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Speaker 2: I am six forty Bill Handle. Here.
Speaker 3: It is a Thursday morning, October sixteenth, storry I want
Speaker 3: to share with you. And this is another story of
Speaker 3: this president doing things that other presidents not only have
Speaker 3: never done, never dreamed of doing. And this is a
Speaker 3: story about the President saying that if Boston wasn't prepared
Speaker 3: enough for crime, it wasn't being made any safer than
Speaker 3: he would seek to move the twenty twenty six World
Speaker 3: Cups World Cup out of Boston. But where's it gonna go?
Speaker 3: No idea, but we wanted out of Boston. He also
Speaker 3: said the same thing about la and the Olympics. This
Speaker 3: is and this is not a statement that he made
Speaker 3: pursuant to a press conference or a policy statement. These
Speaker 3: are reporters that throw stuff at him and he reacts
Speaker 3: because that's what he does. So, mister President, do you
Speaker 3: plan on assassinating you know, Macrone of France?
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 3: And then that becomes world that becomes front page news.
Speaker 2: And it's almost as this as these as if.
Speaker 3: These reporters are goating the president into responding, and usually
Speaker 3: things that aren't even at issue there and so, and
Speaker 3: the President does respond. And as I said during the
Speaker 3: news segment, the president has such unbelievable influence that when
Speaker 3: the President of the United States sneezes, the world catches
Speaker 3: a cold. And so his lines are just they're ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So he doesn't have any jurisdiction. Does he really have
Speaker 3: the authority to tell Boston you or tell FIFA move
Speaker 3: the World Cup out of Boston eight months before the
Speaker 3: World Cup is scheduled to start.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 3: Or how about the Olympics move the twenty twenty eight
Speaker 3: Olympics out of Los Angeles? Because Los Angeles has a
Speaker 3: Democratic mayor in California is newsome, and Boston is a liberal.
Speaker 3: Chicago has a mayor who is Democrat. And the President
Speaker 3: has made absolutely no bones about it. He thinks that
Speaker 3: all democratic cities, who well mayors of democratic cities, those
Speaker 3: cities are in ruins.
Speaker 2: Those cities are overrun with criminals.
Speaker 3: There's no republican city in the United States, by the way,
Speaker 3: that has that problem. I want to point that out.
Speaker 3: There is not a republican city. When I mean republican
Speaker 3: city that's run by a Republican mayor or a city
Speaker 3: council and a mayor. So this became a really big deal.
Speaker 3: So there's a couple of bits of politics I want
Speaker 3: to throw in here too. The head of FIFA is
Speaker 3: actually a friend of Trump's, if not a friend, certainly
Speaker 3: an ally of Trump's. Matter of fact, Trump invited him
Speaker 3: to be at the signing in Gaza or in Egypt
Speaker 3: for the peace conference. And what the hell does the
Speaker 3: head of FIFA I have to do with anything? And
Speaker 3: so as he said, I love the people of Boston.
Speaker 3: I know the games are sold out, but your mayor
Speaker 3: is not good. And this is during the lunch with
Speaker 3: the Argentinian president, and I think she, the mayor, is
Speaker 3: hurting Boston. The answer is yes, if somebody is doing
Speaker 3: a bad job, and if I feel there's unsafe conditions,
Speaker 3: I would call Giannini, the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal,
Speaker 3: and I would say let's move it to another location. Now,
Speaker 3: of course that's not physically possible, but again it is
Speaker 3: simply a statement. So a word about the Argentinian president,
Speaker 3: another ally of President Trump's, who is truly ally the
Speaker 3: president could do no wrong. He can do no wrong
Speaker 3: as far as the president is concerned. And Argentina just
Speaker 3: got a twenty billion dollar bailout from the government. Okay,
Speaker 3: I can't tell you the intricacies of that, but I
Speaker 3: can tell you what's going on in Brazil. Brazil, the
Speaker 3: president of Brazil is no friend of Donald Trump's. Okay,
Speaker 3: Lula and he loved bol Scenario, who was tried and
Speaker 3: convicted of or who has been convicted of corruption. Now
Speaker 3: the president currently Lula, Lula de Silva was convicted of
Speaker 3: corruption and spent four years in prison or two years
Speaker 3: in prison, and that was overturned. So it's one corrupt
Speaker 3: after another, corruption replaced by another corrupt individual. But here's
Speaker 3: the point I want to make. It is as President
Speaker 3: Trump argues in terms of tariffs, and he's absolutely right
Speaker 3: in the vast majority of cases, and that is it's
Speaker 3: about balance of trade.
Speaker 2: It's about just fairness.
Speaker 3: So when we have a negative balance of trade, for example,
Speaker 3: when China sells US five hundred billion dollars worth of
Speaker 3: goods and we or we buy five hundred billion dollars
Speaker 3: worth of goods but we only sell them two hundred billion,
Speaker 3: there's a balance of there's an imbalance of trade. You're
Speaker 3: always better off selling more than buying. That makes so
Speaker 3: much stronger economy. And when it's unfair, it's unfair. So
Speaker 3: with China, it's unfair. With the European market, it's unfair.
Speaker 3: We simply buy more than we sell. And what Donald
Speaker 3: Trump is doing saying, Okay, we're gonna make it fair.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make it an even playing field, all right, tariffs,
Speaker 3: That's what tariffs are all about, is to make it
Speaker 3: as even playing field field as possible.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something about Brazil.
Speaker 3: Brazil not only does not have a negative trade balance
Speaker 3: with US, we.
Speaker 2: Do better than Brazil does. Brazil is one of.
Speaker 3: The very few countries that actually buy more from US
Speaker 3: than we buy from them. We have a positive balance
Speaker 3: of trade with Brazil. Why they still have a fifty
Speaker 3: percent tariff? Why do you think because he does not
Speaker 3: like the president and the guy who was thrown out polscenario,
Speaker 3: who lost the election a rigged election, I might add,
Speaker 3: that's the language that was used. It was a rigged
Speaker 3: election in Brazil. Interesting, isn't it. And so that's what's
Speaker 3: going on in that world. So now does the president
Speaker 3: have the right to throw on a fifty percent tariff
Speaker 3: of course he does, and in many cases is for
Speaker 3: great reasons, and in this case with Brazil is ridiculously
Speaker 3: and simply because he likes bols narrow.
Speaker 2: That's it, you know, that's it. You know he said it.
Speaker 3: And how about forcing the Olympics to be moved from
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Maybe I'll force the Olympics to be moved,
Speaker 3: or I'll ask the mayor to undo the FIFA Games
Speaker 3: World FIFA Games, or excuse me, I'll ask FIFA to
Speaker 3: transfer the games out, which, by the way, I don't
Speaker 3: think they can anyway, I mean, let's get practical about it,
Speaker 3: and back to my original position. These are just throwaway lines.
Speaker 3: A reporter throws something at the president. The president instead
Speaker 3: of being measured, let me think about it, and hands
Speaker 3: it off to a and hands off to one of
Speaker 3: his staffers. Because presidents tend to be measured and very
Speaker 3: careful in what they say and think things through sometimes
Speaker 3: too slow, Biden.
Speaker 2: But very few presidents.
Speaker 3: Do what this president does, and that's just throw things
Speaker 3: out and reporters though it. So there's a lot of
Speaker 3: gotchats going on in the world of press conferences.
Speaker 2: But the question is does he think he has the influence.
Speaker 3: To have the US the International Olympic Committee, remove LA
Speaker 3: and go someplace else.
Speaker 2: Can they?
Speaker 3: I don't think they can't, even contractually if they wanted to.
Speaker 3: All Right, enough of that, Okay, what's going on on
Speaker 3: the I five? And this is the I five goes
Speaker 3: right next to the ocean and Camp Penalton is on
Speaker 3: each side, and you're when you're going next to the ocean,
Speaker 3: there's only a few hundred yards of beach between the freeway.
Speaker 2: And the and the ocean, and it's kind of neat.
Speaker 3: I've seen a couple of amphibious training exercises.
Speaker 2: They are and you don't know what is happening. It's
Speaker 2: just happenstance, man.
Speaker 3: They look great with the helicopters and the hovercraft and ah,
Speaker 3: it's just tremendous. Well, there's going to be a big
Speaker 3: one coming up to commemorate the Marine Corps two hundred
Speaker 3: and fiftieth anniversary and it's being called See to Shore,
Speaker 3: a Review of Amphibious Strength, and Vice President Vance is
Speaker 3: going to be there and this is going to be
Speaker 3: a big one. One of things about the Trump administration
Speaker 3: is they are not shy about showing American fighting force,
Speaker 3: not shy at all. This is an administration that is
Speaker 3: proud of its ability to fight, proud of its armed services,
Speaker 3: and we're going to show you that we're going to
Speaker 3: do it well. Obviously, there's all kinds of controversy because
Speaker 3: we've got a governor, the governor's administration that doesn't particularly
Speaker 3: like the Trump administration and is saying, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: we've heard that there are going to be live exercises,
Speaker 3: live fire. Okay, then you just shut down the freeway
Speaker 3: and it becomes part and part soul of the event
Speaker 3: or the argument here or the stories is that the
Speaker 3: freeway is still going to continue on and there will
Speaker 3: be live fire over the freeway, as in attacking the
Speaker 3: amphibious forces coming in with live fire.
Speaker 2: Now, are they going to hit anybody? Of course not.
Speaker 2: That's not the point.
Speaker 3: The point is is that the governor is so pissed off, saying,
Speaker 3: how can you possibly do this on our beaches. By
Speaker 3: the way, Camp Pendleton is a federal property. How can
Speaker 3: you do this and allow people to go through? Well,
Speaker 3: we're talking about shutting down.
Speaker 2: We don't know. It may be closed.
Speaker 3: It may be closed by the federal government and may
Speaker 3: be closed by the state.
Speaker 2: Government.
Speaker 3: We have absolutely no idea, but there will be a
Speaker 3: huge show of force that we know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of neat.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever seen it, As I told you,
Speaker 3: it's really neat to see that.
Speaker 1: I've lived out here forever and passed by Pendleton one
Speaker 1: thousand times.
Speaker 2: Doesn't don't they have.
Speaker 1: Signs that always say that there's possibility of live fire?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: I've ever noticed that? Yeah, I've never noticed that. I've
Speaker 2: never noticed that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and brother graduated there at Pendleton as a marine,
Speaker 1: and I remember driving back and forth. There's signs on
Speaker 1: those beaches everywhere that say caution live fire drills.
Speaker 2: Okay, how do you caution against live fire? Droves explain
Speaker 2: that just don't don't go onto the beach. It doesn't
Speaker 2: say don't look at you.
Speaker 3: You're not allowed on the beach anyway, are you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But are you allowed onto a Pendleton beach?
Speaker 1: No? But you're not allowed in area fifty one. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean there isn't people that try and get in
Speaker 1: there every year. But but there are signs all over there,
Speaker 1: Okay that I don't remember seeing it.
Speaker 3: The one thing I do remember, I've seen a couple
Speaker 3: of exercises, and they are neat to see that they
Speaker 3: really are.
Speaker 2: So in any case, we'll see what happens with this.
Speaker 3: And it's going to coincide with No King demonstration or
Speaker 3: No Kings demonstration on Saturday, demonstrations all over the country,
Speaker 3: the anti Trump administration demonstration.
Speaker 2: The demonstration is saying that they're.
Speaker 3: Over the government is overreaching of course when it comes
Speaker 3: to immigration and all the stuff that people have a
Speaker 3: problem with. So we're going to have a dual demonstration.
Speaker 3: So who's gonna win. Are the demonstrators going to win
Speaker 3: or are the guys who have artillery pieces, helicopters, tanks
Speaker 3: and armed infantry.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is going to win that battle?
Speaker 2: I mean, they're not gonna fight.
Speaker 3: But it's a it's a fun visual, it really is,
Speaker 3: all right now, Oh this is another one.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I love politics, all right.
Speaker 3: There were some leak messages from young Republican leaders, and
Speaker 3: these messages included this is political, pick this up, racist slurs,
Speaker 3: rape jokes, gas chamber commentaries, and man, you've got politicians
Speaker 3: on both sides of the aisle going nuts and calling
Speaker 3: for those who were engaged in these slurs and commentary
Speaker 3: just to resign.
Speaker 2: Well, the VP jd Vance dismissed it.
Speaker 3: You're just doing pearl clutching that these participants were just
Speaker 3: kids telling stupid jokes and that shouldn't ruin their lives,
Speaker 3: one of the kids being Vermont state Senator Sam Douglas,
Speaker 3: who happens to be a very young sixty nine. So
Speaker 3: it was just kids doing this, mind you. And this
Speaker 3: is the Young Republicans National Federation, the GOP's political organization
Speaker 3: for Republicans between eighteen and forty and other people in
Speaker 3: this case, for example, Sam Douglas was in on the
Speaker 3: chat and the group described the exchanges as unbecoming of
Speaker 3: any Republican. The official group is saying, come on, this
Speaker 3: is ridiculous, and there were months of exchange of this
Speaker 3: crazy stuff that Politico picked up. Now Here is the problem,
Speaker 3: and that is Vance immediately comes out and rips into
Speaker 3: the one interview that was said by I think a
Speaker 3: a Democrat about somehow two shots should be put in
Speaker 3: someone's head, you know, an assassination, and he said, that's
Speaker 3: the problem, not kids making jokes about the Holocaust or rape.
Speaker 3: That's the problem. Guys like this, which is far far
Speaker 3: more dangerous. You know what, why can't you call for
Speaker 3: the resignation of both sides on that? Why can't you
Speaker 3: simply say both are reprehensible? And you can't advocate or
Speaker 3: say it's a good thing that Charlie Kirk was killed.
Speaker 2: You can say you disagree with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: You can certainly say the world has changed because Charlie
Speaker 3: Kirk was killed. But to say that's a good thing,
Speaker 3: if you're a politician, I'm gonna argue you're done with that,
Speaker 3: You're gone.
Speaker 2: And the same thing with anybody who says and.
Speaker 3: These were open chats, Holocaust jokes and rape commentary, and
Speaker 3: I mean just such offensive stuff. Vance does not want
Speaker 3: those people to resign. That was just jokes among young people.
Speaker 3: So according to Vance, it doesn't matter what a Republican says,
Speaker 3: it does not matter. There will be no retribution, there
Speaker 3: will be no accountability. If the Democrats say it, it's
Speaker 3: all over. They've got to go. They've got to go.
Speaker 3: And you know, when we talk about polarity, even that
Speaker 3: even people talking about and joking about the Holocaust and
Speaker 3: rape and lynching. I don't know if lynching even took
Speaker 3: place in this conversation, But no, no, we don't resign
Speaker 3: for that because those are just ah shucks, just kids.
Speaker 3: It's just kids having a good time. I've really gotten there.
Speaker 3: And by the way, on both sides of the aisle,
Speaker 3: I mean politicians who in my opinion, actually have a
Speaker 3: decent view of what this country is about. Both sides
Speaker 3: were screaming, they've got to go. You cannot have this,
Speaker 3: you cannot have this, and here we go. He reiterated
Speaker 3: about the kids. This is on Wednesday Vance and on
Speaker 3: the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, which I think is run
Speaker 3: by Charlie Kirks, Charlie Kirk's wife. I think she's handling
Speaker 3: the podcast and other conservatives are coming in and taking
Speaker 3: turns doing the podcast. And he was asked about the
Speaker 3: reporting that a person seriously wishing for political violence and
Speaker 3: political assassination is one thousand times worse than what a
Speaker 3: bunch of young people, a bunch of kids say in
Speaker 3: a group chat. You know, when I say we've gone crazy,
Speaker 3: when I say politics has gone absolutely nuts, I mean it.
Speaker 3: And that's all the way up up, that's up the
Speaker 3: ladder to the very highest reaches of our government.
Speaker 2: It's all crazy.
Speaker 3: Pritzker, who absolutely disagrees with the president. So the President
Speaker 3: doesn't come back and say Pritzker is nuts. Well he does,
Speaker 3: you know, And I am I'm okay with that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I like, thank frankly Donald Trump getting to our level
Speaker 3: and being real. The guy's a jerk, the guy's an ass.
Speaker 3: But how about the guy should be arrested. We should
Speaker 3: arrest him for what he's doing.
Speaker 2: You know what. And I'm saying, this is the president,
Speaker 2: you know what, have some balls? Have some balls? Call
Speaker 2: cash Pttel call him.
Speaker 3: Right now, get on the phone and say, you go
Speaker 3: arrest Pritzker, and you argue that he has violated some
Speaker 3: kind of federal law, and you go handcuff him right now,
Speaker 3: you gutless wonder.
Speaker 2: You say he should be arrested. Then do it? All right?
Speaker 2: Oh all right? Let me tell you what used to happen.
Speaker 3: I think if you did any traveling decades ago, and
Speaker 3: when I started traveling in my twenties and through my
Speaker 3: thirties and my forties, even my fifties. Now I'm one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty years old, I was told many times
Speaker 3: that that American passport that you hold is the most
Speaker 3: valuable passport on earth. And why is that well, because,
Speaker 3: first of all, the most countries in the world that
Speaker 3: allow you to come in without a visa was the
Speaker 3: American passport. The countries that accepted and wanted to a
Speaker 3: Mariamericans in more than any other country in the world.
Speaker 3: And so we've sort of gone down. The Henley Passport Index,
Speaker 3: which of course no one knows what they hell that is,
Speaker 3: has rankings measuring passport potency in this regard the number
Speaker 3: of countries that let you in without a visa. Countries
Speaker 3: will let you in without a visa, are countries that
Speaker 3: want you in, and that is a part of this index. Okay,
Speaker 3: for the first time in twenty years, we're out of
Speaker 3: the top ten. Three Asian passports now command the top
Speaker 3: Singapore one hundred and ninety three destinations worldwide visa free,
Speaker 3: and then South Korea and then Japan.
Speaker 2: We're now down to twelfth place.
Speaker 3: We were number one even as late as twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: where the American passport was worth everything. The American passport
Speaker 3: was worth real, real money back in the day. I
Speaker 3: mean people, what you were told is you hang on
Speaker 3: to your money, your wallet, and your passport, with your
Speaker 3: passport being the most valuable thing that you had on
Speaker 3: you if you were traveling overseas, and so now it's
Speaker 3: just access changes.
Speaker 2: In April, Brazil withdrew the visa.
Speaker 3: Free access for citizens from the US, Canada, Australia. Because
Speaker 3: of reciprocity, China has been introducing more welcoming policies. It
Speaker 3: used to be impossible to go into China. Now, man,
Speaker 3: they want everybody in there except the US citizens. We
Speaker 3: still need a visa and it's not that easy to
Speaker 3: get in Papua New Guinea and me and mar they're
Speaker 3: higher than we are. Somalia, okay, Somalia is a launch
Speaker 3: of a new eVisa system and Vietnam's exclusion of the
Speaker 3: US from its visa free edition. Now keep involved. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever been to Somalia, but Somalia
Speaker 3: they're chefs. They have a couple of three star Michelin
Speaker 3: chefs who use branches to serve you dinner. Because that's
Speaker 3: it sticks. This is Somalia, and you need a visa
Speaker 3: to get into Somalia. You think Somalia would desperately want
Speaker 3: anybody with money.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 3: The UK had the top spot on the index in
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. I remember twenty fourteen, the US dropped out
Speaker 3: and the UK is now in its lowest ever six
Speaker 3: to eighth place. Okay, there are a few that are
Speaker 3: at the bottom, at the very bottom of the list.
Speaker 3: Number one oh six Afghanistan visa free access to just
Speaker 3: twenty four destinations. I want to know which countries love
Speaker 3: Afghanis coming into their countries because Afghanis have so much money. Right,
Speaker 3: Syria is way down at the bottom too, not good, so.
Speaker 2: Highly desirable passports.
Speaker 3: Well, not only do they represent people who countries want
Speaker 3: in read money investment, we.
Speaker 2: Want to treat people from that country very well.
Speaker 3: But also that also translates into very few restrictions between
Speaker 3: the US and Europe. For example, we don't have a
Speaker 3: passport issue. I mean, there's no country that gives me
Speaker 3: we need a visa with flying to Germany, who fly
Speaker 3: into France with fly into the UK internative passport other countries. Yeah,
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