WEBVTT - A Kick in the Crotch! 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.360 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:34.200 Jettie and he arms rang the drum studio scene see 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.239 signor We are in a dimly lit room deepening the 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.800 bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Today and 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.800 today Wednesday? Is that right? Middle of the week. We're 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.200 under the tutelage of our general manager. Oh my god, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.599 Epstein again. No, you can't, Yes, you can't, you can't, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:59.440 you can you must shout wow. Congress got called off 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.400 Mike Johnson if that is his real name, the speaker. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.280 He said, all right, that's enough argument about Epstein. We're 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.839 all going home. I'm taking my gavel and going home. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.640 There's more to it than that, and we'll tell you 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.160 about it. Okay, look forward to that, do I? And 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.840 I don't look forward to that. I'm whying. That was 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.640 a lie. That was a lie for me. If I 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.360 hooked up to a light detector, a gun, a little need, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.360 a little bounce, stuff and down, I'm not looking forward 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.959 to that at all. No. Indeed, yeah, hey, I just 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:32.000 heard Scott bestn't the Treasury Secretary say something interesting about 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:33.560 and then it kind of relates to a story he 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.399 didn't get to yesterday. He said, So it was about 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.160 the tariff deals, and so Trump's got a new deal 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.600 with Japan, which is a really you know, major economy. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.080 It's top five time. Yeah, so Japan, Philippines and somebody else. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.000 But anyway, and then there was the talk of how 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.720 this increase in the tariffs with these countries is gonna 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.440 cause prices to go up inflation and blah blah blah blah, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.320 and the Scott Best at the Treasury Secretary he said, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.240 that hasn't happened yet, and I don't think it's going 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:08.520 to happen because retailers are absorbing the costs for themselves 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.200 into their profits. So people are not seeing the price 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.600 go up, which is true to a certain extent, but 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:19.120 I don't think it's for the reason that they like 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.520 or whatever. So you had the story the other day 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.480 about how Amazon stuff has gone up, but Walmart stuff 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.760 has gone down. So there is a battle going on 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.239 between the two biggest retailers in the world, Amazon and Walmart, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.639 and they're trying to keep prices down and undercutting each 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.720 other partially at least According to a couple of economists 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.840 I was listening to, this is going to drive out 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.400 the last remaining little guy in America or the world 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.040 because they can't do that. So you're a mom and 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.960 pop shop. You can't absorb the tariff causing the stuff 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.120 to go up the way Amazon and Walmart can, and 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.840 you might disappear and then and then it's just Walmart 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.600 and Amazon, which is my goal. Yeah, my only equival 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.240 is that Amazon did go up. It's trying the opposite 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.839 strategy because they have the advantage in Walmart does too, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:19.760 really of having instantaneous data about how a price increase 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.760 or decrease affects the consumer. How much less tisity elasticity 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.400 there is nearly instantaneously, which has just been unknown to 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.640 the world of economics. So Bezos in company obviously are 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.440 seeing saying, let's see if we can get away with 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.000 tweaking some prices upward. Meanwhile, over there in Arkansas, Walmart's saying, hey, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.000 here's a chance for us to recapture a significant chunk 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.320 of market share. We're gonna take it in the in 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.960 the crotch for a quarter or two. Sorry, it's unnecessarily frank, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.920 We're gonna take it into pants, as they used to say, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.119 take it up rotch. What does that mean? Right, We're 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.160 gonna we're gonna get to We're gonna get kicked, We're 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.400 gonna get hit profit wise for a couple of quarters. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:05.960 The total of tough the total of my official economics learning, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.560 the one economics class. I took microeconomics in college, and 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.680 I remember ever of the phrase taking it in the crotch. Well, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.200 that's you didn't send Joe University. Our lessons are frank, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.320 They're really take it to the point. Yeah. So anyway, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.680 they're going to take a kick in the grown there 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.119 for a couple but they're trying to recapture market share, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.159 which is a very different strategy than an Amazon. Well yeah, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.599 but I think the argument was Amazon would be raising 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.280 their prices probably even more if they weren't looking at 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.520 Walmart across the transom or whatever they're looking what are 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.160 they looking at them across I don't know, the crotch, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.880 right across the crotch, oh my So, and it remains 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.680 that the little guy is not going to be able 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.560 to play that game on any level. You just have 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.320 to charge what you know you got charged when it 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.440 got dropped off at your toy shop or whatever, so 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.160 you can still make payroll and keep the lights on. Yeah, exactly. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:08.320 Scott Bessont is Trump's sanity whisperer. He has pulled Trump 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.360 back from several self destructive ideas. I appreciate his presence there. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.479 I think he's a good man. On the other hand, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.760 in this topic, he's full of crap and he knows 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.200 he is. I'm sure the reason you just mentioned it, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.279 and also because a lot of wholesalers and retailers saw 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.840 the tariffs coming because Trump bellowed about them for a 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:33.280 long time, and they significantly increase their inventories, and so 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:39.599 there's a delayed effect to the tariffs and their inflationary effects. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.599 I sure hate the last of the little guys getting 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.880 driven out of business, but it might just be inevitable 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.839 that the current structure of economics in the world, mom 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.279 and pop shops of all different kinds that we all liked, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:58.040 toy shops, bookshops, whatever, just can't exist. Really, unless you're 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.800 doing it as a hobby, you can't do it as 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.919 a profit business. I love localism, I always have, but 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.640 the Interstate Highway set it back a certain amount because 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.560 it just it never made sense to have a like 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:15.400 a beyond a regionable regional grocery chain or something like that. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.640 It would just be too expensive and cumbersome. Then the 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.159 interstate highways helped, and then you have the advent of 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.800 the Internet, and then the instantaneous data availability and just 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.960 in time shipping and blah blah blah. It just there's 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:33.480 nothing to grow. The local little guys. They have no 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.480 advantage other than charm service. You know them, You can 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.120 count on them that sort of getting to see the 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.520 product in person and hold it in your hand, which 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.160 is sometimes nice. Yeah, it is good, but you know what, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.640 people will vote with their dollars, and they are voting. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.240 So am I unfortunately? I mean, it's just too damned 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:54.000 convenient to order laying on my couch and having it 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.560 at my door in a couple hours from Amazon. So 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.760 my headline is Jack Armstrong cries about the quote unquote 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.280 guy while thumbing away at Amazon day in day out. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.680 I'm a blocracy, folks. I guess I'm to blame. We 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.760 should start to show officially because the opening clip I 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.560 find amusing. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.560 It is as I said Wednesday, July twenty third, they 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.040 are twenty twenty five Armstrong Getty and we do approve 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.520 of this program. All right, let's begin then officially according 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:22.560 to FCC rules and riggs. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.560 Here we go at markhould I, we have breaking news 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.119 as we come on the air, Ozzy Osbourne has died. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.080 That It was the lead words from David Muir on 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.480 ABC News. The most important thing that happened on Earth 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:42.200 was the passing of the near octagenarian metal singer. Some 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.560 days the bat bites you, Ozzy Osbourne has died. Can 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.200 I hear that again? I just found his seriousness and 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.960 it being the lead I found amusing touldit. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.640 We have breaking news as we come on the air, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.280 Ozzy Osbourne has died. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.240 So I realize they're in a for profit business and 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.680 trying to figure out what the majority of people would 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.360 be most interested in and stick around for. It's the 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:10.640 same day the sitting president accused a previous president of treason. Yes, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.880 and the lead story was, well, as you just heard 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:13.440 one more. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.800 Time tonight, we have breaking news as we come on 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.800 the air, Ozzy Osbourne has died. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.880 Can you imagine if you were unfamiliar with mister Osborne 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.800 is over asking somebody who is who is this? Ozzy 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.520 Osbourne is the Speaker of the House? Is he the president? 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.720 I'm practically that guy. I could not know less about Osborne. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.080 I have no opinion on Ozzy Osbourne because I've never 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.240 I don't know his music, I never watched his show. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.080 He seems to be beloved by a certain group of 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.679 left school I wanted to be a plumber. Joe was 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.679 a plumber. That's him. There a bit of a substance 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:53.600 habit there through the years. Yeah, Ozzy is a pop 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:59.439 culture curiosity in that the ridiculous but endearing MTV reality 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:04.959 show The Osborne's elevated his you know, his cultural his 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:15.240 Q factor. They cat campiness beyond any justification. I mean, okay, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.480 you know, give the people what they want. I agree. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.840 Breaking news. As we come on the air this evening, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.640 we'll play some Osborne has died. We'll play some of 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.359 the clips. Trump has accused the former president of treason, 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:33.720 which is a you know, in a previous era, like 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.960 ten years ago, would have been a holy crap, everything 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.680 comes to a stop sort of claim. Now it just 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:47.200 kind of gets lost in the mix of celebrity deaths. Right, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.800 It's just we say all kinds of stuff all the time. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.040 But what Trump said, Obama actually replied to it in 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:58.520 a jumping into the politics of the day. So we 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.640 got all that for You often asked do we go 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.920 back to something closer to normal after Trump passes from 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.280 the political scene, And not entirely, But I've seen several 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.160 examples lately, where like Pam Bondi, for instance, tries to 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:18.280 be Trump, tries to be trumpy, makes a giant promise 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.160 and then never delivers it really or delivers in some 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.240 form and just laughs it off and then launches several 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:29.160 other sensation missiles to distract everybody. But nobody's as good 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.400 at it as Trump. They try it, but they fall 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.720 on their faces. So for whatever reason, this is the magic, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.800 and nobody knows what it is. Trump paters. It really 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.480 drives Trumpeter's crazy. Why does this not stick to him? 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.360 Everything comes off different out of Trump. It just I 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.880 don't know why. Well, he's utterly shameless. He is incapable 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.480 of shame. But I used to think things would go 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.679 back to normal ish. That was pre second term. By 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.320 the time Trump is out of office, we will have 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.520 traversed twelve years of American life, and I have a 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.880 lot of people that there, their whole political lives of 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.680 paying attention to politics has been this. So I just 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.840 I don't know if it's ever going to go back. Yeah, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.440 you're probably right. Yeah, wow, Epstein was the general manager. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.800 There is some crazy media jiu jitsu jiu jitsu judo 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.640 going on around the whole Epstein story that is really 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.280 pretty clever from the Democrats standpoint, and I think they're 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:29.360 pulling it off. Uh, it's wild. Who's in the highway 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.840 seat over this now? When there's still still I don't 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.439 think any there there. Yeah, there are some very strange bedfellows. Yeah, God, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.880 I well, there's there's plenty of there there. It just 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.160 depends what they're you're talking about. We've been discussing, Yeah, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.360 we do. You would you like the the Epstein Senior Special, 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.240 it's a lighter portion. Would you like the full Epstein? 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.600 Would you like the Epstein with all the fixings? Or 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.920 would you like the Epstein Fancy Feast, which includes he's 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.240 a massage agent and the Jews run the world. They're 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.280 like at least four distinct versions of what people mean 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.840 by the Epstein thing, So we'll have to get into that, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.199 and a whole bunch of other stuff coming up. We 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:17.280 got headlines in just a moment's stay right here. We're 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.120 about to jump in some of the headlines that are 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.040 out there. This one just came across the eight EPA. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.640 The Environmental Protection Agency is said to draft a plan 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.360 to end its ability to fight climate change. Here's a 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.440 sub paragraph on this. According to two people familiar with 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.560 the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.720 greenhouse gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.120 which obviously would change all of their goals and things 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.640 that they're trying to constantly accomplish there at the EPA. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.200 Seems like a major change. Don't know how long I 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.439 suppose it hang around to the end of this administration, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.240 right the Democrat gets elected, then it's back to it's 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.320 the biggest problem in the world. Uh. Perhaps, Yeah, But 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.199 I think the bloom is really off of the rows 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.760 of you know, existential threat you've stolen by dreams. The 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.920 oceans will be boiling, the Hawaiian islands will disappear by 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.080 nineteen ninety nine. I just that whole thing feels past me, 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.280 So they might try to drag it back in that direction, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.960 but I think it's going to be a tougher sled 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.200 than it used to be. The proposed EPA Agency rule 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.760 recinds the two thousand and nine declaration known as the 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:30.520 Endangerment Finding, which scientifically established that greenhouse gases endanger human lives. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.640 And then all of the things are many of the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.120 things that we hate that have happened in the United 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.520 States have come from that two thousand and nine declaration, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.199 and you know, forcing electric cars on us and all 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.640 kinds of different things. And the Trump administration is ending 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:54.160 that how dams you so interesting? Elections? Elections matter? Yeah, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.319 they absolutely do, and the next one sure will too, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.439 although that doesn't mean I want to talk about it 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.200 interestingly enough. The hot topic no pun intended in European 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.920 politics is air conditioning. Europe is much less air conditioned 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.080 than the United States, partly because you know, a lot 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.760 of it's fairly far north in near oceans and stuff 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.440 like that, and they just really haven't needed it. But 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.840 it's getting warmer in recent years. And it's like how 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.800 in San Francisco in the Bay Area, there's a lot 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.280 less air conditioning there is than where I'm from, sure, right, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.320 But as it has gotten warmer in Europe the last 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.280 several years, heat waves coming a little earlier and staying 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.800 a little longer, they're arguing about whether to have air 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.440 conditioning or not. And interestingly, the right wing is saying, yeah, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.800 get some air conditioning up in her it's two damn hot, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.280 But the lefties are saying soccer blue, No, this will 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:50.840 exascerbits global warming. And the air conditioners vent heat, right, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.800 they remove heat. They don't actually you know, well's I 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.960 don't want to explain air conditioning, but so they have 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.000 to vent the hot air into the streets. That'll make 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.000 it even worse. And the sweaty Frenchmen are saying, I 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.680 don't care. That sounds like a U problem. I want 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.600 air conditioning in my house. Well, I wish them well. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.720 Judy and I are going to Europe in a few weeks, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.880 to London in a few weeks, and I rented a flat, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.040 as they say, over there with air conditioning. Bye God. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.920 Because I'm an American, all right, I'm not gonna sit 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.760 there tossed and turning in my euro juices, trying to 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.080 sleep after a long day of touristing and eating and drinking. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.920 I'm gonna have some ac. One of my favorite headlines 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.680 from yesterday also had anything to do with the Trump administration. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.360 The US Olympic Committee bans transgender athletes in compliance with 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.920 the Trump order. So US Olympics not gonna do it. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.680 Not gonna play that game. And we've been wondering about 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.760 that for a long time. If this stuff would rise 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.800 from high school track to it already was in college swimming, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.360 in all kinds of sports, what is it gonna go 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.880 to the Olympics? Not under Trumpet's not not well, It's 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.800 gone backward in a lot of areas or levels of sports. Hey, Michael, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.240 play clip fifteen for me. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.480 The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.800 women from competing in women's sports. The panel tells the 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.160 federations overseeing swimming, athletics other sports it has an obligation 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.240 to comply with an executive order issued by President Trump. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.280 The change follows a similar step taken by the NCAA 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:31.480 earlier this year. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.440 I was so annoyed by that, I tweeted at Britt 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.680 Bear's crew. It will do no good. They won't even 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.560 see it. I'm sure, but the US Olympic Committee is 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:49.240 barred trans women from the sport. Don't call dudes women. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:55.800 Trans women is the verbiage of the radical gender theory crowd. Brett, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:01.360 stop it. Well, the confusing thing there is them banning 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.760 these people is a declaration that we don't believe they're women. Right, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.200 that's what they're declaring. Yeah, we're no dudes allowed. I 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.600 mean that those statements don't go together. You can't say 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.000 we banned women from women's sports. That wouldn't make sense 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.240 slip at the top. So they banned what they believe 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.040 are dudes from women's sports. Well, because they're dudes, that's 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.800 why they believe it. Yes, Artro and the. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.960 Justice Department had an idea of what was really in 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.920 the FBI records of the Epstein case. They released a 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.119 joint statement saying he wasn't murdered in prison, there was 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.040 no conspiracy, there is no clients list, and we're never 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.280 going to say anything about this again. That of course 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.879 just spurred more conspiracy theories. So you have to ask yourself, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.640 what is in there that is so concerning that they 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.640 don't want to let it out? Is it they over 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.879 promised and the answer is nothing or is there some 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.600 smoking gun in there that scares them first one? 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.719 In my opinion, Yeah, Jonathan John Miller there on CNN 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:10.000 stoking the fire from the left that maybe Trump was 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.240 like the co rapist with Epstein and he was there 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.840 at all the parties. Let's push this. Plus it's dividing 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.400 the Republicans, so let's let's push it as far as 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.399 we can. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I don't know, I 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.040 mean hoisting them on their own petard as it is said. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.639 I mean, you created this whole mess by making all 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.080 kinds of claims for a long time, not Trump himself, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:36.919 but a lot of the big Trump voices out there, right. Uh. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.320 One of all I have is like the anecdotal evidence 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.159 that I get through a few people I talked to 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.240 in texts. We get in that sort of stuff of 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.440 how some of you feel about this? Who are really 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.640 into this story? One of the biggest Trump supporters I 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:55.359 know told me it seems to me that Trump is 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.800 in on it too, and it's very disappointing to me. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.880 But have you seen the videos and have you seen 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.879 the videos? Asking Joe? There are videos going around of 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.840 young women where these videos came from. And what the 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.359 context is I don't know, but it's young women talking 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.600 about Trump raping them, having sex with them when they 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.600 were under age at these parties. These are videos that 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.720 are floating around. No, I've not seen nor heard. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:17.800 No. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.040 I wouldn't have come across these either, but they're floating 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.359 around in the world of people who believe that Epstein 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.879 was the top of a child pedophile ring that the 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.760 Democrats have been running with Hollywood for decades, which is 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.800 why the Democrats are pushing so hard now to release 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.040 the Epstein files. I guess there's some explanation as far 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.719 as these things go. Well, they'll explain what you mean 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.560 by that. Why I believe the Democrats are pushing hard 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.880 to release them because they know there's nothing there, and 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.399 so it just is it puts the Republicans in an 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.680 awkward situation. All right, Well, before we get further down 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.760 the road of analyzing what happened, let's tell the good 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.359 folks what happened. It's forty we're gonna be talking about trade. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.560 From trade. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.960 Meeting with the Philippine President was dominated by questions about 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.399 other matters, including why the Justice Department now wants to 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.359 meet with Gallaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate who's serving 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.439 twenty years in a Florida federal prison. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:13.800 Yeah. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.679 I don't know about it, but I think it's something 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.240 that would be sounds appropriate to do you do. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.800 You have any concern that your Deputy Attorney General, who's 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.880 your former attorney, would be conducting the interview given no, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.080 I have no been sure. The news comes the same 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.960 day House Speaker Mike Johnson cut the House session short 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.520 to avoid votes about whether the government's Epstein files should 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:34.400 be made public. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.440 So that's the lead. The whole furor over you know 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.560 what to disclose when and how brought the House of 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.320 Representatives to a standstill. So Johnson, the leadership cut short 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.359 this week's session, put off any action until September because 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.680 some GOP members were demanding votes on more releases and 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.240 wanted to go further down that road. And Johnson's like, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.400 all right, this has gotten out of control. We're done. Well, 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.159 here's one of them here, Representative Timberchett, who runs one 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.040 of the committees that can look into this. This is 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.280 what he said last night. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.200 People asking is going to cost me politically, and I say, well, sure, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:10.000 it is sure. 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.600 It is. It makes peopel uncomfortable, but it's it doesn't 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.080 have anything to do with that has to do it. 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.560 We've got to do what's right, and this is direct 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.240 thing today as far as I see it. 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.360 He seems to actually believe, or enough of his constituents 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.439 believe that he has to represent them, that this is 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.879 the whole child peto ring thing. And it's ugly and 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.159 it's going to be tough to look at, but we've 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.639 got to do it. Yeah. Yeah, I've actually done a 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:37.879 ton of reading about this in the last couple of days, 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.600 and one thing has become clear to me. There were 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:47.080 a hell of a lot of teenage girls who were 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:53.440 recruited and groomed and had illegal sexual stuff done with 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:58.320 them by Epstein and Ms Maxwell and quite a few 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:04.040 other people. And it is absolutely grist for the Mill. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.280 And I think the Mill has gone crazy with the 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.200 whole Jews run a sex ring with the Democrat. That 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:14.399 all is looney tunes to me. But it's absolutely true 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.439 that the very rich and the very powerful have been 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.639 parting with Epstein and getting it on with teenage girls, 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:28.640 not children, but like sixteen seventeen year olds, and those 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:32.200 names have inexplicably been covered up for a very long time. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.439 I was reading a very very responsible journalist who's been 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.879 following this story since the bust in Florida and the 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:44.600 unholy plea bargain that was struck with Epstein by a 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.359 prosecutor who later became Trump's Secretary of Labor, which doesn't 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.800 look great, but a completely corrupt plea bargain. And this 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.240 guy says, you know, the list of victims is huge, 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:03.320 and there were other people in on it, and we aughtit. No, Well, 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.960 do you think there's a list somewhere that the government 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:11.840 can release. There are many names within investigative files, and 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.840 that's where it gets Harry. If you're not going to 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:18.600 bring charges against somebody, you don't as a law enforcement agency, 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:23.639 you're certainly supposed to not not supposed to say, you know, 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.359 tell you what, Jack Armstrong's name kept coming up in 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.119 this investigation at parties with young girls. If you know 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.760 what I'm saying, we don't have enough evidence to charge him, 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:37.240