WEBVTT - They Call it Mah-Cha! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yeddy. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.239 But the President's patience does appear to be running thin. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.080 The White House, we know, is actively reviewing sanctions options, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.840 and already the Senate has a veto proof bill ready 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.880 to go that would slap five percent tariffs on any 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.760 country that buys Russian energy. And you're already hearing from 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.440 some congressional Republicans say that they are ready to see 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.680 the Senate act with or without the White House's green light. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.000 Man, there is a lot here, and don't roll your 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.520 eyes or sigh about talking about Ukraine and Russia, because 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:59.920 this is reaching a serious inflection point that we're either 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.840 gonna be out or we're gonna be way in. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:02.880 I think. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:09.280 So last night Trump, as we were talking about yesterday 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.880 over the weekend, you know, he said, I don't know 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.000 what happened to Vladimir. He's gone crazy. I mean, all 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.319 this killing and what the hell is happening here? And 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.360 most people's reaction was, Vladimir Putin has always been like this, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.600 and either you knew that or you didn't, or I 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.160 sure what's going on here? But anyway, so the end 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.919 of then he truths out last night. What Vladimir Putin 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.360 doesn't realize is that if it weren't for me, lots 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.000 of really bad things would have already happened to Russia. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.840 And I mean really bad in all caps. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.319 He's playing with fire, which was a heck of a 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.160 post from the leader of the United States. I mean, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.920 we're also used to Trump's bomb bast I mean, if 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.920 you try to picture that in the mouth of George 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.760 Bush or Barack Obama, it'd be well, it'd be a 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.920 stop the presses moment, it'd be holy crap, the response 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:57.560 from Russia. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:00.840 We want to say here, do we want one of 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.320 our reporters to say it. Let's go ahead. They've got 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.800 it in front of them. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:11.359 Fifty b Okay Medvedev writes regarding Trump's words about Putin 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.360 playing with fire and really bad things happening to Russia. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.320 I only know of one really bad thing, World War three. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.360 I hope Trump understands this. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:28.000 So that's either the most serious thing I've ever heard 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.360 in my life or it's just an empty threat, right 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:34.000 and everybody. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.000 Such is the nature of bluffing, right. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.360 I don't think Russia has any interest in getting involved 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.120 in World War three, But so far the bluff of 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.760 we might use nukes kept Joe Biden on his heels 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.240 his entire presidency, As is reported in Bob Woodward's book 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.519 and David Sanger's book about the inner workings of the 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.440 White House, when Anthony Blincoln wanted to push harder, Joe 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.560 Biden was really really worried about starting World War three. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.800 Yeah, Well, Joe Biden woke up on his heels, as 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.120 I often say. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:16.720 His belt and trump bell rode heels. But Trump is 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.400 a very, very different guy. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:19.160 Obviously. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.640 I'm thinking about Vladimir Putin and his calculations and his goals, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:30.280 which are to restore the glory of the Tsarist and 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:36.360 Soviet Russian republics or empires. And I could see him 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:42.320 calculating that pushing to the very very brink of World 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.960 War three, including massive casualties, would be worth the effort. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.280 I could see him making that calculation fairly easily. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.120 It's not even a stretch. Well, I think we know 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.360 what his thinking is. At least. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:58.720 Richard Engel claims he has sources inside the intelligence agencies 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.240 that believe they know what Putin's strategy is. I think 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.520 that's interesting, and I'll save that until we hear from 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.840 Tammy Bruce, who is currently a State Department spokesman. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.000 This is what she says, Trump is thinking. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.120 It was very obvious from his truth social posts that 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.720 his patience has worn thin. But it's not even really 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.080 about patients. It's what every American is feeling when you're 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:27.359 looking at, as the President described, indiscriminate bombing on civilian areas, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:34.560 killing civilians in increasing bombing runs and drone attacks, especially 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.520 when there's been such a concerted effort by the Trump 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.320 administration and others to stop that carnage between Ukraine and Russia. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:43.160 Now, So. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.040 The way I took that of her saying you can 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.760 tell from President Trump's truth social is that she's going 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.880 off his posts as opposed to personal conversations. I mean, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.200 she's guessing at his thinking the same way we are 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.919 by looking at what his posts are. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.839 Right well, and the whole humanitarian appeal. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:09.960 I don't how is anybody still going with that? 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.599 Putin doesn't care, well, yeah, let's never cared. He's made 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.640 it infinitely clear how literally cares. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.880 Yeah. On that line. Here, there's a little more of 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.520 Tammy Bruce. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.320 It's clear into both parties and of the world that 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.320 this cannot be solved with violence or or a more 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.839 military action. And so the president, who noted in his 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.960 post that he's known Putin for quite some time, feels 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.760 that something has happened to him and he's unable to 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.159 explain it. And clearly he's he's quite frustrated enough to 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.080 express that outrage in public. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.800 See I feel like Trump. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.599 Trump has many times hung various cabinet members spokespeople out 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.560 to dry because they go out try to speak for him. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.400 Then he comes out later in the day and says 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.000 something completely different. And because they're they're they're often guessing at. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:56.320 What he thinks. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.000 I don't know if they just don't have conversations with 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.039 him or what. She sounds like she's just guessing, and 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.680 she is clearly just reinterpreting his tweets. Yeah, yeah, right, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.560 And so Richard Ingele on NBC News says he it 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.479 talked to people in the Intelligence Department, and this makes 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:10.960 sense to me. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.000 I mentioned yesterday. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.400 I don't know why this took several days to report, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.160 but Trump had told reporters in the Middle East that. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.680 I'm paraphrasing because I don't have in front of me 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:23.000 right now. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.880 But this wasn't my war, this is Zelenski, this is Putin, 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.560 this is Biden's war, this isn't mine war. We shouldn't 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.239 have got involved, which made me feel like he's gonna 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.960 do the whole and jd Vance later in the week 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.760 last week said, you know, if we see that nobody cares, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.360 you know, we might have had enough of this. So 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.239 I'm worried they're gonna just walk away because I personally 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.000 think we need to support you great. But that's what 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.120 Richard Engel's reporting was that people in the intelligent department 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.599 to believe Putin's thinking is Putin thinks Trump's close to 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.719 getting so frustrated and feeling like he'll just throw up 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.880 his hands, you know whatever, you all work it out 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.520 and walk away, which is a win for Putin. Bootin 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.760 knows it's a win for him. If the United States 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.600 is off the table and out of it, it's absolutely 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.960 a would win for Putin. So that's why he launched 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.960 the biggest drone attack of the entire war over the weekend. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.200 He's trying to drive home the point in Trump's head 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.440 that look, I'm not interested in peace, and you believe 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.120 Zelensky hates me too much or something like that. So 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.080 Trump throws up his hands and walks away from the 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.560 whole thing. That's Putin's thinking right now, which makes sense 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:29.880 to me. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.320 Right right, I would agree completely, and I don't want 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:34.800 to waste a lot of time on Tammy Bruce. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:35.840 But her statement that. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.400 This cannot be solved through war, Wait a minute, what 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.520 Putin's trying to solve is I want more territory. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.600 So yeah, yeah, it can be. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.720 Yeah, I'm gonna take you the whole country unless somebody 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:48.240 stops me. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.840 If it's spin, it's spin, that's fine, spin Away, it's 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.520 your job. But if it's just naivete, I don't get 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.000 it at all. So there are a couple of developments 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.920 that I think are very very significant. If that wraps 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.960 up your what you wanted to present. Number one, we 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.440 talked earlier about Friedrich Merritz, the leader of Germany these days, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.720 much more hardass than the previous guy, saying that we 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.080 are removing any limits on weapon range, We're letting the 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.480 Ukrainians shoot him as far in to Russia as they want, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:26.160 and the White House did not comment. That was deafening silence. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.679 That was not even a hint of weha, wait a minute. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:35.280 So I find that interesting. Yeah, I might as well 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.360 take a little detour into the Senate here. Senator Chuck 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.920 Grassley tweeted, I saw this yesterday that he thought Trump 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.600 was sincere in thinking his friendship with Putin wood end 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.960 the war now. He added, it was time for sanctions 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.520 strong enough that this Russia leader knows game over, and 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.960 watching these guys trying to manage up, trying to not 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.400 offend Trump to wait till Trump shows a sign that it's. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.760 Okay to say what you believe. And now they're saying 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:03.800 what they believe. That's fine. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.920 Everybody has to manage up in their lives and careers. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.000 But so Trump is. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.000 Also considering abandoning peace negotiations altogether. It's unclear what would 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.360 happen as you were describing, but allies such as Lindsey 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.920 Graham told Trump Putin does not want a deal finally, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.360 and only punishments. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:27.440 Would make him seriously negotiate. Three key views colored Trump's thinking. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.000 Official said, first is dislike for Zelenski, who Trump felt 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.240 encouraged further conflict by pushing for sanctions. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.600 I believe that's ridiculous. On Sundays, he blasted Putin. Trump 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.640 also criticized Zelensky. Let's see the second. Trump also thought 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.120 additional sanctions on Russia would not curb its ability to 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.320 wage war, but would hamper efforts to revive US Russian 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.120 economic dies. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.079 You might as well try. I think that ship has sailed. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.640 But in third, Trump felt he knew that Putin and 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.200 the Russian leader, I'm sorry. Trump felt that he knew 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.360 Putin and that the Russian leader would end the war 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.760 as a personal favor. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:00.760 No way. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:07.520 Lindsey Graham said that, Uh, the officials said that's nuts. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.880 I would agree. Here's the really interesting part. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.960 Graham, a couple of weeks ago, introduced to bill imposing 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.000 strict new sanctions on Moscow. I mean real ones, nasty ones, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.280 and it now has more than eighty co sponsors in 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:29.840 the Senate. Practically everybody way beyond veto proof. The Sanctioning 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.360 Rush Act of twenty five, which Graham introduced with Senator 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:37.000 Richard Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, would impose a bunch of 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.200 sanctions blah blahlah. We can get into the particulars if 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.439 you want. And one more which Europe is on board 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.720 with it, which is important right on. And one more 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.520 note from the Senate, this is very trumpy, hard ass 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.160 friend of the armstrong Ygetti Show, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:54.600 in fifty six m Dog. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.800 The President has been very patient with Putin. At the 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.360 same time he's trying to clean up a mess that 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.320 he didn't start right. He's been very clear from day 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.560 one he wanted the killing to stop. He's tried to 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.040 work with Putin. His patience is running thin. And if 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.520 Putin continues to push this envelope the way that he is, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.120 He's going to give Zelinsky the tools he needs to 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.120 fight back and on the full scale and full support 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.680 of the United States. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.079 But Europe needs to take a lead. Wow. I hope 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:27.880 that's true. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.080 He gives Lensky everything he needs and the usual butt. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.400 Europe needs to take the lead. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.920 I hope that's true. I don't know. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.559 The ball is in Trump's court on this more than 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.760 it ever has been. One guy is going to make 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.000 a huge decision, and we're either going to be in 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.280 on supporting Ukraine in lots of different ways with the 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.520 harsh sanctions, with the military help with the intelligence, help 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.360 all of that, or Trump is going to go with 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.120 the what he's hinted at and JD. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.480 Vans have hinted at. Look, we tried to solve it. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.000 You two, you your squabble, your your land, battle over 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.720 territory sputed, go ahead and figure it out. Not my business, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.160 or we're gonna do that. And I don't have the 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.160 slightest idea which direction it's going to be. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.920 Three quick thoughts. Number one, JD. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.720 Vance and Lindsey Graham are staging a battle Royale behind 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.160 the scenes. I'll bet two two headlines which you don't 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.600 have time to flesh out, but we can. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:28.280 Next hour. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.040 Number one, the US reinforces Europe's Northern Front, fearing war 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.800 with Russia. In quest to make NATO more lethal, The 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.920 Pentagon turns to the High North and the Baltics. So 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.280 behind the scenes, we are beefing up NATO and making 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.240 them more lethal, exactly where Russia needs to be contained. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.280 Interesting and secondly, headline from the Wall Street Journal the 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.360 Jack referenced Putin has retooled Russia's a common economy to 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.760 focus only on war. Moscow expands military recruitment and boosts 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.760 sweats production. And peace could jeopardize economic gains. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.480 Wow. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.600 Uh, And Richard Ingle on NBC News Today said what 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.560 you said yesterday? He was asked by the hosts about 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:20.120 the ceasefire talks. He said, he ceasefire talks. That's what 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:21.400 you said yesterday, which is true. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.760 Richard Engele, known as Joe Getty of Daylight. Who's in 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.319 the business. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.719 Who's pretending there are ceasefire talks going on? Yeah? Come on? 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.560 What the hell? Okay, we got more on the ways there. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:43.319 Hey, Igloo is recalling over one hundred thousand coolers because 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.680 the handle can cut off people's fingers. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.640 Ah my god. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.400 It's great if your drunk uncle wants to get an 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.600 early start on the fireworks season. On the bright side, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.440 when you cut off your finger, the ice is right there. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.800 Wow, that's what I thought. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.720 Yeah, well, you know what, I'll just put my fingers 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 there in the ice and go find a gifted surgeon. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.560 That's not a minor injury. There's a sharp edge that 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.560 might cut you. No, cut off your finger. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.120 Nice design, yikes. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.880 Maybe you could put your new Starbucks summer drink in 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.280 your cooler. Four new Starbucks Summer drinks. I want to 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.080 mention and there's a reason I want to mention them. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:21.880 In just a second. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.720 But first this I'm dropping off my car today, which 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.240 I'm going to sell to get the rap taking off 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.440 taken off and a little rap info that you might 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.480 not No, wraps one of the coolest things to come 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.680 to cars. And you know, ever, and and you know, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.360 you see all these cool colors around, whether there's stripes 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.080 or just a color that the that maker doesn't offer 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.920 or whatever. I feel like a fifth of the cars 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.000 I see have a rap on them. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.480 I know nothing about this. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.360 Really, you probably see cars with wraps all the time. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.840 You just don't know it. Probably, so yeah, yeah, because 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.800 I always asked my son, I said, wow, that's cool. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.360 Does that come in that color? He said, that comes 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.160 to that color? How about that one? No, that doesn't. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.440 That's a rap because you can't tell. You can't tell 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.120 a rap from a paint job. But if you have 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.240 a really cool color, that's interesting. I don't even know 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.760 if automotive companies they might stop offering lots of different 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.320 colors because they realize people are just going to get 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.480 rapped anyway, So what's the point anyhow? Rap costs about 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.000 two three thousand dollars to get what and you know, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.320 a paint job. If you get a real paint job 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.880 that's going to look that good, it's going to cost 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.440 you more like fifteen twenty thousand dollars. So the difference 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.720 being a rap does not last that long. It's like 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.760 three to five years. It starts to look a little ragged. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.720 And uh, that's kind of where mine is. I've had 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.280 it for four years on my Tesla plaid, which did 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.720 not come in the color that it currently is. And 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.880 but I'm getting it removed so I can sell it, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:44.400 get it back to it. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.080 It costs a thousand dollars to remove it. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.960 Are you leaving out the fact that it's it's lavender 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.520 with rainbows. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:51.360 In it. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.560 And the Queer America the hood is a big giant 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.480 my pony, right, Yeah, very very It's it's cute anyway' 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.240 gonna cost about a grand to get it taken off, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.600 So it is way cheaper than a paint job. But 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.160 if you did it, if you have kept the car 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.920 for a long time, you'd be better off getting a 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.880 paint job. Can I do like a bondo in dense rap? 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.200 So when I park my car in craffy neighborhoods I 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:14.960 don't have to worry about. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.840 That's a good idea. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.720 The four drinks for Starbucks that they're announcing today for 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:28.360 summer Firework Frappuccino, brown sugar Strato frappuccino. God, how many 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.520 calories and fat grams in each of these? The salted 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:37.920 caramel maca Strato frappuccino. And then this strawberry Matcha. What's matchia? 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.760 Do you know what matcha is? This is where I 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:40.880 wish Katie's macha. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:41.440 What is that? 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:41.720 Yeah? 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.960 It's like a is it rice based drink? All I 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:46.440 know is this? 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.840 Any place that has Matcha in the title in San 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.080 Francisco or the town I live in has a line 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.240 out the door right now. They're like, if you're a 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:00.240 cool person, you drink Matcha. Whatever the hell that is Matchia. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.320 I might stand in the line for nothing, so I 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.119 won't taste one until the lines die down. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.040 Summer drinks, they're fancy milkshakes. Oh absolutely. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.000 I was going to talk about a mom and her 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.560 hyperactive son getting one of these drinks the other day. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.400 I'll have to talk about that later. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.080 It's a sad story, but we got more important things 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.560 to get to hope you can figure it Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.760 This is a big theme in the book that they 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.800 were lying not just to press and not just to 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:34.440 the country. They were lying to cabinet secretaries, democrats in Congress. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.040 I'm not excusing any of these people, but I'm just saying, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.200 in many ways, I think they were also lying to themselves. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.600 Jake Tapper, if you don't recognize the voice, continuing to 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:50.560 go around and tout his book exposing something everyone already knew. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.560 Although a lot of the details that are actually interesting, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.440 and I continue to read the book, I mean it's 0:17:55.520 --> 0:18:01.000 interesting enough to, you know, get me to read several 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:01.880 pages every night. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.679 It's just kind of odd. Yeah, it's the aspect of 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.320 it where Jake Tapper dropped his gun and said, I'm 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.159 a victim. I'm not on the gang, I'm not in 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:10.520 the gang. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.720 I'm a victim here that everybody is so disgusted by 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.000 the idea that, oh, those Dan White House officials lied 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.840 to us, and then we believed it, we were taking in. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.000 They pulled the will over. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.200 I mean, I've complained about this in several other ways. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.600 Jose Canseco is a good example. The baseball player who 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.840 outed everybody else for Royds. What was the dude who 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.880 was friends with Lance Armstrong who finally turned. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.720 On him and then writes a book. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.119 And my complaint has always been, Okay, you were fine 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.040 with the scam as long as it benefited you, and 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.320 now you're switching and benefiting from outing other people. Okay, 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.600 so you do what is in your best interest at 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:53.800 all points. Yet jose Conseco's story about everybody using steroids 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.280 was still damned interesting. Finding out how top level Lance 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.320 Armstrong bike riders cheated the system was still in I think, 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.480 regardless of the fact that I didn't like the source. 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.000 So a new source or at least a more fleshed 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:08.960 out source coming up in a moment or two. But 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.800 a quick couple of notes from some stuff we referenced 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.440 yesterday Andrew Styles and the Free Beacon, which is really 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.480 a terrific outlet if you're not into it, and he's 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.639 a great writer, but and he says about the book 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.000 and the publicity towards maddening. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.800 Really go back and watch. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:31.320 The tape of Tapper insisting without evidence that Biden was 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.480 mentally sharp in September of twenty three. We now know 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.720 that in the preceding months, Biden had turned in a 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.560 series of awful performances at fundraisers that left some donors 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.399 worried that quote he might not make it to election. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.840 Day, and the idea that Jake Tapper isn't in touch 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.240 with the kind of heavyweights who were at those big 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.760 dollar fundraisers, Come on, he knows these people who he 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:56.480 hangs out with. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.320 This was around the time the authors revealed a handful 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.679 of unnamed by and AIDS had become convinced the president 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.960 was too brain dead to serve another term. They started 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.480 leaking stories about Biden's limitations to Thompson Alex Thompson. One 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.840 of the only mainstream journalists report on the decline was Thompson, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.800 the only reporter these aids ever contacted. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.560 Almost certainly not what happened. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.600 In June of twenty four, Annie Lynsky and Shabon Hughes 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.919 of The Wall Street Journal published a story on Biden's decline. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.680 As promised, they were instantly denounced as right wing fabulousts. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.080 Not just by the White House, AIDS and other Democrats, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:34.159 many so called journalists joined the pylon, including some CNN guys. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.720 Tapper's response to the Journal story was also in line 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:38.959 with White House talking points. 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.320 He echoed Darcy's concerns about the sourcing, while noting that 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.920 the paper was owned by conservative billionaire. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.200 Robert Rubert Murda. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.160 He threw that in keeping in mind that last week 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.119 he called these writers heroes. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.160 When he had him on this show. Yeah, exactly. 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.160