1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Ketty. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 3: Attention Walmart shoppers. Instead of rolling back prices, America's biggest 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 3: retailer just announced they're raising them and they're blaming Trump's tariffs. 6 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 3: How many more stories are going to have to follow 7 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 3: Walmart's lead? 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, that story broke while we're on there yesterday. I 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 2: should have mentioned it. I just wasn't in the. 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 4: Mood, but probably should have been a big deal. Walmart 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 4: saying they're going to raise prices because of tariffs. For 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 4: one thing, they're the biggest retailer in the world. Like 13 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 4: Jake said, there, lion, Lion, Jake Tapper. 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: And I was just gonna say, the list of voices 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: I can hear on our show that don't immediately sound 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: me to what they're saying is shrinking. David Muir of 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: ABC News, Please, I know if I need to know 18 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: what time of day it wasn't he had a watch. 19 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: I wouldn't ask him because I don't want to hear 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: his stinking voice. And Jake Tapper, I'm sorry he says, sorry, Jake, 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: the great Sherlock Holmes style of solver of mysteries who 22 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: figured out that Biden was senile? 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 4: Please more on that a. 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: Little bit later. 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what it is personal between Mark Alprin, 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 4: who's got a new TV show that's on YouTube every night. 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: It's on YouTube and somewhere else. It's really good. 28 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 4: I mean it looks like a TV show. He's sitting 29 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 4: there in a suit and tie with a TV storater background. 30 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: Has guests. 31 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 4: But man, he is killing Jake Tapper and then with 32 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 4: receipts every single night. 33 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get into that while we're on it. Why 34 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 2: the hell not? Why not? Uh? 35 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 4: So, Tapper has got this book coming out next week 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: right where he's gonna try to be the hero of 37 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 4: the story and bring you all these behind the scenes 38 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: details of what was going on with the cover up, 39 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 4: and practically everybody's well not true. I was gonna say 40 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 4: everybody's reaction, but no. The New York Times and The 41 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 4: Washington Post and CNN's own media person have reviewed the 42 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 4: book like, oh my god, Jake Tapper has uncovered some 43 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 4: secrets that are oh wait till you hear this. 44 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: Okay, why don't we just say everyone who's not guilty 45 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: of precisely the same crimes as Jake Tapper have reacted 46 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: this way to jack Jake Tapper's book. 47 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: Right, And. 48 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 4: So Jake Tapper, as we mentioned yesterday, I hired some 49 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 4: pr firm when it became fairly obvious that some people 50 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 4: are like, oh, give me a break. You can't set 51 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 4: the fire, put out the fire, and then take credit 52 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 4: for taking you know, putting out the fire and act 53 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 4: like you didn't. 54 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,239 Speaker 2: I mean, we're just putting up with this. 55 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 4: And so Mark Hauprin, whose main thing is as a 56 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 4: news guy, I think he's got two things. 57 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: Going for him. 58 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 4: One, he got driven out of the industry when he 59 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 4: got me tooed around what two thousand in twenty twenty one, 60 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 4: somewhere in there. And I think a lot of people 61 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 4: he's like, you didn't come to my defense, screw you. 62 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 4: So I don't think he cares if he hurts any 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 4: feelings here with Colin out. 64 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 2: We're one of the first shows to have him back on. 65 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: By the way, you know, I'm not sensing a lot 66 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: of gratitude, but anyway. 67 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 4: And the other end of it is he really is 68 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 4: concerned about the state of media, and if people don't 69 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: believe the media, we can't hold any presidents accountable. 70 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,559 Speaker 2: He said, you can't hold Trump accountable because he lost. 71 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 4: All of your credibility with Biden, and you know, vice versa. 72 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 4: So just the media can't do its job and we're 73 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 4: doomed if the media can't hold either party accountable, which 74 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 4: is obviously a problem. He regularly calls this, and he's 75 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 4: absolutely correct, the biggest media failure in US history. It 76 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 4: absolutely is. What would compare to pretending that the president 77 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 4: is fine for all those years? 78 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: Anyway? So I think we did. 79 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 4: First of all, I can't just look at the list quickly, 80 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 4: handsome that clip I sent you. 81 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: To get Okay, here it is here, it is. 82 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 4: I want you to play forty and let me set 83 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 4: this up real quick. So back toward this was before 84 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 4: the election. Wall Street Journal does a not even really 85 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 4: strong piece about how Biden's brain doesn't work anymore, and 86 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 4: it made such waves in. 87 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 2: The world of media. The Wall Street Journal. 88 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 4: Says the president isn't fit mental that he'd be to 89 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 4: be in office, and he certainly to be president for 90 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 4: another four years. 91 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: I remember presenting it to the good folks on our 92 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: show where we decided, yeah, this is good solid, a 93 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: good solid accounting of that which all of us can 94 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: see with our own eyes. 95 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: But man, somebody serious pushback. 96 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 4: That's when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC went nuts and said, hey, 97 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 4: look at the camera a few if you don't believe 98 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 4: this is the best version of Joe Biden. I mean 99 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 4: people pushed back hard, including Jake Tapper, who had on 100 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 4: various guests to counter the Wall Street Journal narrative and 101 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 4: let them say their piece completely unchallenged on his showback 102 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 4: at the time yesterday, he has the gall in trying 103 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 4: to rewrite history to have these Wall Street Journal reporters 104 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 4: on and called them heroes. 105 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: Here it is clip forty. They're with me now. 106 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 3: Two of the heroic reporters were covering this intensely during 107 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 3: the Biden years. Any Lensky and Shavon Hughes. There they 108 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,799 Speaker 3: are with the Wall Street Journal. They reported in decline 109 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: of Biden's mental acuity back in June of last year. 110 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 3: The piece then quotes behind closed doors, Biden show signs 111 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 3: of slipping participants in meetings. The eighty one year old 112 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 3: president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden 113 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 3: is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics unquote. 114 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 3: This is not the first time you guys have been on. 115 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 3: I said it last year before the election, and I'll 116 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: say it again. The journalism you did was vital and 117 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 3: the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful. 118 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 4: Which you participated in the smear campaign by Democrats against 119 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal reporters at the time, he helped 120 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 4: along and again getting to the whole Mark Alprin thing 121 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 4: his TV show last night. 122 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 2: I mean, he's been dedicating so much time to this. 123 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 4: He had a segment where the next day or the 124 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 4: day of the Wall Street Journal piece, Tapper had on 125 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 4: Kons Senator Kuons, Big Biden advocate and surrogate and on 126 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 4: there and just tore into the Wall Street Journal and says, 127 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 4: where's the Wall Street Journal criticizing Trump for what he 128 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 4: gets a name wrong? And Tapper let him say his 129 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 4: giant piece, no pushback whatsoever. 130 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: So he participated and. 131 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 4: The Democrats tear down the Wall Street Journal, then has 132 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 4: the balls to have them on yesterday and call them heroes. 133 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 4: I mean, that is another level. 134 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: And to make the point repeatedly in his introduction that 135 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: I've been on this story the whole time. I'd said 136 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: this last to eight year. I'm saying it now, along 137 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: with that other stuff I said all through the Biden 138 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: years that I'm sure everybody remembers. Jake Tapper cannot hear 139 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: the Cosmos screaming at him, saying, Jake, you can't defend you. 140 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: This is not working. You're just reminding people of what 141 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: a liar you are. You cannot be your main advocate 142 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: because you got no credibility. 143 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 4: Chum. I don't know if it's gonna matter, because it's 144 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 4: people in the usual circles. If you read the Washington 145 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 4: Post in the New York Times, you're they're taking in. 146 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 2: This book like, oh my god, did you hear? 147 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 4: And and Fox and everybody leaning right who already knew 148 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 4: Joe Biden. 149 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 2: Was in the situation he is. Know are laughing at 150 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 2: this book. 151 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 4: But he must, he must be worried to do what 152 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 4: he did yesterday. This was yesterday he had the Wall 153 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 4: Street Journal reporters on and called them heroes. I mean, 154 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 4: how do you sit there and do that. 155 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: It's pathetic. It's desperation, and it's so clearly desperation. That's 156 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: what that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I would be embarrassed. 157 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: I would be embarrassed to go that far. Yes, Uh, 158 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: you know it's funny. I just had the feeling wash 159 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: over me. 160 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 4: That. Uh. 161 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: The utter dishonesty of the mainstream media has been recognized 162 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: by the vast, vast majority of the American people. They're 163 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: less popular or less trusted than any institution but Congress, 164 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: which should make you shudder as a fan of the Constitution. 165 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: And and they're they're their punishment's already been exacted upon them. 166 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 2: They're laughing stocks. 167 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 4: Here's the problem, though, it hurts us. If it if 168 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 4: it only hurt them, I'd be fine with that. I 169 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 4: don't care. 170 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: But it's not. This is Halpern's point. It's bad for 171 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 2: the country. 172 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 4: So you're they've been punished, they've gotten what they deserved, 173 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 4: but with having an eight percent approval rating. But that's 174 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 4: a terrible place for us to be as a country. 175 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 4: And they're not great, and they're not trying to dig 176 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 4: themselves out of it, they're making it worse. Well, I'll 177 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 4: read from Mark Alprin's Today. He ques, I'm not against it, 178 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 4: I'm having lots of fun. He quotes Politico Today in 179 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 4: his newsletter this is Politico Today. It was what happened 180 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 4: in that debate was a shock to me, Jake Sullivan 181 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 4: told Playbooks Jack Blanchard at Politico's Security summerd on Thursday. 182 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 2: I think it was a shock to everybody. 183 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 4: So Jake Sullivan saying this week that it was a 184 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 4: shock to everyone around Joe Biden when he showed up, 185 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 4: that they acted that. 186 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 2: Way house ridiculous. 187 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 4: Helpin writes, No one can legitimately say they were shocked 188 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 4: by what happened in the debate because Biden exhibited all 189 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: the same behaviors in public four years and goes on 190 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 4: to say, oh my god, reporters need to stop asking Democrats, 191 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: were you surprised by the debate? Or should Biden have 192 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 4: run for reelection? Or did you see signs of decline 193 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 4: in private? The correct question at this point is, given 194 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 4: Joe Biden's obvious mental decline in public, why didn't you 195 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 4: speak up? That should be the only question every single time, right, right, 196 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 4: And if you're going to talk to reporters, it should 197 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 4: be But the reporter, given his obvious decline, why weren't 198 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 4: you reporting on that? 199 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: There are only two possible well, yeah, for the politicos 200 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: that one question, reporters another. But the only possible answer 201 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: for politicos would be I place my party above my country. Well, 202 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: the second answer might be, look, I go along to 203 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 1: get along. 204 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 2: That's what politicians do. 205 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: Third answer, and if they were going to be honest, 206 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: they would say this, Kamala Harris is an effing idiot. 207 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: Figured we were better off with old man Biden his 208 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: inner circle than that half wit from California and her 209 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: band of renegade dopes. 210 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 4: The why to that is, and this is what Alpern 211 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 4: points out all the time, is that they hated Trump 212 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 4: so much they just didn't want him to win. Whatever 213 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 4: kept him from winning. Yeah, that's answer for right, yep. 214 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 2: Yeah. And but. 215 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 4: To go so far to bring in those Wall Street 216 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 4: journal reporters, they should have called him out there on 217 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 4: the show you're calling a well, I wish one of 218 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 4: them would have said, you're calling me a hero. You 219 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 4: had guest after guest on to terrace apart at the time. 220 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird, Jake. I was an idiot last year. 221 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: Now I'm a hero. 222 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 4: Huh. That's hero heroic coverage because they were able to 223 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 4: report what everybody. 224 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 2: Already knew this is. 225 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 4: Well. I keep quoting Mark Cowperny said last night, We're 226 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 4: through the looking glass. I don't even know what to 227 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 4: say anymore. Well, right, yeah, yeah, what's your next? 228 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: Your book? Jake Nixon was a little paranoid. 229 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: You got a book about Carter, he's a well meaning fellow, 230 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: but didn't do it very well. You got any more 231 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: crazy revelations nobody saw God? I mean, can he can 232 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper go any farther than this calling them heroes. Well, 233 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: the harder he tries, the more sad and pathetic it is, 234 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,839 Speaker 1: which is what I was trying to say about the cosmos. 235 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 2: I mean, Jake, you just gotta let it lie. 236 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: Dude, you are the last person who ought to be 237 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: saying these things. 238 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 239 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: Do you think he's just completely self unaware? 240 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: That's what I wonder. 241 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 4: I have been self delusional about things before, and then 242 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 4: when it becomes evident to me how wrong I was, 243 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 4: I'm amazed. 244 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 2: It's like, wow, the. 245 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 4: Human brain can do that, or my human brain did this, 246 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 4: or but he doesn't seem to want to have that. 247 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 4: How interesting would that be if he did, If he'd 248 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 4: be willing to come on the air and say I 249 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 4: was so against Trump winning and so just very deep 250 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 4: in the idea of not helping him that I ignored 251 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 4: the obvious. 252 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 2: That would be interesting, It would be more interesting, it 253 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: would be more believable. Right, Yeah, you raised an interesting pointer, 254 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 2: Michael did at the end. 255 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 5: There. 256 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: You've never had any brain but the one you've had. 257 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: You know, all of us obviously can say that. I 258 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: wonder if there are people who are just way, way, 259 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 1: way more pliable to that sort of group think than 260 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: I can imagine being. 261 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 2: It's got to be true. 262 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 4: Wow, any thoughts text line four one five two nine 263 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 4: five KFTC. 264 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 6: This week, over one two hundred Starbucks employees have gone 265 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 6: on strike to protest the company's new dress code. It 266 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 6: was strange all the employees walked out and the line moved. 267 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: Justice found. 268 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, Starbucks workers are upset about the dress code. Meanwhile, 269 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 6: over at Duncan, you're allowed to wear an apron with 270 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 6: nothing underneath. 271 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 4: That sow you know, that reminds me. 272 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: I just saw it was a Twitter thread that AI 273 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: has just gone too far now, And it was an 274 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: AI video of a McDonald a McDonald's run entirely by 275 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: cats and they were doing all the jobs doing the fries, 276 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: cooking the burgers, manning the register. And it was utterly convincing. 277 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: I mean not like I was convinced there's a cat. 278 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 4: McDonalds briefly were concerned that there's a feline entirely feline 279 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 4: run McDonald somewhere. 280 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 2: What of the fur and my drink? Gross? No, it's 281 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 2: just it's amazing. It wasn't babies this time. It was 282 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: cats to the Starbucks thing. 283 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 4: Just just this came up because it was a news 284 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 4: story hit. My kids were listening, and I just threw 285 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 4: up my usual dad sort of advice. If your boss 286 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 4: tells you got to wear a black shirt, wear a 287 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 4: freaking black shirt. I want to wear my rainbow Black 288 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 4: Lives Matter shirt because I want to bring my whole 289 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 4: self to work at Starbucks. 290 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: You make coffee, do your work, and shut up. That's 291 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: been the history of all the history of mankind can 292 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: be summed up with the sentence show up and shut up. 293 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: All right, even this job oddly enough. So anyway, now 294 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: I've got a trio of stories about crime. Maybe we 295 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: can squeeze in the next hour, including Chinese money launderers, flooding, 296 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: particularly southern California, with hundreds of thousands of dollars of 297 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: cartel cash and the challenge that is posing for both 298 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: banks and law enforcement authorities. We are, you know, like 299 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: Trump made that trip to the Middle East and was 300 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: getting trillions of dollars of investments out of the various 301 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: oil sheiks, some good enough, some of evil. The cartels 302 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: look at the US that same way. We are the 303 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: trillions of dollars land of gold because we loves their drugs. 304 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 4: Another story I'd like to get to. This is an 305 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 4: exclusive in the Wall Street Journal today. I am we 306 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 4: have been downplaying this fear of flying thing for several years. 307 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 4: I think this is gonna happen. There is going to 308 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 4: be a mid air collision that kills hundreds and hundreds 309 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: and hundreds of people. Really, I think so at some 310 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: point the air traffic controller averted a mid air collision. 311 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 4: Now he's speaking out interviewing the Wall Street Journal guy 312 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 4: who walked off the job at Newark after a couple 313 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 4: of weeks ago when he barely caught a couple of 314 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: planes that were going to crash. 315 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: Into each other. 316 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, we can talk about that. I'm not 317 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 4: afraid to fly, but I think at some point, just 318 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 4: you know it's gonna happen. 319 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: I think it is absolutely righteous that the current Secretary 320 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: of Transportation and the Trump administration are trying to update 321 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: modern eyes make more efficient and safeire air traffic control system. 322 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: I think it's a great thing they're doing. Yeah, we need, 323 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 2: absolutely We've got a lot on the way. I hope 324 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 2: you can stick around Armstrong and Getty. 325 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 7: The frightening scene in Silver Spring, Maryland. A toddler has 326 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 7: survived a fifteen story fall from an apartment building. First 327 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 7: Responders believe the two year old boy fell from a 328 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 7: balcony and survived by landing on the bushes below. Authorities 329 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 7: are now investigating the fall again. The boy is expected 330 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 7: to survive. 331 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 2: This holy crap. 332 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm reminded of that ride along we did 333 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: with the Charlotte Fire Department. This is probably like in 334 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, thirty. 335 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 2: Plus years ago. Good Lord. 336 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: And the guys, we actually responded to a call where 337 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: somebody fell out of a seventh floor window and landed 338 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: in the bushes and sustained the broken arm I think 339 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: was the most serious injury. In talking to some of 340 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: the firefighters, they talked about, you know, they've gone to 341 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: cases where somebody tripped walking off a curb, hit their 342 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: head and died. 343 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 2: Friend of mine did last year, like sixty years old. Akes. Yikes, 344 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 2: here your two year old falls off the balcony in 345 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 2: the fifteenth floor. You have no expectation whatsoever of a 346 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 2: good outcome. 347 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: Oh my yeah, I don't know what the takeaway is 348 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: here other than try not to fall off the balconies 349 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: or trip going over curbs. But it's amazing, you know 350 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: what the outcomes can be. 351 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 2: Life is completely unpredictable. So be very very afraid. 352 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: Exactly, yes, yes, don't do anything ever. Live your day amazement, 353 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: amazing fear. I mean, just paralyzing fear. 354 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 4: All day every day. Great idea or avengeful God. Maybe 355 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 4: you go for avengeful God. 356 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: All right, all right, So what do we want to 357 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: talk about? Do you want to do the pricest thing? 358 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: Or I've got my crime stories. 359 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 2: I can hit you with this inflation thing real quick. 360 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 4: We meant to talk about this, Joe got so sidetracked 361 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 4: by his hatred for Jake Tapper we ended up talking 362 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 4: about him and his book instead of the way but 363 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 4: that Walmart announced yesterday that they're raising prices. They say, 364 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 4: specifically because of the Trump tariffs, which as the biggest 365 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 4: retailer in the world, that gives a lot of other 366 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 4: stores cover if they were thinking, God, we need to 367 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 4: raise prices too, but our people are going to you know, 368 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 4: gives them a little political cover or cultural cover. Anyway, 369 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 4: I thought this was interesting. On the way this was 370 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 4: covered two different ways, let me find it for it. 371 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 4: On one hand, the Wall Street General writes this, so 372 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 4: far Trump's tariffs have had a muted effect on inflation. 373 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 4: Walmart's announcement suggests that a dam is breaking and that 374 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 4: a flood of higher prices could soon follow. But Axios 375 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 4: put it this way. With major indicators from April, the 376 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 4: month of peak tariff uncertainty now in none show the 377 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 4: kind of a recessionary or inflationary conditions implied by business 378 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 4: and consumers surveys. So they went with a very positive 379 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 4: spin on we went through the worst month of it 380 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 4: and things are fine. 381 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: So clear skies. 382 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 383 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how they arrived at that conclusion since 384 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: the tariffs hadn't actually hit, I don't think. And the 385 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: ones that are in place are not like crazy high, 386 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: but they're higher than they were. 387 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 2: Well, the analysis of these two stories were you're smarter 388 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 2: than I am. If you have any idea which of 389 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 2: these is correct? 390 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 4: If like enough damage was done that we are going 391 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 4: to have inflation, or we pulled out of the nose 392 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 4: dive in time so we're gonna. 393 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: Be okay, I have no idea. Wow, all right. 394 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: Walmart's CEO r CFO John David Rainey said the speed 395 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: and magnitude at which these prices are coming to us 396 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: is somewhat unprecedented in history. 397 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 2: Wow. 398 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: Trade War's full impact on consumers as yet to come. 399 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: Any businesses stockpiled goods before the tariff's hit in Some 400 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: businesses have absorbed the initial costs rather than passing them along, 401 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: while Mart's announcements suggest that some businesses are running out 402 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: of options for putting off price increases, economists said, which 403 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: would seem to unless that's just wrong. 404 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: Counter the axios claim, Yeah. 405 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 4: I keep hearing these stories of people are cutting back 406 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 4: on travel, leading out variety of things for summer. 407 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: I will see, Yeah, yeah, we will. I think it'll 408 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: all be pretty clear within a month or two. Oh yeah, 409 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: So a handful of crime related stories I found very interesting. 410 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: First of all, bags of cash from drug cartels or 411 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: flooding teller windows at US banks, and they tell the 412 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: story of this undercover. Well, undercover cops were watching a 413 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: Chinese national by the name of jillong Yu steps out 414 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: of a range drover and a strip mall parking lot, 415 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: walks into a Chase bank with a black leather backpack 416 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: full of cash in southern California. 417 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 4: So at the teller window he puts up these stacks. 418 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 4: I've complained a lot about, Like if I want to 419 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 4: take out ten thousand dollars to go buy a used car, 420 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 4: the bank makes me tell them what I'm going to 421 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 4: do with it, and I hate that. Sex my money, 422 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 4: I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. On 423 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 4: the other hand, a guy rolls in a range over 424 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 4: with a backpack full of cash, I feel like that's 425 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 4: worth a look. 426 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. So how do I present this exactly? 427 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: This is a story about some of the most important 428 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: criminal organizations, certainly in our hemisphere, the big cartels in 429 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 1: Mexico and Chinese money laundering operations that are, you know, 430 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: run in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. So that 431 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: would suggest to you a fair degree of sophistication, right. 432 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: Well, listen to this part now. 433 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: So at the teller window, you pulled out stacks of 434 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: bills and waited all A woman fed them into the 435 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: cash counting machine. After you left, an off start asked 436 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: to tell her if he had deposited more than ten 437 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: thousand dollars the threshold acquiring banks banks to flag transactions, 438 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, more like one hundred thousand. 439 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 2: The teller said, wow. 440 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: By then, you was already on his way to Chase 441 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: and Bank of America branches in Claremont Claremont, California, about 442 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: thirty five miles away. 443 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 2: With more cash to put in. Yes, wow, how they 444 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 2: carrying in that ranger over? 445 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: Well, they don't say that specifically, but federal authorities allege 446 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: you worked for an underground banking network that bought dollars 447 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: at a discount from Mexico's Sineloa drug cartel. 448 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 4: Did Jason did Jason Bateman ever think of doing it 449 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 4: this way where he doesn't have to like deal with 450 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 4: those inbred hick people, know, as he's trying to launder 451 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 4: the money on Ozark. 452 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 1: Well, right, run a riverboat casino with his angsty wife 453 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: and angsty children. 454 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: Right, I don't know but so you buy, you. 455 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: Know, one hundred thousan dollars cash from a cartel for 456 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars, and then you attempt to launder it. 457 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: You attempt to, you know, to obscure the origin of 458 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: it until it can be used again. The network allegedly 459 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: handled some fifty million dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking 460 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: over four years, depositing a portion of the tainted cash 461 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: and ATMs and teller windows at major banks, including City Bank, 462 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: in cities around La County, according to federal prosecutors, and 463 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: similar money laundering operations operate in plain sight around the US, 464 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: hiding the staggering returns which are the reason cross border 465 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: cartels smuggle fentanyl, meth, coke, and other drugs used by 466 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: millions of Americans. 467 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 4: So that guy might have had half million million dollars 468 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 4: he's driving around on that range over with man, that's 469 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 4: that's somebody connected to some bad people. 470 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, interesting, wow. I suggested that you know, 471 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: there's like a twenty percent discount or something like that. 472 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: But Chinese money laundering operatives in some cases open dozens 473 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: of bank accounts at multiple banks using counterfeit passports to 474 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: disguise their identity or recruiting local business owners and students. 475 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: They charge one to two percent on the dollar, undercutting 476 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: competitors who had traditionally charged more for money laundering services. Man, 477 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: you're you're doing how much? Start committing federal You're gonna 478 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: start start asking, So it's Chinese laundry. Oh jeez. Uh, 479 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: but what was I gonna say? Oh, so you're you're 480 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: doing like widespread, fairly easy to track, you know, federal 481 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: offence money laundering for one to two percent. 482 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 2: Man, if I'm a bank teller in that person leaves, 483 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 2: I think. 484 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 4: I just brushed up against the closest I've ever been to, 485 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 4: the kind of people that will cut your head off. 486 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 2: Yes, and I don't like it. 487 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 488 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 2: Now these are more like higher lings and Lackey. You're 489 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 2: like one degree of separation from the head choppers. Oh yeah. 490 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: If yeah, I would be at least slightly concerned that 491 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: if I became a major figure in the uncovering by accident, Yeah, 492 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: it's it's. 493 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: At least conceivable. 494 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: So uh, this copper they talked to assembled the team 495 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: that watched you deposit this six figure cash hall at 496 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: the Chase Bank on loan from the DA. So anyway, 497 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: it's a big thing these days, all right, moving on 498 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: all different crime and there it is. Oh, we mentioned 499 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: this briefly the other day, and I really didn't know 500 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: anything about it, but officials with the FBI are growing 501 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: more concerned about an online network called seven six' four 502 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: that targets and extorts young. People the predators Behind i'm. 503 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: Sorry they befriend teenagers on online, platforms then push them 504 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: into behavior including creating and sharing, porn harming, pets good, 505 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: lord cutting, themselves and sue side god dang. It so 506 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: these predators demand their victims share images and videos of 507 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: the behavior so they can share it with other seven 508 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: sixty four. Followers they also use the contact for the 509 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: content rather for. Extortion some of the predators even host 510 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: watch parties for others to watch them torment victims live, 511 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: online authorting To according to, authorities. 512 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 4: Maybe the story here should be why do we have 513 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 4: so many young people that are easy pickings for this 514 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 4: sort of? THING i can't believe that that was true 515 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,239 Speaker 4: thirty forty years, Ago but there's no means to do, 516 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 4: it so nobody could ever figure it, OUT i, Know but, 517 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 4: WELL i, mean we all know the number of kids 518 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 4: that are on anxiety medicine or kill themselves or decide they're. 519 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 2: The wrong gender or. Whatever, yeah there were more messed 520 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 2: up young people. 521 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 4: TODAY i just don't think there were that many people 522 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 4: like in my high school class that even if the 523 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 4: technology had, existed you could have gotten to that would 524 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 4: cut themselves or. SOMETHING i, mean what the hell? 525 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 2: Right? 526 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: Right, yeah both are probably. True but getting back to 527 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: these just, monsters these. Sociopaths they host watch parties for 528 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: others to watch them torment victims live. Online according to 529 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: authorities and investigators, say the darker and more violent the 530 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: images or videos a member can coerce a minor to 531 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: produce helps them climb the ladder of standing in the. 532 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,400 Speaker 1: Network so the more horrible thing you can compel some 533 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: impressionable tween or team to, do the more a cachet 534 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: you get in the. Network now they've arrested a couple 535 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: of leaders of the group and charging them with operating 536 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: an international child exploitation. Enterprise one was An american citizen 537 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: who lives In greece and the other lives in High, 538 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: Point North. Carolina and this one, Guy Prasan hall of High, 539 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: Point North carolina reportedly in instructed other members of seven 540 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: sixty four on how to groom and extort, Victims the outlet. 541 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: Said nepaul allegedly, wrote quote extortion is a form of 542 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: discipline to little girls who might not have a father at. 543 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 2: Home it's a good. Thing. 544 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: Yikes The internet is the worst neighborhood in your, town 545 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: the worst neighborhood in your. State AND i would think 546 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: seriously about whether letting your kids wander around and it 547 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: is a good. 548 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 2: IDEA i only think about it every single. 549 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: Day and then, finally best job In america Or switzerland, 550 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: anyway work For Swiss bank and then blow the whistle 551 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: when they're helping people evade taxes according to the laws 552 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: and rewards if you blow the whistle, on for, Instance Credit, 553 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: suisse who wasn't living up to the promises they'd made 554 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: to courts to stop Helping americans evade taxes by stashing 555 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: cash and assets overseas, well several employees, Said, hey we're 556 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: doing exactly what the banks score in these court papers. 557 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 2: That we wouldn't do. 558 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: Anymore look at all these, accounts four hundred and seventy five. 559 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: Accounts The Credit suisse should have known we're tied To, 560 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: americans they held around four billion. 561 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: Dollars this handful of whistleblowers blew the, whistle as whistleblowers. 562 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: Will and the former bank employees are going to make 563 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: up to one hundred and fifty million dollars each. 564 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 2: For the reward you. 565 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: Get between fifteen and thirty percent from The Justice. 566 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 2: Department. Cool good work if you can get. It one 567 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million. 568 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 4: Dollars, Woo i'll we're. 569 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 2: Ad anybody out for. That just so you, KNOW. 570 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 4: I have a nominee for the most annoying person In. 571 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 4: America he goes by The, moniker The. Boss he leads 572 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 4: THE E Street. Band, oh last night as he kicked 573 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 4: off his world, tour we'll play a little bit of 574 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 4: what he had to. Say, ah shut, Up bruce that 575 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 4: among other things on the, WAY i should have looked 576 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 4: up the actual name Of bruce's. Tour maybe you can 577 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 4: look that, Up. Katie Bruce springsteen is Big New World. 578 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 4: Tour it's some sort of pretentious saving the world from. 579 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 4: AUTHORITARIANISM i think he says it right at the, beginning doesn't. 580 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 4: It maybe he, does but that this is from last 581 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 4: night In, england and this is at the very beginning 582 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 4: he does this like throughout the. CONCERT i, MEAN i 583 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 4: saw a long YouTube montage of and we're all used to, 584 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 4: musicians you, know they're all left winger and hippie, progressives 585 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 4: and we have to put up with their craft to 586 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 4: listen their. 587 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: MUSIC i thought this was over the. Top, yes what is? 588 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 5: This it Called katie The land Of hopes And Dreams, 589 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 5: tour and thank you for. 590 00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 2: That here you, Go. 591 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 8: Bruce, right The Mighty East Street band is here tonight 592 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 8: to call upon the righteous power of, art of, music 593 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 8: of rock and roll in dangerous times in my, home 594 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 8: The AMERICA i, love The America i've. 595 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 9: Written about that has been a beacon of hope and 596 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 9: liberty for two hundred and fifty years is currently in 597 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 9: the hands of a, corrupt incompetent and treason this. 598 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 2: Administration that's. Fine CAN i get a surprise with? 599 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 4: That play the? 600 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 2: Song and why are my hearing this in this? Setting guitar? 601 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 4: Playing? MAN i feel like that was a new level 602 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,719 Speaker 4: of that sort of thing THAT i don't know If 603 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 4: i'd have been able to sit there and then listen 604 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 4: to the, CONCERT i might have gone out to the 605 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 4: parking lot and sat in the. Car, Yeah i'll drive 606 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 4: you home, Afterwards, HOWEVER i went With i'm not gonna 607 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 4: let him lecture me and act like we're all with, you, 608 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 4: right and then shut. 609 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 5: Up The West coast version Of Bruce springsteen Is Billy 610 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 5: joe From Green. 611 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 2: DAY I. 612 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 5: LOVE i have Loved Green day my entire. Life i've 613 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 5: seen him live multiple times a lot to, like went 614 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 5: there multiple shows in a. Row he goes on like 615 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 5: a fifteen to twenty minute political, tirade and you're just 616 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 5: sitting there going, like this is not WHAT i paid. 617 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 2: FOR i want to be An american. 618 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 4: Idiot, Yeah So, bruce at one point during the concert last, 619 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 4: night he comes. 620 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 2: Out he's so old, NOW i, mean he walks like 621 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 2: an old, man very. 622 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 4: Stiffly he's got the piano player doing his little, thing 623 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 4: and he sits down on the. 624 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: STAGE i need to talk to, you good. 625 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 4: People we're just one generation from authoritarianism taking over the 626 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 4: world and all we can. 627 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 2: Do AND i just, said, oh freaking give me a. 628 00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 4: Break first of, All first of, all always the same 629 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 4: direction and we all. 630 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 2: Gonna put up. With BUT i don't even, like even without. 631 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 4: The directional attitude of the, politics how did you all 632 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 4: become so convinced that rock and roll is going to solve. 633 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,320 Speaker 2: Anything it's not gonna. 634 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,919 Speaker 4: Solve a thing other than entertaining. Me it's gonna solve 635 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 4: my boredom for the next two. 636 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 2: Hours. RIGHT i like. 637 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: Music it makes me. Happy that's Why i'm. Here that's 638 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,359 Speaker 1: the only Reason i'm. 639 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 4: Here there's self importance of feeling like they're, actually you, 640 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 4: know striking a blow for their politics in some way 641 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 4: by going out there and playing their hits that everybody 642 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,359 Speaker 4: remembers from high. 643 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:35,960 Speaker 2: SCHOOL i mean. 644 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: Whatever, well and If Brucey boy Or Billy Joe armstronger convinced, that, 645 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: Look i've made enough money and this is really important to. 646 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: Me and IF i alienate half my, audience, fine you know, 647 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: WHAT i can almost respect. That but you haven't alienated. Me, 648 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: goodbye F you'. 649 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 2: Right, yeah it works both. 650 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 5: Ways one of my favorite things about this is that 651 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 5: the punk rock machine used to be against the. 652 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,240 Speaker 4: Machine well the machine's. 653 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 2: The left, now so oh, yeah it's like the whole 654 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 2: script is. 655 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,319 Speaker 1: Flipped, yeah, exactly like the man, said you have the, 656 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: media you have the, universities you have a lot of the, 657 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: government and you're fighting the. 658 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 4: Power what if you missed a segment of the Podcast 659 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,240 Speaker 4: armstrong And getty on Demand armstrong And getty