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Speaker 1: thing kind of shows what Epstein was all about. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to play a few more
Speaker 1: highlights again from the State of the Union address, the
Speaker 1: two greatest things being introduced in the hockey team. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got no significance really politically, but it was an
Speaker 1: awesome moment. I thought it was really really cool. What
Speaker 1: did have political significance was saying, hey, stand if you
Speaker 1: think American citizens are more important than illegals and all
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Speaker 1: coming up a little bit. So Bill Gates still one
Speaker 1: of the richest people in the world. You know, he
Speaker 1: was the richest man in the world for a very
Speaker 1: very long time back when he was dealing with Epstein.
Speaker 1: He was the richest man in the world. Microsoft founder.
Speaker 1: He gave a speech to his foundation, which now he's
Speaker 1: all about philanthropy.
Speaker 2: At this point in his life.
Speaker 1: But he gave a speech to his foundation yesterday admitting
Speaker 1: to a couple of affairs that he had piled around
Speaker 1: with Ebstein somewhat, but that he never did anything illicit
Speaker 1: and never saw anything illicit. So I guess he just
Speaker 1: wanted to say, hey, I cheated on my wife. But
Speaker 1: I'm not a criminal or a pervo. I guess that's
Speaker 1: and so don't don't leave our foundation, don't stop donating
Speaker 1: it to it whatever.
Speaker 2: I guess that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to come clean with my entire relationship
Speaker 4: with Epstein, what it included, what it did, and I
Speaker 4: think it's probably a good maneuver. He admitted he had
Speaker 4: two affairs with Russian well, and he's already his wife
Speaker 4: already left him, So you know what's winning, what damage
Speaker 4: you can do at this point, he admitted he had
Speaker 4: two affairs with Russian women while married to his now
Speaker 4: ex wife Melinda. Gates issued a groveling apology, says The
Speaker 4: New York Post, for his links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: Gates is seventy now.
Speaker 1: He told staffers at the foundation yesterday that he flew
Speaker 1: on the plane with Epstein, spent time with him in
Speaker 1: the United States and abroad, but didn't participate in any crime.
Speaker 1: I did nothing illicit, I saw nothing illicted. To be clear,
Speaker 1: I've never spent any time with the victims the women
Speaker 1: around him. Gates first met Epstein first met him in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, which was after Epstein had been convicted for
Speaker 1: procuring a child for prostitution. Yeah, so you meet this
Speaker 1: guy after he's a convicted force a child into prostitution.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: God, I would think you'd have handlers or whatever that
Speaker 1: would vet these people, and you would think, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be associated with this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't want to steal your thunder or anything. Gates
Speaker 4: talks about the incredible connections Epstein had, you know, to
Speaker 4: billionaires who could help with the philanthropy. But that's a
Speaker 4: big overlook.
Speaker 1: Gates has always denied doing any any wrongdoing over his
Speaker 1: Epstein links.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1: He and his wife filed for divorce in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: indigate twenty seven year marriage. That's a long time to
Speaker 1: being married. I did have affairs, he said yesterday. One
Speaker 1: with a Russian bridge player who I met at bridge events,
Speaker 1: and one with a Russian new clear physicists who I
Speaker 1: met through business activities.
Speaker 2: Wow, I was.
Speaker 4: Picturing hot Russian twenty three year old fluzies.
Speaker 2: He wants to make it clear that they were cerebral. Well,
Speaker 2: they might.
Speaker 1: Have been cerebral, and I don't floozy. I don't know
Speaker 1: whatever that means. But I mean, I know what that means.
Speaker 1: But in this context, the bridge player I linked to
Speaker 1: a couple of different stories.
Speaker 2: Nobody's got an age on this woman.
Speaker 1: She was in her twenties, and it looks like from
Speaker 1: the pictures her early twenties, and.
Speaker 2: Gates was in his late fifties at the time.
Speaker 1: She looks like she's twenty two and he's in his
Speaker 1: late fifties, and she's a bridge player and they were
Speaker 1: hooking up.
Speaker 4: I ain't saying she's a gold digger, but she ain't
Speaker 4: playing bridge with no broke broke software executive.
Speaker 1: And probably the same with the nuclear physicist.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But here's the interesting part to me, Epstein had previously
Speaker 1: threatened Gates over the affair with the bridge player and
Speaker 1: use that as leverage. Oh my, so Epstein, Why was
Speaker 1: Epstein aware of these affairs? Most people try to keep
Speaker 1: their affairs really, really quiet. Why was Epstein aware of them?
Speaker 1: Did he have some role in running these women at Gates?
Speaker 4: Well, I think you're leaping to a conclusion that might
Speaker 4: be correct, but at the very least, your billionaire private
Speaker 4: plane buddies, he's a womanizer. You're banging a hot rush
Speaker 4: and it comes up, does it? Man?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I would think you'd keep that quiet.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Epstein met the bridge player girl, who was
Speaker 1: quite young but an adult, while seeking financial backers for
Speaker 1: a Bridge academy before he paid for her to attend
Speaker 1: software coding school. So Epstein met this woman and knew her.
Speaker 1: Then Gates meets her in twenty ten at a tournament
Speaker 1: they're playing in.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I Thinkstein put them together.
Speaker 1: That could be. That'd be my guess. Anyway, again, this
Speaker 1: is where it gets interesting. It gives you an idea
Speaker 1: of the way Epstein operated. In a July fourth, twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen email to this guy Nikolic, that's his last name.
Speaker 1: That's Gates, chief advisor for Science and Technology, Epstein sends
Speaker 1: an email to one of gatestops people and named two
Speaker 1: women that Gates was having an affair with and the pedophile.
Speaker 1: Epstein claimed the women risked. You know, this risk's becoming
Speaker 1: an overnight sensation. Bill risks going from richest man to
Speaker 1: biggest hypocrite. He says in the email, Melinda a laughingstock.
Speaker 1: Pledges will disappear as well, Epstein told so. Epstein just
Speaker 1: out of nowhere sends an email to one of Bill
Speaker 1: gates top people and say, yeah, he's having two affairs,
Speaker 1: and boy, wouldn't that be a shame. I'll bet this
Speaker 1: would be a really big story. And here's what would
Speaker 1: happen if everybody found out?
Speaker 4: Is there anything close to a threat because I have
Speaker 4: a different theory.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Just weeks later, Epstein sent a resignation email to himself
Speaker 1: in which he seemed to be writing as this Nicolick dude.
Speaker 1: During the past few weeks, I've been caught up in
Speaker 1: several in a severe meritable dispute between Melinda and Bill.
Speaker 1: So the email tried to suggest that Nikolick had assisted
Speaker 1: Gates in securing medication in order to deal with the
Speaker 1: consequences of sex with the Russian girls, which I assume
Speaker 1: would be some sort of medicine for a for a
Speaker 1: disease you picked up with your affairs. So Nicolk claims
Speaker 1: the emails were not written on his behalf or at
Speaker 1: his request. So Epstein wrote these emails he had to
Speaker 1: be either sent to the guy or was planning to
Speaker 1: send him to the guy and say I think this
Speaker 1: is what you should do.
Speaker 2: Had to be.
Speaker 1: Now what he was trying to get that is not known,
Speaker 1: but he was trying to get something.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a twist. So Epstein ghost throat resignation letters.
Speaker 4: Yeah for the second in command mentioning that the Russians
Speaker 4: and implying the clap.
Speaker 1: But it gives you an idea of what was going
Speaker 1: on in that world with all these people in the
Speaker 1: sex and the how out of nowhere it seems like
Speaker 1: Epstein could come to you and all of a sudden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is going to be really uncomfortable for you unless
Speaker 1: this happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever that this is, I have all sorts of
Speaker 4: theories about how that could have happened after a quick
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Speaker 1: To be fair to Bill Gates, he did say, I
Speaker 1: apologize to people who are drawn into this because of
Speaker 1: the mistake I made. It definitely is the opposite of
Speaker 1: the values of the foundation and the goals of the foundation.
Speaker 2: Are your goals or not to procure young women to know.
Speaker 1: Gates previously said he was foolish to spend any time
Speaker 1: with Epstein. I thought it would help me with global
Speaker 1: health philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that.
Speaker 2: It was just a huge mistake.
Speaker 4: What did Gates say that Epstein turned from the great
Speaker 4: doer of favors? Because that was his power, and that's
Speaker 4: been documented in a couple of different places.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it.
Speaker 4: He connected people, He did favors for people, They were
Speaker 4: obligated to him, they would do him a favor, et cetera.
Speaker 4: That was what it was all about with the rich
Speaker 4: and powerful. What made him switch from the great doer
Speaker 4: of favors to the don't you f with me? You
Speaker 4: have no idea how good I am? That was hinted
Speaker 4: at by that fake resignation.
Speaker 1: Lafe right, right, right right. I don't know, but so
Speaker 1: he could. He could go either way. So he wants
Speaker 1: to get you in a bad situation, and then it's
Speaker 1: either favors. You know, we can keep the bad situation quiet.
Speaker 1: You know, you do favors for me, I'll do favors
Speaker 1: for you and we'll have a great relationship. But if
Speaker 1: for some reason you're not willing to do a favor
Speaker 1: for me, or who knows what, I got this over you,
Speaker 1: and I'm willing to talk about it apparently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're overestimating how much a part of
Speaker 4: his act that was, but.
Speaker 2: It was plainly apart.
Speaker 1: What's that email he sends to Gates number one with
Speaker 1: the boy this is gonna be a sensational story going
Speaker 1: to the foundation.
Speaker 4: And all I'm saying is that he would probably very
Speaker 4: rarely play that card, because that would if he got
Speaker 4: a rep among all the rich and powerful who hung
Speaker 4: with him and all that, Oh, he'll turn on you
Speaker 4: like a jackal.
Speaker 2: It would have fallen apart.
Speaker 4: I say it was ninety five percent positive, and one
Speaker 4: out of twenty he'd have to, you know, maybe twist
Speaker 4: the normals.
Speaker 2: You know, some of it.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't need to say out loud. If you were
Speaker 1: getting together with underage women and Epstein knew about it,
Speaker 1: you don't need to send an email saying pointing that out.
Speaker 2: Or even twenty two year olds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're having a fair period.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Or you're a CEO of a company. You're not supposed
Speaker 4: to be banging twenty two year old Russians.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Card players, bridgeport really chess players, whatever bridge is. I
Speaker 4: don't really know what bridge is. A card game, Well,
Speaker 4: I know it's a card game, and I having the
Speaker 4: slightest idea how to play. I don't either. It's difficult.
Speaker 4: She partner gets mad at you if you play bad.
Speaker 2: She looked very young.
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Speaker 1: College kids are telling us Trump Stay the Union didn't
Speaker 1: go so well. The only problem it's tomorrow. Great Trump
Speaker 1: Stay the Union speech one out of ten. One's the worst,
Speaker 1: ten's the best. Negatives and why I think we all
Speaker 1: know a lot of What about the state of the
Speaker 1: Union last night?
Speaker 4: One in ten? It was like.
Speaker 2: The place and to give it a one?
Speaker 4: And why do you say one?
Speaker 2: I don't think he's very articulate. How did Trump do it?
Speaker 1: The Stay of the Union?
Speaker 4: Zero?
Speaker 2: I didn't really watch it much. I watched it a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and the punchline is George Washington University students.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as she said, I asked them the day before
Speaker 2: the speech. Everything's performative.
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable. Wow, everybody's got their role to play.
Speaker 2: That fits in with us.
Speaker 1: I was just reading something from James Lindsay, who we
Speaker 1: really like around here is one of your anti woke leaders,
Speaker 1: and he's talking about a couple of different times with
Speaker 1: the Democrats wouldn't stand up for people who are victims
Speaker 1: of crime or whatever. Anyway, James Lindsay wrote, I'm once
Speaker 1: again explaining to you that the friend enemy distinction in
Speaker 1: politics is poisoned. The Democrats refuse to stand because the
Speaker 1: enemy stands, and for them to stand would be to
Speaker 1: be seen standing with the enemy. It rots your soil,
Speaker 1: your soul, It destroys you from the inside. I would agree,
Speaker 1: just judge these things on an individual basis, without any.
Speaker 2: That's entirely tribal.
Speaker 1: You got someone there who's had died, and people are
Speaker 1: standing and saying, you know, we feel bad for you.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and join in on that. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: hurt anything.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 1: I wondered about a little bit. Gotta be delicate here
Speaker 1: because it's a child and it's a tragedy. But they
Speaker 1: Trump introduced this girl who was at that horrible situation
Speaker 1: with that camp in Texas where the flood came and
Speaker 1: swept away and drowned all those kids. And you had
Speaker 1: a girl who was rescued by a firefighter or whoever
Speaker 1: rescued her. I mean, that story is great, obviously, but
Speaker 1: you had the little girl there and she stands up
Speaker 1: and everybody's cheering and they fist bump. I thought that
Speaker 1: was kind of weird. I mean, to each their own,
Speaker 1: but that kid went through I can't even imagine the
Speaker 1: PTSD around that. All your friends drowned in front of you,
Speaker 1: and you nearly drowned and got pulled out of the
Speaker 1: water from the bottom by this guy, and now you're
Speaker 1: smiling and fist bumping at the State of the Union address.
Speaker 2: Just seems weird to me.
Speaker 4: And all the parents of the kids who did die
Speaker 4: or at home. That's extremely I didn't say that extremely UNCP.
Speaker 2: A full thing.
Speaker 1: You went through into kind of a happy fist bump
Speaker 1: smiling thing. You know, it's the kid gets to do
Speaker 1: a d D and whatever. But it just seemed ahdly
Speaker 1: placed to me.
Speaker 4: I would have said xnay on that one as a parent,
Speaker 4: a political person, right, you know, I might have saluted
Speaker 4: the absolutely wonder absolutely saluting the first responder perfectly makes sense.
Speaker 2: The girl being there just seemed I can't even imagine
Speaker 2: what that girl went through.
Speaker 1: Uh, we're gonna play another moment from the introducing the
Speaker 1: hockey team and everything like that, and everybody cheered that,
Speaker 1: almost everybody. There are a few people that didn't stand up,
Speaker 1: even for the hockey players.
Speaker 2: There's no helping you. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1: But the not standing for you prioritize Americans citizens over illegals.
Speaker 1: No Democrats stood for that. Of course, seventy some Democrats
Speaker 1: didn't show up at all, but none of the Democrats
Speaker 1: that were there stood for that. And I think that
Speaker 1: moment is going to have legs. So we got a
Speaker 1: lot more on the way. I hope you can stay here.
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Speaker 5: A short time ago, we were a dead country. Now
Speaker 5: we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: The hottest.
Speaker 4: Well, that's nightclub manager Hallim Benkowitz talking about his hot No,
Speaker 4: that's the president. You know.
Speaker 1: I read from the Wall Street Journal editorial board week
Speaker 1: before last on how there's a lot of great signs
Speaker 1: with the economy, and they pointed them all out, but
Speaker 1: with the whole you know, Mark Twain, lies, damn lies
Speaker 1: and statistics. Every president in my lifetime has painted a
Speaker 1: portrait of the economy being fantastic or bouncing back or
Speaker 1: roaring or whatever. So you can come up with them
Speaker 1: that make that point regardless. But yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: so he's got I mean, certainly the stock market numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't argue with those.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. On the other hand, the affordability issue is real. Emotionally,
Speaker 2: it feels very expensive out there.
Speaker 4: Well, inflation has a very long tail because prices don't
Speaker 4: come down generally, they stop rising maybe, but it's fairly
Speaker 4: rare that they come down, you know. On Moss as
Speaker 4: a whole, I feel like people talk too much about
Speaker 4: the price of bacon or eggs and not enough about
Speaker 4: car insurance.
Speaker 2: I mean, what the hell.
Speaker 4: Oh, speaking of the Journal, they had a great piece
Speaker 4: the other day about how wildly desperate people are in
Speaker 4: various parts of Calumun Accorney, in particular to get homeowners insurance.
Speaker 4: You can't even get anybody to write you a policy,
Speaker 4: and the States Ensure of Last Resort whatever it's called,
Speaker 4: some ridiculous name, is just completely drowning in unsustainable obligations.
Speaker 4: So anyway, yeah, that's a great one. Insurance and vehicle
Speaker 4: costs and repairs and all that stuff. Anyway, the President
Speaker 4: did talk a fair amount about economics, and yes, earlier
Speaker 4: in the show, we saluted the master stroke of the
Speaker 4: making the Democrats sit through a long round of applause
Speaker 4: for the idea of yeah, citizens get priority over illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: No they don't, No they don't. We're Democrats. We like
Speaker 2: illegals better. So that was great.
Speaker 4: But let's talk economics a little bit. Michael will start
Speaker 4: with a one twenty.
Speaker 5: All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these
Speaker 5: really important and very necessary massive tax cuts. They wanted
Speaker 5: large scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.
Speaker 2: But we held strong and with.
Speaker 5: The great, big, beautiful bill, we gave you no tax
Speaker 5: on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on
Speaker 5: social security.
Speaker 4: For our great scene, can we put the person in
Speaker 4: charge of audio in Levenworth?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 1: First of all, that's inexcusable being in the business we're in.
Speaker 2: Trust us.
Speaker 1: It's inexcusable that the microphone was cutting out the way
Speaker 1: it was. Seventy Democrats didn't show up. What are we
Speaker 1: doing as a country here?
Speaker 2: What are we doing? People?
Speaker 4: And we've gone from a moment not very long ago
Speaker 4: at all, when you lie while Obama was lying was
Speaker 4: seen as just shocking.
Speaker 2: Now it's non.
Speaker 1: Stop, scream things constantly, and nobody even does anything.
Speaker 2: So here's a question for you.
Speaker 4: I've always enjoyed when the what's it called when the
Speaker 4: Prime Minister has to take questions from Parliament and he
Speaker 4: stands there getting yelled at. I've always loved watching and
Speaker 4: the back and forth in the.
Speaker 2: Heck and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't think this is better. I thought the
Speaker 4: old thing was better. But I heard the heckling and
Speaker 4: stuff during that clip, and I thought, yes, screw you,
Speaker 4: go get them Donald. It didn't bother me anymore. No,
Speaker 4: because it was non stop. It's lost its power very much. Anyway,
Speaker 4: back to oh the T word. Trump's obsession with tariffs
Speaker 4: for God's sake, next clip.
Speaker 5: One of the primary reasons for our country's studying economic turnaround,
Speaker 5: the biggest in history, where the Dow Jones broke fifty thousand,
Speaker 5: four years ahead of schedule, and the S and P
Speaker 5: hit seven thousand where it wasn't supposed to do it
Speaker 5: for many years, were tariffs. And then just four days ago,
Speaker 5: an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: It just came down it came down very unfortunate ruling.
Speaker 5: But the good news is that almost all countries, these
Speaker 5: and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made,
Speaker 5: right Scott, knowing that the legal power that I, as
Speaker 5: president have to make a new deal could be far
Speaker 5: worse for them.
Speaker 2: And therefore they will continue to work.
Speaker 5: Along the same successful path that we had negotiated before
Speaker 5: the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.
Speaker 4: Saying the tariffs were one of the primary drivers of
Speaker 4: the turnamouent turnaround as ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's laughable, but he's obsessed with it. What are you
Speaker 2: going to do?
Speaker 1: So I was watching the pregame and well, he also
Speaker 1: got the angle that a lot of the most prominent
Speaker 1: Democrats have been wanting tariffs forever. You're Bernies and Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Warrens in that crowd, they love tariffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're far lefties.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was watching some of the pregame on ABC, and
Speaker 1: when Trump walked in, the ere ladies and gentlemen, the
Speaker 1: King of the world, and everybody.
Speaker 2: Cheers and goes crazy like that.
Speaker 1: And then he walked by, and he walked by the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices and they said, oh, he shook hands
Speaker 1: with John Roberts, but obviously notably did not shake hands
Speaker 1: with Amy Knebrerett and Judge Kavanaugh. He didn't shake hands
Speaker 1: with any of them. He shook hands with the Chief
Speaker 1: Justice and walked. That's what he decided to do for
Speaker 1: what It wasn't a sign of anything, but they talked
Speaker 1: about that for minutes. He tried to pretend that was
Speaker 1: a notable thing. I did think it was.
Speaker 4: Notable, but not at all surprising that you know, broad
Speaker 4: smiles and laughs and chuckles and handshakes and backslaps. Then
Speaker 4: he got to John Roberts and it had a very
Speaker 4: Hello Newman look through it.
Speaker 2: Definitely, that's fine.
Speaker 4: They're pissed off at each other, that's great. Well, the
Speaker 4: Republic still stands.
Speaker 1: I gotta believe that some of those justices, the three
Speaker 1: that were called a disgrace to their families and on
Speaker 1: the tape from foreign countries. I mean, I'd be a
Speaker 1: little butt hurt about that. To use the parlance of
Speaker 1: high school people. Yeah, I would agree that was so
Speaker 1: wildly out of bounds. But I think they're at the
Speaker 1: point that it's like that's trump. Yeah, they just they
Speaker 1: don't want violence to be.
Speaker 4: Visited on them by the maniacs who would take all
Speaker 4: that seriously and believe it anyway. It was, it was
Speaker 4: okay in the republic stance. Let's kip ahead to one
Speaker 4: twenty two. This finally is the administration articulating something that
Speaker 4: God dang it. I wish they'd called me and said, hey, Joe,
Speaker 4: take half an hour and come up with some good
Speaker 4: messaging on this topic.
Speaker 2: It would have been easy. Go ahead, Michael.
Speaker 5: Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond.
Speaker 5: It reached a breaking point with the Green News scam,
Speaker 5: open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions
Speaker 5: and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. They were murderers,
Speaker 5: eleven eight hundred and eighty eight murders.
Speaker 2: They came into our country. You allowed that to happen.
Speaker 5: And record setting inflation that costs the typical family thirty
Speaker 5: four thousand dollars in.
Speaker 2: Just a speck of time.
Speaker 5: Now, the same people in this chamber who voted for
Speaker 5: those disasters suddenly use the word affordability, a word they
Speaker 5: just used it to. Somebody gave it to them, knowing
Speaker 5: full well that they caused and created the increased prices
Speaker 5: that all of our citizens had to endoor.
Speaker 2: You caused that problem. You caused that problem.
Speaker 1: I don't know that was a good point. You passed
Speaker 1: the multi trillion dollar Inflation Reduction Act that everybody, including
Speaker 1: Larry Summer's former Secretary of the Treasurer under Obama, said, uh,
Speaker 1: that wasn't going to reduce inflation, was going to cause inflation.
Speaker 5: And it did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that was a little rambling indirect, but at
Speaker 4: least they're making the case.
Speaker 1: Can we play just the first part of one thirty five,
Speaker 1: just for anybody that didn't hear it, Just that first
Speaker 1: part please, part's great too.
Speaker 2: You want the short version of the long version.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever one thirty five b there, Michael.
Speaker 5: If you agree with this statement, then stand up and
Speaker 5: show your support.
Speaker 2: The first duty of.
Speaker 5: The American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal arians.
Speaker 5: In that shame, you should be ashamed of yourself not
Speaker 5: standing out.
Speaker 1: He should be ashamed of yourself, and he is right
Speaker 1: about that. You should be ashamed of yourself. And that
Speaker 1: went on for a minute. We edited it so you
Speaker 1: wouldn't listen to a minute of applause, but everybody in
Speaker 1: that building standing except for a single Democrat over the
Speaker 1: notion of you prioritize US citizens.
Speaker 4: Over illegal immigrants. You won't agree with that. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think that came out wrong. All the Republicans standing in
Speaker 4: only one Democrat. All the other Democrats were set. I
Speaker 4: didn't know even I didn't even know one Democrat stood. Okay,
Speaker 4: maybe I misunderstood what you said, but anyway.
Speaker 1: He said it wrong. I say things wrong all the time.
Speaker 1: All the Democrats sat, all the Republicans stood, And what
Speaker 1: was so great.
Speaker 4: About how long the applause was is they just could
Speaker 4: stare at him and like them.
Speaker 2: Half at him.
Speaker 1: I can't even wrap my head around how you can
Speaker 1: in government the way he phrased it, I thought it
Speaker 1: was perfect. Is the federal government's primary job to prioritize
Speaker 1: American citizens over illegals. And you can't say yes to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, you can be all.
Speaker 1: Kinds of we need to have more government programs and
Speaker 1: they get free healthcare, all kinds of different stuff, but
Speaker 1: you can't prioritize the uticism over illegals. So you're going
Speaker 1: with the there are no such thing as a as
Speaker 1: an illegal or there's no such thing as a citizens is.
Speaker 4: That what you're going with pleasing the ten percent of
Speaker 4: Americans who agree with you.
Speaker 1: God, that's got to be a tiny group. But although
Speaker 1: I don't know, I wasn't around some of my hardcore
Speaker 1: Trump Peyton friends. Maybe them sitting down Just yeah, don't
Speaker 1: give in. The satisfaction was all you were hoping for.
Speaker 1: You don't need to. It doesn't mean they agree with that.
Speaker 1: It's just you can't possibly give in to him and
Speaker 1: do what he asks you to.
Speaker 4: Do, which brings us right back to James Lindsay's point
Speaker 4: that you brought us last segment about how corrosive and
Speaker 4: poisoning that is. I will not stand with my enemies,
Speaker 4: even if they're right, even if I agree with them.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a great It's obviously a stunt,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was a fantastic stunt, and that
Speaker 1: should be an every dang ad in the country right
Speaker 1: before the midterms. You want to vote for the party
Speaker 1: that doesn't think you're a higher priority than people who
Speaker 1: sneak across the border.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no kidding, Absolutely brilliant. This was too. I
Speaker 2: love this one thirty seven. It's a totally different topic.
Speaker 5: The new content is mare of new York City.
Speaker 2: I think he's a nice guy.
Speaker 5: Actually speak to him alone the policy. But nice guy
Speaker 5: just said, they want people to shovel snow. They got
Speaker 5: hit hard, want them to shovel snow. But if you
Speaker 5: apply for that job, you need to show two original
Speaker 5: forms of IDA and a Social Security card. Yet they
Speaker 5: don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all,
Speaker 5: voting in America. Now, it's no good, no good.
Speaker 1: That's true too. We talked about that the other day,
Speaker 1: and so nuts. You have to show multiple forms of
Speaker 1: identification to be allowed to shovel your neighbor's driveway in
Speaker 1: a snowstorm, but cannot demand ID for voting. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? You have to go to watch shaking my
Speaker 1: head and discuss fill them all kinds of forms and
Speaker 1: paperwork to be able to help shovel cars out when
Speaker 1: there's a giant snowstorm. That's New York. That's the warmth
Speaker 1: of collectivism.
Speaker 2: Good god.
Speaker 1: I want to play the very charming, I thought and
Speaker 1: entertaining hockey clip from Trump when we come back, among
Speaker 1: other things to talk about stay with us Armstrong.
Speaker 5: I think of it forty six shots on gold, And
Speaker 5: I asked him the one shot, the one where you
Speaker 5: put your stick in the back and it hit the
Speaker 5: neck of your stick, can bounce off you practice that
Speaker 5: or was that a little lucky?
Speaker 2: He refuse to answer that question.
Speaker 5: But I just want to tell you that the members
Speaker 5: of this great hockey squad will be very happy to
Speaker 5: hear based on their vote and my vote, and in
Speaker 5: this case, my vote was more important. That I will
Speaker 5: soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which
Speaker 5: we will be given and which has been given to
Speaker 5: many athletes over the years.
Speaker 1: So when I say many, not too many, like twelve.
Speaker 5: It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the
Speaker 5: Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 2: He kept that goal free from pucks. That's what he did, miraculous.
Speaker 1: Give me a list of former Presidential Medal of Freedom
Speaker 1: winners and asks on me. Oh, I'm gonna ask Claude
Speaker 1: just because I'd like to know who's on that list,
Speaker 1: because you said earlier.
Speaker 2: This is the hockey goalie deserved that.
Speaker 6: But I think there's like I'm guessing Mohammad Ali might
Speaker 6: be on there. Yeah, and like Clint Eastwood and just
Speaker 6: are all kinds of different people. Then, you know, I
Speaker 6: thought that, Hey, do you practice that or was that
Speaker 6: a little luck? Hey didn't answer that, there's no way
Speaker 6: to practice that. How about the asking all the other
Speaker 6: members of the team, what do you think? And he
Speaker 6: said if anybody says no, I won't, I won't do it.
Speaker 6: But is everybody in agreement with giving the goalie this medal?
Speaker 6: And they were all, yeah, yeah, that was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I didn't watch the State of the Union address.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched one in many, many, many years. I
Speaker 1: think they're mostly pointless and nobody will be discussing this
Speaker 1: at all going forward, except for maybe that whole the
Speaker 1: prioritize Americans over illegal thing, which definitely could have legs
Speaker 1: any who was listening to some of the punditry afterwards,
Speaker 1: and Trump, for his hated as he is by the
Speaker 1: mainstream media, got better reviews than usual. Here's Major Garrett
Speaker 1: on CBS News right after the speech last night.
Speaker 7: Major, you've seen a lot of these, I think more
Speaker 7: than any of us.
Speaker 8: What stood out to you, Well, look, before the speech,
Speaker 8: many Republicans said one of the priorities for the president
Speaker 8: was to make sure Americans after this speech had a sense.
Speaker 8: So the opposition party was off the rails was crazy,
Speaker 8: their terminology not mine.
Speaker 5: Many of the.
Speaker 8: Contrasts the President articulated tonight were to drive that message
Speaker 8: forward that not only do I disagree with the opposition
Speaker 8: party sitting before me Congress, but I disagree with him
Speaker 8: so strong and they with me so much that they
Speaker 8: can't even applaud basic common sense thing. And that line
Speaker 8: that you mentioned that he added to the speech, whether
Speaker 8: it was ad lived or not, the first obligation American
Speaker 8: citizens versus illegal aliens was meant to create a visual
Speaker 8: moment of perpetual contrasts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was pretty successful.
Speaker 1: Here's David Axelrod, who was Obama's campaign manager first time around.
Speaker 7: I mean, and I think he did well from from
Speaker 7: their perspective, for the reasons that you say, John, And
Speaker 7: he used the gallery very skillfully to kind of simulate empathy,
Speaker 7: which is a thing that he's been lacking, and that
Speaker 7: that's sort of a surrogate for that. The question is
Speaker 7: he started off the speech by saying, we've gone this
Speaker 7: is the turnaround for the ages, and as you know,
Speaker 7: because you're traveling around the country, people don't think the
Speaker 7: direction is right.
Speaker 2: And I don't think this.
Speaker 7: Cured that so we'll see. But I don't think a
Speaker 7: lot of the people who needed to be persuaded probably
Speaker 7: were watching this speech.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's an excellent point. Is the ratings for
Speaker 1: the State of the Union addresses are high among the
Speaker 1: people who voted for the president and low among the
Speaker 1: people who didn't. Every time, like my parents wouldn't watch
Speaker 1: Joe Biden give the State of the Union address. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're preaching to the choir. So I guess you're
Speaker 1: trying to convince your own crowd that things are good.
Speaker 1: How about the few persuadables out there?
Speaker 2: Still, I have no idea. I don't know either.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested in the ratings, Like how many people
Speaker 1: watched the whole damn two hour thing. It's got to
Speaker 1: be practically nobody. Joe said earlier. It might be low
Speaker 1: double digits, like fifteen people in the whole country. We
Speaker 1: got one email, I said, it was fabulous. Really, we
Speaker 1: did get a couple of emails people watch the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, good for you.
Speaker 1: I just hm, you.
Speaker 4: Don't have like another show or a hobby or anything.
Speaker 4: We're coming off as bad Americans. But that's take a
Speaker 4: hell of a lot of patient book, a Netflix series.
Speaker 4: You want to see another episode of something on the stove,
Speaker 4: Dog to walk.
Speaker 1: Walk with, your sweetheart, got a niche somewhere, nothing, nothing better,
Speaker 1: scratch my ribs, nothing you'd rather do. But Mark alpurn,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite pundits, thought it was Trump's best
Speaker 1: speech He's probably ever given. If you missed a segment
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