WEBVTT - TRUMP'S RUNNING A PROTECTION RACKET PRESIDENCY - 6.30.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.315 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Which 0:00:24.635 --> 0:00:28.395 is worse? Which is worse? That Trump is running a 0:00:28.475 --> 0:00:32.755 protection racket presidency and bribed one Senator to vote for 0:00:32.795 --> 0:00:37.515 his big, beautiful, soak the poor budget bill while metaphorically 0:00:37.555 --> 0:00:41.195 bumping off another Senator who wouldn't vote for it. Or 0:00:41.235 --> 0:00:46.755 that Trump threatened Israel, threatened the government of Israel, threatened 0:00:46.915 --> 0:00:53.435 funds for Israel if Israel's courts won't do what he wants, 0:00:54.675 --> 0:00:59.755 and nobody here noticed that. Which is worse? Well, it's 0:00:59.755 --> 0:01:03.115 a trick question because these are actually just two versions 0:01:03.355 --> 0:01:08.555 of the same story. It is a protection racket. There 0:01:08.595 --> 0:01:12.715 are just two parts of the protection racket. There is 0:01:12.795 --> 0:01:17.875 the domestic operations of the protection racket and the international 0:01:17.915 --> 0:01:23.475 operations of the same protection racket. Trump is trying to 0:01:23.675 --> 0:01:30.715 take over control of everything in the world. Tom Tillis, 0:01:31.315 --> 0:01:35.595 the vaguely responsible Republican senator from North Carolina, refused to 0:01:35.675 --> 0:01:38.915 let Trump politically rape him Saturday night and would not 0:01:39.075 --> 0:01:42.115 vote to advance the budget bill. Trump had been threatening 0:01:42.195 --> 0:01:46.515 him for weeks months, then accelerated it finally began to 0:01:46.635 --> 0:01:52.315 ask online for volunteers to primary Tillis Tillis then announced 0:01:52.355 --> 0:01:54.475 yesterday he will retire from the Senate at the end 0:01:54.475 --> 0:01:58.875 of his term next year. So much for mister Tillis. 0:01:59.955 --> 0:02:04.635 So much for somebody, anybody in the Republican Party say 0:02:04.675 --> 0:02:10.475 saying I owe this country something. I'm staying I'm going 0:02:10.515 --> 0:02:16.115 to fight this son of a bitch. I don't care. No, 0:02:16.275 --> 0:02:20.155 he's taking the noble way out. He's going to just retire. 0:02:21.075 --> 0:02:26.835 Retire to hell, you coward. So much for the thought 0:02:26.875 --> 0:02:29.115 that when the country is up against it and the 0:02:29.155 --> 0:02:31.915 breaks are beating, the boys tell them to go out 0:02:31.955 --> 0:02:34.155 there with all they got and win, just one for 0:02:34.275 --> 0:02:37.795 the Tiller. I don't know where I'll be then, but 0:02:37.955 --> 0:02:42.035 I'll know about it and I'll be happy. Well, I 0:02:42.075 --> 0:02:44.515 know where Tom Tillis will be. He'll be back home 0:02:44.555 --> 0:02:49.955 in Cornelius, North Carolina, or somewhere, presumably drinking heavily reflecting 0:02:49.995 --> 0:02:53.675 on how he represents the utter moral and ethical decline 0:02:54.035 --> 0:02:58.795 of the already near bankrupt and nearly totally declined Republican Party. 0:02:59.795 --> 0:03:04.435 Tillis began by refusing nine years ago to vote on 0:03:04.475 --> 0:03:07.915 o Obamba's Supreme Court nominee in an election year, a 0:03:08.115 --> 0:03:12.995 made up rule that violated the Constitution, and we'll send 0:03:13.035 --> 0:03:17.035 Mitch McConnell to hell, do not pass, go, do not 0:03:17.075 --> 0:03:21.595 collect two hundred dollars. Immediately, Tillis went from that to 0:03:21.795 --> 0:03:26.315 calling the Access Hollywood tape indefensible and then defending the 0:03:26.315 --> 0:03:30.115 man who's on the Access Hollywood tape, to co authoring 0:03:30.195 --> 0:03:34.555 legislation to protect the Robert Muller Special Council role, to 0:03:34.715 --> 0:03:37.915 voting with Trump anyway ninety percent of the time, to 0:03:38.075 --> 0:03:43.155 one last gasp from inside the Borg collective about what 0:03:43.395 --> 0:03:46.835 was right and what was wrong, to what he did 0:03:46.915 --> 0:03:55.715 the next morning, running the f away. So now the 0:03:55.755 --> 0:03:59.555 Republicans will nominate somebody worse than Tom Tillis, somebody who 0:03:59.595 --> 0:04:03.035 doesn't even stand up for twelve hours before running away, 0:04:03.875 --> 0:04:06.635 somebody who walks in with a big sign already hanging 0:04:06.635 --> 0:04:13.315 around his or her neck, a homemade sign reading political prostitute. 0:04:13.955 --> 0:04:16.795 The ideal choice would be Tim Scott, but of course 0:04:16.835 --> 0:04:20.715 he's already the Republican senatorial political prostitute from North Carolina. 0:04:20.915 --> 0:04:25.795 I can't elect him twice. I think, yes, that's right, 0:04:25.795 --> 0:04:28.595 We've elected Tim Scott again. He's now two senators from 0:04:28.635 --> 0:04:34.875 North Carolina. They might try somebody from the North Carolina 0:04:34.915 --> 0:04:40.475 delegation in Doctor Tungue's three D House of Representatives, but 0:04:40.555 --> 0:04:43.275 the seat will probably be up for grabs next year. 0:04:43.315 --> 0:04:46.875 The Democrats have some candidates, so punch Bowl News is 0:04:46.955 --> 0:04:51.675 reporting buzz about the nrc SA chair Richard Hudson, and 0:04:51.955 --> 0:04:56.475 the RNC chair Michael Wattley, and a local gal from 0:04:56.475 --> 0:05:00.795 Wilmington named Lara Lee Yanaska, though you may know her 0:05:00.875 --> 0:05:04.395 by her married name Lara Trump. And if you'd like 0:05:04.435 --> 0:05:07.515 to t the protection racket analogy and go instead with 0:05:07.555 --> 0:05:14.435 the crime family analogy, there you go. For all I know, 0:05:14.555 --> 0:05:17.275 Tillis is running away because he didn't get the Murkowski 0:05:18.035 --> 0:05:21.435 and so much for that ass clown two. I don't 0:05:21.475 --> 0:05:23.595 want to hear about what she might be able to 0:05:23.635 --> 0:05:26.315 do defend off Trump. I don't want to hear about 0:05:26.315 --> 0:05:29.115 her ethical wrestling matches. I don't want to hear about 0:05:29.155 --> 0:05:33.595 her Susan Collins concerns only with less kabuki theater makeup 0:05:33.635 --> 0:05:39.995 than Collins wears. She saw what Trump's big beautiful crush 0:05:40.115 --> 0:05:44.475 the middle class, increase the debt by Trillion's bill and 0:05:44.595 --> 0:05:48.635 raise your electricity bill thirty percent bill would do to her, 0:05:48.915 --> 0:05:52.115 and she knew the difference between right and wrong wrong 0:05:52.595 --> 0:05:56.915 would have been missing her opportunity at a Trump bribe 0:05:57.475 --> 0:06:02.075 from the Times quote, a new provision allowing individuals in 0:06:02.155 --> 0:06:06.635 a non contiguous state to be exempt from enforcing new 0:06:06.715 --> 0:06:10.915 work requirements imposed on snap formerly known as food stamps, 0:06:11.275 --> 0:06:15.435 appeared aimed at mollifying Miss Murkowski of Alaska. Her state 0:06:15.435 --> 0:06:18.435 would be hit with billions of dollars in nutrition assistance 0:06:18.595 --> 0:06:21.515 costs as a result of the legislation, and she had 0:06:21.555 --> 0:06:25.075 cited the provision as one of her chief concerns. She's 0:06:25.235 --> 0:06:29.235 very concerned. The bill also includes new health provisions designed 0:06:29.275 --> 0:06:34.795 to benefit Alaska, as well as new tax benefits for 0:06:34.915 --> 0:06:44.075 fishermen in the state. Waters of any guesses Alaska. Well, congratulations, 0:06:44.115 --> 0:06:48.915 Senator Murkowski. You successfully sold out three hundred and thirty 0:06:48.915 --> 0:06:53.675 million Americans to benefit the seven hundred and forty thousand Alaskans, 0:06:54.115 --> 0:06:58.395 and cleverly you did it without checking first with the 0:06:58.435 --> 0:07:02.355 Senate parliamentarian, who promptly ruled at the how to buy 0:07:02.515 --> 0:07:09.435 Alaska's vote. Proviso violates the Bird Rule, which prohibits extraneous, well, 0:07:09.475 --> 0:07:14.035 among other things, extraneous bribery from budget reconciliation measures in 0:07:14.075 --> 0:07:18.555 the Senate. Sorry Murkowski, you sold your soul for nothing. 0:07:18.915 --> 0:07:21.835 There will be no Murkowski carveout, and there will be 0:07:21.915 --> 0:07:26.275 no refund. Of course, now we have to watch to 0:07:26.315 --> 0:07:30.115 see how soon before Trump starts to threaten the Senate parliamentarian, 0:07:31.155 --> 0:07:36.155 or if the Senate Parliamentarian vanishes. I'm not even going 0:07:36.195 --> 0:07:39.115 to mention the name of the Senate Parliamentarian. I'll just 0:07:39.235 --> 0:07:41.755 mention they have been praised in the past by John 0:07:41.835 --> 0:07:44.875 Thune and John Cornyn, and they have served under the 0:07:44.955 --> 0:07:50.515 last four Ping pong administrations democratic, Republican, democratic, and of 0:07:50.555 --> 0:08:18.835 course the most recent one fascist dictatorial. Oh and about 0:08:19.595 --> 0:08:23.955 threatening Israel. Trump is both so out of control but 0:08:24.035 --> 0:08:27.155 also so gone in the head that he posted two 0:08:27.395 --> 0:08:31.315 startling things, startling even for him on his crapshack social 0:08:31.355 --> 0:08:35.355 media site. One was evidently some kind of private thank 0:08:35.395 --> 0:08:40.155 you note intended for somebody named Jamie, which he somehow 0:08:40.275 --> 0:08:44.395 for some reason posted instead on quote truth it's a 0:08:44.395 --> 0:08:50.795 brand name, unquote social Now, Jamie could have been JD. Vance. 0:08:51.515 --> 0:08:53.755 I mean, we don't really know how many different names 0:08:53.755 --> 0:08:56.835 he's had in his past. We think it's just these three, 0:08:56.915 --> 0:09:01.835 but he could be Jamie, could have been Jamie Fox, 0:09:02.955 --> 0:09:05.955 could have been Jamie Fox. Because maybe Trump thinks Jamie 0:09:06.035 --> 0:09:09.555 Fox and Fox News are the same thing. Who knows 0:09:12.115 --> 0:09:15.195 the other thing that he posted was an attempt to 0:09:15.195 --> 0:09:18.635 take his protection racket presidency and extend it to bullying 0:09:18.715 --> 0:09:24.475 and owning the courts in other countries. Who is the 0:09:24.595 --> 0:09:29.235 John Roberts of Israel? Who is the Elito? Who is 0:09:29.315 --> 0:09:34.395 the Clarence Thomas quote? It is terrible what they are 0:09:34.395 --> 0:09:37.155 doing in Israel to bb nothing Yahoo, He is a 0:09:37.195 --> 0:09:39.235 war hero and a prime minister who did a fabulous 0:09:39.275 --> 0:09:41.075 job working with the United States Brakes greats and says 0:09:41.115 --> 0:09:43.155 got her into dangerous nuclear threat in a ret By 0:09:43.155 --> 0:09:45.275 the way, they didn't get rid of the dangerous nuclear 0:09:45.275 --> 0:09:48.115 threat in Iran. They're going to be enriching the uranium 0:09:48.155 --> 0:09:50.395 within a month. Importantly, he is right now in the 0:09:50.395 --> 0:09:53.035 process of negotiating a deal with a MAS which has 0:09:53.075 --> 0:09:56.315 been negotiating since October of twenty twenty three, which will 0:09:56.315 --> 0:10:00.755 include getting the hostages back. Yeah. How is it possible 0:10:00.755 --> 0:10:02.555 that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to 0:10:02.555 --> 0:10:06.355 sit in a courtroom all day long over nothing? Cigars, bugs, 0:10:06.355 --> 0:10:09.475 bunny doll, et cetera. It is a political witch hunt 0:10:09.875 --> 0:10:11.835 very similar to the witch hunt that I was forced 0:10:11.835 --> 0:10:15.115 to endure this travesty blah blah blah blah blah, interfere 0:10:15.155 --> 0:10:16.795 with bother of blah blah, bah bah blah blah blah. 0:10:17.035 --> 0:10:20.875 The United States of America spends billions of dollars a year, 0:10:22.875 --> 0:10:25.995 far more than on any other nation, protecting and supporting Israel. 0:10:26.075 --> 0:10:28.315 We're not going to stand for this. We just had 0:10:28.355 --> 0:10:30.435 a great victory with Prime Minister net and Yahoo at 0:10:30.475 --> 0:10:33.555 the Helm, and this greatly tarnishes our victory. Let bb go. 0:10:33.675 --> 0:10:35.475 He's got a big job to do. I've read a 0:10:35.475 --> 0:10:40.235 lot of political analysis of this, domestic and some international, 0:10:40.435 --> 0:10:43.675 and not once do I see anybody telling it to 0:10:43.755 --> 0:10:50.075 co sell you briefly, like it really ease. That's a threat. 0:10:51.035 --> 0:10:54.075 That's a threat by the President of the United States 0:10:54.115 --> 0:10:58.715 against the State of Israel. That is a threat against 0:10:58.755 --> 0:11:03.315 Israel to cut American funding, to cut the billions of 0:11:03.435 --> 0:11:10.315 years llians of dollar a year. That's a threat if 0:11:10.315 --> 0:11:14.635 the courts don't do what the president wants. Not the 0:11:14.675 --> 0:11:17.595 president of Israel, the president of the United States, which 0:11:17.675 --> 0:11:21.635 is a different country now ordinarily throughout our history, and 0:11:21.795 --> 0:11:26.155 Israel's an American president publicly threatening Israel. That would be 0:11:26.155 --> 0:11:29.595 the moment, we said, and that's when his political career ended. 0:11:30.755 --> 0:11:34.035 But of course Trump's support of Israel isn't about Israel 0:11:34.395 --> 0:11:38.395 or Jewish people. He doesn't like either of them. It's 0:11:38.435 --> 0:11:42.835 about the evangelicals here and their apocalyptic vision of the 0:11:42.955 --> 0:11:49.515 end of the world. How Netnyahu fits into the rapture. 0:11:51.235 --> 0:11:56.155 If an Iranian mulla suddenly swapped hairstyles and headgear and 0:11:56.315 --> 0:12:00.995 pronounced that Mike Kakabee is absolutely right and God had 0:12:01.195 --> 0:12:05.115 just told him so, Trump would support the mulla to 0:12:05.235 --> 0:12:14.835 replace Netnyahu. Immediately he threatened Israel and just to make 0:12:14.915 --> 0:12:19.315 this a little worse, it seems like it may have worked. 0:12:19.715 --> 0:12:25.275 Remembering the law of A and then B that B 0:12:25.475 --> 0:12:28.595 is not always caused by A from the Reuters reporter 0:12:28.635 --> 0:12:32.235 in Jerusalem quote. The Jerusalem District Court canceled this week's 0:12:32.275 --> 0:12:34.955 hearings in Prime Minister Netanya Who's long running coruption trial, 0:12:35.315 --> 0:12:38.995 accepting a request the Israeli leader made, citing classified diplomatic 0:12:38.995 --> 0:12:42.195 and security grounds. It was unclear whether a social media 0:12:42.235 --> 0:12:45.355 post by US President Trump influenced the court's decision. Trump 0:12:45.395 --> 0:12:50.275 suggested blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, Where's Chuck 0:12:50.315 --> 0:12:54.515 Schumer on this? Where's Chuck Schumer, whom Trump keeps calling 0:12:54.555 --> 0:13:00.075 a quote Palestinian. Where's Chuck Schumer standing up for once 0:13:00.115 --> 0:13:03.995 in his life and saying, I am a Palestinian. You 0:13:04.115 --> 0:13:09.075 fat You just threatened to cut funds from Israel, just 0:13:09.155 --> 0:13:13.035 threatened to cut off American funds from Israel. You anti 0:13:13.195 --> 0:13:21.675 Semite bastard. Where is Kristin Gilibrand? Where's Kristin Gilibrand calling 0:13:21.755 --> 0:13:25.635 Trump an anti Semite or at least anti Israel. Where 0:13:25.715 --> 0:13:30.195 is she? Kristin Gilibrand, who, by the way, has now 0:13:30.235 --> 0:13:33.955 done exactly two things since assuming her Senate office in 0:13:33.995 --> 0:13:37.915 two thousand and nine and becoming the most inert Democratic 0:13:37.995 --> 0:13:44.795 senator in history. She went nuts on radio on NPR 0:13:45.515 --> 0:13:50.475 Live for Christ's sakes, repeating every maga lie about the 0:13:50.715 --> 0:13:54.195 Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, which is in 0:13:54.275 --> 0:13:57.555 the state of New York, which apparently Senator Jilibrand does 0:13:57.595 --> 0:14:04.155 not know, every maga lie about Zoran mom Donny, who 0:14:04.195 --> 0:14:07.795 is not an Tai Semitic and has not praised the Intifada, 0:14:08.355 --> 0:14:12.675 and he is bronx. He's a lot of other things too, 0:14:12.795 --> 0:14:17.955 but he's bronx. In fact, he's Bronx science, which makes 0:14:18.075 --> 0:14:21.475 him more American than I am, because I didn't actually 0:14:21.555 --> 0:14:24.875 go to school in the Bronx. I'm just from the Bronx. 0:14:26.675 --> 0:14:31.635 Kristen Gillibrand now adds to being the first to move 0:14:31.755 --> 0:14:35.795 to force out al Franken from the Senate for something 0:14:35.795 --> 0:14:38.715 that would now be deemed insufficient to get him into 0:14:38.795 --> 0:14:43.395 the Trump administration. Al Franken, who was a thousand times 0:14:43.475 --> 0:14:47.075 the Senator Gillibrand would be if she served one thousand years. 0:14:48.795 --> 0:14:51.475 She has now added to that an attack on the 0:14:51.595 --> 0:14:57.395 Democratic nominee in the biggest city that she represents in 0:14:57.435 --> 0:15:03.155 the Senate allegedly represents because you will never convince me 0:15:03.675 --> 0:15:05.875 she's not in the the Senate from New York as 0:15:05.955 --> 0:15:11.035 some kind of bizarre witness relocation program thingy. 0:15:11.315 --> 0:15:13.875 He does not support violent intifida? Is that fair? 0:15:16.035 --> 0:15:19.515 So, Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but 0:15:19.675 --> 0:15:21.955 if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply say, 0:15:22.075 --> 0:15:24.155 that is not how the words are received, and it 0:15:24.155 --> 0:15:25.915 doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain, it 0:15:25.955 --> 0:15:27.755 is not how the word is received. And when you 0:15:27.915 --> 0:15:30.355 use a word like is sofada to many Jewish Americans 0:15:30.395 --> 0:15:33.395 and Jewish New Yorkers. That means you are permissive for 0:15:33.515 --> 0:15:35.675 violence against Jews. It is a serious word. It is 0:15:35.715 --> 0:15:37.875 a word that has deep meaning. It has been used 0:15:38.035 --> 0:15:41.755 for wars across time, and violence and destruction and slaughter 0:15:41.795 --> 0:15:44.275 and murder against the Jews. It is a harmful, hurtful, 0:15:44.395 --> 0:15:47.315 inappropriate word for anyone who wants to represent a city 0:15:47.315 --> 0:15:49.235 as diverse as New York City with eight million people. 0:15:49.275 --> 0:15:52.075 And I would be very specific in these words, and 0:15:52.075 --> 0:15:53.555 I would say you may not use them again if 0:15:53.595 --> 0:15:55.995 you expect to represent everyone ever again, because they are 0:15:55.995 --> 0:15:59.395 received as hateful and divisive and harmful. And that's it. 0:15:59.675 --> 0:16:01.675 So I appreciate that he told you he didn't mean that, 0:16:01.715 --> 0:16:02.155 and that's great. 0:16:02.515 --> 0:16:06.035 Rat also clarifyre he was clarifying that he never said 0:16:06.035 --> 0:16:08.515 globalized the antifada. He was asked in an interview if 0:16:08.515 --> 0:16:11.435 he would denounce the phrase globalize the antifada, and then 0:16:11.435 --> 0:16:13.355 that led to this kind of conversation. You know that 0:16:13.475 --> 0:16:16.435 you were just referring to, but that he was never 0:16:16.475 --> 0:16:18.715 out there saying globalized the antifada. He was asked about 0:16:18.755 --> 0:16:21.115 other people who used it. So just just to be 0:16:21.195 --> 0:16:23.115 precise about what happened there. 0:16:23.155 --> 0:16:25.795 Yes, well, as a leader of the city of diversites, 0:16:25.835 --> 0:16:27.755 New York City with eight million people, as the largest 0:16:27.835 --> 0:16:31.555 Jewish population in the country, we should denounce it. And 0:16:31.595 --> 0:16:34.995 that's it, period. And you can't celebrate it, you can't 0:16:35.115 --> 0:16:36.835 value it, you can't lift it up. And that is 0:16:36.875 --> 0:16:37.995 what that is the challenge. 0:16:38.875 --> 0:16:43.435 She should be institutionalized. No one has ever heard her 0:16:43.555 --> 0:16:50.515 speak that fast, frenzied, nor that insane, nor addressing anything. 0:16:50.995 --> 0:16:55.355 She's completely wrong, obviously, but she's so animated about it. 0:16:55.675 --> 0:16:58.715 This is the first time Jillibrand has managed to confirm 0:16:58.715 --> 0:17:01.595 she's not some sort of plastic blow up doll, but 0:17:01.675 --> 0:17:03.995 an actual human being. And how does she do it? 0:17:04.035 --> 0:17:06.755 She does it but losing her mind and attacking very 0:17:06.755 --> 0:17:09.715 possibly the most responsible politician who happens to be a 0:17:09.795 --> 0:17:14.155 Muslim in this country, a guy who is far more 0:17:14.195 --> 0:17:19.315 of a New Yorker than she is. Resign, Get out, 0:17:19.595 --> 0:17:25.435 you're worthless, Maga parroting Albany clown. Resign. She now says 0:17:25.435 --> 0:17:29.355 she misspoke. I'll tell you when she misspoke. She misspoke 0:17:29.395 --> 0:17:32.515 when she took the oath of office. I do solemnly 0:17:32.555 --> 0:17:34.995 swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of 0:17:34.995 --> 0:17:38.435 the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's 0:17:38.475 --> 0:17:42.995 when she misspoke. You just carried Trump's water for him, 0:17:42.995 --> 0:17:47.875 you moronic cipher. You just carried Cuomo's water for him, 0:17:47.995 --> 0:17:52.715 and Trump's and Curtis Sliwa, you know, the Guardian Angels 0:17:52.755 --> 0:17:56.555 idiot in the stupid beret. You carried the water of 0:17:56.595 --> 0:18:01.075 all those people against the Democratic nominee in the biggest 0:18:01.115 --> 0:18:04.115 city you represent. By the way, let me tell you something. 0:18:04.115 --> 0:18:07.195 Apparently you don't know, Senator Jillibrand. You are in the 0:18:07.235 --> 0:18:11.995 Democratic Party, and you know what's going on behind the 0:18:12.035 --> 0:18:15.275 scenes here right that she played right into. I would 0:18:15.315 --> 0:18:18.115 assume she was part of this, except she's too stupid 0:18:18.195 --> 0:18:21.835 to be a part of anything planned. A New York 0:18:21.875 --> 0:18:25.835 Post financial reporter writes, quote, prominent donors are gunning to 0:18:25.835 --> 0:18:30.995 get Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in the 0:18:31.035 --> 0:18:35.035 Trump administration in hopes of pushing him out of New 0:18:35.115 --> 0:18:38.675 York City's mayoral race. Source has told me the aim 0:18:38.795 --> 0:18:41.595 is to open up the GOP nomination and the nearly 0:18:41.675 --> 0:18:43.875 thirty percent of the vote someone running in that lane 0:18:43.915 --> 0:18:51.635 is expected to get four Current Mayor Eric Adams, so 0:18:51.795 --> 0:18:57.395 Adams could run as the Republican nominee against I'm Danny 0:18:58.075 --> 0:19:01.395 Adams could run pretending to be the anti anti Semitism 0:19:01.435 --> 0:19:08.635 candidate and get introduced by Sneako, and Curtis Sliwa could 0:19:08.675 --> 0:19:15.035 become Trump's new Secretary of Berets. And I was reminded 0:19:15.275 --> 0:19:18.075 that last November, the guy who isn't zoraon Mamdani, whom 0:19:18.115 --> 0:19:22.435 Jillibrand just helped. Sliwa said this on Staten Island to 0:19:22.555 --> 0:19:26.275 an Israeli reporter regarding anti Semitism. This is right before 0:19:26.315 --> 0:19:27.035 the last election. 0:19:27.595 --> 0:19:27.875 Quote. 0:19:27.955 --> 0:19:30.635 I tell the Jews all the time, I'm a gentile. 0:19:30.715 --> 0:19:33.075 It's in our DNA. You need to wake up and 0:19:33.155 --> 0:19:36.355 understand that we always blame the Jews no matter what happens. 0:19:37.075 --> 0:19:44.875 Curtis Sliwa, whom Jillibrand helped by the way President protection Racket, 0:19:44.915 --> 0:19:47.755 gave his game away about New York too yesterday with 0:19:47.835 --> 0:19:51.315 Maua Badawomo quote, whoever's mayor of New York is going 0:19:51.355 --> 0:19:54.315 to have to behave themselves or the federal government is 0:19:54.355 --> 0:19:59.155 coming down very tough on them financially. We already know 0:19:59.275 --> 0:20:02.835 this drill. Trump wants Cuomo as mayor no matter what 0:20:02.875 --> 0:20:06.155 he says about Cuomo. But Adams will do because they 0:20:06.235 --> 0:20:09.675 dropped the corruption charges against Adams and made sure they 0:20:09.675 --> 0:20:14.195 could reinstate them at any point. And they already announced 0:20:14.195 --> 0:20:17.635 the investigation of Cuomo and they could charge him at 0:20:17.715 --> 0:20:23.715 any point. So with Mayor Cuomo or Mayor Adams, Trump 0:20:23.755 --> 0:20:29.035 can blackmail them into anything, especially into letting Trump's ISIS 0:20:29.315 --> 0:20:34.515 raids continue here. And now we have the money injected 0:20:34.515 --> 0:20:37.915 into the equation by Trump, I will go back to 0:20:37.955 --> 0:20:41.395 the one solution to all this swallowed up by Trump's 0:20:41.435 --> 0:20:45.195 Los Angeles ISIS raids. The day after the solution was 0:20:45.235 --> 0:20:49.035 spoken by Gavin Newsom June sixth. Haven't heard it since 0:20:49.195 --> 0:20:52.835 for obvious reasons. But this is it. What are we 0:20:52.915 --> 0:20:55.235 going to do this? We're going to do this. What 0:20:55.275 --> 0:20:56.715 could we possibly do to stop Trump? 0:20:56.755 --> 0:20:57.235 This? 0:20:57.235 --> 0:20:59.435 This is what we can do stop Trump. Are there 0:20:59.435 --> 0:21:02.275 any solutions? It seems like every guardrail this is the guardrail. 0:21:04.075 --> 0:21:07.155 What he wrote on June sixth was the governor, Californians 0:21:07.155 --> 0:21:09.475 pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over 0:21:09.555 --> 0:21:12.555 eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we get back. 0:21:12.795 --> 0:21:17.195 Maybe it's time to cut that off. Donald Trump, it's 0:21:17.275 --> 0:21:21.195 going to reach that point. It is a protection racket. 0:21:21.755 --> 0:21:24.275 And the only thing that stops a protection racket in 0:21:24.315 --> 0:21:27.915 the absence of law enforcement, and law enforcement is part 0:21:27.955 --> 0:21:30.675 of the protection racket. The only thing is to have 0:21:31.035 --> 0:21:34.515 a greater financial gun pointed at the people running the 0:21:34.555 --> 0:21:37.835 protection racket than they have pointed at you. Let's get 0:21:37.835 --> 0:21:40.675 to it right now. Let's get it started right now. 0:21:40.915 --> 0:21:44.315 Never mind the midterms, never mind twenty twenty eight. We'll 0:21:44.355 --> 0:21:46.835 deal with them when they happen. We can deal with 0:21:46.875 --> 0:21:49.835 this now. The Blue states and their attorneys general and 0:21:49.875 --> 0:21:53.235 their tax experts and their governors should convene right now 0:21:53.275 --> 0:21:56.835 with Gavin Newsom and see what can be done to 0:21:57.035 --> 0:22:02.275 stop forwarding federal tax money to the federal government from 0:22:02.315 --> 0:22:08.195 the Blue States right now, to starve Trump into submission 0:22:08.675 --> 0:22:15.995 right now. Starve him because A it will work, and 0:22:16.075 --> 0:22:22.155 because B in our sad times, this is actually the 0:22:22.275 --> 0:22:30.755 closest thing we will see for decades to ethical. We 0:22:30.915 --> 0:22:34.275 used to split our big decisions in life fifty to fifty, 0:22:34.475 --> 0:22:36.515 or at least it seemed that way as late as 0:22:36.595 --> 0:22:40.115 when I was in college and in my twenties and 0:22:40.195 --> 0:22:46.875 in my thirties. People quit jobs on principle, or at 0:22:46.955 --> 0:22:50.315 least on the fear of getting caught. People did things 0:22:50.315 --> 0:22:53.435 and didn't say but I got paid a million dollars 0:22:53.475 --> 0:22:55.835 to do this, and everybody didn't just go, oh, okay, 0:22:55.835 --> 0:22:59.475 it's all right. Then I'm not just judging here. I 0:22:59.515 --> 0:23:03.155 took a job at Fox once, lots of reasons, lots 0:23:03.235 --> 0:23:06.275 of ancillary fact. There's the tipping point was they were 0:23:06.275 --> 0:23:07.835 going to pay me five times when I was making 0:23:07.835 --> 0:23:11.515 at NBC. I've done it. But we used to do 0:23:11.595 --> 0:23:14.195 this on a fifty to fifty basis. Half your decisions 0:23:14.195 --> 0:23:18.675 in life for you, half your decisions in life for 0:23:18.755 --> 0:23:25.955 you and everybody basically ethics or cash. Now what is 0:23:25.995 --> 0:23:31.115 it ninety nine to one? When was the last time 0:23:31.155 --> 0:23:38.355 somebody did anything, anything important, anything permanent, irretrievable, because to 0:23:38.355 --> 0:23:47.675 do otherwise was just wrong. I'll wait. Murkowski not only 0:23:47.715 --> 0:23:49.915 did she not do that, she didn't even do anything smart. 0:23:50.915 --> 0:23:53.355 She sold out and it turned out she doesn't get 0:23:53.355 --> 0:23:57.795 what she sold out for till us. I have taken 0:23:57.835 --> 0:24:00.195 my stand, and now I'm going to run away and 0:24:00.235 --> 0:24:02.595 the rest of you can deal with this, cause I'll 0:24:02.635 --> 0:24:04.555 be in North Carolina. And what's not like it's going 0:24:04.595 --> 0:24:07.235 to affect me. It's not like the stochastic terrorism is 0:24:07.275 --> 0:24:09.675 ever going to affect me just because we had a 0:24:09.675 --> 0:24:16.955 political assassination in this country earlier this month, Trump, anybody 0:24:17.035 --> 0:24:21.715 named Trump, to do something right rather than for profit. 0:24:22.355 --> 0:24:29.235 Starve the federal government, Starve Maga, Starve Trump, and they'll understand. 0:24:30.275 --> 0:24:34.075 They will fold immediately because they will do what's right 0:24:34.795 --> 0:24:41.475 to protect their money. In times like this, I always 0:24:41.555 --> 0:24:45.635 think of one scene from what I think is probably 0:24:45.675 --> 0:24:48.835 the most underrated motion picture of all time. It was 0:24:48.875 --> 0:24:52.275 considered a bomb when it came out. I think it 0:24:52.315 --> 0:24:55.795 should be considered a classic. It's improved over the half 0:24:55.795 --> 0:24:59.115 a century since its release to no, that's actually very good. 0:24:59.595 --> 0:25:01.835 But when it came out, people were so disappointed because 0:25:01.875 --> 0:25:04.915 the book was so big and rich and nuanced, then 0:25:04.995 --> 0:25:07.795 layered and intricate, you couldn't have made a perfect movie 0:25:07.835 --> 0:25:11.235 out of it. This is actually almost a perfect movie. 0:25:11.235 --> 0:25:15.755 It's called Catch twenty two. This is after Lieutenant Nately, 0:25:16.315 --> 0:25:18.875 the character who's played by of all people, Art Garfunkle, 0:25:19.675 --> 0:25:24.555 gets blown up when the American generals and Lieutenant Milo 0:25:24.675 --> 0:25:29.515 Minderbinder make a deal with the Germans. The Germans will 0:25:29.555 --> 0:25:33.795 pay full value for some worthless cotton from minder Binders 0:25:33.955 --> 0:25:37.075 so called syndicate he's running the black market during the 0:25:37.075 --> 0:25:41.835 Second World War, if the Americans will bomb their own 0:25:41.995 --> 0:25:46.995 air base on behalf of the Germans. Now, if this 0:25:47.155 --> 0:25:49.675 sounds familiar to you, like it's something that's been in 0:25:49.715 --> 0:25:51.955 the news recently, well that's because Trump now claims the 0:25:51.955 --> 0:25:55.275 Iranians responded to the bombing of their nuclear sites by 0:25:55.315 --> 0:25:57.595 warning us in advance they were going to go and 0:25:57.635 --> 0:26:01.195 bomb the US base at Katar, And Trump says, they said, 0:26:01.235 --> 0:26:03.555 what time, one o'clock? And Trump says, I said, one 0:26:03.555 --> 0:26:10.115 o'clock is fine, and we let them bomb us. After 0:26:10.155 --> 0:26:12.195 the bombing run in the movie Catch twenty two, Martin 0:26:12.235 --> 0:26:14.995 Balsom says, as the bombs are following American bombs on 0:26:14.995 --> 0:26:17.955 an American base to pay off a deal with the Germans, 0:26:18.515 --> 0:26:22.355 Martin Balsom says, it's all part of the contract. Isn't 0:26:22.355 --> 0:26:26.395 that what we're fighting for? Anyway? The dialogue that I'm 0:26:26.435 --> 0:26:31.315 referring to sums up America right now today and sums 0:26:31.395 --> 0:26:33.875 up what Michael Nichols, the director, saw coming when he 0:26:33.875 --> 0:26:36.155 made the movie in nineteen sixty nine. In nineteen seventy. 0:26:36.315 --> 0:26:38.395 What Joseph Heller must have seen when he wrote the 0:26:38.395 --> 0:26:41.235 novel in nineteen fifty three and when he lived this 0:26:41.315 --> 0:26:45.115 experience in the Second World War. Nately is dead, literally 0:26:45.155 --> 0:26:51.115 blown to pieces. Yosarian is his friend, the protagonist, played 0:26:51.515 --> 0:26:56.075 to perfection in the movie by Alan Arkin. Lieutenant Minderbinder. 0:26:56.395 --> 0:26:59.555 Nately died a wealthy man, Yusrian. He had over sixty 0:26:59.555 --> 0:27:03.715 shares in the syndicate, Yosrian. What difference does that make. 0:27:03.755 --> 0:27:08.355 He's dead, minder Binder. Then his family will get it. Y'sarian. 0:27:08.515 --> 0:27:11.355 He didn't have time to have a family, minder Binder. 0:27:11.435 --> 0:27:15.395 Then his parents will get it. Y'sarian. They don't need it, 0:27:15.435 --> 0:27:25.715 they're rich. Minder Binder. Then they'll understand. That's today's Maga, 0:27:26.755 --> 0:27:33.555 that's today's Republicans. That's Tom Tillis, that's Murkowski, that's John Roberts, 0:27:34.355 --> 0:27:37.555 that's all of them. They don't need it. They'll rich. 0:27:38.355 --> 0:27:45.675 Then they'll understand that's today's Trump, that's today's America. By 0:27:45.715 --> 0:27:49.795