WEBVTT - Let's Try To Put This One Behind Us 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:21.040 And Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.040 So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.320 the bill. But senators I've spoken to say they do 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.840 not have time to start on Oliver, especially because the 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.040 President wants this bill on his desk by July fourth. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.720 As for now, President Trump, we still have not heard 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.120 from him directly on these comments by Elon Musk. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.960 Senior White House official says, well, they were caught off guard. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.040 They weren't entirely surprised by Musk's increasing attacks on the 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.000 so called Big Beautiful Bill, and a source telling me 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.440 people in the president's orbit are furious about Musk's posts, 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.600 including where he said lawmakers should be fired for voting 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.280 for the bill, calling it a betrayal, saying it suggests 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.960 is open to funding democratic campaigns. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.000 Things are getting weird, a they getting weird fast, a betrayal. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.720 So here's here's where I went before we get into 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:09.400 the analysis. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.000 I'm pretty sure that first reporter said, especially, okay, we 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.319 got to run that again. First clip. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.160 So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.480 the bill, but senators I've spoken to say they do 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.959 not have time to start of olliver, especially because the 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.000 President wants this. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.080 Move on his desk. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.680 Ye accusation, I retracted Rachel Scott of ABC at pros 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.200 pro and I back to you. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.880 So this is what's bothering me about this. The coverage 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.279 and then well the attitude of the politicians, I suppose 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.199 should make sense because that's the way they do things. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.559 The coverage in the news of it has been driving 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:50.240 me crazy. So you think it's really like a deep, 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:57.600 complicated story that deserves explanation and like so unusual and 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.240 hard to imagine that Elon, who campaigned for Donald Trump 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.720 now is against one of his pieces of a legislation. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.359 You can't accept the fact that. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.120 Almost all voters outside of people who are in Washington, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.840 d c. And work for the government and maybe some 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:24.280 people the media, have things they believe in and believe them, 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.360 whether or not they're the politician that they voted for 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.160 or their friend or whatever. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.519 Goes the other direction. What are you trying to suggest, sir? 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:43.160 Elon has been talking about the debt being unsustainable in 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.000 the biggest threat to America for years, and you think. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.320 It's why he did the whole Doge business. That's why 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.360 he got involved in Trump in the first place. He 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.000 thought the Republican Party was the best route to do 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.080 something about the debt. And you think it's odd that 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:03.720 he's sticking with principal he believes in, rather than turning 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.239 over everything he believes in and going with Trump. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.480 That, to you would be the normal thing to do. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.160 That's how cynical we are, or how whatever it is 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 to phony all of politics is. You think the normal 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.200 thing to do would have been to just go along 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.360 with Trump. The abnormal thing to do is to continue 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.560 to believe what you've been saying for years. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.720 That bothers me, you know. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.360 I think what that is is the the media no 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:35.800 longer notices the tribalism, the naked like una mitigated tribalism 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.600 they've It's just it's the air around them, so they 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.000 don't even bother to notice its presence. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.040 And I guess think it used to be that way. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.000 I'd have to think more. I feel like there used 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.640 to be politicians, for instance, that were known for and 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.360 there still are a few like Rand Paul is known 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.760 as a fiscal conservative that's not gonna go with you know, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:02.040 this bill, which he's not. But in general, it's all 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.680 about no, no, no, you stick with your tribe, and if 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.960 somebody breaks away from the tribe, that's really really weird 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:07.120 as opposed to well. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.960 The guy's been saying this about, you know. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.440 Pick your topic immigration or tariffs or whatever for you know. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.080 I guess because we've seen so many people flip their 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.960 opinion completely to go along with Joe Biden or Donald 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.280 Trump or whoever, that that's become the norm. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.480 I'm looking at Elon Musk. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.040 You could easily write the headline or the story from 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.360 the point of view. Elon Musk has such serious concerns 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.120 about the bill. He has suggested revamping it. That's not 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.440 very good soap opera stuff, but that's what happened. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.280 Well, he called it a what a disgusting abomination or 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.800 something like that. That's a little stronger than I have 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.040 some concerns about this. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.440 Well, I'm a middle child and everybody who voted for 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.440 it should be ashamed. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.960 Yeah, I think that's stronger than he has serious concerns. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:57.320 I like that the Wall Street Journal their words were. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.400 I thought I captured him maybe I didn't. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.400 I believe the Wall Street Journal called Trump and Musk 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.880 the two most powerful men in the world. If you 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.400 look at it that way. If they aren't, they're close. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.200 They're in the top five. Yeah, if they're if if 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.720 you look at it that way, it's pretty interesting. I mean, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.279 you know, on its own, but from Elon Musk's Twitter feed, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.560 I thought this was an interesting His pinned tweet at 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.279 the top today and Elon has two hundred and twenty 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.240 million followers by the way he runs the thing he 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:33.000 retweeted somebody in journalism, Fox News Comments is a great 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.680 place to understand conservative views since it gets so much traffic. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.080 I was curious what people were saying about Elon s 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.880 talking the Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm shocked. Almost every 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.360 comment on the Fox News Comments is in agreement with Elon. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.040 Wow. I thought that was fascinating, especially because. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.880 Fox News has gone way out of its way to 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.880 be Trump friendly. I think right Elon Musk, this was 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.320 a year and a half ago. He was at some 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.040 speech and he said the Defense Department budget is a 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.839 very big budget. It's a trillion dollars a year, and 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.599 interest payments on the National jet just exceeded the Defense 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.720 Department budget. They're over a trillion dollars a year just 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.680 in interest in rising. We're adding a trillion dollars to 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.440 our debt, which our kids and grad kids are going 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.400 to have to pay somehow every three months, and then 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.280 soon it's going to be every two months, and then 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.599 every month, and then the only thing we'll be able 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.000 to pay is interest. And it's just like a person 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.560 at scale that has racked up too much credit card debt. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.359 This does not have a good ending. We have to 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.400 reduce spending. He said that a year and a half ago. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.120 He's been talking about that forever. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:35.800 So when he. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.440 Sticks with his principles. The odd thing is that he's 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.440 stuck with his principles. I find that disgusting. But that's 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.520 the end of my point on that. Well said, well said. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.400 Indeed. Elon is also. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:53.960 Allegedly highly annoyed that a good friend, associate teammate of 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.560 his was yanked from the. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.320 Nomination to be the head of NASA. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:07.800 This Isaacson, what's his first name, mister Isaacson, whatever his 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:13.800 name is, because the Trump administration says, because he donated 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:14.680 to Democrats in the. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.640 Past, yeah, we should run this clip this news clip, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.240 because that hits to what you're talking about. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.840 Some Republicans suggest Musk maybe motivated by his own self interest, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.400 sources telling us he's frustrated the bill cuts the electric 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.120 Vehicle tax credit, which benefits Tesla owners. They say he's 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.840 also annoyed Trump struck deals with rival AI companies, and 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.600 that Trump withdrew his choice for NASA administrator. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.600 So the pushback from the Republicans in some cases is 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.080 to try to make Elon look like he's just a 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.360 self serving, you know whatever, like any other politician, which you. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.200 Know could absolutely be in there. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.000 But like I just read, he is saying things that 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.320 are indisputably. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.960 True about our debt. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.320 There is no arguing that how did he go broke 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.440 gradually then suddenly that's what we're doing? When he points 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.440 that out, he doesn't there don't. I would believe that 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.760 even if the ev tax credits were in there, he'd 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.760 still be against this. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.840 Uh yeah, I think so. I think so. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.200 He has shown no or very very few signs of 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.880 being a go along to get along guy. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.880 In a dozen different areas. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.320 So yeah, again, it's the soap opera deliciousness of this 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.240 that is driving most of the coverage. It's no good 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.800 for the country. But the mainstream media doesn't care what's 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.200 good for the country. They don't spend a single second 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:44.959 thinking about it. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.040 He is going to lose this argument, I think. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.520 So what do you think about him, you know, basically 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.880 trying to whip senators against the big, beautiful bill. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.400 He's saying, don't vote for it. Kill the bill, Kill 0:08:59.440 --> 0:08:59.760 the bill. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.840 He was running that all day long yesterday on his 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.000 Twitter feed, in every interview he could do. Kill the bill, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.199 Kill the bill. Do you think he's got the power 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.360 to have any swam on that. A's listening to one 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.920 news report where it's a senators have the tough choice 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.040 to deciding between Elon Musk and Trump. I think they're 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.720 gonna go with the guy who leads their party. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:17.640 I would agree. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.840 I could see it emboldening another one or two Senators 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.400 to push a little harder, maybe another one or two 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.080 congress people to hold the line a little bit longer, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.480 and some of the reforms they need as a major 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:39.400 change driver. No, I don't think so, which is too bad. Honestly, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.520 I mean, I really really appreciate him saying this stuff. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.520 As anybody who's been listening to the show for an 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.719 extended period. Nos, We've been howling this stuff for a 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.720 long time now. It is the world's most predictable disaster. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.520 Unless as we were discussing yesterday, I believe is now 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.200 ur three of the show. If you aren't listening, you 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.640 can grab it viboodcast Armstrong and getting on demand, or 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.319 I'll just recap it here very briefly. It is increasingly 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.640 believed in some circles, including the that the plan is 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.240 because there is no will among the electorate to raise 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.920 taxes and there is no will among the electorate to 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:23.280 cut services. We are going to solve this through rampant inflation. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.440 The twenty trillion dollars we owe today won't be worth 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.600 very much after a lot of inflation for ten years, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.840 so we get paid off fairly easily with our new 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.880 super cheap, worthless currency. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:37.040 Awesome. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.640 Our old friend David Drucker, who we've met on the 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.600 air many times, he usually has his finger on the 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.079 pulse of Congress when they're trying to work their way 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.680 through bills and talk to a lot of people about 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.959 how they're going to vote. Here's his current thinking on that, and. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.480 So there just isn't a lot of support for the 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.760 kind of fiscal restraint that used to sort of characterize 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.800 the Republican Party, at least philosophically. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.400 I mean, four or five conservative Republicans left in the 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:05.600 House that say no to. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.200 This, well, yea, if it's saying it's not saying no 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.079 to this, it's saying no to President Donald Trump, and 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.120 their voters trust Trump more than they trust them. So 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.240 as long as Trump wants this bill, this bill is 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.840 likely to pass. One way or the other. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.440 Bill is likely to pass. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.839 According to David Drucker, who's as good as anybody on 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:26.959 reporting on the Hill. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.080 One way or the other, what bill though? What bill 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:30.680 will pass? 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.880 Because the Senate still hasn't responded to the House is 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.160 the pogle with their own. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.760 I understand your point, but it's going to be more 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.480 or less what it is now. There aren't going to 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.840 be any major changes. It's going to be it's going 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.040 to be a disgusting abomination. It's going to be spending. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.959 Okay, maybe it ends up not being two point seven trillion, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:47.800 it's two point six and. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.559 A half trillion or whatever, but it's going to be mostly. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.720 This Executive producer Hanson urging us to play clip forty seven, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.920 Senator John Kennedy, we will play it, Hanson, if you 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.400 assure me this there will be. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.080 No forced homespun charm. If you haven't heard this, this 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.720 is really good. Let's do it. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.160 Here's what's driving and this is ultimately why I think 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.560 the bill will patch. We're in uncharted waters here with 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.480 the tears. Well, I think the markets should tell us 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.280 that we don't know what impact they're going to have 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.240 in the economy, but if we don't extend those tax cuts, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.520 we're going into a recession and our economy is going 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.319 to be on a journey to the center of the Earth. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.080 And ultimately, I think that's why the bill passed. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.720 Ah, that was dangerously close at the end, Ye then 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:37.840 to the center of the earth. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.199 I absolved myself in that. That's not the clip I 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.120 was thinking of that I saw yesterday. He did some 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.319 grilling in Congress about this that I thought was very 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.959 very honest, like shockingly honest from a senator. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:48.920 Although the first. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.240 Ninety percent of it you're saying, look, we got to 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.760 extend the tax cuts, no matter, Oh my. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.680 God, and the Democrats are going huge on the whole 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.160 tax once again, tax cuts for the rich well punish 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.800 the poor. Everybody, the Washington Post, whoever you want to 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.720 talk to, from the twenty seventeen tax cuts have looked 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.920 into it and made the point. The fact checker in 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.920 the Washington Post, it's mostly middle class tax cuts. It 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.000 just is you're lying when you claim it's tax cuts 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:16.440 for the rich. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.360 It's just a lie. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.600 Maybe you still think it's a bad idea because we're 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.360 going broke, but don't claim it's for the rich. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.280 One of the most sobering and disappointing realities of politics 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.360 that we all learn sooner or later is that a 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.439 lot of a lot of it revolves around the lowest information. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.040 Voters, and everyone knows it. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.240 Thank you, Marjorie, who's now against the bill Handsome for 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:43.400 interesting AI reasons we'll have to talk about later. Hanson 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.280 made a new song with the AI that he played 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.040 for me yesterday. We've got to get on the air. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.440 It's so good, among other things. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:54.120 On the way Strong So, our executive producer. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.959 Versus this speaker, Mike Johnson says he's going to talk 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.680 to elon today. There is a chance, by the way, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.719 that this turns really fun in terms of the soap opera. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.559 I care about, you know, fiscal sanity and not going 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.480 broke as a country mostly and not the soap opera 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.719 that DC is obsessed with. But it could turn with 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.880 Elon and Trump. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.839 Those two guys are capable of if one of them 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.600 fires the first shot of Oh boy, you're an ass hat, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.680 and then Elon says, why don't you go f yourself 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.160 in the face? Oh wow, wow, hey ho. That was 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.560 a That is something he said to a major figure 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.360 in the news on his Twitter feed. I think that 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.080 is newsworthy. He called Mark Zuckerberg a pedophile, didn't he? 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.480 I mean he has said things like that two big 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.640 deals in the past. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.040 On his Twitter. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.880 So what you're saying is if the country's going to 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.920 go to hell, at least make it entertaining. So it's 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.160 not beyond either one of them, especially if they both 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:53.640 start in. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.280 It could turn crazy entertaining. So look forward to that. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.480 So our exec executive duce Our Hansen has started crafting 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.560 songs with the help of AI. This one is based 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.040 on we have a tendency after the show is over, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.520 Joe and Ida to say things like, you know, well 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.360 that one sucked, but we'll try to be better tomorrow 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.880 or that sort of thing. It's just kind of a 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.640 like a running joke of I don't know, lighthearted bans. Yeah, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.400 start the music, Michael, I forgot to tell you to 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.640 start the music because there's a long piano rampop, and 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.320 so Mike Hanson gave the cue to the AI to 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.120 do kind of a seventies soft rock based on some 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.360 things we said yesterday after the show. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:36.480 In that spirit, let's try to put this one behind. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.840 Nice. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:46.160 Just tamp down the shame early John five. Maybe we 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:55.160 do better tomorrow unless we continue to be so lame. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:00.960 This kind of that. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.320 Drum film coming from a mile away and this kind 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.960 of guitar solo before it gets into the chorus. I mean, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.680 it is amazing that with like just a few prompts 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.800 seventy soft rock couple of phrases. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:17.160 It crafts this song. It's frightening and horrifying. We got 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.240 the chorus coming up that I think he'll enjoy it. Oh, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:34.080 there's more strong and any show. Just tap down, just 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:41.320 tamp down the shade. Maybe we do. We're all swaying 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.760 back and forth in the arms in the air. So 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.760 it is absolutely clear that in. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.800 Putting together it's stick, it's seventies soft rock style. They 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.720 absolutely studied Elton John's songs. There are a couple of 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.119 characteristics a chordal in straight. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.800 Out of old Reg Dwight's songbook. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.120 It's amazing. I don't know where all of this is going. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.160 We do need to talk about AI though. I started 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.000 reading a new book that has me scared to death. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.680 But maybe we'll get to that later, so we don't 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.720 go all the world's coming to an end on you, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:18.520 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:24.520 This book Independent, It's about looking outside of boxes, not 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.720 just always being in a partisan stance, and how do 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:33.520 we move forward together in a compassionate way, in a 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.399 way that really truly cares about people. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.879 So little KJP is putting a book out. Let's hear 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.440 that next clip, Michael an era. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:47.080 Of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.680 seeing currently right now. What I have decided to do, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.320 and I really have thought long and hard about this, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.480 is to follow my own compass. And here's the truth, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.439 and here's how I will lay it out to you. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.600 I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.639 think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.639 You know, so the way this struck me, and I 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.640 think I have a different take on it than most 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.120 of conservative media about this. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.400 If it might set it up very quickly. Little KJP 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.960 has a new book out about her experiences in the 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.679 White House and also has announced she's leaving the Democratic 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.320 Party and is becoming an independent, hence her charting her 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:27.959 own courses. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.439 First, some of the clips I heard, she sounded way 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:40.399 more intelligent, thoughtful, and believable herself in all the clips 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.480 that I heard than she ever did at the White 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.199 House podium. I do still think that she was not 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.680 cut out for that job for a variety of reasons. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.280 But she had two choices doing that job. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.600 She was either going to go out there and tell 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.639 the lies the best she could that she was told 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.240 to tell, or resign. Those were her two options, no 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.800 other fudgerom whatsoever. You were either gonna go out there 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.600 and sell those lies the best you could. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.040 Seeing the guy every day she is watching news, she 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.399 had c span she is in the White House and 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.560 to go out there and claim, no, he's got more energety. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.040 I mean, she was either gonna do. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.840 The bagdad bob thing, or she was gonna resign. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.720 Those were her two choices. I don't know what you 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.680 would have done. I'm not sure. Well I think I 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:28.760 don't think I could do it. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:34.480 But no, no, you couldn't for for reasons that are admirable. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.800 I said many times that at the time when she 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.240 was the press secretary, she's terrible at her job, just 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.600 absolutely terrible. On the other hand, as I pointed out 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.960 many times, she is sent out there to defend the 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.439 indefensible on a daily basis, and that is not easy work. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:51.399 So both are true. 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.320 Now she's gonna we need to be less partisan and 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:56.600 outside the boxes. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.639 I agree completely with her on that I have. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.159 That might be her particular box would not suit me 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:04.360 very much, true. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:05.720 But that might be her true belief. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.960 Sure, she just had was got that job somehow, and then, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.679 you know, did it the best you could. I mean, so, 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.800 I don't know what she actually believes. But if you're 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.600 her agent and trying to make you help her make 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.920 money coming off of this gig of a lifetime, These 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.679 these white House press people often come out and go 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.720 on to great lives of you know, a cable news 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.040 show or whatever. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.040 They make a lot of money. What would you tell her? 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.480 I thought it was interesting she decided not to be 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.399 a Democrat anymore, to go no party. That doesn't seem 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.720 like the best way to land an MSNBC show, which 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.840 is kind of where I thought she would end up, right. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.440 Unless from her point of view, and I see her 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.639 as a pretty progressive, far lefty who knows what her 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.520 true colors are, like her true hair color, who knows? 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.640 But I think she's a far lefty, So she might 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.639 be fine if she's gonna say that the Democratic Party 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.840 is too centrist, we need a revolution in this country, 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.359 which she might say, but it is absolutely a terrible 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.120 look for the Democratic Party in the brand that their 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.320