WEBVTT - Sam Seder & Dave Sirota 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.959 today's best minds and Reuter's IPSOS poll showing Trump has 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.960 hit a new low with an approval of thirty six percent. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.880 We have such a great show for you today. The 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.000 Majority Reports own Sam Cedar stops by to talk the 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.040 unprecedented corruption in the Trump administration. Then we'll talk to 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:31.600 the levers David Sarota about his amazing new reporting on 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.839 the unitary executive theory and it's threat to our democracy. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:37.920 But first the news. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:38.400 Mai. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.320 I'm going to read you a headline. I need you 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:42.760 to tell me if it's good or bad. I just 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.680 can't decide. I'm a fed center here today. The Treasury 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.560 just declared the US and solve and the media mist 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:49.839 it seems bad. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:55.400 Again. I am not an economist, but it seems not good. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.680 There is a conclusion drawn from the Treasury Department's own 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.480 consolidated finance statements for the fiscal year of twenty twenty five. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.600 They were released last week. Basically six h six trillion 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.280 dollars in total assets against forty seven point seventy eight 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:16.960 trillion in total liabilities. By the way, this forty seven trillion, 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.680 really almost forty eight trillion doesn't include the unfunded obligations 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.080 of Social Security insurance problems like Social Security and Medicare. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.840 They're in a different off balance sheet statement. So let's 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.119 talk this through. I think this is one of these 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.080 headlines that it's sort of for the algorithm. It's meant 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.800 to catch your attention. But the larger point that America 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.479 has too much debt is an important one. And you'll 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.320 remember that Republicans they often run on making the debt smaller, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.760 They're going to get rid of the debt, and often 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.640 they instead grow the debt. And so one of Donald 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.560 Trump's things was that he was going to work on 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.960 the deficit, lowering the deficit. Maybe he didn't, you know, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.920 he's sort of He said was that, you know, the 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.559 Republicans tend to criticize Democrats for spending, but in fact, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.720 Donald Trump is in the middle of a warrant that 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.280 nobody knows why we're doing it, and is costing a 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:17.120 billion dollars a day, one billion dollars a day. That 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.600 is quite a lot of money, and the reason that 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.840 we're in this war nobody knows. So we are in 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:30.160 a moment where we're really just spending money that has 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:36.119 absolutely makes no sense, and it's just a completely insane 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.240 way to run a country. And you know, it's only 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.120 going to get worse because Trump is paying solar companies 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.960 not to do projects, He's incentivizing oil companies. He's making 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.519 all of the dumbest of dumb decisions. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.480 Yes, speaking of the GOP, senators are admitting that Trump 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.280 blocked the deal to partially fund the DHS, even though 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.960 he keeps saying it's the Democrat shutdown, it's the Trump shutdown. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.520 Yeah, so this is amazing. John Kennedy, who is a 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.600 member of Congress from Louisiana, writes books, appears often on 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:18.720 Fox News, famous for getting Christy Nome fired basically by 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.760 asking her where the two hundred and twenty million dollars. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.240 When he's talking to Will Caine, Fox News's own host, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.080 not yet a member of the Trump administration, but probably soon, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.200 and he says, quote, the Democrats have offered to open 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.520 up everything, but Ice ted Cruz, and I said, Okay, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.680 let's accept their offer. At the same time, we would 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.360 do a bill for reconciliation for the ICE money. That way, 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.440 we're out of the shutdown and DHS is back open, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.240 and then we have airports at work again. And Senator 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.920 Soon submitted that to President Trump, and he said, no, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.960 no deal with Democo. So instead he sent ICE to 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.960 airports where they are arresting mothers and also just wandering 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.080 around talking on their phones, right, I mean talking at 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.960 their phones, looking at their phones, wearing bulletproof vests in 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.360 a place that you can't have a gun, looking ridiculous 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.440 where I mean, you know, but at least not wearing masks. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.159 I mean, our next sunline is literally that they're not 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.799 doing anything but playing Candy Crush and they're getting nothing 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.279 done here. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.839 Not that there's anything wrong with Candy Crush this podcast. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.800 We support Candy Crush. You should support us again. Candy 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:39.400 crushing it. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.560 I heard you've been candy crushing it. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.839 Unless Candy Crush is paying me. I'm not candy crushing it. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.839 Oh okay, I didn't know. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.880 I'm not candy crushing for free baby. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.080 But the point being, we're now two days into this 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.359 and we're seeing ICE doing nothing at these airports aside 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.120 from standing around and not helping these wait times go down. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.160 Wrecked. Lots of good photos of them looking very bored. Also, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.159 the other thing that is that's actually pretty sticky for 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.960 Trump is that you have these guys who we were 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.839 told had to be in masks because of Docsing. Now 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.960 they are out there and they're not wearing masks. Which 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.359 is it, do we have to protect their identities or 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.479 do we not have to protect their identities when they're 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.880 in the airport because they might not be doing crimes. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.520 I think that's pretty interesting. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:26.720 Look. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.120 Donald Trump weighed in on his social media saying he's 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:35.280 a all caps, big proponent of all caps ice wearing masks, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.560 but he'd greatly appreciate all caps, no masks when helping 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.920 our country out of the democratic mess at the airports. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:51.040 Guess what branches Republicans control, Jesse all three? 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.120 Supreme Court two. Yeah, And you do have Steve Batten 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.480 saying that this is the trial run for the elections, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.279 and you know, so far, if this is the trial 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.280 run for the elections, it seems like it's a lot 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.240 of people just getting pictures of these people. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.359 So I'm excited. At least they're not wearing masks. And 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.600 the way times, by the way, are real long. If 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.040 you're going to an airport, get there seven thousand years early. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:16.240 In one of my group chats, people have spoken of 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.120 getting there three and a half to four hours early 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.400 and barely making their flights. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:19.839 Yeah. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.719 Good stuff. So as a reaction to this, we have 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.559 Delta Airlines suspending airport perks for members of Congress until 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:28.520 the shutdown is over. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:34.480 Honestly, good for them, Yeah, good for them. Here's the TSA. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.240 The newest recommendation from the TSA recommends getting to the 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:45.000 airport four hours before your flight. Four hours. That's right, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.880 four hours. Many of these flights, most these flights, if 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.080 you're flying in America, are under four hours, but you 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.880 should still get to the airport four hours early. It 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:59.600 is just incredible stuff. But good for Delta Airlines. You know, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.960 if the Congress is not going to fund the airports, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:10.320 then Delta should not be giving them any free orange juice. Correct, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.840 no orange juice for Congress people. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.680 How about wheelchair lifts to their gate through back doors? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.960 What about Nancy may shoul I need her handheld? 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.920 Listen, man, I'm not getting involved in any of this. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.880 I am not getting involved in this is all I 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:34.760 can say is, yeah, No, we have exciting news over 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.640 at our YouTube channel. The third episode is out now. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:44.160 From our series Project twenty twenty nine are reimagining where 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.240 we examine what went wrong with democrats approach to policy 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.880 and how we can correct it and deliver changes for 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:59.880 the American people. The first episodes dove into campaign finance, reform, antitrust, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:05.120 and regulation. 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Welcome, Welcome, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.199 Sam Theater. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.480 Always a pleasure to be here. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:51.880 Molly. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.199 I am happy to have you here because I feel 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.160 like you are equally outraged. I mean, I know we're 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.120 going to talk about the corruption, because you have to 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.960 talk about the corruption because it's so glaring. It's the corruption, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:11.280 but it's also just the blatant stupidity of the thing. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.600 But we can start with Trump's SEC chair prevented the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.600 head of enforcement at the SEC from investigating Trump's circle 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.360 for insider trading. Yeah, she's. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.480 Her name was Margaret Ryan. She's been on the job 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.959 for only about six seven months or so, and usually 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.800 it's a job like you stayed there for a long time. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.840 She was the chief enforcement officer of the SEC, and 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.480 they were investigating the Trump business between the crypto and 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:47.119 other things, and apparently you're not allowed to do that. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.040 It was the enforcement they had the problem with. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.160 Yeah, no, you can show up to work, but you're 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.800 just not supposed to do anything. It feels like every 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:03.000 week there is at least one one example of enormous 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.280 corruption that the Trump administration is doing that would take 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:11.800 out any other administration. Yes, like we probably have had, honestly, 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.000 like I don't know twenty five of these stories. Yeah, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:22.599 and it seems to be largely irrelevant because of the 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.440 nature of this administration, which is incredibly authoritarian, and everybody 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.640 who works there, I mean, Donald Trump did a very 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.480 good job having four years off of making sure they 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.840 surrounded himself with nobody who is going to challenge him. So, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.840 you know, it was surprising to me that NOME was 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.520 booted because they don't really seem to feel political pressure 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.640 in the same way that any other administration does, because 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.640 everybody just closes ranks. And you know, that's why we're 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.480 invading a country. Possibly we're certainly bombing a country involved 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.240 in a huge war with forty percent of the country 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:04.840 supports it tops and doesn't seem to be influencing Trump 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.320 at all. And so but it's fascinating. The corruption is 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.400 just I don't think that we can fully grasp the 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.280 depth of the corruption. It's so transactional and naked. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.240 That is why with the oil futures situation, with the 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.000 question of whether or not Trump world, you know, Trump 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.760 says the war's over, the markets open, they rally, you know, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.880 the markets closed, Trump says we're going to bomb them. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.280 Well, but there's also some front running. I mean, so 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.200 there's tudor codes going on here, right, Yeah, there's there's 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.760 this sense of he's responding to the markets, although I 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.040 think it's also possible. You know, we've got what thirty 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.640 five hundred US Airborne. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.800 The Marines from I think it was a Marine. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.920 Expeditionary force, and the airborne is like, I don't know, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.720 four days out. It's possible he was just buying time. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.920 But it's also possible he was just reacting to the 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:03.360 market and there isn't necessarily a plan. But then there's 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.640 also like, uh, you've got people buying oil futures, you know, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.160 moments before he makes these announcements. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:11.880 Yeah, and you. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.760 Know, we've seen this time and time again. We've seen it, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.120 you know on ploy Berker. That's just like insider trading, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.760 which I don't know, it's hard to assess which is worse. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.120 It's just it's quite obvious. There's a tremendous amount of 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:32.000 corruption and they're just milking every single aspect of the 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.520 job is being monetized. You know, today it was official 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.760 that the Trump administration is paying a French company that 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.600 had bought about a billion dollars worth of federal leases 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.120 to build wind farms off the coast of New York 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.479 State and North Carolina. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.880 Right wind farms that we need to make power that 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.000 would be free once it got going. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:03.520 It's relatively, yeah, relatively, and he's making them whole as 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.439 a way of like, you know, I guess buying them out. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.040 But part of the deal is we'll give you a 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:13.200 billion dollars taxpayer money, right, You then have to invest 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:19.960 in a new liquid natural gas refinery in Texas and 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.960 some other oil deals down there. So essentially tax dollars 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:31.079 to encourage to subsidize more or less more fossil fuel production. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.000 The company itself said, like, you know, we still believe 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.720 that the wind power is is the thing, but it's 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.199 just too expensive now to do it in America because 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.280 of course it would take all sorts of legal hurdles. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.080 And then you know, just one other sort of side 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.360 note to this. In December, Donald Trump's media company, which 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.880 trades under DJT I think it is, did a six 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.199 billion dollar all stock transaction no money involved in this, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:04.160 all stock transaction with a company that is in development 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.880 of fusion. Now, we've been hearing about fusion power for 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:09.600 a long time. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.400 It's always like twenty years. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.240 It always feels like it's a decade away. Yeah, exactly, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.120 this is supposedly a decade away. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.479 But make energy with nothing, Well here, it might happen. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.120 It might happen, but at the very least we know 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.640 that they have less competition because Donald trumpet is essentially 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.920 destroying the solar market, both in terms of like the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.560 the centralized stuff with the solar panels, you know, you 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.800 no longer subsidized to put those on your house, but 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.200 also taking out these wind farms. So even as like 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.040 a pump of dumb scheme, he's using taxpayer dollars to 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:53.000 increase the value of his company's all stock investment in 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.240 this fusion company. It's donning. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:01.080 So it's corruption and its grift, and it's sort of 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.680 venn diagram of both. I want to go back to 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.840 Christinome because I think that her being kids of the 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.640 curb is an interesting phenomenon. And I want to talk 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.520 about a press conference yesterday that Donald Trump did where 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.480 so one of the things Trump does is he backs 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.960 away from things when they start to seem like they 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.040 might be And one of the things that happened with 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.960 Christine Oome is it turns out she spent two hundred 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.560 and twenty million dollars on horseback riding basically horseback riding 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.680 movies and cowboy hats. And there's quite a lot of 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.960 money even for this administration. You know, she's the tactical pants, right, 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.800 the Scott Prouet with the tactical tactical pants of Trump 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.920 one point zero. I was watching this press conference yesterday, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.080 and there was one today where he said a lot 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.480 of crazy stuff. But yesterday he started I thought it. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.160 It seemed as if he was starting to make a 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:04.000 case that Whiskey Pete might eventually go the way of 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:04.840 Christy Nome. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.360 I don't know if we watched the same press conference, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.160 but he said at one point like Pete told me 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:10.640 to do this. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.360 Yeah, That's what I'm talking about it. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.360 He's always looking for a fall guy. It occurred to 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.520 me today on my show. It's like, maybe what we 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.800 all need to do. It's not like Donald Trump watches 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.760 my show, but we should all just pretend he's won, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.280 you know, just give him a little bit of grace, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.440 tell him that he's won, and hopefully back. I don't 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.920 know that the plan could be also to you know, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.120 it's unclear. I don't think that, you know, we're in 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:46.400 a position. The New York Times reported that MBS Crown Yes, yes, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.760 the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is supposedly encouraging him 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.120 to go further. The Saudi government denied it, but who 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.720 knows it certainly wouldn't be on Israel, who definitely wants 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.440 us to go further to say that it's the Saudist 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.120 But Maddis mad Dog Maddis. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.359 Yes, who was too sane for this administration and is out. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.880 He yesterday reportedly said at some event that, like, if 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.359 we leave now, Iran's going to charge a toll to 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.960 get through this straight to hor Moves, which apparently oil 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.480 companies don't like. I don't know this for a fact, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.159 I haven't done any research on this, but I'm willing 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.320 to bet you that Maddis works for a defense contractor. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.680 Oh I since on a couple of boards, and. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.520 So yes, just put the toll up. I'm fine with 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:32.919 that go. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.200 The thing is is that there's a lot of people 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.000 who as much as this looks like a disaster to us, right, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.160 as much as like, you know, a three or four 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.080 month oil shock and all of the sort of like 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:50.240 other implications of the fertilizer shortage, you know, which I think. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.640 Won't really class in season, won't. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.040 Really crest until twenty twenty seven. I think the fertilizer 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.680 is already in the system for this crop. But twenty 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.960 twenty seven, you're going to see a lot of social believe. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.280 The last time we saw that, we got the Arab spring. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.800 But who knows where this will happen. There's a lot 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.360 of people who can make a lot of money off 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.920 of this. Yeah, you know, as to like why Donald 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.640 Trump did this, which is clearly no political upside, right, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:20.879 Like if he wins, whatever that means, and we pull out, like, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.080 there's no he's not going to be in better shape 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.960 than he was before we went in. So to me, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.520 it sounds like somebody he's got to be making some 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.560 money some way, right, And he doesn't. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:40.200 Even said right. Remember he even first before he got elected, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.080 he told oil company billionaires, you know, you should get 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.600 me money. You'll earn the money back. And then he 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.080 recently he said, here's a truth, social post. The United 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.640 States is the largest oil producer in the world by far, 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.000 So when oil price is gone, we make a lot 0:18:55.000 --> 0:19:00.119 of money. We because they only privatize the games, they 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.760 socialized losses, we don't make a lot of money now. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.560 We actually, if you want to look at sheer numbers, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.360 is actually the ones who are paying more money in 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.119 gas prices and in inflation from everywhere else. We are 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.280 the ones who are paying the oil companies who are 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:17.200 making all the money. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:17.600 Right. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.719 I want to go back to Joe Kent for a minute, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.639 because you got my head going on the people who 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.920 leave the admitted. So this administration closes rank really well. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.000 And the difference between Trump one point zero and Trump 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.560 two point zero is that nobody everybody stays in right, 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.680 So if you get fired, you move to a different job, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.600 which prevents you from doing interviews and writing books. So 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.480 Christy nom now runs the Shield of the Americas, which 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.800 is not a real thing. But nope, but she's too 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.640 stupid to know. Probably a good job. I mean, right, 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.879 did she get to where the cowboy hat? But you know, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.720 let me just say she does not get her picture 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.920 everywhere like she used to have her picture in airport. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:01.400 It's not anymore. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:07.640 And I would imagine her political career. I think it's over, yes, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.640 Like I mean, like what like if she had any 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.320 desires of being like a VP for somebody or something 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.320 like that, I find it that's done. 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.960 Yeah, But everybody's political career, I mean, everyone who's gotten 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.840 in any kind of contact with Trump world is not 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.760 going to happen. I mean Jadie Vance is hiding from 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:26.280 this war. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.800 Jd Vance has gone into uh Is Like it does 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:31.840 seem like he's hiding in a bunker right now. And 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.439 Marco Rubio remember him, he was a Secretary of State. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.360 I haven't seen him in like. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.679 Tweets you don't see. I mean the crazy part is 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.080 Jade Vance, who had never who could not stop defending 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.560 everything in the entire world, who was if there was 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.520 a Nazi group chat, he was out there being like 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.160 those kids they were just thirty two. That guy does 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:56.120 not tweet anymore. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.760 Yeah, I mean it's interesting, Like That's my point is 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.800 like from a political standpoint, this is not a good 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:05.359 thing for Trump to do. No, and so they could 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.200 not make the argument that that was the case. Somebody 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.199 told him it was it was going to be a 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:14.399 slam dunk. But I also imagine he's got to be somebody. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.560 There has to be an entity that is putting money 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.639 in his pocket in some fashion that is in favor 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.439 of this. Maybe it is Saudi Arabia, maybe it's some 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:28.840 other country, but somewhere he is making money from this. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.919 I mean, I listens to be has to be if 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.199 oil gets more expensive, maybe he owns part of like 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.840 the output of Venezuela and maybe he's getting I don't know, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.800 but there is no other logic to it. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:45.440 Well, you mentioned this before, but Reuter's reports this morning, 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.400 and again it's just sort of we sort of knew 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.399 this was true, but that Trump right gets off the 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.320 phone with net Yahoo and orders the strike, right, and 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.000 then we have this Times reporting later in the day 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:05.440 at Saudie's. You know, wanted this involved in this, hoping 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:07.840 for more from this. I always am curious about the 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.199 timing of stories like this. Yeah, and we're both liberal Jews, 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:16.800 so I get very worried about this for any number 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.359 of reasons. But you know, a lot of people on 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.399 the right are saying it's anti Semitic to say that 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:27.560 Israel somehow was involved in this war, though clearly they 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:31.760 were no. But you know, the Jonathan Greenblatz of the world. 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:36.080 Jonathan lad is a is a grift. I honestly, if 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.720 Jonathan green Blaze told me my house was burning down, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.840 I wouldn't believe. Both Marco Rubio and people somehow forget this. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.920 Mike Johnson almost at the exact same time that Marco 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:49.640 Rubio said, yes, we attacked because Isla that they were 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.000 going to attack, and we thought we would be attacked, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:53.600 and so we were preempting. 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.160 That, by the way, an insane statement. 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.920 Well, only if like they had agreed that was the 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.560 best case scenario to sort of like say we had 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:04.919 to do this, they could have stopped Israel in that right, 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:06.439 They could have said, couldn't. 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.000 We're not the superpower. We're in the superpower. 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.760 Of course, yeah, it without a doubt. I don't I'm 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.359 not even convinced it's in Israel's best interest, but certainly 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.760 it was certainly on their on their bucket list. Yaho's 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.320 been saying that, yes, And I mean, let's be honest, Like, 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:25.960 you look at this country, ninety three percent of the 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:29.199 polling is in favor of the multitude of wars that 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.320