WEBVTT - The Reptile Surprise 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:06.760 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:11.440 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:18.920 Jetty and no He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.080 This week, European leaders are focused on both trade and Tehran. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.280 US allies will meet with Iranian officials in Turkey to 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.720 talk about its nuclear program, something Iran's foreign minister said 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.199 on special report last night it has no plans to abandon. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:45.040 We cannot give up our enrichment because it is an 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.000 achievement of our own scientists. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.680 Trump posted on social media future strikes against Iran are possible, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.320 writing We'll do it again if necessary. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.440 What was that comment from the Iranian foreign minister? We 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.880 can't give up our program because it's an achievement are 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.399 of our scientists? What the hell kind of argument is that? 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.639 That was a very odd one. I was just reading 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.640 about all of those scientists. What was that? Was it 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.360 nineteen who Israel took out, Yeah, as part of the 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.240 big raid, and how senior they were and how they're 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.360 in charge of everything. That was that. I think the 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.000 bombs in Florida were certainly significant, and Israel's other bombing 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.600 very significant, But I think the whole rub it out 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.880 all those scientists is underappreciated. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.720 Probably make the next generation of smart kids. Maybe choose 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.800 a different major. Also, I was going to be a 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.119 nuclear scientist, but I think I'll study something else. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.720 Can I do computers? Please? 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.759 Right before we get to the main thing I wanted 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.600 to get to. So, Fox's number one story today, just 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.320 observing Fox, is that scumbag murderer up in Idaho and 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.640 is sentencing today. Any idea why they elevated that to 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:56.720 the number one story? 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.920 If it blades it, Lads, it's just a sort of 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:08.120 kind of low browish, clickbaity horrifying murders. You don't, I myself, 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.360 I want to know about that because it's part of 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.400 you know, our psycheist human beings. We want to know 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.400 more about what might kill us on how to prevent it. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:24.320 Okay, So Brett Stevens, he's an opinion piece journalist for 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.360 the New York Times. As a piece out today, No, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.160 Israel's not committing a genocide, which I think is you know, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.400 good news that the New York Times is willing to 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.760 print that. I'm sure the newsroom was very upset about that. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.040 It's also an argument that needs to be made. I'm 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.359 gonna skip to the very end before I get into 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.200 some of the details, because I thought it was pretty 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:44.760 important that. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:45.120 He said this. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.840 Genocide is a word that was coined in the nineteen forties, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.120 and if it is to retain its status as a 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.520 uniquely horrific crime, then the term can't be promiscuously applied 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:57.880 to any military situation. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:58.600 We don't like. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.480 Wars are awful enough, but the abuse of the term 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.160 genocide runs the risk of ultimately blinding as to real 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.560 ones when they unfold, which is obviously true. Diluting the 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:15.480 meeting of genocide of the word will only make them 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:16.240 more likely to. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.799 Happen, right, Yeah, it's like clearly argued for years when 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.919 everybody was calling everybody a racist for anything they didn't like. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.679 Of course we didn't understand it was an effort to 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.120 take over institutions, but yeah, it's the same thing. It 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.359 weakens the word, Oh I'm racist. Who cares you call 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.880 everybody a racist? You call everything a genocide. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.200 He makes the argument that the term genocide does not 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.280 fit with the facts on the ground, with what Israel 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:43.280 is doing in Gaza. He points out, for instance, if 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.360 Israel's intentions and actions are genocidal. If it is so 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.720 malevolent that is committed to the annihilation of Gozins, which 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.120 is what a genocide would be, why hasn't it been 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.880 more methodical and vastly more deadly or more successful. Why 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.160 not say hundreds of thousands of deaths after two years 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.360 of being at this as opposed to about sixty thousand, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.560 which is the claim of the Hamas run Health Ministry. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.840 And they're probably exaggerating, and they don't distinguish between combatant 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:15.720 and civilian deads. Even their exaggerated number that includes Hamas 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:21.080 combatants is sixty thousand, not hundreds of thousands. If Israel 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.679 has wanted to commit a genocide, they're the most powerful 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.640 military in all of them. Add least they could do 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.000 it and quickly. So that's one argument. It's kind of 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.520 hard to get around. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.160 I have a comment. Just let me know when you're 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.560 wanting to move on from this topic, but go ahead. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:46.440 I wanted to get to the He talks about how. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.479 Lots of civilians have died and the completely chaotic food 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.839 distribution and everything like that, and the impossible situation that 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.640 Israel is in and trying to get food to the 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:04.839 gosens without Hama stealing it and strengthening them. And he 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.240 also points out that the fact that over a million 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.039 German civilians died in World War Two, thousands of them 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:17.640 in bombings that we were doing, and dressden in other towns, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.880 made them victims of the war, but not a genocide. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.520 The aim of the Allies in the United States was 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.200 to defeat the Nazis for leading Germany into war, not 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.880 to wipe out the Germans simply for being German. Same 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:36.120 as what's going here. Quite a few Gozens or Palestinians 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.279 or whatever you want to call them could die in 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.080 the attempt to wipe out Hamas, but the goal is 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.640 to wipe out Hamas, not the Gozens. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.839 So that actually fits really well with the point I 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.040 was going to make. And I've been saying this for 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.920 a while, and I have not come across anybody who 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.760 has refuted it via email or text or whatever or 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.240 in alternate media. I think what we are seeing is 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:10.320 something close to total victory for the first time, televised 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.839 all over the world. Everybody's got a camera, everybody's televising 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.840 what it looks like for one country to say that's it, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.160 We've got to completely defeat our enemy because they attack 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.000 us over and over again, and we're through with it, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.640 and it's ugly and it's heartbreaking. And from the Israeli perspective, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.760 and I happen to agree with them, it's necessary. I mean, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.000 for instance, you loosen up the food distribution thing, so 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.320 Hamas steals more of it, and your guys and the 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.560 American contractors are at much greater risk. You let people 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.039 cluster around you, some of whom have weapons, you don't 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.400 fire into them, et cetera, et cetera. Then you strengthen 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.840 your adversary. And Israel's attitude at this point is no 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.719 Anything that strengthens somemas We're not gonna do, including getting 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.719 our hostages back. That's what we're watching. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.880 In my opinion, I keep mentioning that I'm reading this book, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.400 Twilight of the Gods, which is about the last year 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.360 of the war in the Pacific, the very end of 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.360 World War Two, which we're celebrating the anniversary of right now. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.600 I'm surprised it's not getting more attention the eightieth anniversary 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.360 of Ewojima, and you know, some of those great big 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.840 battles leading up to the dropping of the atomic bombs. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.880 I have a feeling here. In about a week or 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.080 so on the actual eightieth anniversary of dropping the bomb, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.960 there's going to be quite a bit of talk of 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.520 they were on their backs, we didn't need to do that, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.880 et cetera, et cetera. So all that stuff is going 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.880 to come back up. But man, we were just obliterating 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.840 Japan at the weeks leading up to this, Like some 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.160 of the stats are just incredible. We dropped more bombs 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.520 on Japan, like in the day before the atomic bomb 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.560 than the entire previous part of the war. I mean, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.120 it just had ramped up so much toward the end 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.760 to try to get hit them to your point, to capitulate, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.720 to completely submit, to surrender, same way that had to 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.240 happen with the Germans. And imagine if that had been 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.240 televised and reported on and Twitter in the way that 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:14.760 it would be now, or the way it is with 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.160 Israel trying to wipe out a moss. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:18.720 It's hard to imagine. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.000 I mean, a lot of this stuff didn't get a 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.840 lot of these stories didn't get told for decades. You know, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.200 best case scenario was a week later in the New 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.920 York Times there'd be a paragraph, But some of this 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.400 stuff didn't get told for years of what. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.640 I And there are some people who can't deal with that. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.719 They think, no, there's got to be another way that 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.800 I can't be for that, We've got to give piece 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.520 a chance or whatever. And there are some of us 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.280 who are a bit more coldly practical who say that 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.160 all of those things you just described ultimately saved many lives. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:56.800 So it was horrible, horrible, horrifying, but necessary. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.600 Back to this story because I have a feeling where 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.680 you ty of chance to talk about the end of 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.480 World War II here in a couple of weeks, because 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.120 that's guaranteed mainstream media is going to go big on 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.120 the whether we should have dropped the bomb or not. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.679 But Brett Stevens writes in The New York Times, what's 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.880 unusual about Gaza is the cynical and criminal way Hamas 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.040 has chosen to wage war in Ukraine. When Russia attacks 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.680 with missiles, drones or artillery, the civilians go underground, while 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.800 the Ukrainian military stays above ground to fight. In Gaza, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.280 it's the reverse. Harmasque goes underground doesn't allow the civilians 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:32.760 to use their network of tunnels. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:33.840 They're not allowed in there. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.440 Ha Mosco's underground to leave the Gazins up above and 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.280 suffer the consequences of Israel trying to bomb out Hamas. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.319 Right, Yeah, they're despicable. It is quite amazing despicable. Islamis totalitarians. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.240 Israel said, that's enough. We can't trust you ever again. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.360 How do you prosecute a war in the modern world 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.400 where everybody gets to see it up close? 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.640 I guess we're watching that. You've almost got to have 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.160 the desperation of the Israeli people, a lot of them, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.400 and somebody like net Yahoo, who depending on the app 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.440 who you ask, is just a very, very practical man, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.520 having been a Special Forces soldier himself, or a maniac, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.079 or he's holding out of power to keep himself out 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.040 of jail or whatever. You've got to have a leader 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.640 who is completely resolute. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.400 Back to the end of World War Two, there's been 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.960 a lot of controversy for the last eighty years over 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:39.079 whether or not FDR should have demanded unconditional surrender. The 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.280 part that I didn't know was it was a complete 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.480 off the cuff. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.800 None of his aides knew it was coming. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.120 It was a very trump asque and that everybody was 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.319 scrambling because the press immediately was asking questions to you know, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.439 chief of staff, everybody, unconditional surrender? Would that come from? 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:56.959 What does that mean? 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:57.839 What about this? What about that? 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.000 And they're all, we'll get back to you on that, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.880 because nobody knew he was going to say that. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.600 Hmm, interesting, yeah, it really is. Then he croaked. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.280 Then he croaked, and I was just reading the part 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:15.240 last night where they have to sit down Harry Truman 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.040 and let him know. Interesting story. Here we see we're 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.800 working on this bomb or actually just about done. It's 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.959 been to New Mexico. It's beautiful anyway, got to be 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.640 the biggest weapon in the history of the world. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.880 So he is completely in the dark on that. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.199 Yeah, he was completely in the dark on practically everything 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.600 about the war, not just that he was just not involved. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.560 I had to get up to speed really quick. He 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:45.960 was the classic balancing VP choice for FDR, Midwestern guy 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.960 down to Earth. He attracted the ex voter and the 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.160 Y voter, but they had nothing to do with each other. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.800 He was not even close to the last person in 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.080 the room when big decisions are made. He had no 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:57.920 idea what was going on for the strategy of world 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.480 War two. Then all of a sudden, it drops in 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.120 your lap in the final weeks and you got to 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.439 figure out do we drop a bomb? Do we invade 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.640 with The plan was significantly bigger than. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.360 D Day invasion of France for invading Japan. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.360 Significantly, this is gonna be much much bigger and bloodier 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.840 and bloodier. Anyway, we'll get chance to talk about that 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.160 in early August. I guarantee you stay here. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:28.560 Hey, hi, guys, I saw the Subway just hired an 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.760 executive from Burger Kinge to be their new CEO. It 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.840 could be a lot of changes coming to Subway, but 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.679 they just put out a new ad to reassure their 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:36.679 longtime customers. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.720 Even though we're changing management, We've promised to keep all 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.160 your favorite things about Subway, like five dollars foot longs 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:43.679 for eight. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.640 Dollars workers who clearly hate your guts, cookies that were 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.360 made either ten minutes or ten days ago. No in between, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.760 the writer lights than an operating room, a. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.000 Massive Jarrett cover up on the same scale as. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:13:02.720 The Epstein cover and Tuna Subway. Yeah, who was that 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:03.440 shot at Tuna? 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.400 I'm not having that lights as bright as an operating room. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.760 That is true, Subway is an incredibly bright restaurant. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.720 I'm not exactly sure now. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.400 My local subway. The person does seem to hate the customers. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:17.120 True. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.040 My experience with the cookies are always fresh and delicious. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.680 Their cookies are damn good. They brought this hate on themselves, though. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:26.959 Don't claim you have a foot long sandwich and it 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.200 turns out to be eleven inches. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.200 All right, all right, Speaking of the world to work, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.840 a couple of more stories. First of all, Judy and 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.920 I having a remodel done. I've enjoyed watching the process 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.600 take place. Sometimes the work crewis are there, sometimes they're not. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.840 Sometimes the weather turns and they go home. At one 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.880 point yesterday I texted her the carpenters are back, but 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.760 they're not carpenting yet. And I found myself wondering, because 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.840 I like words. Where the hell did the term carpenter 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.240 come from. It originates from the Late Latin word carpenterius, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:04.040 meaning wagon maker or carriage maker. Term itself is derived 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.280 from carpentum, referring to a two wheeled carriage, and has 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.120 been adopted from the French form of that word. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.200 I guess sharpened tear, so you're getting a bowling Lane 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:20.960 put in that's cool, it's correct, and an archery gallery. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.560 My twin loves archery and bowling. I love them. Actually, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.640 I do enjoy both of them. But anyway, Plumber's plumb right. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:32.360 Electricians deal with electricity, but Carpenter's deal with some far 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.080 Latin word. Why don't we have our own word? A 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.120 good American work. I can see why you're upset. Another 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.520 note from the world of work. The w NBA All 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.360 Stars already fairly commented upon. They're showing up for their game. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.040 Nobody watched, wearing the pay us what You Owe us shirts, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.040 a demand for higher salaries and profit sharing among the players. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.960 And I'm quoting Jeff Blair of the National Review here. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.600 From time to time, he says, then they played a game. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.120 Excuse me that nobody watched? Who won? I did? I 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.400 was reading a book at the time, he says. The 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.080 reaction on social media was instantaneous and brutal. However, who 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.520 exactly what exactly is owed to whom? By whom tens 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.720 of thousands of online accounts asked significantly ye simultaneously. My 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.440 first reaction was that if woh now Le's skip that 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.400 part the Babylon b had the best headline, as they 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.800 often do. Uh oh. WNBA players demand to be paid 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.240 what they're worth, and now they owe the NBA four 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.560 hundred million dollars. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.160 Ooh good one, that's pretty good. And then he gets 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.200 into whether it's actually a woke social justice. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.200 Thing or it's just a h hum labor dispute. They're 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.680 trying to get a better deal, which is fine, trying 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.240 to get the fans on their side. Yeah, I suppose. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:51.400 I don't know. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.680 I know people that I would describe as above average intelligence. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.480 I think it's unfair that they're getting paid less than 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.520 NBA players. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.360 They are intelligent, but they are fools. They have no judgment. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.720 Back in twenty twenty, the WNBA players union negotiated a 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.760 revenue sharing agreement guaranteeing them nine point nine percent of 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:20.080 league revenues. Meanwhile, NBA players currently get a fifty percent 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.480 share of all basketball related income distributed to them. And 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.120 that's blah blah blah. That's what gets to why their 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.360 complaints rings so hollow. The NBA essentially pays for the WNBA, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.320 which has lost money every single year of its existence. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:42.960 And he goes into elaborates on that. During the last 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.920 very profitable season. The NBA generated eleven point three billion 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:53.240 dollars in revenue, the WNBA somewhere around one hundred to 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:59.120 two hundred million, a teeny tiny fraction is Television ratings 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.120 are similarly a school compared with the NBA's except for 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.720 occasionally a Caitlin Clark came right, So good luck with 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.040 your labor dispute. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.320 Yeah, and then the fact that they don't embrace the 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.040 one person that has risen them to the level of 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.480 even discussing it. Risen having helped them, wrote Rosen. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.439 We more on the ways to hear Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.679 Whether it's right or wrong, It's time to go after people. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.080 Obama's been caught directly. Okay, So. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:40.359 I hadn't been paying close attention to this story until today. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:47.359 Trump making some pretty uh should be headline grabbing claims. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.240 But as David Mure on ABC News last night, led, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.120 do you have that clip still, Michael. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.360 Tonight, we have breaking news as we come on VI air, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.000 Ozzy Osbourne has died. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:57.600 Yeah. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.720 Never mind that the sitting pre just said that two 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:07.280 presidents ago committed treason in lying about intelligence to try 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.679 to ruin his presidency, which seems like a pretty big story. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.399 But that probably ought to go to jail. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.360 Yeah, exactly, And sennyj Van jail Nope on the oddsboard died, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.480 So we covered that up anyway. Here's here's the Fox 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.520 version of the story. And Obama responded to Trump's claims. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.520 President Donald Trump in the Oval office suggesting his predecessor, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.480 Barack Obama should face criminal charges. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:36.280 He's guilty. They this was treason. This was every word 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.160 you can think of. They tried to steal the election. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.879 Trump's comments come after the Director of National Intelligence Tulsey 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.679 Gabbard asked the Justice Department to look into allegations that 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.240 members of the Obama administration quote altered intelligence to push 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.359 the narrative of a Trump Russia plot days before Trump 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:59.960 took office in twenty seventeen, despite prior intelligence reportedly indicating otherwise. 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.679 So Matt Tybee, who had been quoting a lot lately. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.639 He's a journalist we both like. And one of the 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.720 reasons I really believe him on this stuff is he 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.080 can't stand Trump. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.479 He hates Donald Trump. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.679 He's written books about how awful he thinks Donald Trump is, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.359 but he hates lying in government. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:24.720 Even more than that. He and the journalists who kissed 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.000 the ass of power. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.840 And particularly has been very skeptical, skeptical of our intelligence 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.199 agent intelligence agencies and some of the things that they've done. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.560 So Tolci Gabbert, who you know, the. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.800 Messenger on this doesn't help because Telsey Gabbert to me 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.960 is a bit of a whack job. But that doesn't 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.800 mean everything that she does is not true. She released 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.520 these documents. The documents newly declassified by her as the 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:54.879 D and I show that the intelligence community assessment Muller, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.560 who was running the FBI at the time, and Senate 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:05.480 reports all exclude voted the intelligence community's own secretly identified 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:11.639 doubts about the allegation. The allegation being that Russia Putin 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:18.080 specifically ordered the hack of the Democrat emails, remember Hillary's emails, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.960 that whole thing. Putin was behind that, and it was 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.000 an effort by the Russians to get Donald Trump elected. Well, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:30.720 according to previously unpublished intelligence and this is just out, 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:36.560 the FBI and the NSA expressed low confidence that Russia 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.800 was behind the hack and release of the Democratic Party emails, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.520 and as has pointed out here, the joint FBI NSA 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.760 descent is especially significant giving their role in this. The 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.000 NSA is the agency best position to assess this sort 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:51.280 of thing. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.280 They're the best in the world of this sort of thing. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:58.760 And the FBI would be the group that would lead 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.879 a probe the cyber theft and all that sort of stuff, 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.440 and they didn't because they had such low confidence that 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.280 Russia was behind the hack. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:09.960 This is all new. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.840 So then why if the NSA and the FBI both thought, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.240 we don't have any evidence that Putin and the Russians 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:23.159 were the ones that hacked Hillary's emails? Why then, in 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.480 October of twenty sixteen, right before the election, did the 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:33.159 Department of Homeland Security put out a statement claiming that 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.399 US intelligence community is confident that Russia hacked the Democratic 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.959 Party in order to interfere with the US election and 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:41.320 help get Trump elected. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.320 Why did that happen? According to Jessaman, one member of 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.800 the working group who I mentioned yesterday, said, we have 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.879 no intelligence to directly support the idea that they wanted 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.640 Trump to win. None in Komy and Clapper essentially said 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.240 shut up. This has been and. 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.000 Reported as now for how many years? Is that nine years? 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:08.080 And I was watching MSNBC last night. They THEYD statis fact. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.800 We all know that Russia was hoping to get Donald 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:15.600 Trump elected, that they hacked Tillery's emails. No, we don't 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.399 know that. At least the FBI in the NSA didn't 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.440 know that. I don't know where you're getting your information, 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.119 but those are the two best organizations to try to 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.239 figure that out, and their confidence was low. Notably, the 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.080 FBI objected to formally accusing Russia and refused to participate. 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.160 By that point, the joint statement had a more powerful 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.960 endorser that According to testimony from Jay Johnson, who was 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.800 the DHS secretary at the time, President Obama approved the 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.600 statement and wanted us to make it. That is his 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:49.920 testimony on that statement that came out October of twenty sixteen, 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.880 that Obama was behind it for whatever his reasons were, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:58.280 and I think we can probably guess. And then on December, 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.080 after Trump had had been already been a lot, Obama 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.000 made another request asking the intelligence community to produce a 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.720 new version of the Intelligence Community assessment that could be 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:08.400 made public. 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.960 The FBI and the how wow, wow, that's that's worth saying. 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:15.679