WEBVTT - You Have 173 Jihads! 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.960 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:34.120 Jettie and He arm Yet live from studio see see Senior, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.280 a dimly lit room where deep within the bowels of 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.160 the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all today, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.199 what is it Tuesday? We're under the tutelage of our 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:48.960 general manager, Washington. The District of Columbia, Washington, d C. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.600 Is our rare geographic general manager. Oh, a piece of 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.960 land is our general manager today. Indeed, an odd little 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.640 thing in the midst of America. It's a pretty It's 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.880 like guom. I think that's why I go to if 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.679 I want a day off, I go to the chunk 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.959 of land and say, could I have next Thursday off? 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.360 Since that's my boss? Oh yeah, no kidding, my general manager? 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.800 And why is that? Just because of the big controversy 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.959 over Trump taking over the police force with federal oversight 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.680 or something or other. Who knows what it's going to 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.920 look like on the ground. Nobody seems to explain to 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.480 me why I should care about this. I feel like 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.480 all the media people who live in Washington, d C. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.200 Care about it a lot or so reporting the heck 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.960 out of it. I just don't haven't cared yet. Yeah, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.360 that's a huge part of it. No, in your day 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.119 to day life. I don't think it'll vetch you at all. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.039 I just I think it's interesting a because it's never 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.240 been done before, and I would love to see it work. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.760 I would love to see a stark and fairly short 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.880 term illustration of the difference between conservative policing and governing 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.880 principles and progressive ones. Well, actually I got the order wrong, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.400 but you know what I'm saying. I think it could 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.520 be incredibly useful. As I said yesterday, I think the 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.160 most interesting thing for all of us, that applies to 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:10.480 all of us is trying to nail down how you collect, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:17.200 in interpret read crime statistics. Because you know, if you've 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.360 been following this story, it's constant in politics. Crime is 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:28.200 the Republicans generally claim crime is up, Democrats generally claim 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.160 crime is down. And everybody's got their own set of 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.280 statistic statistics. And I never know what to think other 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.320 than like my own personal experience and feeling wherever I am, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.800 and you know, and that matters a lot. But you 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.600 can be misled by that. You know, you get your 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.280 car broken into and crime seems like it's up, and 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.480 you know that sort of thing. So, but there's been 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.119 tons of your mainstream media, which leans left, claiming that 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.160 crime is not that bad in Washington, d C. Over 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.120 the last several days. Right, well, in a handful and 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.440 you'll hear the audio later, but a handful of lefty 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.160 news figures have come out and said, you know, actually 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.799 it is. It's it's really bad. It's scary. Yeah, it's funny. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.280 Joe Scarborough even on MSNBC this morning, was saying, look, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.400 everybody who lives here knows crime is horrible. So I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.639 was surprised to hear him say that. Well in the 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.320 argument that crime is actually down from the calamitous heights 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.000 of two or three years ago, is not as well. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.080 It's not a negative, but it's not as positive a 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.040 positive as you think. It is my own anecdotal evidence. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.600 And this is not about DC where people live, but 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.840 just you know, the mall where all the tourist stuff is, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.400 or where the government runs and all the museums and 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.840 stuff like that. When I landed in Washington, d C. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.200 Last summer right about now with my kids. We got 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.200 we landed it at night. It was pretty late. It 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.120 was like eleven eleven o'clock at night, midnight. I mean 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.560 it was late and dark. And I asked the because 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.960 we weren't tired, because we're on West Coast time, and 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.280 and I asked the hotel clerk. I said, is it 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.240 safe to go walk around? Because our hotel was right 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.120 next to the mall, so we could just walk over 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.480 and look at the Washington. He said, oh, it's perfectly safe. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.320 And we walked around. There were families everywhere at midnight, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.400 walking around looking at all the monuments. I didn't see 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.080 any security and I felt safe. So that's my own 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.120 anecdotal evidence of Washington, d C in recent years. Yeah, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:26.040 that is no offense, not very useful, because they policed 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.320 the ba Jesus out of that couple of square miles. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.279 So the part outside of that where people live is 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.080 where everybody's getting beaten up and robbed in et cetera, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.000 et cetera. Yeah, exactly, And some hoods are worse than others, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.960 like any city. But yeah, if tourism were to dry 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.359 up in DC, that would be absolutely calamitous, be like Texas. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.600 Run out of oil back in the day. So yeah, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:53.120 they they're extremely careful about that part. We have breaking 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.080 news we need to get to because it's so damn important. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.279 And the reporting on e cannomic news economics is not 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.800 my wheelhouse. I don't claim that it is, but I 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.880 try to take it in through the media, like the 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:10.520 Wall Street Journal, Inflation held steady at two point seven 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.400 percent in July. Okay, But here's my favorite part of 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.640 the reporting, always on inflation. So you get one paragraph 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.440 in and they say, year over year, inflation held steady, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.559 a key measure. But the number that economists look at 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.280 that really matter actually rose and is at three point 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.760 one percent. Why are you telling me in the lead 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.520 paragraph a number that you tell me in the second 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.720 paragraph isn't actually important. But the one economists, which are 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.760 really the people we're looking to for this information. If 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.120 economists are looking at that number in the second paragraph 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.279 to make their decisions, why isn't that the lead story? 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.440 Somebody explained that to me. You're right, that's that's absolutely hilarious. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.000 It just goes to show you how powerful convention is, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.320 especially among the media. Heard but they just they do 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.719 what's been done because they might as well, because you 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.640 don't get in trouble for doing what's been done. But 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.680 it's like my jihad number, it's actually fallen to one 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.600 hundred and seventy third. You have one hundred and seventy 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.599 three jihads. Oh no, I got like two hundred and eighty, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.479 but this one has fallen to one hundred and seventy three. Okay? 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.120 Is that bitching people constantly citing the Dow Industrial Average. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.440 It is useful as a measure of the general health 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.320 of the economy because the way it's weighted, and it's 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.159 a long and dull explanation. It is antiquated, it is silly, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.279 it doesn't make any sense. But that is always the 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.160 lead number on every business report on network and cable TV. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.719 But I would think the Wall Street Journal writing this 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.240 themselves would say, hmm, we just said that the second 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.719 number is the important one. Maybe that should be the 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.120 lead paragraph. Nice. I don't quite get it. But oh, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.800 it's like every football game account to leading with the 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.520 number of yards gained rushing as opposed to the freaking 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.440 score player, what are you doing? And the league care 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.599 mostly about the score at the end of the game 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.880 as close to the more important measure, the number of 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:13.400 points posted actually had the Patriots winning anyway. And then 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.280 also this the whole expectations game. So the overall number 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.840 came in at two point seven percent, they were expecting 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.520 two point eight, so yay, it's a tenth lower. But 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.520 on the other number, the number that economists care about, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.640 they're expecting, they were expecting three, and it came in 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.360 at three point one, a tenth high. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:31.440 No. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.480 Then, having was expecting Civil War style inflation in the 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.680 South in the Confederacy, wheelbarrows full of cash, so it 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.320 really beat my expectations. I'm very pleased. So then having 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.200 told me that that second number, the important number, actually 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.520 went up, it then says in the Wall Street Journal, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.160 stocks have jumped on the news. So stocks have risen 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.720 on the news of this inflation. So take that for 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.120 what you will. But that's the news out today. I'm 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:04.520 going to watch TikTok video. It's still it's still higher 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.560 than the goal of two percent, which is where we 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.520 try to keep it, and it has been most of 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:14.000 my adult life. So interest raight cuts or not, I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.880 don't know. You know, your guess as good as mine. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.920 Will get a couple of more monthly reports before they 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.400 make that decision. But it's not horrible and it's not 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.320 where a lot of the doomsayers were predicting things would 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.240 be with the tariff stuf, although, as you point out, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.880 a lot of the tariff stuff didn't kick in when 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.000 it was supposed to kick in. And Trump announced last 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.599 night we're kicking the can down the road on the 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.679 big China tariffs, which is like the biggest one maybe 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.000 for the whole planet, and they're putting that off for 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.120 what ninety days? I've lost track. Yeah, so he announced 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:47.040 last night. He announced last night in a truth social 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.199 post that the whole China tariff thing is on hold 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.880 for ninety days till November tenth. I think it is 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.679 before that kicks in, because negotiations are going on right 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.319 now now. I was watching News Nation this morning and 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.320 their analyst didn't go with taco Trump always chickens out. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.520 They're analysts wet with Well, the Chinese are negotiating and 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.080 they're actually giving some so it makes sense to pause 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.040 this while they're showing good faith efforts to make a deal. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.040 So don't trust China. Well, part of that's because Nelson 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.520 Huang of in Vidio fame cut the government in on 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.280 fifteen percent of the chip sales to China, which plays 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.880 China very much in spite of I know what you're saying. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.199 If you're just perhaps starting on the radio Slash podcast 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.640 for the first time in a while, you're like, wait 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.880 a minute, A private company cut the government in on 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.200 their profits. Why? Yeah, nobody's quite sure. But anyway, so 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.160 that's shaken loose than negotiations with China, which are, as 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:48.080 you might imagine, enormously complex and enormously important. Yeah, the 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:52.120 underlying story. And again, I'm a layman, but oftentimes in 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.640 my experience in life, the average person's view of things 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.439 turns out to be more important than the expert's view 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.800 of things. They just have it. But I think at 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.600 some point everybody's gonna catch on to the fact, or 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.800 history is gonna catch on to the fact that this 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.640 giant stock market rise that we've had for quite a 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.720 few years, and all these records don't say it, don't 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.280 say it is like four companies, four tech companies, and 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.360 if you take that out of a mix, everything's kind 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:26.000 of flat. So how long can we ride the Apple VideA, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.520 Tesla Google thing. I think Tesla's falling off the list too, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.920 so so I guess as long as AI chips are important, anyway, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.760 we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.160 Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday, August twelfth, year, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.360 twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting we approve of 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.720 this program. Let's begin the show officially. Then, according to 0:10:47.760 --> 0:11:02.880 f CC rules and regulations at mark DC is our home. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:08.080 You can't have it Trump and what's our home? Sergigan. Now, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.640 it's like happy Birthday when you don't know the person's name, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:17.000 kind of degenerated into the mill mumbling right, they call 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.960 it into the lobby and you're all singing happy birthday 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.680 for that blonde, middle aged woman that you've been working 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.280 with for five years, but you don't know her name. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.640 So when you get to happy birthday, do dear happy 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.360 birth exactly. That's sounds that. That was the end play of that. Again, Michael, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.000 what did you That was charming sing along If you 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:48.640 know the words and you don't, they don't dear off now. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.000 So once again, it's the legacy of the sixties. People 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.800 have seen videos of people singing in on the Capitol 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.160 steps in the sixties and bringing about major change, and 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.120 so they think that's the way you do that. And 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:08.600 so okay, it's a fascinating to me answerpological question. Why 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:14.200 do people on the left love a singing together, be chanting, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:20.839 especially rhyming chance and do they actually think they are 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.640 accomplishing something or is it just we're rallying the folks 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.800 and getting their enthusiasm up. Then we'll all go out 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.640 into our community. Is that I get Michael? Do you 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.840 have a comment? Yeah, I just we have our favorite 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.280 chant of all time. What that hole in the sky 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.640 where the tree once was? Somebody's making money. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.240 There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.200 Somebody's making money. There's a hole in the sky in 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.240 the sky instead of a spreading canopy. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.559 There's a hole in the sky in. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.000 The sky instead of a ninety year old tree. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.160 Yes. Uh. And then see progressives like to show you 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.680 their feet. That's the other thing the progressive like to do. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.240 They like to show you their bare feet with their sandals. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:15.120 We've got Katie's headlines coming up next. They hear the 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.000 Trump Putin meeting on Friday in Alaska. I heard the 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.400 most interesting perspective on that whole thing yesterday I would 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.600 love to share and discuss at some point, among other things. Excellent, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.240 let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.400 with Katie Green. Katie hit it all righty ABC News. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.520 Zelensky says Putin not preparing to end war as Russian 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.720 forces make breakthrough in Ukraine. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.960 Oh, I didn't see that the Russian forces made a breakthrough. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.120 Yeah they did. They've kind of broken through a preliminary 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.520 defense line. But they're very, very vulnerable where they are 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.960 and prone to a counter attack. So who knows they're 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.920 breaking the lot? Clear what he's trying to do, gain 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.400 as much ground as he possibly can. Yeah, they're breaking 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.520 through the lines like on on quads and motorcycles and 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.920 electric dirt bikes the way they do it now. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.079 And just because this is the top everywhere CNN. US 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.199 inflation didn't rise as much as expected in July despite. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.600 The tariff rollout. That's a good headline for the Trump administration. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.400 CNN headline is didn't rise as much as expected. This 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.120 sent me through the roof the New York Times. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.920 Man sentenced to life for killing Maryland woman on hiking trail. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.840 That man is the illegal immigrant that raped and killed 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.200 Rachel Morin. Oh wow, but the way they wrote man 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.640 sentenced to life for killing Maryland woman on hiking trail. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:39.880 They didn't. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:40.280 Wow. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.720 That is sanitized it as much as they could. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:43.280 M H. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:45.880 Wall Street Journal. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:52.320 Trump administration is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.160 That would be about time, wouldn't it. I mean, oh yeah, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:03.080 if only from more easy medical experimentation. Yeah, to figure 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.240 out what it's actually doing a people's brains. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:11.200 From Newsweek, white House cage fight is quote. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.280 Going to happen, says UFC boss, right there on the 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.800 White House lawn, on the South lawn. Yes, I was 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.680 picturing the pro wrestling, but no, this is the mixed 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.120 martial arts. Yeah, you know, the actual guys bashing each 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.080 other in the face. You know who would think that 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:32.280 was awesome? He's on Mount Rushmore, Teddy Roosevelt. Ah yeah, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.680 Lincoln wouldn't have minded either. Tr was always the first 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.160 trip into the race in wrestling. But it is so now, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.680 let's get it on boys. Tr was always worried we 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.240 were becoming less and less manly, and it was a problem. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:45.640 We are and it is. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.120 From The New York Post, Excited woman gets engaged to 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:56.200 AI fiance after five months and insists she's fully aware of. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.240 What she's doing. This is a good story. I have 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.080 more of the details later. Oh boy. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:09.240 From USA today, Open AI unveils chat GPT five model 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.920 with quote PhD level intelligence. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.960 PhD isn't an indication of intelligence. It's an indication of 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.080 how much time you've wasted in academia, no offense, how 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.560 long you've avoided the workplace. Right. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:32.240 Another cry Another AI headline from Breitbart, Elon Musk's AI 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:37.880 chat bought Grock briefly suspended from X after going quote unhinged. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:39.960 Wow, I got to read about that. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.120 It was they're saying it's quote echoing the July anti 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:50.080 Semitic posts incident. And finally from the Babylon b DC 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:56.480 mayor warns Trump's crime fighting measures will unfairly impact the criminals. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.440 Yeah, I'm sure we'll get some of that it it 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.959 appears to be disproportionately targeting blank blank right, Okay. A 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.720 different perspective on the whole Ukraine Russia, how the war 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.080 will end? Trump putin thing kind of well, I was 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.240 gonna say Europe's perspective, but not exactly accurate anyway. I 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 found it very very interesting yesterday. Among other things. We 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.320 can get to lots of news today. If you missed 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.119 the second, we get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.600 demand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.960 This is really a feel out beating a little bit, 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:36.320 and President Putin invited me to get involved. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.560 He wants to get involved. I think I believe he 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.240 wants to get it over with now. I've said that 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.080 a few times that. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.200 I've been disappointed because I have like a great call 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.800 with him, and then missiles would be lobbed in Takiyev 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.920 for some other place, and you'd have sixty people laying on. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.520 A road dying. I said, that's cold. That's cold. He 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.080 said a lot of interesting things yesterday about this. I 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.960 think he said at one point something along the lines 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.520 of I think I think Putin respects me, or something 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:09.200 like that. I don't think Putin respects anybody. First of all, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.760 before we get further into this, how big a deal 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.600 do you think this story is? Because I'm I think 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.919 it's a really big deal. But I could be the 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.359 Russia piece summit, the whole Russia thing, not the summit, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.160 but just the whole thing. Oh my gosh, what level 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.320 do you mean? Like, how much people are interested in it, 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.720 it's geopolitical significance in twenty five years, or I don't 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.840 think people are very interested in it. It's geopolitical significance 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.280 I think is incredibly high. Yeah, I would agree it's 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.880 it's quite high. I find myself wondering all the time, 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.000 how long does Putin live in what's next? Because he 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.119 is a pretty old guy. But yeah, it's a huge story. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.119 So a different perspective on it than I heard anywhere 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.280 else yesterday coming up in a moment, But first let's 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.639 get some of our American reporting on it first. This 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.919 is from CNN's The Leads. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.840 The landscape from the start has been very clear that 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.000 nothing's going occur about Ukraine without Ukraine, and kind of 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.320 went on the information offensive, sen that the information they're 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.920 getting their intelligence suggest in fact Russia's not preparing for peace. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.720 Instead it's actually preparing more offensive operations. Indeed, there have 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.560 been some alarming reports by open source analysts suggesting that 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.480 in some way parts in the East, Russia's made significant 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.520 progress in just the last week. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.600 I suppose you could be fair and say, well, they 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.919 don't know what's going to come out of these peace talks, 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.600 So of course they're continuing to prepare for offensives. On 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.240 the other hand, it might be he's preparing for offensives 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.680 because he has no plan whatsoever for even thinking about 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.000 any kind of peace and is not expecting that well, 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.560 And or he's going to spend whatever resources it takes 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.520 in the interim to get as much done as he can, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.160 to consolidate gains and say, look already hold this land. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.520 Oh just asking for a little more. So got a great, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.320 great quote about that. But here's ABC News Martha raddits 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:00.399 their version of the story. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.520 With the historic summit in Alaska just days away, President 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.439 Trump seemingly downplaying what could come of it. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.400 This is really a feel out beating a little bit well. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.520 Ukraine's president Zelensky has insisted he will not trade territory 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:19.240 for peace. President Trump said again there will be landswaps, 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.720 Trump vowing to call Zelenski first after his face to 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:24.880 face with Putin. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:33.680 So I am really big into the daily telegraphs reporting 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.040 on the war between Russian and Ukraine. That's the Telegraph 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.160 of London, their big newspaper there, one of their big 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:43.080 newspapers there, and they their reporting is one fantastic, and 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.480 of course they're a lot closer to the action, and 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.920 they're part of the whole Europe deal. And their conversation 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.560 in perspective, at least those two reporters from the newspaper 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.119 on their podcast yesterday was and has been for quite 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.359 some time. When is Europe going to stand up and 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.560 take the lead role in this? Why are we seating this? 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:06.919 Why is the world acting like it's up to the 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.000 United States. Why is Europe allowing it to seem like 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.680 it's up to the United States to figure this out? 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.560 The United States doesn't really need to have any role 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:20.480 in it whatsoever, other than maybe providing weapons, because we 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.840 are the you know, we're the big dog in the 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.760 world on that whole thing. But their argument was Europe. 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.919 So there's a lot of conversation about Europe's being sidelined, 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:36.280 Ukraine's being sidelined, Europe is sidelining itself. Europe could get 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.680 around that very quickly. And this is from the reporting 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.560 from the London Telegraph. They're saying, we need to Europe 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.159 needs to make the announcement we're putting one hundred thousand 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.600 troops in there unless these things happen right, and do 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.159 their own negotiating with Putin. Not leave it up to 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.440 Trump and wait and see what happens. That's crazy. We're 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.119 the closest ones to them. And they went with the 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.200 quote I love this quote that I've been saying ever 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:02.679 since the first time I heard it. I don't think 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.440 it gets enough attention. This is from the Prime Minister 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:10.560 of Poland, Donald Tusky. They're right next door. The paradox 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.879 is that five hundred million Europeans are asking three hundred 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.760 million Americans to defend them against one hundred and forty 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:20.159 million Russians. We must rely on ourselves, fully aware that 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.520 our potential and with confidence that we are a global power. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.159 When is Europe going to stand up? Europe's economy is 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.680 as big as ours altogether. When are they going to 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.600 stand up and take charge of their own damn backyard? Right? 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.320 I have two I have many thoughts, but here are 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.560 the two main ones, and I'll keep it brief. Number one, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.200 the idea that Europe is taking a passive role is 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.560 just that shows you how deeply ingrained the passive role is. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.920 They've had the American security umbrella over them so long, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:54.439 and they've built their big, fat, bloated collapsing social democracies 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:58.800 for so long. They I don't think they can get 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:03.760 out of that habit without just incredibly disruptive policy changes 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.960 domestically and foreign anyway, So that's the point number one. Well, 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.960 just to jump into that first point. Then the reporters 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.679 for the Daily Telegraph in London said, we don't expect 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.520 Europe to do that, by the way, because Europe is 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:19.040 just so used to not taking the lead role. And okay, 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:24.119 so it's remarkable how refreshing that perspective is. You just 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.719 never hear it. No, your second second thing is and 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.600 I hate to spoil the fund, but that's what I do. 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:36.080