WEBVTT - There Can't Be 2 Funny Guys!! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.879 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.680 I do hope and believe that the vote today is 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.840 a very strong signal to the markets, to investors, job creators, entrepreneurs, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.040 the people that make the economy run, that the Congress 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:34.760 is going to get us on stout sound footing. And 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.879 you can count on that and you can bet on it. 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.279 And the auto I think today wud be a great 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:40.240 day to buy stuff. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.640 Speaker Johnson, Congress is going to get us on sound footing. Well, 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.239 that would be something we'd like to welcome to the 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.200 Armstrong and Getty show. Our old friend David Dructor, who've 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.560 been talking to four years, who is now with The Dispatch. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.840 I hear him on a regular basis, senior writer at 0:00:54.840 --> 0:01:00.240 the Dispatch, on various TV appearances and Dispatch podcasts which 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.000 I hear weekly. It says here David, when Drugger is 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.640 not covering American politics for the Dispatch, he enjoys hanging 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.600 out with this two boys. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:08.040 That's nice. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.480 That's what I do too. And listening to his wife's 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.440 excellent taste in music. Did you write this? 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:15.600 I did write it, But it's true. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.400 That's interesting that so she have a particularly good taste 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.720 and you just sit in there, you sit down and 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:24.720 listen to it in your make. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.120 Let's be clear, even if she have bad taste, she 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.319 was sure run the music of the family I understand 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.880 to have. But if she has to have extremely good 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:32.920 taste of music. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.560 Oh cool. How old are your kids? 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.800 Our oldest turns thirteen on Monday, and our youngest, our 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.880 other boy, will be tennis a while. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.120 I have two boys in there, thirteen and fifteen, and 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.680 I have just started into the whole teenage thing, which, 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.480 like you've learned, as I learned with all of parenting, 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:55.040 every phase is completely different and practically none of your 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.200 skills from the last phase are of any use. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.280 This is one of the first things that I realized 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.120 some years ago, was it just when you figure out 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.240 how to do it right, they change and you have 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.080 to learn all over again. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:07.360 Yeah. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:08.920 I know how to handle a baby, Okay, I know 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.680 how to handle a toddler. Okay, I know how to 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.160 handle a four year old, But then they're not that anymore, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.760 and so yeah, yeah, so. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.160 I think you probably said. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.200 This last year. I know lots of pundits. Did man 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.040 Trump gets elected? The biggest story first year? Get ready 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.919 for this. It's going to be all about the Trump 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.480 tax cuts and whether they're renewed or not. This is 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.880 going to be the biggest political story in America. Everybody 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.079 will be talking about it. Well, we haven't been talking 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.040 about it because Trump has been doing so many different 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.079 things doge and now tariffs and everything like that that 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.960 get all the attention. We haven't been talking about this, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.000 but it's still been kind of burblin behind the scenes. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.960 Tell us where we are with all of this legislation, Well, I. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.160 Mean it gets kind of into the weeds. But in 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:00.720 order to take advantage of this process called record faciliation, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.480 which is a limited legislative process in Congress that allows 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:10.120 you to avoid a filibuster in the Senate, you have 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.040 to get the House and the Senate to agree on 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:18.080 what's called a budget resolution, which provides the contours of 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:24.079 taxation and spending and spending cuts but doesn't sell any 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.240 of the blanks. But first you have to get the 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.120 two chambers to agree on the top line numbers. All right, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.680 we're gonna We're going to cut one hundred and five 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.280 trillion in spending, I think is what's in this budget 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.960 resolution that finally passed the House after passing the Senate. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.360 We're going to cut taxes of this much. I don't 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.360 know all these numbers in my head, We're going to 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.520 spend this much. And so then once you do that, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.200 then the committees you know the ways it means committee, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.640 Energy and Commerce, Committee or whatever you know in the Senate, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.160 the Finance Committee and whatever, all the committees of jurisdiction 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:03.520 can then go about processing actual detailed legislation with all 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.920 the numbers, and then you know the plan is, and 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.360 this is how it's worked in the past. You know, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.560 you get to a point where the party that's running 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.920 the reconciliation bill, because both parties have used this process, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.000 they agree and then they run votes, and then the 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.159 opposition cries foul and then it passes. Now, you know, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.000 one of the things about reconciliation is you can't just 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.240 do anything right, can't You can't just do any policy 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.960 and have to have taxing and bending implications. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.880 Is there a judge on this, like somebody are paneled? 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.080 Well, there's a part, there's a parliamentarian in the House 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.680 and a parliamentarian in the Senate. Of course, the House 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.000 in the Senate can overrule their parliamentarian to some degree. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.520 You know, in two thousand and nine, when the Democrats 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.560 lost their super majority in the Senate, there's sixty of 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.240 vote because Scott Brown was elected to Kennedy who had 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.080 passed away. It looked like Democrats may not be able 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.000 to finish the process of passing the legislation that we 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:09.880 call Obamacare, and instead they just basically stretched the limits 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.039 of what reconciliation was able to do. Under Perry Reads leadership, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.719 he was the majority leader, and they passed it even 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.000 though they didn't have sixty votes. And when you don't 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.880 have sixty votes, all you need is fifty one or 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.200 a simple majority. However that works out, the vice president 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.960 can you be the tie breaking vote. So listen, I've 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.160 always thought that they would get the reconciliation build on 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.360 one way or the other, especially given Trump's standing in 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.480 the Republican Party. But Trump, as he likes to do, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.440 finds other ways to sideline what should be his best 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.040 and biggest story, and that's by his ill fated attempt 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.480 to reshape global trade, which was never going to work 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.360 out the way he wanted it to. Still won't work 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.760 out the way he wants it to, and it has 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.160 caused the market's pain. But when the markets have pain, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.320 you know, somebody who used to run a small business, 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.479 I can tell you small businesses end up having pain 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.160 because Main Street is inextricably linked to Wall Street. People 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.359 may not think they're invested, but their pensions are, and 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.719 you know, their four on one ks are, the retirement 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.600 counts are, and people have pensions, they have retirement accounts. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:24.040 It also, you know, impacts treasury bonds, meaning you know 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.279 the price of debt that the US government sells, and 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.760 then that impacts interest rates. So even if you have 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.960 no money in the market but you want a car 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.760 loan or a mortgage for a home, I mean, there's 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.160 just no way around it, right, There's no protection from 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.080 this stuff. So that's why we haven't been talking about 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.080 this because Trump decided he didn't want to talk about it. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.400 Right, Well, does he feel like it's to his advantage 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.880 to not be talking about the whole renew and the 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.160 taxes and all that sort of stuff. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.120 Well, I don't know. But even for Trump, and sometimes 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.440 it seems illogical, but you know he has his I mean, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.400 he wasn'tlected president twice, and he's a really good politician 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.240 talking about how he's going to cut taxes for average Americans, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.360 which which is what is in this bill, right. I mean, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.640 you know, everybody focuses on the income tax cuts, but 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.920 you know, the funny thing about the tax bill, right, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.320 what they want to do is sort of make the 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.080 Trump tax cuts from the first term, right, pre bide 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.760 and permanent. And Democrats did a really good job of 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.960 convincing people these were all tax cuts for the rich, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.160 but actually a lot of middle class and lower class 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.760 Americans receive tax benefits. Some people don't even pay income 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.400 taxes anymore because of the first Trump tax bill and 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.800 this new bill, you know, no taxes on tips, no 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.080 taxes on Social Security income. I believe you want to 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.640 put a measure in there that says, if you, you know, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.160 are financing an American made car, you can write off 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.640 the interest. So there's all this stuff in there for 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:56.120 regular people so called. And you know, people may complain 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.880 about the capital gains cuts, but you know, cutting capital 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.320 gains is really good for an investment, which means people 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:07.240 can invest in things that resulted more jobs and you know, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.440 wealthy people buying products and things that middle class people 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.760 are building. So I don't see why Trump wouldn't want 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.000 to be talking about this. But he has always liked Paris, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.680 he has always believed. He doesn't believe many things, but 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.880 he believes a few things. And this thing with trade 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.960 he's believed going back to the nineteen. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.160 Yeah, we've played the clips of him on Oprah or 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.120 Letterman or wherever. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.360 Yeah. And the thing is, you know, if anybody thought 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.040 he wasn't going to do this, they were just silly, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.280 because all you have to do is listen to what 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.360 he said and understand that if he was going to 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.439 be re elected after everything that went on at the 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.640 end of the first term and in the middle of 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.360 the first and second term, exactly why was he going 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.600 to show up and feel hesitant to do what he 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:50.200 wanted to do? 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.120 Well, I wouldn't be if I was in That's what 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.520 I've been talking about my whole life. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.560 Yeah, but that's common sense. It's but a lot of 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.559 you know, there are a lot of Republican donors and 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.400 a lot of the people that supported him, and it 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.360 makes sell us and I understand you know, totally makes 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.120 sense him over eris, you know, on balance. But the 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.160 idea that you didn't build in what he's done in 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.240 the past couple of weeks or the past couple of months, really, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.960 that you didn't build into the price of admission what 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.520 this might cost you. I mean, that just shows you 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.440 that even people with money aren't always that bright. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:21.880 Yeah. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.080 I was gonna throw out as a trivia question earlier 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.640 today just because it's extraordinary, how much has been going 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:27.720 on in the last couple of months. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.000 How long has Trump been president? 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.160 Today is day eighty two, eighty two days he's been president, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.000 and it seems like it's been years of stories and reporting. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:38.000 Uh. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.000 David Drucker of The Dispatch here, Hey, you said you 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.840 were you were a small business owner. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:42.600 What was your business? 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.520 Yeah, this goes back thirty years ago. But my my 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.720 family owned a sales and marketing firm, and we also 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.840 manufactured window covering like vertical blinds. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:53.719 And shade and things like that. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.360 And I was a part owner along with them. It 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.160 was a very small firm. We didn't have a lot 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:03.440 of investment capital, really have any investment capital. I wasn't 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.520 really very I made so many mistakes that after about 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.840 seven years of doing it and not doing that well, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.040 I finally figured out how to not make mistakes anymore. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.240 And then I started to think about whether I wanted 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.719 to do that thing for the next forty years, and 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.760 I devided I did not. My parents' side of the 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.800 business has always the very successful side. My side was 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:33.760 the manufacturing side, light manufacturing, distribution, things like that. But 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.199 because of that, I understand the impact of government regulations. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.679 I understand inventory and waste, and competition from overseas and competition, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:48.160 domestic competition, you know all of that, and you know 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.040 it helps inform I think. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.319 I'm sure I'm amazed by uh. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.240 I've always had so much respect and awe for people 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.000 who start a small business and then run it and 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.760 make a success out of it and everything you got 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:03.400 to pour into it. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.200 It's just amazing. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.360 It is, it really is. And those are probably the 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.839 people I still admire most are people that do that. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.000 I love to read about how they went from nothing 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:17.400 to something. And you know, I you know, especially people 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.480 you know that are not And this is, by the way, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.640 there's a there. Every kind of success I think is 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.640 a great success, but people that that just didn't have 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.679 any investment capital because the industry, you know, it was 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.120 too competitive or it's just not the kind of industry 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.200 that creates that sort of feed and you have to 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.800 you know, beg barrow and steal to get it started. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.000 And and there's such a talent for running a business. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.439 There's a talent in managing people. And you can take 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.080 all the business classes in the world and it really 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.520 does help to at least understand profit and loss and 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.760 and all of that. But this other stuff, it's like 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:54.360 an art form. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:54.680 Yeah. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.480 Absolutely, Yeah, I'm amazingly impressed. And that's cool that you 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.360 did that. I understand now where you're coming from on 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.520 some of the things you talk about and write about, Hey, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.640 we got to take we gotta be done because we're 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.439 up against our break. But just as quickly as you can. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.760 Do you think most of the Trump tax cuts from 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.400 the first term do become permanent? 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:15.600 Yeah? 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.599 I do. I mean I think they'll get reconciliation in 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.640 one way or the other. Yeah, they might have to. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.920 It may not work out exactly the way they want, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.960 but they'll they'll they'll figure it out. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.760 Cool. Well, thank you, David Drucker. Enjoy those boys and 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:28.559 your wife's music. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:30.000 Thank you. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.199 We got a lot more on the way of different stripes. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.560 I want to get back to the New York Times 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.960 story that I brought you last hour. If you don't 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.600 know what it is, stick around. I can't tell you 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.680 a short version of it because it's too disgusting and 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.880 that would be unfair. But that's on the way, among 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.480 other things, stay right here, get over. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.360 This week released an annual list of items customers left 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.240 behind in their cars, and there's some incredible stuff of 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.880 Some of the belonging these passengers left in their ubers 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.480 include a madeqan head had a chainsaw, a ghost trap 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.400 from Ghostbusters. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.920 Shrek ears, a urinal. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.560 Someone left a bottle of fresh breast milk, which I 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:10.640 have two questions for that. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.160 How do they know his breast milk? 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:21.200 And more concerningly, how did they know what was fresh? 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.480 A chainsaw, a mannequin head? Maybe those two things went together. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:26.000 Not sure. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.200 So I started into this story last hour, didn't have 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.240 time to get a. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.640 Few more of the details. So I'm going to try 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:34.199 to do that now. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.720 And as Byron new York said in the Washington Examiner, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.920 this is a story from the New York Times. The 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.640 New York Times seems to be worried that subway necrophilia 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:51.160 will make the city look bad. Necrophilia of courses people 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.560 who for some reason like the idea of this is 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.520 not for the kids or the queenish. Nope, having sex 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.240 with a dead body, which I'm not as concerned about 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.240 my corpse being defiled as some people are. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.320 Once I'm dead, do whatever you want with me, I 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:06.679 don't care. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 I mean, it's up to you, but I don't feel 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.280 like it has anything to do with my life anyhow. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.880 It's weird to want to do that. The living person 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.520 is the focus. That's where my concern is. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:22.480 Yeah, exactly, I'm about to sneeze. Oh oh oh, no, okay, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:22.960 went away. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.120 Police seek man who they say violated a corpse on 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.680 the R train. And it's got a picture of the subway, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.720 so you know what the subway looks like. New York 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.560 subways have been the subject of debate, with politicians using 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.160 them to paint the city is out of control and 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:36.800 dangerous to residents and visitors. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.080 And then you have this story. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.040 The police were searching on Thursday for a man investigators 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.560 believe violated a dead man Wednesday night on a train 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.080 in a Manhattan subway station. According to an internal police document, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:54.280 the person who died, I guess you can die anywhere, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.280 But this guy got on the R train at eight 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.360 o'clock at night. According to a law enforcement official with 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.600 knowledge of the mas, he had watched the videos because 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.000 they got cameras in all the subways. It was unclear 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.800 when or how the person died. A man entered the 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:14.320 same empty train car at around eleven. Within forty five minutes, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.080 the man saw the dead man, then began to rummage 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.120 through his pockets. Then the man began to have sex 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.480 with the body. According to the video and the official documents, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.600 the sexual acts were captured on surveillance cameras inside the 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.400 train car. Soon after, the man got off the train 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.200 and fled. Well that was good luck for me, wasn't it, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.240 he thought, and got off the train. The police on 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:40.400 Thursday released images of the man. He had a goateee man. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.200 Never trust somebody of the goates, Oh boy, carrying a 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.640 black backpack and wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt, a black 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.480 puffer jacket and a blue Dodgers baseball cap. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.040 Dodgers fans, Yeah, i'd see. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.920 I shouldn't say that, I know a couple of Dodgers 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.760 fans who would punch me in the face for that joke. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:57.360 This is the part I like. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.400 The episode occurred as New York City subways had become 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.600 the subject of a national debate about poor governance. Bah 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.280 blah blah blah. So again, the New York Times seems 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.400 to think that people dying on the trail, if you 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.920 die on the train by accident, somebody is gonna sex 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.560 up your dead body. They think that's a bad look 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.560 for the subway system, and they're concerned about that. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:22.040 Let's the ripple effects. Now, let's just copycat crimes. Yeah, exactly. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.640 Oh my god, what are the chance that you wouldn't 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.400 think there'd be one in a million chants that this 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.880 could happen, that you would come across a human being 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.880 who wouldn't think, oh my god, is that person okay? 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.880 You know, go try to wake them up, figure out 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.880 their dead immediately, call nine to one one or first stop. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.200 You're screaming to the you know, some official, I've got 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.720 a dead bit. No you think, all right, yeah, this 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.520 guy sprinted in the opposite direction from what you just described. Wow, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.000 I hope they catch a guy and interview him that's 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.400 so crazy, and you got you gotta lock him up. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.480 Well I was gonna say lock him up forever, but well, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.800 they've made contact with his brother, so they're on their way. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.880 They figured out who his brother is. Yeah, apparently this 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:03.920 guy's identifying the. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.359 Did his brother know that his sibling was a corpse 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:09.119 blanker story? 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.639 Dickens, Yeah, Armstrong and Geeddy. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.160 Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals, bottom line, that's who 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.000 we're concentrating on, arresting the priorities public safety threads and 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.159 national security threads. For any elected official to tell his 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.760 police officers not to help us remove public safety treads 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.080 from his community, which he's responsible for, is just sickening. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.119 So we're going to keep doing it. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.320 You probably recognize the voice of Tom Holman there and 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.600 talking about sanctuary cities. Trump had a tweet or truth 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.680 that he put out yesterday that he's coming after sanctuary 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.040 city's going to cut the federal funding. I'm sure that 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.560 will be challenged. It'll get to the Supreme Court finally, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.200 I hope. But it's another one of those issues that 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.919 the Democratic Party seems to be on the wrong side of. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.480 A eighty twenty or seventy thirty issue, which brings me 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.320 to wanting to talk to long Heat. He's a David 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.080 and Diane Stephi Fellow at an American Public Policy Study 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.560 Studies at the Hoover Institution and the Director of Domestic 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.320 Policy Studies at Stanford University, Lana. He got more Republican 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.520 votes a couple cycles ago when he ran for comptroller 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.360 in California than any Republican in the entire country, including 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.240 Ron DeSantis, which is amazing, Lanai. Welcome back to the 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:22.400 Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.560 Hey Jack, thanks for having me again and speaking to DeSantis. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.280 And this is where I want to go with Gavin 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:34.960 Newsom's prospects for running for president and my main question 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.240 that I've had for quite a while now, and you 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:37.720 might be the perfect person to answer it. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.359 But this headline right now. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.600 Florida teacher is first to be fired for using students 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.280 preferred name without parents consent. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.440 In Florida, where they have a law the teacher. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:55.840 Can't call Jimmy Jane in class just because the student 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.280 wants that without talking to the parents about it, the 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.000 opposite of what the law is in California, where the 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.800 schools are not allowed to contact the parents and I 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:10.000 was just wondering, do you think Gavin Newsom can run 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.560 for president being on the twenty side of an eighty 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.520 twenty issue like this and many others. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:16.600 This is just one example. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:19.919 It is just one example. You're right. I think what 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.960 will be interesting is Gavin Newsom's effort to reinvent himself. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.600 And the reason I say that is because if I 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.760 don't know, Jack you have you listened to the guy's 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.640 podcast or have you? I mean, all of this sort 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:37.840 of effort to make himself into a reasonably minded, more 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.960 moderate Democrat is interesting. It's politically expedient given the fact 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.479 that the Democratic Party remains really without leadership. If you 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.280 look at the structure as well as the nature of 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.440 the different things that Democrats are saying, there really isn't 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.720 a national leader. So you can't blame Gavin Newsom for 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.720 trying to step into that vacuum. You know, I said 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.639 recently on television that politics ab whoors a vacuum, and 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.480 I think what you're seeing now are efforts on the 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.680