WEBVTT - Cuckoos & The Quid Pro Quo 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:07.280 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.400 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:27.040 Armstrong and Jetty and no Key Armstrong and Getty us 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.640 considering playing this report about Doge. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.960 You remember Doge that Elon Musk led and the goal 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.040 was to cut waste in government and all that sort 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.400 of stuff. Well, we're we're about to talk about the 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:44.240 unbelievable waste we've got, for instance, in California with taxpayer money, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.040 and I'm sure it's true in lots of other states, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.800 and it's federal dollars, so it matters a lot of 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.640 it is federal dollars, and it matters to all of 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.240 you out there. We'll talk about that in a second, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.320 but right now, I'd like to welcome to the show. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.440 Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.399 Katie's longtime investigative journalists covered in California state capital. Katie, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:05.039 how are you today? 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:05.960 Hi? 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.320 Jack? Doing well? Thank you? 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:13.840 Before we get to this unbelievable welfare fraud story, how 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.280 much trouble is Gavin and his wife in with this? 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.120 Where did their money come from? Scandal? Is this a 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:22.760 real story. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.400 I do believe it is a real story, and it's 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.160 because this kind of nonprofit and geo scandal has been 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.560 building for a long time. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.080 Frankly, some years. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.240 Ago, like two thousand and six, twenty ten, I was 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.560 reporting fraudulent nonprofits to the California Attorney General back then, 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.480 and that was when Jerry Brown was still agy and 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.960 nothing ever happened. And then we watched them just exponentially 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.560 grow and they become like this this shadow government in 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.680 California where tons of taxpayer money goes into them. Reporters 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.240 like me, that's where it stops, because public records requests, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.000 you know, stop at the door of the nonprofit. And 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:13.040 it's just been this massive, uh just this is this 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.480 black market spending almost and unfortunately we've been reporting and 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.280 many other news outlets in the stay have been reporting 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:29.919 on the newsoms on the first partners easy nonprofits. Besides 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.600 just you know, kind of the filth that she produces 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.840 and then requires public schools to buy these weird videos. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.280 They've you know, she's been taking a lot of money 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.640 out of these nonprofits as well. And I think it 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.920 could be almost like the textbookcase for as a warning 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.560 shot across the bow to a lot of other politicians 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.720 who are tied into nonprofits. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.200 Yeah, they need doubt law the term nonprofit because yeah, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.520 it's just ridiculous and I can't believe people for it 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.680 for so long. Hopefully that is coming to an end. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.120 Just the brief version is you start a nonprofit, you 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.640 called a nonprofit, and no, you don't show any profits, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.919 but you bring in lots of money, and you know 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.120 some of your expenditures are well you or you need 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.760 a salary. As the person who runs a nonprofit, it 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.400 turns out your salary is way more than you'd make 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.960 in the private sector doing something. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.400 And of course you need a car to. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.320 Drive, even though in the modern world very few people 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.120 get cars anymore. You're going to have a car, and 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.840 you travel a lot, and you know you have to stay. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.920 You shouldn't stay have to stay in a motel six, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.080 you should have to stay in a decent hotel. Blob 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:43.120 blab blab meals, trips, vacations, salaries, all kinds of crap, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.360 and you call it a nonprofit. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.040 Yeah, exactly. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.480 When I go digging into the irs forums that nonprofits 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.120 have to file every year, you cannot believe the expenditures 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.560 for travel conferences. I mean hundreds of thousands of dollars 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.040 for some of the smallest nonprofits. It's just this lifestyle 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.880 money that is being so abused, and you know, unfortunately 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.480 they're making it bad for the legitimate nonprofits that have 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:10.400 been around a long time. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:11.520 I'm providing, you. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.720 Know, actual cancer services or research or things like that. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.280 I think the whole thing should be scrapped and if 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.440 you're legitimate, reapply and start over. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:22.240 Yeah, I would agree with that. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.800 It'd be something if Gavin Newsom and his wife actually 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.280 either their timing was wrong or they pushed it too 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.600 farcas so many politicians been doing this for so long. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.000 Oh yeah. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.719 I mean, we had city council members in Sacramento where 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.920 I live who had their own nonprofits and they were 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.120 totally tapped into the city budgets, and we'd write about it, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.320 and people was kind of yawn and scratch and look away. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.760 You know, It's just like it never caught on that 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.080 this was fraud. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.839 The number of politicians that live lifestyles of the super 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.640 rich is amazing. And I'll include Trump was rich already, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.400 but he he and his family are getting rich off 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.240 all kinds of different things. But the whole Biden crime 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.200 family thing that they had gone the Clinton Foundation. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.600 It's just it's just something you do. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:10.920 Yeah. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.640 The Clintons seem to have perfected it because we watched 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.680 nonprofits just explode after the Clinton Global Initiative was done, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.560 and I think a lot of other politicians were emboldened 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.520 by that and kind of modeled theirs after what the 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.280 Clintons did. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:32.680 So this scandal, because you know, the Trump Justice Department 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.400 goes after Gavin Newsom, it looks like, you know what 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.240 it looks like. But you think there is plenty of 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.160 there there that this could this could turn out to 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.080 be a problem for Gavin wanting to run for president. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.680 Oh absolutely, I really do. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.120 It's just you know, so in addition to their their 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.960 weird non her Missus Newson's weird nonprofits. Remember the Newsom's 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.320 have these two homes that they did not purchase but 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:59.720 were eventually gifted to that. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.160 We all live that way, right, We all have homes 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.240 given to us, several homes. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.640 That's that's a normal lifestyle. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:07.040 Yeah, exactly. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.120 And and the LLC that was created two separate LLCs, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.120 but they just were formed the day before the homes 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.000 closed the home they live in now in Marina is 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.719 a nine million dollar home. The one they still have 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:24.120 in Sacramento is three point eight million dollars, and they 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.440 didn't buy either one of them. So there's a lot 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:31.720 of weirdness around the Newsome's lifestyle, including remember during COVID, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.520 I reported that they were caught taking a trip to 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.560 Cabo San Lucas. Okay, whatever, it sounds like, no big deal, 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.920 except that they stayed in a twenty six thousand dollars 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.280 a night dhaka. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.480 Twenty six thousand dollars a night, yes. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.400 Owned by some Russian oligarch that was clearly gifted to them. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.200 Well you don't, you don't do that for nothing in return? 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.800 Exactly, God, that's a what that's now, that's luxurious. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.760 I can't even imagine what that looks like. And then 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:03.560 I think it was. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.960 A California Post had the story last week of the 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.479 timing of so many of these appointments where somebody would 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.760 give a bunch of money to new some one of 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.800 their nonprofits and then two days later they'd get named 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.000 the blah blah blah blah blah blah. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.040 Always Yeah, there's a lot of quid pro quo going 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.160 around and I'm sure all of it's being looked at, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.440 not just Missus Newsom's nonprofits. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.880 I am. I don't know if cynical's a right word, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.560 might be. I feel like this happens so often and 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:33.960 nothing ever comes of it. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.360 I just. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.720 My expectations for the people get away with this sort 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.360 of crap over and over again. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:43.840 Yeah. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.720 I know the frustration because I write a lot about it, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.760 my research a lot about it, and we rarely see 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.800 anything happen. I think though, that there's so much of 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.920 this garbage going on in California. I mean, the Somali 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.600 fraud up in in Menta is one thing, but boy, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.240 when that was discovered, those of us in California who 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.680 are aware of fraud, Oh yeah, hold my beer. Watch 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:08.920 what California does. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.000 That is a great tease, Katie Grimes, because this is 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.320 what I want to do on to take a break 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.400 and come back and get into your story about the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.800 undercover LA raid that exposed California's multi million dollar welfare fraud, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.360 tons of money being stolen. God, the fact that Mayor 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.760 Mamdani the other day put out that video he said 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.760 children go hungry in America while Elon Musk's hunger only 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:34.800 grows for more. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:35.440 Power and money. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.080 When you see all this money that's being stolen in 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.640 the Snap food programs, unbelievable. Katie Grimes will explain it 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.520 all to us coming up, Stay tuned. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:46.199 Hey Eddie. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:52.360 Again. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:53.319 Mayor Mandani. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.240 His response to Trump for fourth of July was this 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.400 video he put out. We need to talk more about later. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.200 He meant, all the kids going to bed hungry in 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.800 this country, how awful it is. We have a trillionaire 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.480 when kids are going to bed hungry. If your kid 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.520 is going to bed hungry, you are not good at 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.160 figuring out where the food is. Because, for instance, in California, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.760 the Snap food program the largest in the country, twelve 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.960 point five billion dollars. Twelve point five billion dollars the 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.480 Snap food program for one state. Anyway, there's a lot 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.640 of fraud going on. There was a raid Thursday, July third, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.839 so the day before the fourth of July got lost 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.320 in the news flow. That's why we have Katie Grimes 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.640 on today to tell us about it. Katie, what happened show? 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.720 This was a kind of multi agency raid. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.200 It was the US Department of Agriculture was involved, Homeland 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:52.760 Security was involved, LAPD was involved, and Assistant US Attorney 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.079 Bill Is Saley from the Central District in LA was involved. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.280 And what was going on. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.760 So they did this big raid at a Snap. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:08.400 Food stamp benefits store in skid Row in LA. And 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.240 as we know, this is you know, the Trump administration 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.600 said they were going to crack down on fraud in general, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:21.240 but you know, especially federally funded programs that are experiencing 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.240 we'll say a lot of fraud like this, and welfare 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.680 fraud is one of the worst. As you said, we 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:31.440 have twelve point five billion dollars in our SNAP, which 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.960 is food stamps program in California. Eleven percent of the 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.120 program's payments are fraudulent. They're issued in error, meaning there's 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.360 either duplicates or they're people from out of state or 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.160 out of the country. I mean, eleven percent fraud out 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.559 of twelve point five billion is an awful lot of money. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:52.319 Yeah. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.520 So, and this was just one of six raids on 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.920 July third. So what happened was and the California Post 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:05.440 exclusively reported this. They did an incredible job. Six stores 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.320 were charged with selling Snap food stamp benefits in exchange 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.079 for cash, while they say another twenty seven stores were 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.479 charged with exchanging snap benefits for all kinds of prohibitive 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:21.120 ideas meeting you know, alcohol, beer, vaping devices, et cetera. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.680 Part of the reason I thought that this was so 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.000 interesting as well. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.880 As progress, is that. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.160 Our California budget, one third of it is made up 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.000 of federal funding. And I say, this is why Gavin 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.040 Newsom is losing his mind over federal funding cuts and 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.480 why he and our Attorney General Robanta continues suing the 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.800 Trump administration. It's over these a lot of these funding cuts. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.840 But what's even more interesting is almost four and five 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.360 federal dollars dollars that flow through our budget currently right 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:01.440 now support health and human serve. So it's all this 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.560 low income food stamp welfare, you know, the multi layers 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.679 of programs, and those are the ones that the Trump 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.640 administration is looking at for fraud. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.559 And you mentioned Doge earlier. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.719 Remember when Elon Musk and his Dose team had been 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.040 at it for a few months, he came out and 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.840 said he thinks that half of the federal budget was fraud. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.440 And if we could just uncover and expose and get 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.960 rid of all the frauds, that Americans wouldn't have to 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.120 pay income taxes. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:35.800 Right, that tells you how bad it is. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:45.079 Right, it's depressing. It is just depressing. Again, my belief 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:50.800 that will make much headway in eliminating this fraud is 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:56.000 not very high, which maybe I'm too cynical, but like 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.840 you said, we saw what happened in Minnesota. In California 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:03.120 was like hold food stamps and went even bigger. So 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.640 the reason people want to exchange their Snap stuff for 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.880 cash is so that you can buy because you're not 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.160 supposed to be able to buy cigarettes and pop and 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.599 vape pens and everything else with Snap benefits. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.560 Exactly exactly. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.880 We did a story in June on a federal report 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.319 that was issued by the US Department of Health and 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:30.040 Human Services, and it revealed this is stunning, California receives 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.760 eighty percent of all of the federal funding for illegal 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.160 immigrant families, which is also part of this welfare money 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.040 in the entire country. Yeah, so in the entire country, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.400 California gets eighty percent of it. So naturally the federal 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.240 government is looking at California and number one, why we're 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.240 getting so much and it shouldn't be going to illegal immigrants, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.840 but it does. And you know how much of that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:55.400 is fraud. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:00.000 In addition, so those of you who are listening across 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.200 cost the country don't live in California, you have a 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.240 reason to care about. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.640 This other states, other people who live. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.200 In other states, because you know, we live in California 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:10.880 and in theory vote for this crap. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.600 I don't vote for it, but enough people do. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.880 But the federal dollars those who live in other responsible states, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.600 you should be very angry at California for wasting your money. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:26.400 Yeah, I totally agree, and especially when you hear Gavin Newsom, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.920 you know, boasting that California sends more to the federal 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.040 government than it takes. All of these numbers that I 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.080 just shared with you prove that that's total bs. We're 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.040 taking a lot more than we're creating. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.480 I wish I had the time to do this because 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.640 I was really angry about Mamdani's speech the other day 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.920 where he had that line about kids go to bed 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.200 hungry in this country, while Elon Musk only hungers for 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.440 more money in power. There are so many different programs 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.560 at every level of your city, county, and state and 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.480 federal money. Then you're just not trying very hard to 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.360 get food for your kids. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.480 Yeah, I agree, And for the politicians that continually shriek 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.280 about our children are going to bed hungry. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.840 If you've walked. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.520 By a California elementary school anytime recently, I. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.880 Noticed that the majority of the kids are overweight. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is something. Well, keep uncovering the fraud. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.480 I mean, at least we can scream about it. I don't, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.360 like I said, I'm not optimistic that anything good will happen, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.840 but that is absolutely amazing. Eleven percent of twelve plus 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.160 billion dollars we know is wasted, and it could be 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:42.640 more than that. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.360 Yeah, it's it's disheartening, definitely, but yes, I will definitely. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:48.520 Stay on this. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.080 Thank you, Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:56.440 California Globe, appreciate your time today. Those stories are just 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.720 so dang maddening and explains how you can walk by 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.880 somebody on the street who looks down and out, but 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.960 they got an iPhone and they they're they're getting by, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.080 they're doing all right. We've got so many different programs 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.160 with so much money sloshing around, and then you can 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:18.360 trade in your your government card or whatever you have, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.160 so you can buy booze and cigarettes and vake pens 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.000 and whatever the heck you want to buy. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.640 It's just so depressing. You get up and go to 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.480 work every day to try to earn money. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.880 You have to give over way too much the government, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:37.680 and then it gets wasted on this crap. Children going 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.440 to bed hungry at night while Elon musk on lay 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.200 hungers for more power and money. You freaking socialists in 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.080 your line of crap. I got more on that coming 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.920 up a little bit later. I will get too. Drives 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.960 me nuts. We're ar with Iran again. I don't know 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.040 if you're following the news. In the last twenty four hours, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.640 Trump said the m ou the ceasefire, that whole thing 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:01.360 is over. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:02.520 We'll play that for you. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.600 That all happened while you were asleep last night, and 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.159 that's a pretty big deal if the war is back on. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.240 We talked to Mike Liines about that earlier. I'll summarize 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.320 a little a little bit of that when we come 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.679 back next. Trump is meeting with NATO right now, and 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.280 there's been news made since we went on the air today. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.080 We'll have the very latest if you miss it. Gets 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.879 the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.600 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.560 I've just spilled coffee all over, including all over my 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.880 iPhone and trying to clean that off. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:33.480 And it's a mess. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:38.320 But luckily, because I took my workplace violence training just yesterday, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.159 I am not going to overreact and punch anybody or 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.600 break anything because of the workplace violence training. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.879 I'll have to talk about that later. Lawyers run the world. Man. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.239 You realize all that training you take at work, all 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.840 of it is just so that they can say, well, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.240 we told them not to sexually harass anybody, or punch 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.000 anybody or steal anything. It's all lawyer thing. They don't 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.600 expect it to actually work her. And it's so such 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.320 a waste of time and so on. How many gazillions 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:14.240 of dollars of US worker productivity is wasted on workplace training? God, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.720 and I know it's worse than the government. I have 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.240 a friend who works in the government and they're doing 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.760 it constantly, and they're longer and even more pointless than 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.919 the rest of us. AnyWho, I think I got all 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:29.040 the coffee cleaned off my phone, kind of. There's some 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.680 pretty big news being made in the last dozen hours 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.879 as we're bombing Iran again. Trump is a Overdare in 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:44.639 Europe meeting with the NATO leaders, Iran was firing on 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.639 ships in the straight of horror moves. Right, So we 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.879 got this MoU the Memorandum of understanding, and the deal 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:55.359 was supposed to be we end our blockade, Iran lets 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:56.280 the ships through. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:57.960 I thought this was a terrible deal. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.639 We allow Ran to make tons of money selling oil again, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.399 and then later we'll sit down and have our discussions 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:08.640 about nuclear weapons. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.280 Well, guess what. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.520 The later nuclear weapons discussion, according to Wall Street Journal today, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:20.080 never happened. They've made zero progress on the nuclear weapons stuff. 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.520 I don't know why Iran started firing on ships in 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:24.360 the straight of horror moves. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.320 They got a good deal going. That shows you. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.960 That actually shows you maybe that's why Trump is so frustrated. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.840 It actually shows you how crazy they are. They got 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.000 a good deal for them. They were making money again 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.400 off the oil. They're dragging their feet on the nuclear 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.679 stuff so they can continue to try to get a 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.520 nuclear weapon. And the longer it goes on the closer 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.239 we get through the midterm elections, the less likely it 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.280 is the war starts back up. I don't know why 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.480 they would fire on these ships. I think it's because 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:56.000 they're actually as Trump once called them, crazy mfforts. I 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.639 think they actually are. But so they were firing on chips. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.159 We bombed the heck out of a ran yesterday. Trump 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.760 was asked today by reporters, where are we on the whole? 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.400 MoU this is how it went. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:11.040 To see fire over? 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.320 If the seat fire done, is the emo you dead? 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:20.120 It's a very interesting question to me. I think it's over. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.800 I don't want to deal with him with the scum. 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.800 You know what scum is. There's gum, there's sick people. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.639 They're lit by sick people, and they're vicious, violent people, 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.640 and if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.359 As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.800 our negotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people, Steve Woodcuff, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.520 Jared Kushier, but they have to come back to me. 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.040 As far as I'm concerned, it's just a. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.400 Waste of time dealing with them. They're liars. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.760 We make a deal, and if I make a deal 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.360 with him, we have a deal, and he goes out, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.879 he talks, we make a deal, everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.680 We make a deal, they go outside talk to the 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.640 press say we never even talked about it. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.920 There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. So as I'm concerned, 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:07.600 it's over. 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:09.960 Well, he's right about that. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.320 The only interesting part to me is why it took 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:20.919 him till now to figure this out. Similar with Vladimir Putin, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.080 and we got some stuff he said about Ukraine and 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:27.480 that war. But why it's taking him so long to 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:32.800 catch on that the Islamo fascists in Iran or the 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:39.040 ego megalomaniac dictator of Russia aren't like dealing with business 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.359 people in the United States. I don't know why it's 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.199 so hard for him to catch out to He's just 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:48.920 assuming everybody does what's in their best financial interest, because 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.080 that's the way most business people are, like almost all 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.560 of them, especially in the United States. But that ain't 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.879 the way it is with the Iranian Republican Guard or 0:21:55.920 --> 0:22:00.240 whatever they're called. They're crazy people. We hit him pretty 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.920