WEBVTT - Stop Electing Communists! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, I'm strong and 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:17.280 Jetty and now hey, I'm strong and Getty. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.360 Well accept Tomblain. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:25.840 Right. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.240 So, at the early times we endorsed Karen Bass. I 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.839 think right now in front that's a mistake and we 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:38.000 admit that. So I thought it was very early important 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.080 early on for me to come out, and I think 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.519 we were one of the few to say competence matters. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:46.680 This is wild. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.120 I mean, this is like dreams coming true. Guy runs 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.280 the LA Times saying it was a mistake to endorse 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:55.200 Karen Bass. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.200 That's fantastic. Yeah, that's fantastic. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.560 And Wall Street Journal out with the story today. Los 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.840 Angeles fire response gives new amutation ammunition to Mayor Karen 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.640 Bass's arch rival. If you followed the race at all 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.240 in LA and we did somewhat, Rick Caruso, the billionaire 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.680 real estate developer, lost to Karen Bass after. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.200 Spending a tremendous amount of money. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.959 But now, according to Pollie a polling, is seen in 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.920 a much better light and is leading the charge against her, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.040 and at least according to the Wall Street Journal, is 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.640 going to People are talking about him running for governor 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.679 in twenty twenty six, and this might be his moment. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.600 So keep your eye on that dude in California. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:43.960 Yeah, his his campaign for mayor was extremely reasonable. He's 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.640 nobody's idea of an arch conservative. But Karen Bass has 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.560 the unions as the public employee unions, the teachers unions, communists. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.200 We got to stop electing Marxists to various positions in 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:57.280 big cities. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.520 Around the country as a guideline for which candidates to back. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:02.880 I think that's a good one to start with. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:07.000 Yeah, how about just no communists, no Marxists anyway. Having 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.320 said that, the giant, cataclysmic, unbelievable, still continuing fires in 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:16.880 the LA area are continuing to have effects, both political 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.120 and non political. Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.480 today about the armed home owners who are defying the 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.160 rules of LA's burn zones. And I don't want to 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.760 focus on the conflict between the rules and what they're doing, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.880 because according to the accounts that I've heard and read, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.639 there is a slightly uneasy but respectful relationship between the 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.880 homeowners and the cops who are in charge of not 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:51.960 letting anybody in For instance, there's a story of one guy. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.000 He's an attorney, I believe, well into. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.560 His fifties, but he is staying in his home and 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.960 talking to the authorities, kind of an unofficial ambassador of 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.799 the people who are staying put and not evacuating. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.639 They're guarding their homes from looters and scumbag. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.079 Sure, and and don't and aren't worried about fire apparently 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.079 right not at this point, or or just not worried. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.920 But at one point he meets a friend at the 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:25.400 yellow caution tape and she's unloading supplies for him and 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.640 a couple of the other people, and one of the 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.480 cops says, hey, can you guys hurry up. We just 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.760 got in order not to allow any supplies through, So I. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.080 Appreciate why wouldn't you allow supplies through? 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.920 Well, the authorities on high, unlike the cops on the street, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.120 are saying no, if if we allow these people to 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.800 resupply themselves and and stay. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.520 There, they're going to stay there. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:53.240 And we want everybody for you right there my freaking house. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.720 If I need water to stay here to keep scumbags 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.760 from stealing my stuff, I want water. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.160 That is unbelievable. If we resupply. These people will stay here. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.320 Yeah it's my god danged house. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.240 Well right, yeah, exactly, And I understand that the higher ups, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.400 the administrators, say, well, this complicates our efforts, et cetera, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.680 et cetera. If we completely clear a zone, then we 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.400 know any human being in it is a looter and 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:18.880 can deal with them accordingly. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.360 I get that, But well, sure, sure, seems like an 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.320 awful lot of looting happens anyway, So I'm going to 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.320 stay in my house if I don't think a fire's 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.400 coming and protect my own dang stuff. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:30.760 Right. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.240 One of the most important messages of the modern world 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 has been don't do anything to protect yourself and your 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.640 loved ones against predators or anything. Trust the authorities they 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.159 will protect you, and of course they don't. But anyway, 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.560 so a handful of these folks are hanging around. They're 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.359 warding off looters. They are either getting supplies from outside 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.640 or here's one gal who had prepared. She has a 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.960 natural gas generator that supplies twin to kill a watts 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.720 of power. Why that's plenty or a little or I 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.400 don't know, uh enough for several refrigerators, making her one 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.880 of the few neighbors with electricity. She has sixty gallons 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.800 of drinking water in the basement, as well as a 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.200 reverse osmosis water filter and hot. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.560 Water tanks for showering. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.400 She says, Yeah, my old neighbor was a real prepper 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.600 and I learned from him. She also replaced her wood 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.080 shingles on her roof with concrete ones. She says, I 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.720 don't know if that's why my house survived, but it 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:26.279 didn't hurt. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:26.440 Well. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.600 Would you just guess in the Los Angeles, California, if 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.720 the authorities were going to go too far toward protecting 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.080 your personal freedom and ability to take care of your 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.640 own stuff, or go too far in front in terms 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.960 of we do what we want, you do what we say. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.479 Which do you think it would probably be? Oh? See, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.320 honestly the latter, clearly. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.640 In fact, here's Brian Rice, president of the California Professionals 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.760 Firefighters Union. Know, I'm sure as a fine fellow, but 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.240 POLAE and fire officials say they're keeping residents from returning 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.840 to burned neighborhoods because of such hazards as down power 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.719 lines and precarious fire weaken trees, and Brian says, do 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:03.839 not go back in there. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.280 Do not sneak in there. It's not worth losing your 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.960 life over. Okay, you can warn me, that's fine. Then 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.320 I do I make my own decision. Yeah, and I'm fine. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.280 I've always with all these deals. I've always been fine 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:15.840 with the And then you don't have to come rescue me. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.880 I made that decision, so you know, you don't have 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.520 to risk a firefighter or something like that to come 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.000 get me. I made the decision, and I'm going in. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.279 It's my freaking house. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.240 Well right, yeah, I we a lot of people, the 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.960 folks listening are perfectly comfortable with that relationship with the government. I, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.800 as a citizen, have made a decision. And I not 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:39.240 only do I not resist the idea that I will 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.520 feel the consequences of my decision. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.839 I embrace that sure, the whole fact. I cherish it. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.240 Like now I'm going to ride out the hurricane. I 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.000 decide to write out the hurricane. You don't need to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:49.960 send people in to rescue me. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:55.640 It's my decision, right, So Ross Gerber, who's Palace Pacific 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.960 Palisades resident? I'm sorry, I'm reading ahead and organizing, baba, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.160 But he's among those who've been sneaking past police to 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.120 check on his house. Official edicts be damned. He says, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.160 I have no patience for any of them. After you 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.840 survive this, you don't care what they say. But Tuesday 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.080 he tried it again. He was thwarted. He was on 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.920 the phone talking to a reporter. I'm trying to sneak 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.520 in right now, and it's super hard. They are everywhere now, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.120 police ad entry points tight as hell. There are literally 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.640 so many police, he said. North Korea is easier, but 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.400 that to me is good though. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.800 I want that sort of police presence. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.000 If you assure me that, hey, we told you to evacuate, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.320 you evacuated, your house will not be looted, well, then 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.200 I want it to be damned impossible to get in 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.080 announce I don't know. They could probably explain it to me, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.239 but I don't understand why. It's not as simple as, okay, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.520 you got it all cordoned off. But if I show 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.760 up with an ID that's obviously me with the address 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.440 of down there, you let me. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.400 In, right And if I don't have that idea and 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.640 I'm clearly light a night stick upside down. That was 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.520 a parody that was humor for the purposes of entertainment. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.360 Go ahead and whack them, hit them, hit them more importantly, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.960 perhaps in defensive gouging. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.280 A great think piece in the Free Press today. But 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.520 we've gone all of this argument enough. I think I'll 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.840 just wing it. Here's the deal, and they're talking about 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.120 lumber and water and a couple of other things. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.200 Rent is a little different situation. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.040 But Karen Bass who's a communist, and Gavin Newsom, who's 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.640 a liar and half a communist, are making loud noises 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:32.640 that we won't. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.960 Let any price gouging take place. We won't let people 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.600 raise the prices more than a small percentage. All right, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.559 you ninnies, you have just made it inevitable that there 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.160 will not be enough supplies. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.400 For instances bottled water. Why would there? 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.200 They're gonna run out of bottled water at the convenience store, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.080 and they're not gonna do whatever they can to get 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.560 more because they're not making any more than their normal profit. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.240 Well right, and so why would they incur any more 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.680 than their normal normal costs. I mean, it would be 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.520 lovely and it does happen that companies would say, well, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.960 you know, we're gonna lose a bunch of money, but 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.400 we're gonna ship a bunch of bottled water or plywood, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.880 or generators or chainsaws or whatever to the trouble zone. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.840 Here's the deal. You let that price go up three 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.559 hundred percent. The price has quadrupled. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.000 I'm Joe's chainsaws two states away. I am loading up 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.240 my car, my truck, my wife's car with every chainsaw 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.520 we got, and I am flooding that area with. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.920 Chainsaws, and so are a thousand other people. You know 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.240 what happens nearly instantaneously. If you let the free market work, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.240 that price plunges. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.400 And you wouldn't have to be two states away. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.920 It could be loading up a truck with bottled water 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:49.760 in Baker's field. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.240 If the price gets expensive in it well right. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.040 And you end up with one thousand times as much 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.439 water there. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.880 There's a very temporary blip where the. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.000 Quote unquote gouging takes place, and then the market is 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.040 flooded with goods because it is worth incurring the extra 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:08.400 costs to get them there. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.080 More people do well. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.840 Almost immediately if you let the free market work. If 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.400 you restrict that price, no more chainsaws will flow in, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.839 no more water, no more plywood. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.480 There will be terrible scarcity. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.400 I don't know I need a smart person who explain 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.480 to me how it works for hotel rooms. Since you 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.680 can't flood in more hotel rooms, do they get to 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.880 gouge and now only the rich get to get a 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:35.480 hotel room. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.360 I would tend to err in that direction, just because 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.319 there's such scarcity anyway, The number of people you're helping 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.319 and or hurting by instituting that sort of price control 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.520 is so small. But you've introduced into society the idea 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.600 that the government gets to do this. 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Make damn sure the reason you're 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.280 demanding compliance is a good one in a free society. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.880 And boy did California especially air way too far in 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.280 the other direction during COVID. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.000 Marco Rubia said something interesting in his confirmation hearing already today. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.840 Maybe we'll play that he's going to be our next 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.120 secretary of State if you have any comments on any 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.959 of the stuff we said text line four one five 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.360 two nine five k FTC. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.199 While America far too often continued to prioritize the global 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.880 order above our core national interests, other nations continue to 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:34.440 act the way countries always have. Awesome back door, I 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.960 get bilingual protesters, is I think is an into cool? 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.080 As you know, that's the first here, at least in 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:42.840 recent times. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.000 All right, Marco Rubio, at this opening statement, I am 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.400 so excited about him being Secretary of State. He is 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.400 for a couple of reasons. I agree with his positions 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.080 on most things. I like that he's so good with 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.280 the media. He's going to be on all those talk 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.720 shows for the next maybe four years and kill it 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:00.240 with those. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.400 You have been great on pointing out how Republicans go 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.120 on these shows and they get to hell beat out 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.080 of them, and they don't fight back. They just sit 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.400 there and take it. They don't defend their point of 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.920 view aggressively. Rubio will not make that error. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:14.840 No, he's pretty good at that. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.160 He also said something pretty important a second ago, but 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:19.160 let's hear a little bit of this. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.440 I don't know if we need the whole thing or up. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.280 Out of the triumphalism of the end of the co 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.400 long Cold War emerged a bipartisan consensus, And this consensus 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.520 was that we had reached the end of history, that 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.480 all of the nations of the world would now become 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.960 members of the democratic, Western led community, that a foreign 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.720 policy that served the national interest could now be replaced 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.080 by one that served the liberal world order, and that 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.720 all mankind was now destined to abandon national sovereignty and 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.800 national identity and would instead become one human family and 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:54.560 citizens of the world. This wasn't just a fantasy, we 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.120 now know, it was a dangerous delusion here in America 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.000 and in many of the advanced economies across. An almost 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.440 religious commitment to free and unfettered trade at the expense 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.120 of our national economy trunk the middle class, left the 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:13.200 working class in crisis, collapsed our industrial capacity, and has 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.320 pushed critical supply chains into the hands of adversaries and 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.320 of rivals. An irrational zeal for a maximum freedom of 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.400 movement of people has resulted in a historic mass migration 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.560 crisis here in America, but also around the world. It's 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.040 one that threatens the stability of societies and of governments. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.600 Across the West, governments now censor and even prosecute domestic 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.560 political opponents. Meanwhile, radical jihadists openly march in the streets 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.480 and sadly drive vehicles into our people. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.280 While America far too. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.960 Often continued to prioritize the global order above our core 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:55.080 national interests, other nations continue to act the way countries 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:55.600 always have. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.160 That is pretty maga. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.240 I loved it, loved it. Yeah, A couple of good 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.400 points there, Go. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.640 Ahead, He also said this, which gives you a pretty 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.280 good inkling of where Trump is on the whole Ukraine thing. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.840 Marco Rubios calling for concessions and resolving the Ukraine Russia war, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.800 adding there's no way Russia takes all of Ukraine. But 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.040 it's also unrealistic that Ukraine will push Russia back to 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.160 where it began at the start of the conflict, which 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.160 is an announcement that you know, we're not on board 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.960 with Ukraine gets all the territory back, which is Zelensky 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.720 has even said recently for the first time. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.720 Yeah, I'm much more interested in governance and policy than 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.800 constantly being obsessed with politics. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.640 So I apologize for pointing this out. Marco. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.760 I think, after a stint as secretary of State, is 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.600 going to be a formidable presidential prospect, and I hope 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.200 he and j D don't spend the next four years 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:53.720 knifing each other in the back. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.440 I was thinking, Laane in bed, What a dumb thing 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:56.760 to think about Laine in bed today, But I was 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.480 thinking Laine in bed. Have we ever had a secretary 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.080 of state become President? Jefferson? 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:08.000 But other than that, Carrie tried, I don't know. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.080 I don't know if that's a springboard of the presidency 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:11.240 being Secretary of State. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.440 John Quincy Adams, I don't know. I don't know. It's 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.080 it's a rarity. Clearly it was the point. It's not 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.680 a trivia contest. Joe making a. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.159 Point, well made. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.720 Oh, speaking of yelling, another near congressional cat fight. You 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:33.119 remember that whole bad built, bleached blonde, beach bad body 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:39.199 whatever the little girl dad built butch body. Oh we 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.720 got another one of those chafing up, didn't oh with 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.719 racial overtones. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.679 Of baby girl. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:53.560 Oh no, stop ladies, ladies. So that whatever that is. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:54.880 Among other things on. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:18:00.280 The way, Oh boy, Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.359 A great montage of some of the highlights from yesterday's 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.040 Pete hegseth hearing in just a moment that convinced me 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.840 that he ought at least take a shot at this 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.920 and see how it works out of him being Secretary 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.040 of Defense. So the FDA is doing some stuff in 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.960 their final days, you know, or in the final days 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.240 for a lot of these people. They're doing some last 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:22.840 minute things. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.040 This one. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.840 From now on, the nutrition labels not only will have 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.080 the how much saturated fat and added sugars and stuff 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.280 like that, which I appreciate. I don't know, but if 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.080 it needs to be a government law, but I like 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.800 knowing how much added sugar is in something. But it's 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:44.080 also going to include what percent of your daily value 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.119 of that it is to do the math for you. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.600 So I already have that, apparently not maybe that's not required. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:53.840 It's common. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.240 Okay, I don't know if I noticed that before, but AnyWho, Yeah, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:18:59.639 I look. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.919 At Sody him mostly number of products have that, but 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.399 you know that one. You know, it's more meddling. But 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.320 at least it's not like some of the other last 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.679 minute Biden edicts that are fundamentally changing, you know, regulations 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.640 and laws in ways that will take a long long 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.679 time con tangle on their way out the doors. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.920 Look, you lost the election. Have some class just go right? 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:23.080 That is annoying. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:31.560 So Pete hagg Zeth, combat veteran, awarded combat veteran Fox 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.399 and Friends host hasn't run giant organizations, that's the knock 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.200 on him. But he can hire people right below him 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:41.720 that have run giant organizations. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:42.520 You see. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.840 And there's a long history of unconventional surprising picks being 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.159 absolute heroes. Now some of them fail too, but the 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:52.919 idea that. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:57.080 We must pick someone who's utterly conventional, says. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.360 Who, well, let me, I didn't. I didn't do this yet. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.280 The Wall Street Journal had an opinion piece on Hegzeth 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:08.280 and they said, mate, mister, mister Heth made noises about 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.800 restoring US military deterrence, and that's something. But it appears 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.880 we're on track to have a Secretary of Defense whose 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.639 real views are a mystery. Let's hope he rises to 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.160 the occasion. The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.040 their big knock was that Republicans or Democrats didn't really 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:31.320 get to his worldview philosophy of deterring, you know, fight 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:36.600 in battles on a you know, a big picture near 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.719 as much as the drinking and crowsing and all that 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:39.399 sort of stuff. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:45.400 Right right now, the second death doesn't like design foreign policy. No, 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:47.920 but I suppose it would be helpful to know whether 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.000 he's in sync with the rest of the administration. 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:50.480 I guess. 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:51.520 Yeah. 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.480