Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and no Key Armstrong and Getty us
Speaker 2: considering playing this report about Doge.
Speaker 3: You remember Doge that Elon Musk led and the goal
Speaker 3: was to cut waste in government and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. Well, we're we're about to talk about the
Speaker 3: unbelievable waste we've got, for instance, in California with taxpayer money,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure it's true in lots of other states,
Speaker 3: and it's federal dollars, so it matters a lot of
Speaker 3: it is federal dollars, and it matters to all of
Speaker 3: you out there. We'll talk about that in a second,
Speaker 3: but right now, I'd like to welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe,
Speaker 3: Katie's longtime investigative journalists covered in California state capital. Katie,
Speaker 3: how are you today?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 4: Jack? Doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Before we get to this unbelievable welfare fraud story, how
Speaker 3: much trouble is Gavin and his wife in with this?
Speaker 3: Where did their money come from? Scandal? Is this a
Speaker 3: real story.
Speaker 5: I do believe it is a real story, and it's
Speaker 5: because this kind of nonprofit and geo scandal has been
Speaker 5: building for a long time.
Speaker 4: Frankly, some years.
Speaker 5: Ago, like two thousand and six, twenty ten, I was
Speaker 5: reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then,
Speaker 5: and that was when Jerry Brown was still agy and
Speaker 5: nothing ever happened. And then we watched them just exponentially
Speaker 5: grow and they become like this this shadow government in
Speaker 5: California where tons of taxpayer money goes into them. Reporters
Speaker 5: like me, that's where it stops, because public records requests,
Speaker 5: you know, stop at the door of the nonprofit. And
Speaker 5: it's just been this massive, uh just this is this
Speaker 5: black market spending almost and unfortunately we've been reporting and
Speaker 5: many other news outlets in the stay have been reporting
Speaker 5: on the newsoms on the first partners easy nonprofits. Besides
Speaker 5: just you know, kind of the filth that she produces
Speaker 5: and then requires public schools to buy these weird videos.
Speaker 5: They've you know, she's been taking a lot of money
Speaker 5: out of these nonprofits as well. And I think it
Speaker 5: could be almost like the textbookcase for as a warning
Speaker 5: shot across the bow to a lot of other politicians
Speaker 5: who are tied into nonprofits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they need doubt law the term nonprofit because yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just ridiculous and I can't believe people for it
Speaker 3: for so long. Hopefully that is coming to an end.
Speaker 3: Just the brief version is you start a nonprofit, you
Speaker 3: called a nonprofit, and no, you don't show any profits,
Speaker 3: but you bring in lots of money, and you know
Speaker 3: some of your expenditures are well you or you need
Speaker 3: a salary. As the person who runs a nonprofit, it
Speaker 3: turns out your salary is way more than you'd make
Speaker 3: in the private sector doing something.
Speaker 2: And of course you need a car to.
Speaker 3: Drive, even though in the modern world very few people
Speaker 3: get cars anymore. You're going to have a car, and
Speaker 3: you travel a lot, and you know you have to stay.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't stay have to stay in a motel six,
Speaker 3: you should have to stay in a decent hotel. Blob
Speaker 3: blab blab meals, trips, vacations, salaries, all kinds of crap,
Speaker 3: and you call it a nonprofit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: When I go digging into the irs forums that nonprofits
Speaker 5: have to file every year, you cannot believe the expenditures
Speaker 5: for travel conferences. I mean hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 5: for some of the smallest nonprofits. It's just this lifestyle
Speaker 5: money that is being so abused, and you know, unfortunately
Speaker 5: they're making it bad for the legitimate nonprofits that have
Speaker 5: been around a long time.
Speaker 4: I'm providing, you.
Speaker 5: Know, actual cancer services or research or things like that.
Speaker 5: I think the whole thing should be scrapped and if
Speaker 5: you're legitimate, reapply and start over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 3: It'd be something if Gavin Newsom and his wife actually
Speaker 3: either their timing was wrong or they pushed it too
Speaker 3: farcas so many politicians been doing this for so long.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had city council members in Sacramento where
Speaker 5: I live who had their own nonprofits and they were
Speaker 5: totally tapped into the city budgets, and we'd write about it,
Speaker 5: and people was kind of yawn and scratch and look away.
Speaker 5: You know, It's just like it never caught on that
Speaker 5: this was fraud.
Speaker 3: The number of politicians that live lifestyles of the super
Speaker 3: rich is amazing. And I'll include Trump was rich already,
Speaker 3: but he he and his family are getting rich off
Speaker 3: all kinds of different things. But the whole Biden crime
Speaker 3: family thing that they had gone the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just something you do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The Clintons seem to have perfected it because we watched
Speaker 5: nonprofits just explode after the Clinton Global Initiative was done,
Speaker 5: and I think a lot of other politicians were emboldened
Speaker 5: by that and kind of modeled theirs after what the
Speaker 5: Clintons did.
Speaker 3: So this scandal, because you know, the Trump Justice Department
Speaker 3: goes after Gavin Newsom, it looks like, you know what
Speaker 3: it looks like. But you think there is plenty of
Speaker 3: there there that this could this could turn out to
Speaker 3: be a problem for Gavin wanting to run for president.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I really do.
Speaker 5: It's just you know, so in addition to their their
Speaker 5: weird non her Missus Newson's weird nonprofits. Remember the Newsom's
Speaker 5: have these two homes that they did not purchase but
Speaker 5: were eventually gifted to that.
Speaker 3: We all live that way, right, We all have homes
Speaker 3: given to us, several homes.
Speaker 2: That's that's a normal lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: And and the LLC that was created two separate LLCs,
Speaker 5: but they just were formed the day before the homes
Speaker 5: closed the home they live in now in Marina is
Speaker 5: a nine million dollar home. The one they still have
Speaker 5: in Sacramento is three point eight million dollars, and they
Speaker 5: didn't buy either one of them. So there's a lot
Speaker 5: of weirdness around the Newsome's lifestyle, including remember during COVID,
Speaker 5: I reported that they were caught taking a trip to
Speaker 5: Cabo San Lucas. Okay, whatever, it sounds like, no big deal,
Speaker 5: except that they stayed in a twenty six thousand dollars
Speaker 5: a night dhaka.
Speaker 3: Twenty six thousand dollars a night, yes.
Speaker 5: Owned by some Russian oligarch that was clearly gifted to them.
Speaker 2: Well you don't, you don't do that for nothing in return?
Speaker 3: Exactly, God, that's a what that's now, that's luxurious.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what that looks like. And then
Speaker 2: I think it was.
Speaker 3: A California Post had the story last week of the
Speaker 3: timing of so many of these appointments where somebody would
Speaker 3: give a bunch of money to new some one of
Speaker 3: their nonprofits and then two days later they'd get named
Speaker 3: the blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Always Yeah, there's a lot of quid pro quo going
Speaker 5: around and I'm sure all of it's being looked at,
Speaker 5: not just Missus Newsom's nonprofits.
Speaker 3: I am. I don't know if cynical's a right word,
Speaker 3: might be. I feel like this happens so often and
Speaker 3: nothing ever comes of it.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: My expectations for the people get away with this sort
Speaker 3: of crap over and over again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know the frustration because I write a lot about it,
Speaker 5: my research a lot about it, and we rarely see
Speaker 5: anything happen. I think though, that there's so much of
Speaker 5: this garbage going on in California. I mean, the Somali
Speaker 5: fraud up in in Menta is one thing, but boy,
Speaker 5: when that was discovered, those of us in California who
Speaker 5: are aware of fraud, Oh yeah, hold my beer. Watch
Speaker 5: what California does.
Speaker 3: That is a great tease, Katie Grimes, because this is
Speaker 3: what I want to do on to take a break
Speaker 3: and come back and get into your story about the
Speaker 3: undercover LA raid that exposed California's multi million dollar welfare fraud,
Speaker 3: tons of money being stolen. God, the fact that Mayor
Speaker 3: Mamdani the other day put out that video he said
Speaker 3: children go hungry in America while Elon Musk's hunger only
Speaker 3: grows for more.
Speaker 2: Power and money.
Speaker 3: When you see all this money that's being stolen in
Speaker 3: the Snap food programs, unbelievable. Katie Grimes will explain it
Speaker 3: all to us coming up, Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Hey Eddie.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 2: Mayor Mandani.
Speaker 3: His response to Trump for fourth of July was this
Speaker 3: video he put out. We need to talk more about later.
Speaker 3: He meant, all the kids going to bed hungry in
Speaker 3: this country, how awful it is. We have a trillionaire
Speaker 3: when kids are going to bed hungry. If your kid
Speaker 3: is going to bed hungry, you are not good at
Speaker 3: figuring out where the food is. Because, for instance, in California,
Speaker 3: the Snap food program the largest in the country, twelve
Speaker 3: point five billion dollars. Twelve point five billion dollars the
Speaker 3: Snap food program for one state. Anyway, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of fraud going on. There was a raid Thursday, July third,
Speaker 3: so the day before the fourth of July got lost
Speaker 3: in the news flow. That's why we have Katie Grimes
Speaker 3: on today to tell us about it. Katie, what happened show?
Speaker 4: This was a kind of multi agency raid.
Speaker 5: It was the US Department of Agriculture was involved, Homeland
Speaker 5: Security was involved, LAPD was involved, and Assistant US Attorney
Speaker 5: Bill Is Saley from the Central District in LA was involved.
Speaker 5: And what was going on.
Speaker 4: So they did this big raid at a Snap.
Speaker 5: Food stamp benefits store in skid Row in LA. And
Speaker 5: as we know, this is you know, the Trump administration
Speaker 5: said they were going to crack down on fraud in general,
Speaker 5: but you know, especially federally funded programs that are experiencing
Speaker 5: we'll say a lot of fraud like this, and welfare
Speaker 5: fraud is one of the worst. As you said, we
Speaker 5: have twelve point five billion dollars in our SNAP, which
Speaker 5: is food stamps program in California. Eleven percent of the
Speaker 5: program's payments are fraudulent. They're issued in error, meaning there's
Speaker 5: either duplicates or they're people from out of state or
Speaker 5: out of the country. I mean, eleven percent fraud out
Speaker 5: of twelve point five billion is an awful lot of money.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, and this was just one of six raids on
Speaker 5: July third. So what happened was and the California Post
Speaker 5: exclusively reported this. They did an incredible job. Six stores
Speaker 5: were charged with selling Snap food stamp benefits in exchange
Speaker 5: for cash, while they say another twenty seven stores were
Speaker 5: charged with exchanging snap benefits for all kinds of prohibitive
Speaker 5: ideas meeting you know, alcohol, beer, vaping devices, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Part of the reason I thought that this was so
Speaker 5: interesting as well.
Speaker 4: As progress, is that.
Speaker 5: Our California budget, one third of it is made up
Speaker 5: of federal funding. And I say, this is why Gavin
Speaker 5: Newsom is losing his mind over federal funding cuts and
Speaker 5: why he and our Attorney General Robanta continues suing the
Speaker 5: Trump administration. It's over these a lot of these funding cuts.
Speaker 5: But what's even more interesting is almost four and five
Speaker 5: federal dollars dollars that flow through our budget currently right
Speaker 5: now support health and human serve. So it's all this
Speaker 5: low income food stamp welfare, you know, the multi layers
Speaker 5: of programs, and those are the ones that the Trump
Speaker 5: administration is looking at for fraud.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned Doge earlier.
Speaker 5: Remember when Elon Musk and his Dose team had been
Speaker 5: at it for a few months, he came out and
Speaker 5: said he thinks that half of the federal budget was fraud.
Speaker 5: And if we could just uncover and expose and get
Speaker 5: rid of all the frauds, that Americans wouldn't have to
Speaker 5: pay income taxes.
Speaker 4: Right, that tells you how bad it is.
Speaker 3: Right, it's depressing. It is just depressing. Again, my belief
Speaker 3: that will make much headway in eliminating this fraud is
Speaker 3: not very high, which maybe I'm too cynical, but like
Speaker 3: you said, we saw what happened in Minnesota. In California
Speaker 3: was like hold food stamps and went even bigger. So
Speaker 3: the reason people want to exchange their Snap stuff for
Speaker 3: cash is so that you can buy because you're not
Speaker 3: supposed to be able to buy cigarettes and pop and
Speaker 3: vape pens and everything else with Snap benefits.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: We did a story in June on a federal report
Speaker 5: that was issued by the US Department of Health and
Speaker 5: Human Services, and it revealed this is stunning, California receives
Speaker 5: eighty percent of all of the federal funding for illegal
Speaker 5: immigrant families, which is also part of this welfare money
Speaker 5: in the entire country. Yeah, so in the entire country,
Speaker 5: California gets eighty percent of it. So naturally the federal
Speaker 5: government is looking at California and number one, why we're
Speaker 5: getting so much and it shouldn't be going to illegal immigrants,
Speaker 5: but it does. And you know how much of that
Speaker 5: is fraud.
Speaker 3: In addition, so those of you who are listening across
Speaker 3: cost the country don't live in California, you have a
Speaker 3: reason to care about.
Speaker 2: This other states, other people who live.
Speaker 3: In other states, because you know, we live in California
Speaker 3: and in theory vote for this crap.
Speaker 2: I don't vote for it, but enough people do.
Speaker 3: But the federal dollars those who live in other responsible states,
Speaker 3: you should be very angry at California for wasting your money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I totally agree, and especially when you hear Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 5: you know, boasting that California sends more to the federal
Speaker 5: government than it takes. All of these numbers that I
Speaker 5: just shared with you prove that that's total bs. We're
Speaker 5: taking a lot more than we're creating.
Speaker 3: I wish I had the time to do this because
Speaker 3: I was really angry about Mamdani's speech the other day
Speaker 3: where he had that line about kids go to bed
Speaker 3: hungry in this country, while Elon Musk only hungers for
Speaker 3: more money in power. There are so many different programs
Speaker 3: at every level of your city, county, and state and
Speaker 3: federal money. Then you're just not trying very hard to
Speaker 3: get food for your kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, And for the politicians that continually shriek
Speaker 5: about our children are going to bed hungry.
Speaker 4: If you've walked.
Speaker 5: By a California elementary school anytime recently, I.
Speaker 4: Noticed that the majority of the kids are overweight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is something. Well, keep uncovering the fraud.
Speaker 3: I mean, at least we can scream about it. I don't,
Speaker 3: like I said, I'm not optimistic that anything good will happen,
Speaker 3: but that is absolutely amazing. Eleven percent of twelve plus
Speaker 3: billion dollars we know is wasted, and it could be
Speaker 3: more than that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's disheartening, definitely, but yes, I will definitely.
Speaker 4: Stay on this.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the
Speaker 3: California Globe, appreciate your time today. Those stories are just
Speaker 3: so dang maddening and explains how you can walk by
Speaker 3: somebody on the street who looks down and out, but
Speaker 3: they got an iPhone and they they're they're getting by,
Speaker 3: they're doing all right. We've got so many different programs
Speaker 3: with so much money sloshing around, and then you can
Speaker 3: trade in your your government card or whatever you have,
Speaker 3: so you can buy booze and cigarettes and vake pens
Speaker 3: and whatever the heck you want to buy.
Speaker 2: It's just so depressing. You get up and go to
Speaker 2: work every day to try to earn money.
Speaker 3: You have to give over way too much the government,
Speaker 3: and then it gets wasted on this crap. Children going
Speaker 3: to bed hungry at night while Elon musk on lay
Speaker 3: hungers for more power and money. You freaking socialists in
Speaker 3: your line of crap. I got more on that coming
Speaker 3: up a little bit later. I will get too. Drives
Speaker 3: me nuts. We're ar with Iran again. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're following the news. In the last twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: Trump said the m ou the ceasefire, that whole thing
Speaker 3: is over.
Speaker 2: We'll play that for you.
Speaker 3: That all happened while you were asleep last night, and
Speaker 3: that's a pretty big deal if the war is back on.
Speaker 3: We talked to Mike Liines about that earlier. I'll summarize
Speaker 3: a little a little bit of that when we come
Speaker 3: back next. Trump is meeting with NATO right now, and
Speaker 3: there's been news made since we went on the air today.
Speaker 3: We'll have the very latest if you miss it. Gets
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Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I've just spilled coffee all over, including all over my
Speaker 3: iPhone and trying to clean that off.
Speaker 2: And it's a mess.
Speaker 3: But luckily, because I took my workplace violence training just yesterday,
Speaker 3: I am not going to overreact and punch anybody or
Speaker 3: break anything because of the workplace violence training.
Speaker 2: I'll have to talk about that later. Lawyers run the world. Man.
Speaker 3: You realize all that training you take at work, all
Speaker 3: of it is just so that they can say, well,
Speaker 3: we told them not to sexually harass anybody, or punch
Speaker 3: anybody or steal anything. It's all lawyer thing. They don't
Speaker 3: expect it to actually work her. And it's so such
Speaker 3: a waste of time and so on. How many gazillions
Speaker 3: of dollars of US worker productivity is wasted on workplace training? God,
Speaker 3: and I know it's worse than the government. I have
Speaker 3: a friend who works in the government and they're doing
Speaker 3: it constantly, and they're longer and even more pointless than
Speaker 3: the rest of us. AnyWho, I think I got all
Speaker 3: the coffee cleaned off my phone, kind of. There's some
Speaker 3: pretty big news being made in the last dozen hours
Speaker 3: as we're bombing Iran again. Trump is a Overdare in
Speaker 3: Europe meeting with the NATO leaders, Iran was firing on
Speaker 3: ships in the straight of horror moves. Right, So we
Speaker 3: got this MoU the Memorandum of understanding, and the deal
Speaker 3: was supposed to be we end our blockade, Iran lets
Speaker 3: the ships through.
Speaker 2: I thought this was a terrible deal.
Speaker 3: We allow Ran to make tons of money selling oil again,
Speaker 3: and then later we'll sit down and have our discussions
Speaker 3: about nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what.
Speaker 3: The later nuclear weapons discussion, according to Wall Street Journal today,
Speaker 3: never happened. They've made zero progress on the nuclear weapons stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know why Iran started firing on ships in
Speaker 3: the straight of horror moves.
Speaker 2: They got a good deal going. That shows you.
Speaker 3: That actually shows you maybe that's why Trump is so frustrated.
Speaker 3: It actually shows you how crazy they are. They got
Speaker 3: a good deal for them. They were making money again
Speaker 3: off the oil. They're dragging their feet on the nuclear
Speaker 3: stuff so they can continue to try to get a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. And the longer it goes on the closer
Speaker 3: we get through the midterm elections, the less likely it
Speaker 3: is the war starts back up. I don't know why
Speaker 3: they would fire on these ships. I think it's because
Speaker 3: they're actually as Trump once called them, crazy mfforts. I
Speaker 3: think they actually are. But so they were firing on chips.
Speaker 3: We bombed the heck out of a ran yesterday. Trump
Speaker 3: was asked today by reporters, where are we on the whole?
Speaker 3: MoU this is how it went.
Speaker 4: To see fire over?
Speaker 2: If the seat fire done, is the emo you dead?
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting question to me. I think it's over.
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with him with the scum.
Speaker 1: You know what scum is. There's gum, there's sick people.
Speaker 1: They're lit by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people,
Speaker 1: and if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to
Speaker 1: our negotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people, Steve Woodcuff,
Speaker 1: Jared Kushier, but they have to come back to me.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, it's just a.
Speaker 2: Waste of time dealing with them. They're liars.
Speaker 6: We make a deal, and if I make a deal
Speaker 6: with him, we have a deal, and he goes out,
Speaker 6: he talks, we make a deal, everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6: We make a deal, they go outside talk to the
Speaker 6: press say we never even talked about it.
Speaker 1: There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. So as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: it's over.
Speaker 2: Well, he's right about that.
Speaker 3: The only interesting part to me is why it took
Speaker 3: him till now to figure this out. Similar with Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 3: and we got some stuff he said about Ukraine and
Speaker 3: that war. But why it's taking him so long to
Speaker 3: catch on that the Islamo fascists in Iran or the
Speaker 3: ego megalomaniac dictator of Russia aren't like dealing with business
Speaker 3: people in the United States. I don't know why it's
Speaker 3: so hard for him to catch out to He's just
Speaker 3: assuming everybody does what's in their best financial interest, because
Speaker 3: that's the way most business people are, like almost all
Speaker 3: of them, especially in the United States. But that ain't
Speaker 3: the way it is with the Iranian Republican Guard or
Speaker 3: whatever they're called. They're crazy people. We hit him pretty
Speaker 3: hard yesterday. Trump talks about that, and so.
Speaker 1: We hit him very hard last night, very hard. I
Speaker 1: would say twenty to one, twenty times tougher. I told
Speaker 1: him every time we hit then. Of course they're dirty players,
Speaker 1: so they go after everyone probably including me. I've been
Speaker 1: number one on the list for years.
Speaker 3: I hope he's actually fed up and by the end
Speaker 3: of the day, we don't hear him saying I had
Speaker 3: a good talk with He'll name somebody, and things are
Speaker 3: looking really, really good. So though, we're gonna let him
Speaker 3: make money again, because we announced yesterday the Treasury Secretary
Speaker 3: cut off their oil money again. They're no longer allowed
Speaker 3: to sell oil and make money, thank god. But I
Speaker 3: hope Trump doesn't change his mind.
Speaker 2: He goes on this. Me not talks with their eye
Speaker 2: will not risue him. I don't care.
Speaker 1: They can talk, but I think they're wasting that time.
Speaker 1: They are a bunch of lying guys. I do it
Speaker 1: in my whole life. That's all I do is zeals.
Speaker 1: My whole life is that how I became resident. I
Speaker 1: guess that's a deal too, right. But I made a
Speaker 1: lot of money, a lot of great success, now tremendous success.
Speaker 1: Everything I did, I was successful. And I deal with
Speaker 1: these guys, and I say, this is from a different school.
Speaker 1: They're liars, they're cheats, they're sick people. They've hurt their people.
Speaker 1: They killed fifty four thousand people as of now. That
Speaker 1: were protesting. You know when people say, how come they
Speaker 1: haven't taken over? The kid take over because they're dead.
Speaker 1: They killed them. Nobody's going to take over. They have
Speaker 1: no guns and the other side of his machine guns,
Speaker 1: and they're killing them with the press as they're reported.
Speaker 2: But they're bad people.
Speaker 1: They're bad people, and frankly, I don't want to waste
Speaker 1: my time with them now. I'll let our wonderful negotiators
Speaker 1: keep talking if they want.
Speaker 2: But I don't see it. I don't like these people.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 3: I hope he means it and like he's like fully
Speaker 3: absorbed who these people are. Let's go back and here,
Speaker 3: let's remember jd Vance saying this June fifteenth, So what
Speaker 3: is that three weeks ago June fifteenth. June fifteenth to
Speaker 3: jd Vance's vice president said this about the very people
Speaker 3: that Donald Trump just said are crazy cuckoo. I don't
Speaker 3: like them. They're scumbags, you can't trust them, et cetera.
Speaker 7: The coolest thing about the progress we've made over the
Speaker 7: last few weeks is that you see people within the
Speaker 7: Iranian system, senior leadership, even IERGC officials, say, you know what,
Speaker 7: we may have some animosity we may have some mistrust,
Speaker 7: but we recognize the way that we've done business with
Speaker 7: the United States for forty seven years is a mistake.
Speaker 2: Let's try something else that is cool, JD.
Speaker 3: We mocked that at the time. So JD is a
Speaker 3: super smart guy and a wily guy.
Speaker 2: Did he believe that?
Speaker 3: Did he think we were stupid enough to believe that?
Speaker 3: Did he think that that would hold? It didn't hold
Speaker 3: very long. It isn't really cool. The IRGC did not decide,
Speaker 3: you know what, that was a mistake. That whole death
Speaker 3: to America, death Israel thing. We changed our mind. I
Speaker 3: can't wait until the history books are written. I swear
Speaker 3: this is going to be a fascinating behind the scenes
Speaker 3: story because I have no idea what's going on there.
Speaker 3: Why JD and Trump pretended this, I don't know. If
Speaker 3: it's the presumptive close thing that salespeople do that sometimes
Speaker 3: works with weak people. These are not weak people we're
Speaker 3: dealing with.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get this Byron York writes this in
Speaker 3: the Washington Examiner today, and this might be where I
Speaker 3: am on the war. So Trump says of the US
Speaker 3: Iran memorandum of understanding as far as I'm concerned, it's over. Okay,
Speaker 3: So now is there really any need to finish the
Speaker 3: job in Iran? Back to Byron York. Now is there
Speaker 3: any need to finish the job in Iran? Remember what
Speaker 3: worked in the past. No sanctions, relief, economic pressure, and
Speaker 3: not a penny from the United States. The nuclear program
Speaker 3: is could put for some period of years, we hope,
Speaker 3: and the world's oil powers are moving away from reliance
Speaker 3: on the Strait. That's true, So going forward, keep up
Speaker 3: the economic pressure, hit back hard whenever Iran attacks a
Speaker 3: ship in the Strait. Forget about any sort of treaty
Speaker 3: or agreement. I agree. If more extensive bombing is needed
Speaker 3: in the future, do it. Then there's no need for
Speaker 3: a neat, clean ending to this. Just keep up the
Speaker 3: pressure and move on. That might be where I am
Speaker 3: on this. We don't need to bomb them until they
Speaker 3: come to the negotiating table and sign something. We demand
Speaker 3: that the Strait is open, or we bomb them. I'm
Speaker 3: going to assume that they allow the Strait to be open,
Speaker 3: because at some point they'll realize they've got no choice
Speaker 3: the making a deal for the nuclear stuff. We bomb
Speaker 3: the heck out of their program. We set them back
Speaker 3: quite a while. We'll have to keep our eye on
Speaker 3: it and all that sort of stuff best we can.
Speaker 3: Around Israel is obviously keeping their eye on it, satellites
Speaker 3: and spies and everything else we've done, but we continue
Speaker 3: to squeeze him economically. We don't let them make money
Speaker 3: off of oil until the damn regime falls, which it
Speaker 3: will eventually, might take years, but will eventually. And unfortunately,
Speaker 3: the coming to the rescue of the Iranian people. You
Speaker 3: know your time is at hand. Unfortunately that's over. That's
Speaker 3: not true, and that ain't gonna happen at least on
Speaker 3: the timetable that humanity would like. Interesting number Trump throughout there,
Speaker 3: did he say fifty four thousand protesters were killed. I
Speaker 3: don't know if he just reversed the numbers from the
Speaker 3: forty five that people have been saying for a while,
Speaker 3: or if he has new intelligence that's fifty four. Whatever
Speaker 3: the number is, it's one of the largest slaying of
Speaker 3: peaceful protesters in world history, certainly in the modern era.
Speaker 3: Much bigger t than Teman Square in China in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty nine. I think it was much bigger than that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't get the attention that it deserves doesn't get the
Speaker 3: full weight of discussion. There need to be documentaries and
Speaker 3: movies and all kinds of different stuff about that books,
Speaker 3: because that is a really big deal. That's who we're
Speaker 3: dealing with. And the point I'm making is that's who
Speaker 3: we're dealing with, the kind of people that machine gun
Speaker 3: forty fifty thousand of their own citizens to say in power.
Speaker 3: And Trump thought he was going to do a deal
Speaker 3: where we'll give you your oil money up front on
Speaker 3: the condition that you'll then sit down and have a
Speaker 3: discussion about the nuclear stuff. Again, the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 3: reporting today that they had made zero headway on the
Speaker 3: nuclear issues and zero headway on any of the technical
Speaker 3: stuff about how much uranium you get to keep and
Speaker 3: inspections and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 3: So they got the money and nothing on the nukes,
Speaker 3: just like Picar, everybody, including Fox predicted. The only people
Speaker 3: pretty much in the country that believe this was gonna
Speaker 3: work Trump, jd Vance, and a couple other people in
Speaker 3: the cabinet who would say nice things, but nobody else
Speaker 3: believe it is going to work, and lo and behold
Speaker 3: it to not. So that's where we are on that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're going to keep up the bombing.
Speaker 3: Trump did say earlier that we're likely to hit them
Speaker 3: really hard again tonight. I like when Trump said they're
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Speaker 2: So that's where we are on the Warren Iran.
Speaker 3: I do want to hit a couple of things with
Speaker 3: what Trump had to say about Russia and Ukraine. He
Speaker 3: talked with Zelensky today and then he was supposed to
Speaker 3: jump on the phone with Putin. There's been no reporting
Speaker 3: on that yet. Got a bunch of other stuff I
Speaker 3: want to get to. Also, the way that WNBA treats
Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark is just insane. But the National Review nailed
Speaker 3: down the reason for it and it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Stick around.
Speaker 4: Armstrong, Hetty.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just saw what Zelensky said. I just saw
Speaker 3: what Zelensky said. That is fantastic. We're gonna have to
Speaker 3: play that clip first.
Speaker 2: This about fried chicken.
Speaker 3: For some reason, it was National Fried Chicken Day or
Speaker 3: something like that, and uh, a couple of late night
Speaker 3: comics took a swing at that.
Speaker 8: Police say a texasman stabbed his roommate this weekend during
Speaker 8: a fight over a piece of fried chicken. So even
Speaker 8: if you don't eat the fried chicken, it will still
Speaker 8: find a way to kill you.
Speaker 2: KFC.
Speaker 9: In the news, KFC has come out with a sunscreen
Speaker 9: that makes you smell like fried chicken. Of course, if
Speaker 9: you want to smell like KFC, you could just ride
Speaker 9: around in any single guy's car.
Speaker 8: A man in New York City is claiming that he
Speaker 8: easily found a half smoked a joint in his Popeye
Speaker 8: stick a sandwich. Well, at least we know the chicken
Speaker 8: was having a good time when it died.
Speaker 3: I always feel horrible after I ate KFC. I love
Speaker 3: the taste of it, but it makes me feel just awful.
Speaker 3: I ate Chick fil A the other day. My town
Speaker 3: won't allow chick fil A in it because they're Christian,
Speaker 3: and good Lord, you wouldn't want Christians in your town.
Speaker 3: But chick fil A is great. That is a great sandwich,
Speaker 3: and I don't feel gross after it like I do
Speaker 3: after the colonel. Sorry colonel, and I appreciate your service
Speaker 3: to our country, but your chickens super greasy. So here's
Speaker 3: a funny thing that Zelensky said, Trump is at the
Speaker 3: NATO meeting, and he was sitting down with the President
Speaker 3: of Ukraine, who has had one of the hardest jobs
Speaker 3: on planet Earth for the last four years, defending himself
Speaker 3: against the onslaught of the Russian Army. He has seen
Speaker 3: things no human beings should ever have to see. AnyWho,
Speaker 3: he is still trying to goociate with Trump to get
Speaker 3: more help because they're on the front foot and they
Speaker 3: got a decent chance of winning this thing, or at
Speaker 3: least getting Putin to quit. So Trump, talking to Zelensky,
Speaker 3: talked to Putin also, and here's how the conversation went present.
Speaker 1: Putin said, I would love to meet in Moscow, and
Speaker 1: I said, I don't think you know, I have to
Speaker 1: put myself in this position.
Speaker 2: I don't know that he'd go to Moscow.
Speaker 4: Maybe he would.
Speaker 1: Would you go to Moscow?
Speaker 2: It's difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 2: If you didn't catch that.
Speaker 3: First of all, it'd be ridiculous, the idea of President
Speaker 3: Zelensky going to Moscow. You think they wouldn't kill him.
Speaker 3: They absolutely would kill him. But anyway, him saying, well,
Speaker 3: it's a little dangerous there's a lot of Ukrainian drones there.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: They've been blowing up stuff left and right in Moscow
Speaker 3: and all over the country. Actually, we'll get into a
Speaker 3: little more of that on an Hour four. Got two
Speaker 3: big wars going on at the same time. Trump right
Speaker 3: in the center of both of them. Are certainly could
Speaker 3: be in the center of both of them. Here's an
Speaker 3: interesting idea they got in Massachusetts for their bars.
Speaker 2: Clip too, Michael.
Speaker 7: I don't usually drink more than one drink for thirty minutes,
Speaker 7: but I really don't like when people tell.
Speaker 4: Me what to do, so I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 4: of that rule.
Speaker 2: I think it sounds like a strange rule.
Speaker 1: Little back in Obay have a people get too much,
Speaker 1: that's when you have to stop.
Speaker 2: Just come out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I haven't read the bill, but I know
Speaker 1: the base is off it and it sounds a bit crazy.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how you could implement it.
Speaker 2: How could you place every person in the in the bar?
Speaker 3: What are they the board of license commissioners there in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: That's I sound like I'm drunk now. Maybe I had
Speaker 3: more than one drink every thirty minutes, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay,
Speaker 3: it still sound drunk because I am CA. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try this until I get it right, and I don't
Speaker 3: care if it takes the rest of the hour, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Eric, congratulations.
Speaker 3: They published a preliminary working draft of the changes, and
Speaker 3: one of them would limit customers to one drink every
Speaker 3: thirty minutes, regardless of how intoxicated they seem. So even
Speaker 3: if you just walked into the bar, you can only
Speaker 3: have one drink every thirty minutes. I couldn't hate this
Speaker 3: sort of thing more. I don't drink at all at
Speaker 3: this point in my life, but I could not hate
Speaker 3: this sort of thing more. Nanny laws, infantilization of human
Speaker 3: adult human beings, the mind your own business, every aspect
Speaker 3: of this lack of personal freedom absolutely unbelievable. Can you
Speaker 3: just picture the sort of person that came up with
Speaker 3: this idea and thinks it's a good idea, and how
Speaker 3: much fun they are in life. They're the parents that
Speaker 3: go to the skateboard park and volunteer to make sure
Speaker 3: every kid has knee pads and elbow pads and helmets
Speaker 3: on before they skateboard, resulting in nobody skateboarding at your park,
Speaker 3: You're gonna have nobody at your bars. They're gonna go
Speaker 3: to other bars where they are treated like adults.
Speaker 2: God, what a stupid idea.
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