WEBVTT - Ali Velshi & Dave Weigel 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.160 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.920 today's best minds and a few research centers. Study found 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.600 a fifty three percent of you as adults rated America's. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.960 Morals and ethics as bad. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.239 We have situhow for you today ms Now's own Ali Bell. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.000 She stops by to talk about Epstein and the economy 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.320 and the third Golf War. Then we'll talk to Semaphore's 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.920 Dave Weigel about the mid term battles he's watching. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.000 But first the news. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.559 All right, Bali, we did not get to tape yesterday, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.880 so we did not get to discuss that Christine Nobles out. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.560 Mark Wayne Mullin is in. I like to think of 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.400 him as the senator from Idiocracy because he talks like that. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.440 Mark Wwayne Mullin, do. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.720 You share my sentiment that Trump probably hired him because 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.720 he's the most belligerent responder to any reporter at any pushback. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.720 Yes, yeah, I think Mark Wayne had been like on 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:04.080 a tour or on an audition tour. Remember, Trump's hiring 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.280 tends to reflect who he thinks will be good on television, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.000 so this makes a lot of sense that Mark Wayne 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.319 would catch his eye. Mark Wayne has been like every 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.880 camera he's seen, he's ran to look. Mark Wayne is 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.679 an interesting guy because he is quite stupid, and he 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.399 speaks in a very you know, it's not entirely clear 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.039 what he's talking about a lot of time. He is, however, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.640 a US senator, which makes me wonder, like I do 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.920 wonder why. You know, Mark Wayne is from a very 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.000 red state, and I don't totally understand why you take 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.240 this job, Like you know, I mean, there's not going 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.800 to be a third Trump administration. There's no way Christy 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.640 Nome is going to be the last cabinet member to 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.840 be fired. She's likely the first. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.400 Let's also remember he's one of the senators who's most 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.400 enriched himself with stocks too, so he's giving that up shockingly, right, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:01:59.000 I know. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.520 To just enrich himself from working in the admin, which 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.880 I think he'll probably do too. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.480 It seems like Christy did exactly. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.160 I want to talk about Christy Nomes's hearings, one in 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.720 the Senate, one in the House. In the Senate, there 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.520 were a couple moments that I think really or clearly 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.960 the reporting says sealed her fate. One was the Louisiana 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.639 Senator John Kennedy who asked her why she had spent 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.440 two hundred and twenty million dollars on advertisements with her 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.960 face on them, and she said Trump signed off on it, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.400 and then Trump said he didn't sign off on it, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.640 leading us to like one of these weird moments in 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.800 Trump's second term where it is as likely that he 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.239 is lying that she is lying discuss. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.360 Yeah, that's the right hypothesis, but like, you can't believe 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.680 like this amount of advertising for something like this, and 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.239 it's why we see her everywhere in the freaking airports, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.280 everywhere you can look. That's even aside from the fact 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.920 that it seems like a lot of this fucking graft 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.360 that never happened, none of it when anywhere, and we 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.160 still see her fucking face everywhere. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.639 Yeah, every time you go on a TSA line, there 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.679 she is with the cowboy hat. But I do think 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.160 it's pretty interesting that, like we have more and more 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.800 moments in Trump two point zero where you absolutely have 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.160 no idea who's lying, because there's as much a likelihood 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.120 that Donald Trump said it's okay that she ran it 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.160 by him, right. But what I thought was really interesting 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.400 about those hearings, and I want to talk about it 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.440 for a minute. And I actually talked to some members 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.800 of Congress about this because I was curious what. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:33.480 The reasoning was. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.320 They kept asking, Uh, there was a California congresswoman and 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.280 then Jared Moskowitz this is the next day, and in 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:46.200 the Congress there was this this California congresswoman said are 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:51.040 you having sexual relationships with Corey Lewandowski? And it was interesting. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.920 She said, oh, this is tabloid gossip and. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.880 Muttered it up slut shaving. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.640 Yeah, but you know what, she didn't say. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:03:59.600 That she's not doing it. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.920 And then Jared Mosfoot's friend of the pod asked her 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.640 again later on and said, here's an opportunity for you 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.640 to set the record straight. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.200 And again yeah. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.200 Shot back, no denial, just said he's slutshaving her and 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:15.960 it's nuts. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.560 But here's an interesting thing. So she is refusing to 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.240 perjure herself on this, yep. And it's interesting to me 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.800 because like there are clearly people in this administration who 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.440 perjure themselves all the time. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.839 Right, we're about to see Pam Bondi held accountable for 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.360 instancee they're bringing her back to the standard girl eying about. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.200 Her exactly, So it's just interesting to me. And then 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.960 also another interesting thing was and what we should have 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.320 seen where it was really out of control was on Thursday, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.839 she had her husband sitting behind her and then she 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.480 said he need to catch a flight, so he missed 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.720 when the congress woman asked her if she was having 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.960 sexual relationships with Coreyla Nandawski, I'm sure that Christy Nolmes 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.080 husband is glad he wasn't there for that. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.839 Well, it turns out Corey's very good at buying ads 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.200 inside Trump media organizations for her. But yes, we have 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.280 other fish to fry. Molly, he's not going. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.080 To stay for the Marcoyne at dude is shockingly he's out. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.159 Just now they said he's out yet, So Bai, we 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.279 got to talk about a fellow named Congressman Tony Gonzalez 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.160 who we've been talking about a bud share for those 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.239 who aren't up to speed. He was texting a staffer 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.080 wooed things at one in the morning, making sexual advances 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.880 to her that she lit herself on fire. Now fast 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.919 forward to that he has dropped out and this leaves 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.760 one Brandon Herreraz, the nominee in this district, who brags 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.800 about having a really good copy of mind cuff, goose 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.719 steps and videos to white power songs, all sorts of 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.960 just unhinged white power Nazi stuff. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.280 First, let's talk about Gonzales because this is really important. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.200 The entire Gonzales staff basically had a mutiny, at least 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.479 in that district office where the woman killed herself. You 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.440 had other staffers talking about how he wouldn't show up 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:04.080 at the office and how she had shown her coworkers 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.160 the texts. The texts were really seemed as if they 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.680 were really bordering on sexual harassment. So they may have 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.159 had an affair, but then it did certainly seem as 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.520 if there was a lot of one sided stuff there. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.279 She did light herself on fire, which is pretty awful, 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.880 and he did try and spin this as like he 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.000 went on a conservative podcast. He said that his wife 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.520 and God had forgiven him. I think that this is 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.279 a really I think it's it's worth talking about this 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.080 for a second because there are a bunch of MAGA 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.160 members of Congress who are women, and that's MTG. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:46.679 Is out now. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.960 But Nancy Mace, Lauren Boepert, who said that they would 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:57.600 start ethics investigations on Gonzales if he did not resign 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.880 now again or he did not drop out from running again. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.160 I think that what's interesting here is, look, Mike Johnson, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.760 who is supposedly super Christian and super religious and cares 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.000 about the family, will not tell Tony Gonzalez to drop out. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.240 That's because Republicans have a one seat majority and Mike 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.200 Johnson still wants to be the Speaker of the House. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.000 But he can't say that because he's just such a hypocrite. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.080 So he's sort of saying, well, it's up to him. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.920 And you know, it's really watching Mike Johnson defend Trump. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.880 It is at real everything Trump touches die stuff. But 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.280 also these women have decided some of these maga women 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.320 are so sort of mad, Mike Johnson. You'll remember that 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.400 Annie Carney reporting from earlier this year. They're mad like 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.480 they're not on they're not heads of committees. These women 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.280 have really been sort of sidelined. We're seeing Staphonic is 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.640 not running again. A lot of women are trying to 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.960 get out of the House. You know, there's only so 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.920 much sexism and misogyny you can practice on the women 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.840 in your party before they start to push back. And 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.360 so as much as this Gonzales story is a terrible story, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.360 it also shows a little bit that the women of 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.120 the House Maga Caucus are actually sort. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:12.640 Of pushing back. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.280 Which we shouldn't congratulate them for it by any stretch 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.200 of the imagination, but I do think it's noteworthy. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.680 I think it's another thing where we keep seeing that 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.840 the actions of this party's of morality keep shipping away 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.240 at its core and falling off some people. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.520 Yeah, but it's also like they thought they could take 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.320 the women back to the nineteen fifties, but actually, like 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.920 some of that is just to die, is so cast 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.800 there's nothing you can do hard agree. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.920 I want to take us back to when Jimmy Carter 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.199 supposedly ruined his presidency with the Debbie Downer speech. How 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.400 do you think that compares to when Trump is asked 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.280 if Americans should worry about I read retaliating on US soil? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.559 He said, I guess, like I said, some people will die. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.480 You know, for you and I who came of age 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.480 during the Gulf War two and also GO four one, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.320 I mean I lived through nine to eleven, and there's 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:09.720 something so incredibly disturbing about a president who's basically like, 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.360 you know, if it happens again, it happens again. We 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.000 should be so focused on preventing this kind of thing. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.920 It's kind of disturbing to have a president who just 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.240 seems as if he's kind of agnostic to the possible 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.120 killing of Americans. You know, I like what he says. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.320 By the way, I'm not convinced the quote is better. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.960 We're six days into this war. You know, Donald Trump 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.680 has spent six billion dollars because the war costs more 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.240 than a billion dollars a day, somewhere between one and two. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.000 Trump responds, So he's talking to everybody in the world 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.760 because he's trying to sell the war now that he's 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.800 already in it. A lot of people would have tried 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.440 to sell the war before. But okay, he said, I guess, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.600 but I think they're worried about that all the time. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.560 We think about it all the time. We planned for it, 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.959 but you know, we expect some things. The longer quote 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.720 is even worse. Like I said, some people will die. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.120 President added, when you go to war, some people will die. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.360 You know, who's not serving in this war, anyone with 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.760 their last name Trump or vance yep I mean, just 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:18.920 to watch them completely stop pretending at all to be 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.320 for anything but the worst possible stuff is amazing. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.560 Some lastly, Molly, the Trump administration says, it's just doesn't 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.000 have the time to get to these terra free funds 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.240 for US pleabs. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:32.040 Yeah. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.760 I want to point out the Supreme Court said no more, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.480 you can't do the tariffs. They are illegal, and so 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.080 they're supposed to issue refunds. And we have all these 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.479 big companies that are now suing the Admin for refunds, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.839 and Trump is like, sorry, we can't comply with the 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.800 order to start terraf refunds. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.719 Why not? Why not? Here's my question, why the fuck not? 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.920 Where there's no will, there's no way. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.839 A key tension in the refunds saw guys emerged. It 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.480 should not be a saga. The court wants to move 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.560 fast and get refunds out the door, but the government 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.200 Donald Trump, They're going to send you the check, but 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:16.960 they're not going to sign it. We have exciting news 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.840 over at our YouTube channel. 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Republicans 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.760 were prepared for when they got the levers of power. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.680 Democrats need to be too. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.120 So please head over to YouTube and search Molly John 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.760 Fast Project twenty twenty nine or go to the Fast 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.440 Politics YouTube channel page and you'll find it there. Help 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.679 us spread the word. Ali Belchi has an anchor from US. Now. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.600 Welcome, Welcome, Ali Beauchi. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.439 This is fun. Got to be with you here. I 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.280 don't really have you on my show this. I've got 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.320 to be in the receiving end. If I've done anything 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.000 wrong to you, You're going to fix that right. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.200 Now, certainly not. 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.600 You know, I'm a fan of yours, and actually this 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.520 is the moment. You know, there are so many things 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.600 that you and I are both interested in that are 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.960 happening at this very moment, and I think we have 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.720 to I think we should start with the Epstein files 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:58.720 being back. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:12:59.680 This is Trump. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.280 I'm sure you saw this, but this Trump news that 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.600 Trump had put I mean, this is just senior Department. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.120 Justice Department publishes documents with sexual allegations against Trump. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.040 They're back, yes, yeah. And here's the thing I think 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.800 about this, Admitisi's Trump administration from the Department of Justice 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.440 on is all about loyalists, right, Like people have to 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.319 be reminded. Pam Bondy was Donald Trump's lawyer. Todd Blanch 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.400 was Donald Trump's layer. And the thing people need to 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.360 think about is that when you're somebody's lawyer, your legal 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.800 obligation to them and to your attorney client privilege never ends. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.600 If they stop being your lawyer, they're still they cannot 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.880 tell the public things that you've discussed with them. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:44.480 Number one. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.199 Number two, this is why you don't have your lawyers 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.000 do this stuff, because this will all come out one day. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.880 It may not come out during the Trump administration. It 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.199 may come out after the midterm elections when the Trump 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.959 administration realizes they're in real trouble. It may come out 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.720 when Todd blanch and Pam BONDI realized that they do 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.840 not have the protections against prosecution for lying under oath 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.320 that Donald Trump has. But it will come out one day. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.680 There will be a real administration, a real Department of 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.000 Justice that will get to the bottom of this, and 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.520 they'll get all the documents and they will actually speak 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.720 to the actual witnesses and the truth will come out. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.520 My concern, Molly is that as I cover this war 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.320 in Iran, I'm thinking to myself, is this the Epstein War? 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:26.760 Like? 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.440 Is all that happens now a way to get you 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.880 to stop talking about Epstein on a daily basis? 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.640 And you know, this is my theory of the case. Right, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.200 It's a war without a cause. It's sort of wag 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.400 the dog, except. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:40.960 It's a real place. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.280 If you actually had a cause, you could say, well, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.120 we needed to actually have this war with Iran. We're 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.080 that we're doing it now timing wise, But no one's 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.960 made the case. No one has actually made the case. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.920 And on Saturday night, the first bodies will be brought 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.760 back from Iran, the first American bodies, six bodies, I 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.600 think five will be brought four or five will be 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.760 brought back On Saturday night, and that's where it's going 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.320 to start to hit home. I think we become numb 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.560 to this with all the death in Afghanistan and in Iraq. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.840 But the fact is you're now going to see that 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.920 people are dying for you not really being able to 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.200 articulate a reasons for this war. And I remind people 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.520 it's not that long ago this administration led about stuff. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:19.680 Right. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.080 They said that Venezuela was about drugs, of that's all. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:23.360 They said. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.640 It was about pentanyl. There's no pedanel that comes from Venezuela. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.960 Then they just generally said about drugs. But the boats 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.320 that they were bobbing were headed not to America and 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.400 couldn't get to America anyway. And then within an hour 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.760 of that thing, Donald Trump comes on and says it's 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.560 about the oil. Right, So they lied to us. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.280 Then I don't know what the story is. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.400 This oil is just something else. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:42.480 What is this war about? 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.920 You're not supposed to say this, but Marco Rubio did 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.080 say it was because of Israel. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.520 Which is too. Also weird are we renting. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.600 Out our army now to our military whoever wants it? 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.400 And it's an insane thing to say. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.480 I mean, even if it's true, so much of American 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.640 life is built around the idea that it's not true. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.960 But that was a shocking moment to me. 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.600 And then he walked it back, and then he got 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.640 mad at the journalist who asked the question, because ultimately 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.600 their enemy is not themselves, and they're shifting up explanations 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.560 for things, but instead the media that reminds them of it. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.800 And one thing that was very notable that flew under 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.840 the radar this week is that like Trump, Netta, who's 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.280 got legal trouble and continuing to be the Prime Minister 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.120 of Israel, like Trump, is his best inoculation about against 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.360 getting into any sort of trouble. He's supposed to have 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.360 an election this year, it hasn't been called yet, which 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.760 is a little bit weird. And wars generally get people 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.800 to rally around the flag. But there has been some 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.960 pressure on the Israeli president Hertsog to harden Netaniaho and 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.720 he won't do it. So Trump threatened Hertzog with some 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.600 sort of personal sanctions on him for not part of 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.760 I mean talking. This is what a weird story. Donald 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.600 Trump's involved in internal Israeli politics now to protect Neataniel 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.600 like the world's upside. 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.640 Down, right, And I want to get to your idea 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.680 of rallying around the flag because I think it's important 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.560 to realize that this war is a war. I mean, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.240 I don't know what it's a warrior, yeah, and it's 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.840 dragging in different you know, the Emirates are now involved 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.720 the UAE. I think it's very hard to keep this contained. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.840 Is as unpopular as anything has ever been. You know, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.480 I don't know who said this first, but Rick Wilson 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.920 always says it to me, which is, your war will 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.240 never be more popular than it is on day one 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:27.040 hundred percent. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.840 Think about Afghanistan. That was a real rally around the flag. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.280 Someone had attacked America and so America was attacking someone else. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.200 And if people signed. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.120 Up who weren't going to be in the military, people died, 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.320 and they still thought it was a cause worth fighting. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.720 Then he get I rack a little less clear, but 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.280 the Bush administration made some effort to legally do what 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:47.879 it needed to do and sell it to Congress and 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:48.680 sell it to the UN. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:49.159 Right they went. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.000 He went to the UN two times to sell this war. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.200 Then he got this, and it's not popular to start 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.760 with I was doing some looking at some polling the 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.680 other night. It was about about fifty nine percent of Americans. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.240 I think that Donald Trump should have gotten authorizations from 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.120 Congress if he wanted to have a war, which maybe 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:05.680 it would have gotten. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.399 Maybe he wouldn't have sixty forty issues. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.879 Right, And remember thirty five is Donald Trump's floor. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:12.200 Right. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.520 We can literally set fire to people and they will 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.640 still thirty five percent of the population will still support him. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.359 So very few people support this to start with. There's 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.760 no rallying round the flag because nobody understands why we're 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.240 doing this war. And they don't get more popular as 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.840 body bags come home and costs mount, and it's not 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.199 just your gas prices oils up fifteen percent, so your 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.880 gas prices will be up fifteen percent. Unlike tariff sware 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.520 company might say I'm going to save my customers from 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.199 this because they might go away. I might pass it on, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.119 I might not pass it on. There's confusion about that. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.640 There's no confusion about gas prices ever, boil those up. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:46.919 Gas prices go up. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.760 End of story. And then there's a third thing. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.840 Afghanistan and I Rock cost us different estimates between four 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.320 and eight trillion dollars, which is a very big part 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.640 of our national debt now because it keeps mounting because 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.399 of interest. Right, so we're still paying the ice for 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.800 those two wars that maybe some people understood and maybe 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:04.720 some people supported. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.040 Nobody supports this one. 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.960 And it's between one and two billion dollars a day 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.280 so far that it's costing us. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:11.240 Yeah that I was. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.520 Going to say at least a billion dollars a day. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.320 So we're six days in or really and then the 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.600 straits of Hermuth, which hadn't been now is blocked. That's 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.880 twenty to twenty five percent of worldwide. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:26.359 Oil and gas. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.600 Yeah, So there's a theory of the case that said, 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.560 because we now know that Venezuela was about oil, if 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.360 you Venezuela's got more oil reserves than anyone in the world, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.880 including Saudi Arabia. So if you can bring Venezuela into 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.960 America's orbit. Remember, this was not about the people of 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.080 Venezuela or democracy or anything else that was. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.080 Actually see rodrigaz in there, correct. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.280 So we'd have a puppet government in Venezuela, which is 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.160 kind of annoying to the Venezuela and diaspora who actually won. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.920 These guys ousted, so they are fault for having any 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.320 faith in this administration. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.960 Yes, so now you have in theory, you've got access 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.520 to Venezuelan oil. So in theory, Iran blocking a fifth 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.320 of the world's oil from getting through the straight of 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.040 Horror moves is offset. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:10.479