Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. Thanks being and welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for tuning in to Michael. The
Speaker 2: gift plane from Qatar would have to be stripped from
Speaker 2: the lead. We got that seventy on my sheet. No, well,
Speaker 2: I'll just say it what he said. The gift flame
Speaker 2: plane from Qatar would have to be stripped for security reasons.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that earlier.
Speaker 2: So the idea of a Katari jet being lent to
Speaker 2: the president to be the new air Force one then
Speaker 2: maybe goes to his library.
Speaker 1: There's a lot.
Speaker 2: Being made of it. Prob bleed too much. But we'll
Speaker 2: let the President himself explain what he's thinking. Clips seventy three, Michael,
Speaker 2: people who knew.
Speaker 1: That luxury jet as a personal get to you? Why
Speaker 1: not leave it by NBC? Fake news?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Why not only only ABC?
Speaker 4: Well a few of you would, let me tell you,
Speaker 4: you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us
Speaker 4: a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 4: give us. I want to pay you a billion or
Speaker 4: four hundred million or whatever it is, or I can
Speaker 4: say thank you very much. You know, there was an
Speaker 4: old golfer named Sam Sneed. Did you ever hear me?
Speaker 4: What eighty two terms? He was a great golfer that
Speaker 4: he had a motto, when they give you a putt,
Speaker 4: you say thank you very much, You pick up your ball,
Speaker 4: and you walk to the next hole. A lot of
Speaker 4: people are stupid. They say no, no, I have just
Speaker 4: start putting it. And then they put it and they
Speaker 4: miss it and their partner gets angry at them. You
Speaker 4: know what, Remember that Sam Snead, When they give you
Speaker 4: a putt, you pick it up, and you walk to
Speaker 4: the next hole, and you say thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Sam Snead would have hit you at a golf club.
Speaker 2: You fake news ABC reporter, Why Hannah, just Katie.
Speaker 1: So many people are stupid.
Speaker 2: He just you know, lover hate the guy. He's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sometimes yes, yes. So I'm less worried about the plane
Speaker 2: thing than some people are because there are ways that
Speaker 2: to take care of any ethical problems, and I have
Speaker 2: a feeling they'll be taken care of. I just there
Speaker 2: are much much bigger problems facing the US of a However,
Speaker 2: before we get to my main point, which is kicking
Speaker 2: Cutter the country, why not have a little fun with it.
Speaker 1: It's a late night joke off.
Speaker 2: We've got three comedians all making jokes about the same topic.
Speaker 2: I Joe Geddy will grade them the bottom grade. Getter
Speaker 2: will be banned from comedy for life.
Speaker 1: Hit it, Michael. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The eighty nine passenger luxury plane has wood finishes, custom carpets,
Speaker 4: and gold walls.
Speaker 3: The only thing it doesn't have is a way to
Speaker 3: safely land at Newark Airport.
Speaker 5: That's the only thing he doesn't make.
Speaker 6: Qatar is donating this new air Force one to the government.
Speaker 6: It's really just for Trump because air Force one is
Speaker 6: the president's personal plane, and when he's done being president,
Speaker 6: the plane would then be donated to Trump's presidential library,
Speaker 6: meaning he may continue using it.
Speaker 1: After leaving office.
Speaker 6: Actually, I actually think it's fitting that the only thing
Speaker 6: Trump's going to check out of his library is big plane.
Speaker 7: Trump administration is planning to accept a four hundred million
Speaker 7: dollars luxury jet as a gift from Katar's royal family.
Speaker 7: The jet features three lounges, nine bathrooms, and I'm guessing
Speaker 7: about one hundred and fifty hidden microphones.
Speaker 2: Wow, boy, felon Meyers both with c's just because you
Speaker 2: know they're reasonably topical and door. Yeah, the hidden microphone
Speaker 2: thing Colbert with a D minus god and it would
Speaker 2: be an F except that somebody in the audience appeared
Speaker 2: to like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That was terrible. Give him an F.
Speaker 2: Yes, f you're right, it's too much great inflation. That
Speaker 2: made us all sad and less alive. That was terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1: I blame you, which is the important thing anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the whole he gets to use it after
Speaker 2: the office. It's donated to his library number one Trump
Speaker 2: as old as the Hills.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: If that is ethically unacceptable, there will be it'll be
Speaker 2: dealt with. It's just it'll be fine. I'm not worried
Speaker 2: about this bringing down the United States. And if there
Speaker 2: are ethical questions, I think they will probably be answered.
Speaker 2: By the way, there are a handful of presidential libraries
Speaker 2: I think. I know Reagan's has the Air Force one
Speaker 2: that he used, and other Air Force ones have been
Speaker 2: donated to various aerospace museums and flight museums and that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. So the fact that it's don't quote
Speaker 2: unquote donate to do his library.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a gift to a museum anyway.
Speaker 2: So you know, you might disagree on that I was
Speaker 2: talking earlier about I am very, very wary of accepting
Speaker 2: gifts from various Middle Eastern regimes, including the Qataris in general,
Speaker 2: beware Katari's offering gifts, bearing gifts. Great piece by Eli
Speaker 2: Lake I came across not long ago, a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago, Ashley.
Speaker 1: Qatar's war for young American minds.
Speaker 2: Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the
Speaker 2: worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar.
Speaker 1: Or do you say Connor?
Speaker 2: They've been there for years, but American foreign policy has
Speaker 2: turned to a blind eye.
Speaker 3: Why.
Speaker 2: One reason might be that for the last twenty five years,
Speaker 2: this small, energy rich state has pumped billions of dollars
Speaker 2: into America to purchase influence in good favor. The Katari
Speaker 2: have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on
Speaker 2: lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and
Speaker 2: partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Katari largest, though,
Speaker 2: have been major universities in think tanks, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about unbelievable amounts of money. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: the National Association of Scholars did a study. Katara is
Speaker 2: the largest foreign donor to American universities. Seems kind of odd,
Speaker 2: doesn't it that this little oil rich country in the
Speaker 2: Middle East would care so deeply about our universities. The
Speaker 2: study found that in the twenty years between twenty one
Speaker 2: and twenty twenty one, the petro state donated a whopping
Speaker 2: just under five billion dollars to US colleges. Largest recipients
Speaker 2: those are some of America's most prestigious institutions of higher
Speaker 2: learning that already have a ton of money. That's odd, too,
Speaker 2: says if the Kataris are trying to buy influence, not education.
Speaker 2: These schools have partnered with the regime to build campuses
Speaker 2: in Doha's Education City, a special district of the capitol
Speaker 2: that hope holds satellite at hosts rather satellite colleges for
Speaker 2: American universities. So, for instance, in the last quarter century
Speaker 2: or so, Katar has donated more than one hundred and
Speaker 2: three million dollars to Virginia Commonwealth one point eight billion
Speaker 2: to Cornell, seven hundred million to Texas A and M,
Speaker 2: and the list goes on and on. Seven hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty million dollars to Georgetown University for a school of
Speaker 2: politics and six hundred and two million Northwestern University for
Speaker 2: a school of journalism. All but one of the universities
Speaker 2: contacted declined to comment on the relationship and the future
Speaker 2: of the Doha campuses. In Qatar, which again hosts Hamas
Speaker 2: and has for years and years and years, there's one
Speaker 2: school that said serves a broader purpose fostering international dialogue
Speaker 2: and cooperation, peaceful resolutions rather than conflict, which is a
Speaker 2: lovely sentiment. But there is a significant body of thinking
Speaker 2: that believes that the Kataris are trying to soft pedal
Speaker 2: any criticism of their behavior in Islamism in general. Organizations
Speaker 2: like Hamas, these universities have incredibly Islamist friendly faculties and programs,
Speaker 2: and the reason is they're getting hundreds of millions of
Speaker 2: dollars from Cutter. So I just I see Cutter coming
Speaker 2: with another big giant gift, and I think you guys
Speaker 2: are up to something.
Speaker 1: Anyway. We'll dig more into this at another time. I
Speaker 1: have the very latest. Enough, Now I have the very
Speaker 1: latest in the Sean Combs trial. Oh good lord, is
Speaker 1: it gross?
Speaker 3: Today's today, man, the star witness, the key to the
Speaker 3: whole thing is testifying, and this is the whole ball
Speaker 3: of axe today, even though it's spected to be kind
Speaker 3: of a longish trial, The whole ball of axes today.
Speaker 2: Pop singer Cassie also known as Cassandra what's her name? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the gal, the one who took the beating in
Speaker 2: the hotel lobby.
Speaker 3: Right, And she's testifying, and she's got some gruesome things
Speaker 3: to say, and I will explain what those are coming up.
Speaker 3: And it might be one of those what's not might
Speaker 3: want to be one of those deals, one of those deals,
Speaker 3: or you don't want to definitely don't want your kids.
Speaker 1: Listening, oh boy, in any way whatsoever.
Speaker 3: But I can't imagine how this would, these details will
Speaker 3: land with a jury. She's eight months pregnant, so she got
Speaker 3: an eight months pregnant woman up there testifying to some
Speaker 3: really crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I think she's gonna be quite sympathetic. Oh yeah, one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. But then the the defense is gonna hammer
Speaker 2: look dated him for ten years. What's that you dated
Speaker 2: him for ten years? That's well one thing, Yeah, number
Speaker 2: one and number two is gonna be Look, having wild
Speaker 2: sex is not sex trafficking, right, Domestic battery is not
Speaker 2: necessarily sex trafficking. He's a hot tempered guy. He's hit
Speaker 2: a woman. It's terrible, but that's not the charge here, folks.
Speaker 2: That's what the defense is.
Speaker 1: Going to say. Folks. He dropped the folks absolutely. You
Speaker 1: know why because I'm folksy. Folks.
Speaker 3: Seems out of place given the testimony book and other
Speaker 3: stuff on the way, stay right here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see if he's got anything to say. It's
Speaker 3: not really ever been his brand of having particularly witty
Speaker 3: or interesting things to say in a compelling way, But
Speaker 3: we'll see. I wonder what he's getting paid as opposed
Speaker 3: to his former best friend Charles Barkley, who contract goes
Speaker 3: from TNTDESPN next year and he said for the weekend,
Speaker 3: ESPN was rolling out all the states. So Barkley decided
Speaker 3: to keep working. They threw so much money at him.
Speaker 3: I think it's two hundred million, two hundred million dollar
Speaker 3: ten year deal.
Speaker 1: Wow. And he decided to keep working for that amount
Speaker 1: of money.
Speaker 3: But so they announced all this stuff for Barkley that
Speaker 3: he would be you know, he'd be joining on this
Speaker 3: show in the morning and this show in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: and all this stuff. And he came out over the
Speaker 3: weekend said no, I'm not I'm not doing any of
Speaker 3: that stuff. You think I'm gonna do any extra work
Speaker 3: at this point in my life, fire me if you want,
Speaker 3: but I'm not doing those shows.
Speaker 1: Wow. That's funny. That's something man, that's when you got leverage.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised he signed a ten year deal though, I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe he just really enjoys it.
Speaker 3: Good for him, he enjoys it if he gets to
Speaker 3: completely dictate, you know, his own hours and pace.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So they so they came out with some sort of
Speaker 3: we've been in these situations before where they say, now
Speaker 3: you're gonna go on the morning show in New York
Speaker 3: every Tuesday morning at eight, And he.
Speaker 1: Said no, I'm not. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and I should know better than this. It's
Speaker 2: a ten year deal. But he can quit any time
Speaker 2: he wants. He just can't go to work for a competitor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's got more money than God anyway. And
Speaker 3: then the NBA last night, as we mentioned, the Knicks
Speaker 3: are up three to one over the Celtics city defending champ,
Speaker 3: but the.
Speaker 1: Star player for the defending champs went down.
Speaker 3: I've always been interested in the idea that athletes are
Speaker 3: so in touch with their body and injuries that they
Speaker 3: seem to know it instantly when they've got an injury
Speaker 3: that's a really big deal.
Speaker 1: Like most of us, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've gotten hurt before I thought, oh my god, I'll
Speaker 3: never walk again, you know, and it's fine, or we're
Speaker 3: the opposite. I think, you know, that's kind of a
Speaker 3: little tweak, and then it ends up being eight weeks
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: But they seem to just know.
Speaker 3: And like this, Jason Tatum for the Celtics, he went down,
Speaker 3: and everybody said he knew immediately, Oh, this might be
Speaker 3: the end of my career. I'm not playing again this
Speaker 3: next year. Even it just did they know this. There
Speaker 3: are some injuries. I think, yeah, you don't need to
Speaker 3: be in all with an incredible ripport with your body
Speaker 3: or whatever. But I see your point. But yes, some
Speaker 3: when your knee is pointing sideways and you think, well,
Speaker 3: that's doomed.
Speaker 1: This was an ankle, but he is. He may be
Speaker 1: done forever. So the Sean P Diddy thing.
Speaker 3: Just want to throw that out there, do not if
Speaker 3: you're if you're squeamish about this sort of stuff. I
Speaker 3: shouldn't even say squeamish, and that makes it make it
Speaker 3: sound like you're weak or something like that. I don't
Speaker 3: even know what the right term is. But this is
Speaker 3: really gross what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2: And it is testimony that the jury is hearing, right,
Speaker 2: but this is really gross. I mean, this is not
Speaker 2: some sort of rumor on the web. This is evidence
Speaker 2: in the trial.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this Cassie Ventura, who is P Diddy's girlfriend for
Speaker 3: ten years, and if you know anything about this trial,
Speaker 3: you've seen the video where he drags her down the
Speaker 3: hall by the hair and all that.
Speaker 1: Sort of stuff. And she's the star witness in the trial.
Speaker 3: And I guess there was some discussion of whether or
Speaker 3: not she'd actually even testify as recently as this past weekend.
Speaker 3: But here she's going to testify, and it's today, like
Speaker 3: it's right now, and this is gonna be the really
Speaker 3: hard to overcome thing, and he is going she is
Speaker 3: going to corroborate, corroborate. She's going to say the same
Speaker 3: thing somebody else said to a bodyguard yesterday that testified
Speaker 3: that did he would hire male escorts to have sex
Speaker 3: with his girlfriend in front of him, sometimes for as
Speaker 3: long as ten hours, which is hard to even imagine.
Speaker 2: On Hey, this is great, but there's a ballgame on.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah, that's wow, that's a kink. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's a drug thing like that. Those of
Speaker 2: us who don't do those kind of drugs can't understand.
Speaker 2: It keeps you interested. For who could stay interested for
Speaker 2: ten hours?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's other stuff to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or there's a you know, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you know how the whole sex thing works, but there
Speaker 3: is a there is a payoff usually that is quite pleasant,
Speaker 3: and then you think, you know, I'm good for a while.
Speaker 3: I'm good for a while ten hours, No, maybe next week,
Speaker 3: maybe even this weekend, but.
Speaker 1: Not like after lunch.
Speaker 2: Today anyway, on stop the testimony yesterday, wash and again,
Speaker 2: this is highly gross among the things that the.
Speaker 3: Paid escort was forced to do, like did he threaten them?
Speaker 3: Was he had to do?
Speaker 1: We wanna can we just be vague? How do you
Speaker 1: be vague about this?
Speaker 2: They played horrible, disgusting ppe games.
Speaker 3: Well, she was on the receiving end of something that
Speaker 3: she says was not her idea or something she wanted.
Speaker 3: And she's going to say, yeah, that did happen. And
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, in terms of scoring points with the jury,
Speaker 3: that makes you look like a crazy person.
Speaker 2: Well, and I've been harping on the fact that the
Speaker 2: defense is going to say, well, being a perv is
Speaker 2: not sex trafficking.
Speaker 1: Having orgies not sex trafficking.
Speaker 2: If they testify that she was made to do something
Speaker 2: so gross and off putting for most people, uh, the
Speaker 2: vast majority of people, and they ask her why did
Speaker 2: you do it?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: And she says, because I was terrified. That's going to
Speaker 2: be really damaging. Right, So this thing, we're two days
Speaker 2: into this and the big cohuna is today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, And.
Speaker 2: Then I guess you get into the specifics of trafficking
Speaker 2: and money being transferred whiles being broke is more legalistic stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I guess that's the way you want to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: You want to you want to hit the hit the
Speaker 3: jury with this hard first early while they're paying attention,
Speaker 3: then get into the.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, I see the strategy.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: So who won the big trade deal between China and Trump?
Speaker 3: It seems to be running pretty one sided when you
Speaker 3: ask people to be Joe Alwayer, Armstrong.
Speaker 8: And gettystick d escalation in the trade war between the
Speaker 8: United States and China. Starting Wednesday and effective for the
Speaker 8: next ninety days, the United States government will lower it's
Speaker 8: overall tariffs on Chinese goods from one hundred and forty
Speaker 8: five percent to thirty percent. China will lower its duties
Speaker 8: on American imports from one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 8: to ten percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that was the headline yesterday, and as you know,
Speaker 3: as we had it here and here's where I get
Speaker 3: I could get in trouble with Trump fans if I
Speaker 3: had to. If I had to click a box of
Speaker 3: whether I'm a Trump fan or a Trump hater, I
Speaker 3: definitely would have to check Trump fan.
Speaker 1: Between those two choices.
Speaker 3: But uh, I took in a lot of coverage on
Speaker 3: the analysis of this yesterday, and I'd be interested in
Speaker 3: what your takeaway was the vast majority of it, I mean,
Speaker 3: like ninety five percent of it, unless it was somebody
Speaker 3: who worked for Trump basically said he backed down, he
Speaker 3: backed down, and we accomplished nothing. And that's from obviously
Speaker 3: from the from painting sources, but from also a conservative
Speaker 3: leaning sources.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of them hate Trump, but true. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: I have searched far and wide for people who are
Speaker 2: saying that this made perfect sense and the result is great,
Speaker 2: and it's just nobody's really saying that.
Speaker 3: And to the extent that the market's roared back up,
Speaker 3: it's not because uh, Yay, we won something.
Speaker 1: It's okay. Now we've got some certainty.
Speaker 3: The super bad scare of you know, immediate recession stagflation
Speaker 3: we can put off and kick the can down.
Speaker 1: The road, which is the way markets react. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a yay, this was a great deal. It was a
Speaker 1: thank God it's over. Yeah, it was a thanks God
Speaker 1: it's over. He has I heard somebody describe it yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was a you know, it's like you're punching yourself
Speaker 3: in the face and you stop punching in yourself in
Speaker 3: the face.
Speaker 1: It feels good and you're you're happy for it, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean it's a good idea put yourself in
Speaker 1: the face in the first place.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I would agree, Uh yeah, I'm troubled by
Speaker 2: a lot of it. In it's you know, it's one
Speaker 2: of those issues that there are a couple of layers
Speaker 2: to it, which doesn't lend itself well to a lot
Speaker 2: of the super blunt, super strongly fell talk of whether
Speaker 2: it's talk radio or politics in general. You talk about tariffs,
Speaker 2: all right against our allies, all right, what are their
Speaker 2: non trade barriers? Let's talk about it. Let's let's have
Speaker 2: a little more equity here with that. I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent fine with that. The China thing's completely different. And
Speaker 2: within the China thing, are we talking about areas where
Speaker 2: they are flooding the market in ways that violate trade
Speaker 2: agreements with the steel for instance, which we'll get to
Speaker 2: in a second. Or is it a strategic industry that
Speaker 2: we need to protect just for national security reasons.
Speaker 1: That's a different question. And then you got the problem that.
Speaker 2: Wherever there are tariffs there are carve out because the
Speaker 2: powerful and well connected go hat in hand to the
Speaker 2: White House promising gigantic contributions or threats or whatever, and
Speaker 2: the powerful and well connected get carve outs and the
Speaker 2: small business people don't, and it becomes a very very
Speaker 2: swampy cesspool of what's called rent seeking among economists, which
Speaker 2: means begging the government, essentially spending your time, energy and
Speaker 2: money on begging the government as opposed to innovating and
Speaker 2: designing better products. And so the tariff thing bothers me
Speaker 2: a lot on that level. Oh, by the way, I
Speaker 2: want to get to later. There's a chunk of the
Speaker 2: new Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3: Book that comes out in a few days about all
Speaker 3: the secret hidden stuff in the Biden White House that
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper and his friends were ignoring. But anyway, there's
Speaker 3: some interesting details in there about Biden's infirmities.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to an hour three.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the whole you know, has this been good
Speaker 2: or bad? What Trump's done with China?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's complicated. And then it's not over yet. We've still
Speaker 2: got a weird system where we're hammering some of our
Speaker 2: allies harder than we are China. If you leave out
Speaker 2: the twenty percent, hey cut it out with the fentanyl tariff.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I thought this was go ahead. Were you gonna
Speaker 1: jump in there? So?
Speaker 2: Do you know who Kevin O'Leary is, The bald headed
Speaker 2: shark tank guy, mister wonderful they call him. It's funny
Speaker 2: they put out in the Free Press that he's got
Speaker 2: a lot in common with Donald J. Trump, both conservative
Speaker 2: built reputations as successful businessmen turned into reality TV stars,
Speaker 2: and like most tycoons, O'Leary takes issue with Trump's one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty five percent tariff on most Chinese products.
Speaker 2: This was written a couple of days ago before the
Speaker 2: big change.
Speaker 1: The twist.
Speaker 2: O'Leary doesn't think they're too high. He thinks they aren't
Speaker 2: high enough. And here's what he said. When President Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton welcomed China into the World Trade Organization and OH one,
Speaker 2: the idea was to hold him accountable. China was some
Speaker 2: push to adhere to WTO rules guaranteeing intellectual property rights
Speaker 2: and cooperating with American producers, but they never complied, not
Speaker 2: in the first week and not in the twentieth year
Speaker 2: of doing business. The Wtoshia kicked them out for non compliance. Instead,
Speaker 2: it's a given that the Communists, the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 2: had free reign to cheat and steal from other members.
Speaker 2: Partly that's because the West was able to import cheap
Speaker 2: Chinese goods even if their own companies were being put
Speaker 2: out of business. But it's also because too many governments
Speaker 2: were intimidated by China. Now the WTO is racked and
Speaker 2: stacked with grievances from the US and other countries that
Speaker 2: have never been arbitrated, litigated, or resolved. Frankly, I don't
Speaker 2: see the point of the WTO even existing if it
Speaker 2: can't keep China in check. That's pretty good and some details.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a good example steel dumping. Chinese
Speaker 2: government intentionally subsidizes the over production of steel, flooding global
Speaker 2: markets with products with exports rather that China sells for
Speaker 2: below the cost of production. That is totally against the
Speaker 2: international rules of free trade. Producers in the US, Europe
Speaker 2: and Asia simply can't compete while China unfairly.
Speaker 1: Gains market share.
Speaker 2: Or how about the way the Chinese government repeatedly steals
Speaker 2: intellectual property and then he gives a couple of examples,
Speaker 2: including one that was on Shark Tank that it was
Speaker 2: just clearly a ripoff the Briggs, as the folks in
Speaker 2: question went to all the trouble and expensive patenting their product,
Speaker 2: patenting their product and did them no good. As soon
Speaker 2: as the revenue hit a certain amount. China just absolutely
Speaker 2: stole it, frustrating. Here's another of China's favorite tricks, the
Speaker 2: golden share. That's when a preferred shareholder sells all their
Speaker 2: stock except one percent, but that one percent still allows
Speaker 2: them to control the company.
Speaker 1: Guess what.
Speaker 2: The Chinese Communist Party has golden shares in everything. Literally,
Speaker 2: there's no major Chinese company that is not controlled by
Speaker 2: the CCP. So when something like TikTok comes along with
Speaker 2: Congress demanding the TikTok either be sold or banned from
Speaker 2: the US, there's nobody at the company to negotiate with.
Speaker 2: There's only one guy to talk to, the guy who
Speaker 2: runs the Chinese government. Shees in Ping since he holds
Speaker 2: the golden share, and then he goes into the fact
Speaker 2: that Chinese companies are not complying with the generally Accepted
Speaker 2: accounting principles the GAAP when they list their stock in
Speaker 2: the New York Stock exchange, and those are the rules
Speaker 2: that guide financial reporting in the US. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: Congress passed the law that gave them three years to comply,
Speaker 2: but as usual, China completely ignored the law, and the
Speaker 2: chairman of the Security is In Exchange Commission under Biden
Speaker 2: didn't so much as lift a finger against them. Now
Speaker 2: his successor is trying to force China to be compliant,
Speaker 2: but doing so could involve delisting companies with as much
Speaker 2: as an eight hundred billion dollar market cap on the
Speaker 2: New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Will that sure
Speaker 2: hurt the NASDAK, Sure it will, But some things are
Speaker 2: more important.
Speaker 1: And there's paragraphs more of this stuff.
Speaker 3: So the Wao WTO is yet another farce of an
Speaker 3: international body that China runs over and nobody pays the attentions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly it doesn't stand up against the Chinese communists.
Speaker 2: It's very much like the who run by that China
Speaker 2: ass kissing Moroccan guy? What's his face during COVID that
Speaker 2: helped cover up for the communists is spreading this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, what was his name?
Speaker 2: I don't want to name the wrong ass kissing Moroccan
Speaker 2: guy and be accused of splan slander. One more thing
Speaker 2: from mister Wonderful. The trouble is that collectively we in
Speaker 2: the West have allowed China to walk all over US
Speaker 2: for years. Administration after administration, not just in the US
Speaker 2: but also in Europe have let China screw the West
Speaker 2: time after time. I speak for millions who are sick
Speaker 2: to death of China's shady business practices which they've been
Speaker 2: getting away with for decades. So my advice to President
Speaker 2: Trump has squeezed China even harder. The current tariffs, which
Speaker 2: are around one hundred and forty five percent, don't go
Speaker 2: far enough. Come on top of the US should impost
Speaker 2: four hundred percent tariffs or put another way, should shut
Speaker 2: down trade with China completely? Well, Kevin, bad news, brother.
Speaker 2: Not only are we not doing that, we backtracked from
Speaker 2: the other stuff, you know, getting back to the theme
Speaker 2: of this stuff is fairly complicated and doesn't lend itself
Speaker 2: to bellowing on talk radio. He's right in principle. But
Speaker 2: if you got a heroin addict who DT the DTS
Speaker 2: will kill if he goes cold Turkey, then you got
Speaker 2: to come up with another way. And some of the
Speaker 2: stories about small businesses being absolutely murdered by those one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty five percent tariffs were heartbreaking. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're the backbone of the US economy and a lot
Speaker 2: of them do a lot of business with China because
Speaker 2: that's what we've set up, partly by ignoring all the
Speaker 2: stuff while HER's talking about, but that's our economy is
Speaker 2: a heroin addict for Chinese goods and manufacturing and the
Speaker 2: rest of it. And so, you know, Trump tried to
Speaker 2: go semi cold Turkey and a lot of people were
Speaker 2: howling and not just you know, the ouch that's hurting me,
Speaker 2: even though I'm a giant rich corporation. They were like, no,
Speaker 2: I will my business will go away and I will
Speaker 2: be poverty stricken. We have gotten ourselves into a tough spot.
Speaker 2: You do the you know what kids? First of all,
Speaker 2: what the hell are you listening to this show for
Speaker 2: if you're a kid. Secondly, you do the wrong thing
Speaker 2: long enough, undoing it becomes really really hard.
Speaker 3: We have breaking news. Joe Biden has a nodule on
Speaker 3: his prostate. According to an exam today, Joe Biden's prostate
Speaker 3: nodule will have graphs and uh.
Speaker 1: At least that's not another perverted thing. Did he did full.
Speaker 3: Team coverage coming up of Biden's prostate nodgin?
Speaker 1: Did Jill discover it? She has a doctor, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. Not a real doctor, that's true.
Speaker 3: She is a doctor. I looked up at CBS News.
Speaker 3: They're doing why is allergy season worse this year? It's
Speaker 3: all across the What's interesting to me is that it's
Speaker 3: all across the country, that it's worse this year. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that's the way allergies could work, with so
Speaker 3: many different plants and weather systems and you know, climates
Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. But it is horrible
Speaker 3: for everyone nationwide, coast to coast. It's worse than practically
Speaker 3: any year. So if you're guessing it's the.
Speaker 2: Climate change according to the TV newspeople, yeah, a doctor,
Speaker 2: very nice doctor who helped me a lot on Saturday.
Speaker 3: But I said something about the allergies. He said, well,
Speaker 3: she's only gonna get worse with climate change or not?
Speaker 3: All right, whatever, all right, all right. A couple another
Speaker 3: headline I just came across. There's a report Fox is
Speaker 3: saying that Democrats are looking to have an intervention against
Speaker 3: Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania to try to drive him from office.
Speaker 3: So that hit piece in the Atlantic about his brain
Speaker 3: or the New Yorker, I guess is just the beginning
Speaker 3: of it. Now the Democrats are looking at an intervention
Speaker 3: where they would I don't know.
Speaker 1: What you do.
Speaker 3: Is there a article five something or other like you
Speaker 3: can do with the president with a senator to say
Speaker 3: that they're not mentally amitment? Yeah, twenty fifth of minute.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyway, that's kind of an interesting story.
Speaker 3: And also how bad is shape was o'biden? According to
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper's new book, they're starting to leak stuff out
Speaker 3: before it comes out. We can get to that too
Speaker 3: at a good stud right, sounds fine, There a lot
Speaker 3: of good stuff.
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 9: Did you study comparing two popular drugs used for weight loss.
Speaker 9: Researcher studying obese and overweight patients for seventy two weeks,
Speaker 9: finding those on zep bound lost an average of fifty pounds,
Speaker 9: with GOV patients losing an average of thirty three pounds.
Speaker 9: Both groups reported some known side effects. Both drugs helped
Speaker 9: improve blood sugar and cholesterol. A study in the New
Speaker 9: England Journal of medicine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, the question is always did do you
Speaker 1: keep it off? Right? Of course?
Speaker 2: And the whole side effects thing, which jackassd David Muir
Speaker 2: kind of gloss glossed over there. Oh I can't stand him.
Speaker 2: That was the nicest clean sword I could come up.
Speaker 3: What did he do to wrong you? I mean you,
Speaker 3: you really do hate him? What was the main offense?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's had so many but he is horrifying during
Speaker 2: the debate. Oh, right, right, right, right, Oh, he's blatantly biased.
Speaker 1: Because Judy like him? Is that as Judy kind of
Speaker 1: Oh David Murskay couldn't pick him out of a lineup? No, uh,
Speaker 1: you know if it was a personal grudge or something.
Speaker 2: No, he's just he's a jackass. I was I gonna say, Oh,
Speaker 2: I was reading a bit about the side effects, and
Speaker 2: you have to remember if ten percent of people experienced blah,
Speaker 2: that sounds like a small number, but with many, many,
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of millions of people getting prescribed this,
Speaker 2: the number of people who are having like horrendous side.
Speaker 1: Effects is nasty. Speaking to an including death, now that's
Speaker 1: a side effect. Speaking of weight loss.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelsey has shown up to camp
Speaker 3: looking like a different human being.
Speaker 1: Got a new body this year, kind.
Speaker 3: Of dropped the uh you know, kind of soft physique
Speaker 3: that you've been carrying the last couple of years after
Speaker 3: a an embarrassing Super Bowl loss and is in really
Speaker 3: good shape.
Speaker 1: So here you go.
Speaker 3: This is something a Newark airport, which had all those
Speaker 3: troubles last week.
Speaker 1: And everything like that.
Speaker 3: One air traffic controller showed up yesterday. They're supposed to
Speaker 3: have a minimum of fifteen to operate, and they had one.
Speaker 1: That big walkout. Huh No, it's just it doesn't even
Speaker 1: really explain it.
Speaker 3: It's just all kinds of you know, somebody's sick or
Speaker 3: that person's not here, or their shift is up or
Speaker 3: what are They just aren't enough of them, and it
Speaker 3: all kind of coincided on a day where they had one.
Speaker 3: They thought they'd have two or three, which is way
Speaker 3: fewer than you're supposed to have, and they had one
Speaker 3: for at least of the morning. That's isn't that crazy.
Speaker 3: I don't understand anything stuff, but it is astonishing.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, a surgeon showing up to the
Speaker 2: operating room and there are no nurses right and it's
Speaker 2: just like, well, I got to try to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how does that happen? So it's getting I don't
Speaker 3: know why this is getting any attention.
Speaker 1: I miss. This was a mistake. I miss made a
Speaker 1: mistake and.
Speaker 3: Pre bought the Jake Tapper tell All book about Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: and as we get it comes out in a few days.
Speaker 3: That's twenty five dollars wasted because I'm realizing more and
Speaker 3: more there. There's just a very little there that's surprising
Speaker 3: in the least and they're putting out probably the most
Speaker 3: interesting stuff ahead of time to try to tease people
Speaker 3: to buy it. I mean, that's usually the way previews
Speaker 3: for TV shows, movies or books work. But they've got
Speaker 3: the stuff out today that they and this is shocking.
Speaker 1: You might want to sit down for this.
Speaker 3: Turns out the team was thinking Joe Biden might need
Speaker 3: a wheelchair after he wins the election, but not before
Speaker 3: because they thought it would do too much damage.
Speaker 1: To have him be seen in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3: But how could that be even in the least bit
Speaker 3: surprising or interesting really to anyone?
Speaker 2: He could barely walk. He's crazy old and getting older. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we can do that math ourselves.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Jake, Joe, as have all our institutions.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all knew that every day. We talked about it.
Speaker 3: I like the way you write it a year later
Speaker 3: in a book and act like it's some sort of
Speaker 3: deep fake.
Speaker 2: That's a Republican talking point conspiracy there.
Speaker 3: That advisors privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use
Speaker 3: a wheelchair if he won re election. Cee it n's
Speaker 3: Jake Tappern and Axios, As Alex S. Thompson write in
Speaker 3: their new book, Original Sin, the discussions reflected the extent
Speaker 3: of the president's declining health. Yeah we know, and his
Speaker 3: aid's alarm over it as Biden sought a second termin
Speaker 3: a j eight one. The conversations also revealed the White
Speaker 3: House's determination to conceal the reality of Biden's condition. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we caught onto that too, by starting to use the
Speaker 3: lower steps and the shorter ramps, and the surrounding him
Speaker 3: with people so you couldn't see him.
Speaker 1: We all knew this. Do you not know that we
Speaker 1: all knew this?
Speaker 2: David Burge, the Great IOWAHACA blogger just tweeted, come on now,
Speaker 2: it was just an ambulatory stutter.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: The book is based on interviews with more than two
Speaker 3: hundred people, mostly Democratic insiders. Oh man, you're so lucky
Speaker 3: to have access to two hundred insiders to bring us
Speaker 3: this information that we all knew three years ago.
Speaker 1: I find that odd that this is even.
Speaker 2: Happening straight out of the department of Elephants are big
Speaker 2: and the sun is hot.
Speaker 1: No, kidd, thank you for that revelation.
Speaker 3: Biden's physical deterioration, most apparent in his halting walk. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, had become so severe that there were internal
Speaker 3: discussions about blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It goes on and on.
Speaker 3: I do they think they're revealing something? I mean, are
Speaker 3: they so surrounded by their kind that they think they're
Speaker 3: revealing something that's the least bit surprising to most of us?
Speaker 1: I think we.
Speaker 2: Would be shocked the level shot by the level of
Speaker 2: non disagreement with any of the big talking points Biden's
Speaker 2: find He's rate and nobody dared dissent in their circles.
Speaker 1: That's wild.
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