: something on behalf of the people who are sick of 106 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: rigged elections and all the other Democrat chaos and quite frankly, 107 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 3: the Republican rhino chaos. Now, I do hope that Ken 108 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: Paxton is the next Senator from Texas, but I think 109 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 3: that almost everyone agrees that despite the toxicity of the 110 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 3: entire arrangement, the Save Act might be more important than 111 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: a single term in the United States Senate. So, mister President, 112 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 3: I would suggest, as part of whatever negotiation is that 113 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 3: you're trying to put together, that Kim Paxton enters your 114 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 3: administration takes the fight to a whole new level because 115 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 3: we could use him in the administration. Now, whether they 116 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 3: will do that or not, I don't know. You know, 117 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 3: there's one other factor that somebody told me about that 118 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: I didn't realize because again I'm not that steep right now, 119 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 3: and in this particular race, this is that a guy 120 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 3: the name of Jeff Rowe, who Trump reportedly despises, is 121 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 3: running John Cornyn's campaign, and he's going to run it 122 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 3: just like he almost ran ted Cruz's campaign. 123 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: Into the ground. So that's all of the. 124 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 3: Machinations that are going on behind the scenes, and those 125 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: are the nuts and bolts of the actual numbers of 126 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 3: what those results show me. The fact that Cornyn won 127 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 3: some counties up in the area where I grew up 128 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 3: in now Cars I was across the line in the 129 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 3: Oklahoma Panhandle, but I know the Texas Panhandle pretty damn well, 130 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: and it's shocking to see how well Cornyan did there. 131 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 3: And it's shocking to me to see how well Cornyn 132 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 3: did in that I thir five Corridor, which is essentially 133 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 3: San Francisco. 134 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: So whatever deal is done here, I don't know. But 135 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: what we. 136 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: Want is two things that may seem contradictory, but both 137 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 3: fit what we want we want. We want the Senate 138 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 3: to remain in Republican hands, under Republican control, and when 139 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: he want the Save Act passed. So now it's in 140 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 3: the hands of really four people. Ken Paxton, who threw 141 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 3: an entire monkey wrench in it yesterday when he said, 142 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: you know what, I'll drop out if you'll bring the 143 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 3: Save Act and pass the Save Act and get it done, 144 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: then I'll drop out. Now, whether he's hadding conversations with 145 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 3: Trump about serving in the administration. 146 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. 147 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 3: Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Would be wise if 148 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 3: he's willing to make that deal to do that. That's 149 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 3: how ugly retail politics are. Don't always get what you want. 150 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 3: Sometimes we might get what we need. And that's what's 151 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 3: going on in Texas right now. Now back to Trump 152 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 3: and shifting gears here, because now I want to go 153 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: back to energy. In comments to a Russian media reporter, 154 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin threatened this week to cut off all energy 155 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 3: exports to Europe in favor of sending it to more 156 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: reliable and permanent partners in Asia, well like India, he says. 157 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 3: Putin says that Europe can no longer be considered a 158 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 3: premium buyer of his country's natural gas. Now that should 159 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 3: come as a surprise to nobody. Europe is paying for 160 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 3: decades of their madness of letting all of the congretens 161 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 3: in the Church of the climate activists kind of run 162 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 3: their entire energy sector. So Putin's latest threat to cut 163 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: off gas supplies now fully exposes the folly of the 164 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 3: European Union's anti fossil fuel crusade. It is a self 165 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 3: inflicted wound that we now see unfolding now. Whether we'll 166 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 3: get to how this may play out in just a second, 167 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 3: but let me just make one footnote here. This is 168 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 3: probably everything going on, not just Putin threatening to cut 169 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 3: off Europe, but the whole problem with China, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, 170 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 3: all of that energy in terms of oil, natural gas, 171 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 3: LNG everything. I think in if we step back from 172 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 3: all the minutia of everything going on right now, we 173 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 3: may actually be witnessing over here on the side the 174 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 3: Church of the climate activists may actually be dying a 175 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 3: rather quick death. You add into that all of the 176 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: AI data centers now I know must must to put 177 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 3: on an outer space, but that's not going to happen overnight. 178 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 3: And the AI companies are going to continue to grow, 179 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 3: and they've now agreed that in at least in principle, 180 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 3: they've agreed that they will bear the cost of all 181 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 3: the energy demands that they are putting on you know, public, 182 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 3: publicly owned or private utilities. Well that's great, but where 183 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 3: are they going to get the energy. There's only one 184 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 3: place to get a baseline, stable, reliable, stable reliable baseline 185 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 3: of energy, and that's through fossil fuels, through oil and 186 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 3: natural gas. That's going to kill not completely, because there'll 187 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 3: still be solar panel companies and they'll still be electric vehicles. 188 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,839 Speaker 3: But behind all of those things, you still have to 189 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 3: have the manufacturing process. 190 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: Which will require oil and gas. 191 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 3: And I think this is the dying death throws of 192 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 3: the idea that we can rely on wind and energy 193 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: or whatever kind of crap is going to be to 194 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 3: supply the kind of baseline power that we need. 195 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: Now. 196 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: Back to Putin and his threat to the European Union, 197 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 3: you take that threat and you combine that with the 198 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 3: straight ohrd moos. I don't eve want to call it 199 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: the shutdown anymore, but what's happened is the ships are 200 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: no longer sailing. All that's going to change, not because 201 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 3: that the Uranians have any ability to actually blockade the Strait, 202 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 3: but because of the costs of the insurance premium skyrocketed. 203 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 3: Well that's being fixed. So whatever you want to call 204 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 3: the straight ohort moves right now, it's a delay, it's 205 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 3: a partial shutdown, however you want to describe it. Putin's 206 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 3: latest threat to cut off gas supplies now exposes the 207 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 3: folly of all of that, and combine that with whatever's 208 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 3: going on in the straight of Horne Moos, however you 209 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 3: want to describe it. Cutter's LNG is going offline. Saudi 210 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 3: refineries and other key Middle East oil and gas infrastructure 211 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 3: is getting hit by drones. All they could quickly evolve 212 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 3: into a full blown energy crisis across the European landscape. 213 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 3: So Putin's out there blasting eu'se misguided policies, not the 214 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 3: green stuff, but like banning Russian pipeline gas by twenty 215 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 3: twenty seven and the short term LNG deals that started 216 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 3: back in or started back in April, inviting Russia to 217 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,359 Speaker 3: pivot elsewhere while Europe was forced to scramble for other supplies. 218 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: So Russia's EU gas market share plunged from forty percent 219 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: before twenty twenty two to just now six percent, replaced 220 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 3: by Norway, the United States and Algeria. But even they 221 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 3: could vote for higher paying markets. According to Putin, and 222 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 3: he's not wrong, LNG not committed to law, long term 223 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 3: contracts will flow to the markets that offer the highest 224 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 3: rates of return. Again, basic economics. We started this entire 225 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: program out decades of demonizing reliable energy sources and refusing 226 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 3: to develop its own oil and gas reserve that's left 227 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 3: Europe vulnerable now, facing storage scrambles, price spikes, unreliable allies 228 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: chasing profits. Nobody should be surprised by this. It's a 229 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: real wake up call. Tursule von Derderlin, the head of 230 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 3: the EU and the entire European Commission. Energy security cannot 231 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 3: be created by fealty to green fantasies. It requires a 232 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 3: development of hard assets and mineral reserves, and then keeping 233 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 3: those nukes up and running, rather than blowing them up 234 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 3: or shutting them down. But the reality is that it's 235 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 3: too late now for the EU to take this wake 236 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: up call seriously. They've rendered the entire continent subservient to 237 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 3: foreign suppliers, including US, and completely vulnerable to an evolving 238 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 3: energy crisis. And Putin knows that, and you can be 239 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: damn certain he will take full advantage. Doing anything else 240 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: would be dumb. And Vladimir Putin is not dumb. He 241 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 3: may be a thug, but he's not dumb. He's a 242 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 3: smart thug. But take a look at what's happened, because 243 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 3: shift from China for a moment, I mean from Russia 244 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: for a moment, over to China. Take a look at 245 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 3: what's happened to the Chi Chijing Ping regime. In just 246 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: two short months, eight hundred thousand barrels a day of 247 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 3: cheap sanctioned Venezuelan oil is gone. Two million barrels a 248 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: day of cheap sanction Iranian oil gone another six or 249 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 3: seven million barrels a day of Persian Gulf imports at 250 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 3: least temporarily suspended by its own allies in Iran. Now, 251 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 3: China just ordered its domestic refiners to suspend exports of 252 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 3: diesel and gasoline and keep it of their own internal use. 253 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 3: That's a band aid. There's a band aid over a 254 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 3: huge gaping wound, because despite all the Chinese propaganda about 255 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 3: evs are renewables, massive volumes of imported crude oil and 256 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 3: refined products still is the lifeblood of the Chinese economy. 257 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 3: It is not a sustainable situation, and g Gimping has 258 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 3: to know that. And that is far from all that 259 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 3: China has lost since the decapitation of the Nicholas Maduro 260 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 3: regime back on January. 261 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: Take a look at this. 262 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 3: China's lost control of two major ports it had established. 263 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 3: It either into the Panama Canal. China has lost control 264 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 3: of the major assets and the economic inroads. It is 265 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 3: established in Venezuela. And that's just the beginning. 266 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: Stay tuned. 267 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: Let's go through the rest of the things that China 268 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 3: has lost and what does it mean. 269 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 5: Hello, Michael and Dragon. I'm calling to report a technical problem. 270 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 5: Every time you guys say okay goobers on the radio, 271 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 5: my android auto thinks you're saying okay Google. So if 272 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 5: you guys could consider, you know, hey, goobers their attention 273 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 5: googers or something like that, I would really appreciate it 274 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 5: and it wouldn't interact the program for me. 275 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Thank you? Was his complaint. Did we say hey, goobers? 276 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: His complaint was that we say okay, goobers, all right? 277 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: So his complaint is that we say. 278 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 3: Okay, goobers, Okay goobers, Okay goobers, Okay goobers, Okay goobers, 279 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 3: okay goobers, all right, goobers, okay, goobers go. I see 280 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 3: now what I have to remember that okay goobers set 281 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 3: and that sets off an android to pop open Google. 282 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: His apparently, won't you just change the keyword On't you 283 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: changed the you know, the response word. 284 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 3: Okay because you know we're gonna change you know we're 285 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 3: not gonna change. 286 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: So let's go back to China. 287 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 3: Because the again, all of this movement going on right now, 288 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 3: and I know everybody's focused on the war itself, like 289 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 3: you know, the Kurds are getting ready to make an 290 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 3: incursion into Iran and what's that going to do? 291 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: And what's Europe's response going to be. 292 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 3: I mean, there's all these moving parts, but when you 293 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 3: pull back and you do a thirty thousand foot out 294 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 3: of body experience and look at it, it's truly fascinating. 295 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 3: And I and China is for me anyway, Yes, the 296 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 3: war is fascinating. The realignment in the Middle East going on, 297 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 3: all of our Arab allies, you know, kind of banning 298 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 3: together against the Iranians. 299 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: Yes, I love all of that. And and oh Zelensky. 300 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 3: Zelensky comes out and threatens Orbond and basically says, I 301 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 3: if you don't, if you keep blocking this EU payment 302 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 3: coming to us to help finance our war, I'm going 303 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: to give our military your home address. Yeah, I'm going 304 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 3: to descend a drone that took some cahonis holy cow man, 305 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 3: oh man. 306 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: Anyway, back to China. 307 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: So, as I said, China lost control of two of 308 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 3: its major ports at either of the Panama Canal, they 309 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 3: lost control of major assets and the economic inroads are 310 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 3: established in Venezuela. They lost the same thing in Cuba. 311 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 3: China's known ambition to control Greenland, I think we can 312 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 3: consider that finished done. And their ability to control the 313 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 3: global flow of rare earth minerals and other critical energy minerals, 314 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 3: it may not be finished yet, but it's rapidly ending. 315 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 3: And in China's ambition to work with a dumbass Canadian 316 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 3: Prime Minister Mark Carnei to try to control the Canadian 317 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 3: it's in the process of ending. And then China's ability 318 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 3: to pour deadly fentanyl into this country and kill hundreds 319 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 3: of thousands of Americans every year, well that's getting heavily restricted. 320 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 3: And I think that list could. 321 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: Go on and on. 322 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: All of that and so much more has taken place 323 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 3: with astonishing speed in just two short months. It is 324 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 3: without question, the fastest and the most devastating reorganization of 325 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 3: global economic and geopolitical relationships in modern history. There's never 326 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 3: been anything like it, and right now it's all because 327 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 3: of Donald Trump, who has the will, the will to 328 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 3: stare at the deep state globalists, to look them in 329 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 3: the face and basically tell them. 330 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: To f off. 331 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 3: What an amazing time to be alive and to watch 332 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 3: all of this. It just it truly fascinates me. At 333 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 3: the same time that that's going on externally. 334 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: This week. 335 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: On March third, it's not two days ago. Three days ago. 336 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 3: A letter landed simultaneously on the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom, 337 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: the California Air Resources Board, the California Energy Commission, And 338 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 3: because the author of the letter was to make sure 339 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 3: that nobody could claim they didn't see it coming, he 340 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 3: sent it to the entire California legislature, every power center 341 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 3: served simultaneously with a single letter. If this was a case, 342 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 3: a legal case, that would be called service a process 343 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 3: when you want to make sure that the defendants can't run. 344 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 3: The letter came from the president of Chevron Oil, Andy Waltz. 345 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 3: It is a fascinating letter and it's well here's the 346 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 3: headline directly from the letter. The California Air Board, California 347 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 3: CARB the California Air Regulatory Board. Their proposed cap and 348 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 3: invest regulation will raise the price of gasoline, threaten the 349 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 3: reliability of California's fuel supply, impact California jobs, and threaten 350 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: energy security for the entire country. Now I noticed he 351 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 3: didn't say California's energy security. 352 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: He said America's energy security. 353 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 3: Now, I know the initial reaction of particularly some of 354 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 3: you goobers who hate listen, will be that, oh, this 355 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 3: is just an oil company complaining about regulations. 356 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: They always do that. Here's what I would say to that. 357 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,199 Speaker 3: The question is never whether the witness has an interest 358 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 3: in the outcome, because every witness does. The only question 359 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 3: is whether the facts support the argument. And in this 360 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 3: the facts come largely from California's own government documents. So 361 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 3: Chevron is not making up these numbers. They are quoting 362 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 3: the California Energy Commission back at itself. They're throwing up 363 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: a mirror in this letter and saying, look, this is 364 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 3: what you're doing. So what is capin invest and why 365 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 3: is the California Air Regulatory Board making it even worse? 366 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 3: California's cabin invest program, which the rest of the world 367 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 3: calls cap and trade, sets a ceiling on total greenhouse 368 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 3: gas emissions, and then that agency will issue permits for 369 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 3: each time of COE two that you're allowed to emit. Now, 370 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 3: companies that need to emit more can then buy allowances 371 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 3: from companies that are emitting less. In theory, they market 372 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: this as a market based way to reduce emissions. Milton 373 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 3: Freedman would recognize the structure. It's a carbon tax. Whatever 374 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 3: you want to call it. I don't care what you say. 375 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 3: Milton Freedman is right, this is a carbon tax. But 376 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 3: here's what happens when you keep tightening the cap in 377 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 3: a market that's already structurally broken. You see, California is 378 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 3: what the energy industry calls a fuel island. It requires 379 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 3: its own unique gasoline blend called carbob that only California 380 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 3: refineries or a tiny a tiny handful of outside refiners 381 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: can produce. So when a California refinery closes, that doesn't 382 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 3: just reduce supply, it removes the capacity to make the 383 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 3: only fuel that California cars can legally burn. You can't 384 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 3: call up Houston and say, hey, send us a million barrels. 385 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 3: Houston's fuel doesn't meet California standards. Imports from Asia will 386 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 3: take weeks to arrive, So if a refinery goes down unexpectedly, 387 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:08,199 Speaker 3: California doesn't have weeks. Now, into that fragile system that 388 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 3: already exists, the California Air Board wants to dramatically tighten 389 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 3: their Cap and investor cap and Trade. And here's where 390 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 3: Chevron's letter is devastating, because they use California's own math. 391 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 3: The California Energy Commission says that cap and invest cap 392 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: and Trade already adds twenty four cents to every gallon 393 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 3: of gasoline. Their own twenty eighteen regulatory Impact Assessment says 394 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 3: every ten dollars increase in allowance price adds another nine 395 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 3: cents to the gallon. So if allowance prices hits the 396 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 3: price ceiling ceiling, the carb itself designed approximate one hundred 397 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 3: and thirty five dollars by twenty thirty. University of California 398 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 3: Davis calculates the cap invest alone will add another dollar 399 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 3: twenty one per gallon to California prices by twenty thirty, 400 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 3: one dollar and twenty one cents per gallon from one regulation. 401 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: On top of everything else, it's already baked into California 402 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 3: fuel prices, which is already running about fifty above the 403 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 3: national average. 404 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: Michael. 405 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 4: Regarding the carbon tax, it goes back to the fifteen 406 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 4: hundreds actually, when the Catholic Church needed more funds in 407 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 4: order to put the dome on top, and they created indulgences, 408 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 4: which meant that rich people could pay for their sins 409 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 4: in order to get to heaven if they gave a 410 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 4: church enough money. And carbon tax is the exact same 411 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 4: thing rich people can pay for their sins. 412 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: We had to go back to indulgences. 413 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 3: It would just be so much easier, wouldn't it Just 414 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 3: they just pay for it and move on. We talked 415 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 3: about Christy Knowan yesterday because the rumor was that the 416 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 3: news report started as I was on air, that the 417 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 3: rumors were flying around Washington, d C. That Trump was 418 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 3: about to replace her. And then when I left the 419 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 3: studio yesterday at noon or eleven fifty five, whatever it is, 420 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: I walked out and I see Rob, the news director, 421 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 3: and I said, so, who's reporting about no maybe getting fired? 422 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,199 Speaker 3: And he swerved around and said, oh, no, she's done done. 423 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 3: Trump's announced. It doesn't surprise me in the least. And 424 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 3: whether Mark Wayne Mullen, the only true conservative senator from Oklahoma, 425 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 3: will be a good Secretary of Homeland Security or not, 426 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 3: I'll reserve judgment on that. It's it's one thing to 427 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 3: be a US senator and it's another thing to be 428 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 3: able to. And here's where I think I diverge a 429 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 3: lot from senators or people in. 430 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: The corporate world. I don't think you have to. 431 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 3: Be an smme, a subject matter expert to run the 432 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security. You have to be a good 433 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: manager of human capital. You have to be a good delegator, 434 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 3: you have to be a good understanding of culture, of 435 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 3: organizational culture, because you've got twenty two separate departments and 436 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 3: agencies all thrown together under one roof, managed by four 437 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 3: under secretaries, of which I was one at one time. 438 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 3: And if you don't understand how to deal with all 439 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 3: the internecine warfare that goes on, all the turf battles 440 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 3: that go on, everything that goes on in a private 441 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 3: organization or a public organization like DHS, then you're not 442 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 3: gonna You're not gonna win, You're not gonna you're not 443 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 3: gonna be able to do it. So I reserve judgment 444 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 3: on Mark Wayne Mullen until we see what he has 445 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 3: to say at the confirmation hearings and what he thinks 446 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 3: are going to be his price. But let's go back 447 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 3: to Christynome for a moment, because this is a great 448 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 3: insight into how DC works. Everybody says, or I've heard 449 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 3: some people say I shouldn't say everybody. Some people say 450 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 3: that it was because she got way out in front 451 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 3: of the president, she was getting more airtime than the president. 452 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 3: I've not done in an analysis to see how much 453 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 3: airtime she got versus how much airtime he got. He 454 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 3: probably does take that into consideration. And if he's like 455 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 3: most presidents, they all have in their office off the 456 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 3: Oval Office, which is just to the President's left, they've 457 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 3: got a bank of televisions, and of course as you 458 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 3: walk through the West Wing, they're television's on everywhere, so 459 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 3: you can't if you just want to walk down the 460 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 3: hallway to meet with Susie Wiles, or you go out 461 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 3: to meet with your cabinet secretary or your personal secretary, 462 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 3: and so you step out the right side of the 463 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 3: Oval Office, they're banks a TVs. Everywhere you go there 464 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 3: are TVs. The only place where there's a TV there 465 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: but it's not usually on, is in the Roosevelt Room, 466 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 3: in the Cabinet room, but everybody else's office has got 467 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 3: TVs because it's always about what's being said over the airwaves. 468 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 3: So if he saw Christy Nome more than he saw 469 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 3: somebody else. Yeah, that might bug him. In fact, I 470 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 3: would say it would bug him. I don't think that 471 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 3: was the issue. I think the issue was simply this Minnesota. 472 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 3: Minnesota was the issue. I knew she was short lived 473 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 3: and she was going to be gone when Tom Homan 474 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 3: was sent in to clean up that mess, because she 475 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 3: made some humongous mistakes for the number one issue that 476 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 3: got Donald Trump elected, and that was immigration, and she overreacted. 477 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 3: She put the wrong people in charge. She put a 478 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 3: bunch of of guys with a bunch of bulletproof vests 479 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 3: and tear gas canisters on them and armor and everything else, 480 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,239 Speaker 3: and sentlement when it could have been done in a 481 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 3: much quieter, low key way. Has nothing to do with 482 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 3: the shootings or anything else. It all had to do 483 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 3: with the images. And Trump looked at that, and then 484 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 3: when he heard her say that she had gotten his 485 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 3: approval for the two hundred million dollar ad campaign, Boom, 486 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 3: She's gone. 487 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: And I think it's for the best.