WEBVTT - Hanta Hanta Hanta! 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.960 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:11.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jettie 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:12.320 and He. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:27.200 Arm them from studio SNS, A dim light lit room 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.400 deep with them, the Bowels, the Armstrong in Getty Communications 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.000 compound the Bowels. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.519 I tell you and say, today we're toiling. Under the 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:35.479 title of the show. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.400 The shadow of Iran looms over, China talks or wait 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.440 to say, the shadow of. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:40.760 China talks looms over. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.600 I can't remember it, there are shadows or if you 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.080 prefer Is anybody outside the media thinking about the Hana virus? 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:54.320 No kidding, Holy craps. Is that like driven by the 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.040 viewer slash listeners? Or is it entirely just can't talking 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.520 head driven? I do not know. I've never been more 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.480 confused about a news story, with these sorts of legs 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.960 day ten or whatever it is of it leading every 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.320 newscast I see, and you're always saying, experts emphasize there 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.679 is nothing to worry about. Yeah, that's what you've said 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.679 for ten days. So what are we doing? Right? I mean, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.479 like if I gathered the kids in the living room 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.039 every night and said, okay, God that everybody around to 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.679 say it, there's nothing to worry about. Okay, then we'll 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.479 just go back to what are you wit then late? 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:35.119 You don't need to be afraid every night? Yeah, well, weird, 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.560 a little weird, and we ought to jump on the 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.199 headline that came just before we got on the air 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.759 with inflation up. Look at these headlines from at least 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.720 for the publications I got in front of me talking 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:51.280 about inflation highest in three years, Washington Post, New York 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.640 Times inflation shot up, Wall Street Journal, inflation sword, Financial 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:02.360 Times inflation jumps. Those are all bad headlines about inflation. Whoops. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.720 You don't want it to be jumping, soaring, shooting up 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:09.960 or reaching highest rate. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.399 I'm anti surging as well. Yes, that's bad too, as 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.000 not a good wow boy. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.680 Three point eight percent nothing compared to the heights of 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.840 COVID obviously, but and it's forty percent of it was 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.200 the fact that energy prices are up because of the war, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.359 which is not surprising. But that will trickle out into 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.200 the rest of the economy, they say in coming months. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.520 Since every thing gets transported on something that uses usually diesel, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.720 which I paid last night in my diesel truck. Seven 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.639 sixty eight for a gallon per gallon of diesel. It's 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.680 gonna hit eight dollars soon anyway, it says the Wall 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 Street Journal, products from lipstick to golf balls will be 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.040 more expensive. Oh man, it's an odd. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.440 I'm gonna start stealing them out of other guys bags 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.800 or some lipstick lipstick. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.920 Yeah, yeah, from lipstick to golf balls. Wow. But yeah, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.919 why wouldn't everything go up because every every truck filling 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.720 up hauling stuff around is having to put in that, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.520 especially in California, really expensive diesel. And anyway, little inflation 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.280 added on to the stew of everything going on. That's fun. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.880 Well, back to the who's casting a shadow over what thing? 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.640 Let's let's finish this up with their on. They're not 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.280 negotiating any good faith. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.799 Whatever. The next thing is, do the next thing? Why 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.000 is there a next thing? Let's do it? So Trump 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.600 comes out yesterday you know what I mean, or I 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.079 guess it was the night before, and I just I 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.400 got their proposal. I rejected, you know, wholeheartedly. That too bad. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.760 It's not stupid, but it's stupid. It's not even worth 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.360 talking about. Yesterday called it a piece plan. It's a 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.840 piece of garbage. Well then the details come out. Good God, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.960 I mean that is some serious putting a thumb on 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.480 somebody's eye. Yeah, here's our proposal. You pay for everything 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.400 you broke, we get to continue to hang on to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.400 the straight up horror moves, and we're gonna keep trying 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.960 to get a nuclear weapon, and we get Florida, the 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.560 nice half. What do you think of that? I mean, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.320 that is like our joking proposal of selling a car, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.320 where one side comes in says, I'll give you a 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.680 zero dollars. No, no, no, you're gonna take my car 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.040 and give me money and I get your Entamesolete but 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.000 your wife? Right? Wait, wait, are we seem to be 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:28.560 really far apart on this deal? Negotiations are ongoing, so 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.400 I don't know. Trump has done a lot of deals 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.719 in his life. I would think he would realize when 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.799 he's negotiating with somebody who's not the least bit serious. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:45.359 Right, right, is he assembling firepower consolidating support among the 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.080 Gulf States? 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.400 I don't know. I've given up guessing it's just dragging 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.120 on and on and on. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.359 The fake ceasefire, although we've ceased firing has gone on 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.920 now longer than the war part of it with nothing settled. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:57.600 Now. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.920 I was watching Mark Kelly, who the Demorats have decided, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.680 bald headed former astronaut from Arizona. Don't you know they've 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.800 decided he's the go to guy. He radiates masculinity and 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.479 American thiss or something or other. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.240 He can't criticize him because his wife got shot. Yeah, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.839 I can a sorry about your wife. That was horrible. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:22.680 But he was on Morning Joe Today, which I uncharacteristically 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.279 watched a couple of minutes of, and he came off 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:33.160 as blatantly anti American success. It was just another reminder 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.880 that if they tie Trump to America's success on any front, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:44.919 any front economically, militarily, just culturally, anything, then they hate 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.719 that and want it to fail, even if it's the 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.919 United States military, even if it's opening the strait. Just 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:56.200 a partisanship has now killed patriotism, at least on the left, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.360 and let's not do that on the right. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.640 By the way, I would not that. So what do 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.320 you think Iran is up to? If you respond to 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.640 a proposal with yeah, how about you pay for everything 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.560 that you broke reparations and we keep the straight which 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.760 we didn't have before the war, so we come out 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.440 of it better than we went into it. What do 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:20.279 you think they're up to? 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:28.719 You know, Iranians are notoriously brutal negotiators. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.960 They love it, they revel in it. They want to 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:32.880 haggle about everything. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:39.760 Either they're just trying to peg the deal making way 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.640 over here so that if they come over a little 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.120 bit it seems like a lot. Or it's simply the hardliners, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.440 and this is probably a more likely explanation. It's the 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.600 hardliners who think we can take this pain way longer 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.680 than the electorate in the United States will, and they 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.440 will turn on Trump, and Trump will head for the 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.000 exit and we will be in fine shape and. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.000 Hold onto our power. Yeah, gonna wait it out. I'm 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.840 with the analysts who believe that Iran things were in 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.320 a worse situation than they are. Okay, you got up 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:19.000 the pressure up, the ante, turn the screws. Well, if 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.720 you leave things as they are, they may be right. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.360 We get closer to the midterm election, it's summer and gases. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:28.920 I don't know what y'all are paying for out there. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.000 I know my parents are horrified that it might hit 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.960 four dollars where they live. In Kansas. But whatever you're 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.840 paying for gas. I mean, Trump's approval ratings are in 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.320 the twenties. You know, that sort of thing could easily 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.520 happen if we just keep continue this stalemate, and Iran 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.280 might be right that he decides this is not worth it, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.960 This is not doing any good. I think it was 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.760 foolhardy back in the day. We will stop too soon. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.520 The only thing you can do to change that equation, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.360 like you said, is change the facts on the ground, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.520 start bombing the but Jesus out of them now it 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.800 looks like things are worse for you than I Yeah, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.360 how do you like that? Weird beards? Yeah, bastards. Also, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.520 the news story that broke today that the UAE has 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.840 been bombing Iran secretly, not bragging about it. Things have 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.800 been getting bombed, nobody knew what it was. Turns out 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.280 at the it's the UAE. But goad, dang it. What 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.640 a what a terrible situation. Any who, with inflation where 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.720 it is this inflation news that's gonna get a lot 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.720 of people's attention. And then for the media, you're talking 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.640 about that roots against America, They're gonna love the inflation story. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.360 Oh yeah, yeah, they're gonna be all over it. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.280 You know, if you want to meet with Shijin Pang 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.200 Donald Jay and then settle whatever you can settle. Great, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.240 But the minute Air Force one's tires leave the tarmac 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.559 leave the runway, you deferitely don't take off from the tarmac. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.240 I guess as soon as they leave the runway, you 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.280 gotta give the order. We've got to change the math 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.720 here because it's it is a stalemate as it stands. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.640 It could be a non stalemate in about six hours 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.520 if again we turn the screws. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.080 Yeah, that is some. That's some response, though, I mean 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:11.040 that is that is the most that's the least good 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.080 faith bargaining I've ever heard of ever. Yeah, where did 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:14.520 I read? 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.439 I can't remember the precise wording of it, but it's 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.800 stuck with me that the greatest sin, or the greatest mistake, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.400 is to hit softly. If you're going to hit somebody, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:29.439 hit them, don't hit softly. All you've done is invite aggressions. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.360 Here's what I'm offering you to buy your house, and 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.800 then they come back with now you're gonna you're gonna 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.720 give me this much for this house and the house 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.760 I'm buying. Yes, you're buying both my houses. Right, and 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.360 I get to sleep with your wife and it's always 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.080 right and all these deals, just like with the car. Yes, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.360 I get to sleep with your wife. If I don't 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.280 want to sleep with your wife, she's not really my type. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.760 You're sleeping with my wife? What if she doesn't want to? 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.360 In my faith? We can't make our women do what 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:01.959 we want in your faith. That's funny. Okay, we should 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.680 start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.120 This it is Tuesday, May twelfth. How do you get 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.640 to be May twelfth? There twenty twenty six were Armstrong 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:10.920 and getting We approve of this program. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.640 Let's be in then officially according to the FCC rules and regulations, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.720 here we go at mark. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.640 So when I'm mayor, my plan is, first three weeks, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.680 signs up across the city. No more nakedness, no more 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.600 drug use, no more robbing, no worse it, no more 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.160 burning dogs in history, no more dog abuse. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.080 What the hell is that? 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.600 That's Spencer Pratt talking about LA He's going to enforce 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.000 the law. To quote the hot selling Armstrong and Getty 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.199 t shirt at the Armstrong and Getty store, Armstrong and 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.640 getty gut dot com. Wow, that's an attention getter. Yeah, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.080 he's executive producer. Hanson quoted a cop he knows in 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.800 I think it was the La area. It might have 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.719 been San Diego. It doesn't matter because San Diego is 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.200 falling apart too, which is tragic. But who said there's 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.840 one junkie gal. I've seen naked more than I've seen 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:00.960 my wife naked. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:01.360 Wow. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.880 Oh yeah, nudity and public sex. Not to mention the 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.240 pit bulls running wild and shooting up in the streets 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.320 and utter disregard for the law. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.840 It's you know, you told the story yesterday. They wouldn't 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:19.000 give you the syringe, just the syringe part at the pharmacy, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.720 to give your son medicine down the street to hand 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.120 out needles to junkies. Somebody blanking explain that to me. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:32.719 That's Cali Unicorneo logic, right. I noticed pulling into the 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.439 radio station today driving by the drug addicts. Let them 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.400 get up early. You got to admire there, you know, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.679 willing to take on the day sums up by them up. Huh, yolo. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.800 You only live once since get up and get after it. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.240 I got to the radio ranch for time was at 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.520 five o'clock in the morning, and uh, a young bicyclist 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 pedaled right by me. It was an early early bike ride. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:12:01.560 I admire his commitment to exercises. He's oddly dressed for 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.200 a you know, a road bicyclist, but teach their own 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.600 I admire of effect that they Why do they get 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:08.199 up so early? 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.840 They're still up, They're still up there. They're meeting up early. Yeah, okay, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:18.079 they're they're going home to bed home, quote unquote tent. Anyway, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.360 we got more of the headlines that are going on here, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.200 and then we'll get into some of the story. Love 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.320 the way John Stewart on The Daily Show last night 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.800 handled the whole freaking haunted thing. He, like us, can't 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.240 understand the coverage of this story, the never ending there's 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 nothing there, nothing is happening. Well, then why are we 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.079 talking about it? 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.680 Very weird health the healthy people who are not at 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.000 risk had been brought to Nebraska, whether they. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.640 Are in isolation because we keep reporting on it. Right. Uh, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.800 So we got a lot more of the way stay here. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.400 I just saw this inside the business headline CBS Snooze 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.560 boss Barry Weiss blindsided sixty Minutes icon Leslie Stall giving 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.360 that Net and Yahoo interviewed to Major Garrett, which was 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.880 kind of surprising. I'd ever seen Major Garrett. I didn't 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.640 even know he was part of sixty Minutes. He had 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.880 the big lead story Sunday Night. I thought that was 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.480 a good interview. Yeah, it was good. I thought he 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.480 was fair, asked the right questions. I was surprised by 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.679 the tone of it. And he's not one hundred and fifty. No, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.400 he might be sixty, but that's young by sixty minute standards. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.040 We have some clips of that we got to play 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.760 later on the show. It was pretty interesting, pretty interesting. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.240 Here's my favorite headline and I'll let you run with it. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.840 California mayor charged with working for Chinese government. We gotta 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.520 do that story. It's amazing We got a mayor in 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:48.080 a California city. It was actually an employee of the 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.080 Communist Party of China. Wow. Nice. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.960 So we touched on the fact that the President said 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.200 the Hran ceasefire agreement is on life support with about 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.880 a one percent chance to live. We'll play you that 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.200 audio too. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:01.160 Uh. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.040 They're still covering the haunt of virus at the Free Press. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.360 We actually got a really good email from somebody saying, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.040 you know this strain, She said, I'm not worried about it. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.400 We'll read some of it later. This strain is not 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.960 good because a lot of people were exposed to it. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.480 Blah blah blah. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.720 Clearly it's not COVID like, but it's a story worth covering, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.040 not for like a day. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.440 Yeah. Yeah, oh, let's. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.800 See a weeks ago, the shooter at the correspondence dinner 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.640 just pleaded not guilty in federal court. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.080 Good luck with that, chum. Let's see you got Oh. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.960 President Trump endorsed the temporary suspension of the federal gas 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.600 tax in an interview Monday. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.320 That'd be you're probably wondering, like I did, how much 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.360 that is? So I chet GPT did. It's about eighteen 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.680 cents a gallon for your regular gas and something like 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.080 twenty two to twenty three cents a gallon for your diesel. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.560 How much you had noticed that? I don't know, because 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.440 by next week, whatever you're buying is probably going to 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.240 be eighteen to twenty three sense more expensive. Did you 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.680 know that that brings in two billion dollars a month 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.720 to the federal government. That tax? That's away money. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.560 so what that would be, uh dollars sixty sould be 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.000 sixteen dollars for a twenty dollars tank, Is that right? 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.160 No, it's eighteen cents per gallon. Right, So you do 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.200 the math. You're good at math. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:28.720 Well, it save you a little money anyway, okay, forty 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:29.840 I bought a cup of coffee. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.960 Yeah, well, a nice cup of coffee, would like simocha 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:34.280 in it. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.640 Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.440 Court asking it to halt the Virginia Supreme Court ruling. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.480 This struck down their redistricting measure. It's amazing the rhetoric 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.040 that's flying around over this. And god, you know, Trump 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.760 does play fast and loose with some of the institutions 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.160 of the country in the way I don't like. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:58.600 But the Democrats are systematically tearing down respect for all 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.480 of the important institutions in the country, including the Supreme Court, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.160 over and over again. What they're saying about the Virginia 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.360 Supreme Court ruling is utterly, utterly dishonest, saying the out 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:13.480 of control court go ahead, sorry, enjoying my delicious coffee, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.040 You're not gonna have money for it soon. Unless they 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.760 cut the gas tacks. But they're saying the Supreme Court's 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.760 out of control and it's a Republican court and they 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.400 didn't want us to be able to they fixed the election. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.080 Supreme Court just said no, if there's a procedure for 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.640 mending the constitution, you guys didn't follow it. You got 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.400 to do it right, that's it. Yeah, they have their 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:36.240 own constitution with their own rules, just like every other state. Uh. 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.960 I like that. The coverage has now switched to the 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.840 national coverages now switched to jerrymanderings, out of control. We 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.360 need to put an end to it. You were fine 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.000 with it up until last week when the Democrats it 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.600 looked like they were going to get the upper hand 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.600 and all the jerry mandering. Then when it switch to 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.800 the Republicans are going to come out like ten seats ahead. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 It looks like currently and the whole jerrymandering wars. Now 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.400 all of a sudden, jerry mandering is bad again. And 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.680 everybody he's so transparent. Yeah. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.640 Speaking of which, here's one of those headlines you love. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.760 Supreme Court overturns dismissal of Alabama redistricting map. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.160 So which one don't know? I don't know either negates 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:17.399 the rejection of the stay which was overturned. Yes, we 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:18.960 got more on the way and we'll try to explain 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.480 it to you to stay here, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.439 The war with Iran, of course, looms large over this meeting, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.240 but trade is arguably the top issue on the agenda. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.600 A lot has changed since the last time Presidents Trump 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.119 and She met face to face in October in South Korea, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:41.400 but the big issues are largely the same, Trade and technology, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.880 Taiwan and the fentanyl crisis. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.360 Yeah, and everybody says that Iran is going to play 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.359 a big role, which is unfortunate because I was looking 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.159 forward to what Trump and She would come up with 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.920 about ai with the discussion. Be like, but I think 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.600 Iran is going to be front and center. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.440 Where do you think the pressure is going to come 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.360 from the Iran conflict? Is China going to be Does 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.879 China see it as an advantage? We can really press 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.600 Trump because he's on the ropes with Iran. I don't 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.320 know that's Trump thinking they're desperate for the oil. Pundits 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.160 on both sides of that, that she is liking US 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.399 wearing down our military stockpile and being distracted. On the 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.600 other hand, they get like all their energy is imported 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.840 and eighty percent of it or something like that comes 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.680 from the straight Oh horror moves. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:35.080 So right right? Yeah, interesting, huh go on. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.479 Michael White House official says more than a dozen business leaders, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.280 including several tech executives, will join President Trump in Beijing 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.560 Thursday and Friday when he meets with President she The 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.600 list includes Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:56.399 and outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook. Black Rock CEO Larry 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.439 Fink is also set to attend well, along with the 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.800 chief ex executives of Goldman, Sacks, MasterCard, Visa, and several others, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.440 putting a major emphasis on landing a new trade deal 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:09.040 with China. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.720 It's really quite the gallery of CEOs that are going 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.880 over with Trump. I kind of like it as a flex. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:17.960 I wonder what those meetings are like. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:23.400 Do they actually, like, get anything accomplished in those meetings 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.760 or is everything accomplished behind the scenes. Because he got 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.120 two old men who don't speak each other's language, listening 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.360 to interpreters all day long, I just can't imagine much happening. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.240 Well, she's the decision maker, and Trump is to a 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.840 large extent. Although the problem with she is how many 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.560 times is he committed to buy a zillion American soybeans 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:42.200 or whatnot? 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.560 He just doesn't. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:51.680 see stop sending his ventanyl, stop stealing all our technology, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.480 stop hacking into our businesses, stop sending spies. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.879 Of course, that you know, we are at such a 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.440 disadvantage as an open society versus not only a closed 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.560 dish society, but an omnipresent, all powerful surveillance state. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.240 It's a tough tough fight for us to mention the 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.520 now former mayor of Arcadia, which is a suburb of 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.199 la who turned out to be working for the Chinese 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.480 Communist Party. She resigned yesterday, but she's been on the 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.879 city council and involved in everything in a suburb of 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:30.240 Los Angeles for years. Yeah, reporting directly back to President 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:36.400 She and spreading propaganda best she could about how there's 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.119 not actually slaves and the Wigers aren't being abused in 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:40.399 all this different sort of stuff. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.600 Oh yeah, trying to whip up Chinese Americans to hate 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:48.120 America and remember the motherland. Yeah, And the point was made, 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:49.800 and it was a great one. I was reminded of 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:54.080 this last night that there have been stories about like 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.440 small town or smallish town governors who seem to be 0:20:58.600 --> 0:20:59.920 up in comers. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.639 Like they're being talked about for maybe Congress. Someday. The 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.879 Chinese will target you at that point in your career, 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.879 like Eric Swallwell when Feng Feng was doing the bing 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:12.760 bong with him. 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.199 He was not a powerful man at all, but he 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:20.280 was an up and comer. So that there America is 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:21.879 lousy with Chinese spies. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:23.760 I bet they get the word fast too. If it's 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.520 a guy that has a reputation for you can send 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.479 it an attractive woman at him and right throw him 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:30.800 off his game pretty easily, right. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:32.720 I told this story the other day to somebody about 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.159 my first job out of college. It was in the 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:40.840 convention and visitors industry, and the first trip I made 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:44.960 with my boss. He said, Look, they may like send 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.760 food or booze or whatever, or even like a girl 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.040 up to your room. He said, don't start down that road, 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:56.040