WEBVTT - I Paid For Those Sheets! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.479 Armstrong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.800 The next steps for China, sir, Well, we'll see what 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.000 happens with China. We would love to be able to 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.280 work a deal. They've really taken advantage of our country 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.560 for a long period of time. They've ripped us off 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:44.200 beyond anybody, nobody. How people stood for it, sitting in 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.120 my position is not even believable. And we're talking about 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.040 many presidents, not just in a couple, but they did, 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.040 and Alwadi is putting it back in shape. We're resetting 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:56.520 the table. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.200 So that's from a cabinet meeting that they had yesterday. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.400 We got some more audio from from that coming up 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.280 in just a second. But in case you're not hipped 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.280 to a couple of the developments that happened in the 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.240 last twenty four hours. The market was reacting and people 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.200 were talking about tariffs on all Chinese goods being at 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.039 one hundred and twenty five percent I think anyway, Trump 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.920 pointed out later in the day, No, no, it's actually 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.200 one hundred and forty five percent. So I'm adding this 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.240 to the other thing that I had like a month 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.080 ago or whatever. So the tariff on all Chinese goods 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.440 coming into the United States, the stuff on all the 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.240 shelves and Walmart or the buy on Amazon that's from China, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.560 one hundred and forty five percent right now. And as 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.760 soon as that news was clarified, the Dow tumbled quite 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.200 a bit yesterday. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.840 As everybody caught onto that. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:51.960 And then overnight tariff China announced they're raising their tariff 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.480 on all US goods coming into their country to one 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.400 hundred and twenty five percent, So one hundred and forty 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.840 five coming to the US one hundred and twenty five 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.440 going into China. That is a full blown trade war 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.440 between the two biggest economies that have ever existed. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.360 On the planet. So that's that situation. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.760 Got some more commentary for variety of people on that 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.960 how that's going to play out. I have no idea, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.240 and neither does anybody else. I don't think Trump is 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.200 betting his entire presidency on a good outcome, no doubt. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.800 Marco Rubio pretty serious guy. He was asked about this 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.359 yesterday in the cabinet meeting. This is what he said, Well. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.200 Mister President, one of the most important things I believe 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.840 that you'll achieve in your presidency is re ordering the 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.240 world in a proper way. For thirty one years, more 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.959 than thirty one years now, multiple administrations have allowed the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.799 Chinese to de industrialize this country, to take away jobs 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.760 and factories and the pillars of our national strength. And 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.480 what you're doing now, I think is a great service 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.680 to our country, but ultimately to the world. And I 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.800 want to congratulate you on your team that's working on that, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.960 because that has extraordinary geopolitical implications, as you see from 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.680 all these other countries that are now coming here and 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.760 wanting to join something that actually makes just this it's 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.840 crazy to allow these I mean, basically, we lived in 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.040 a world where country Chinese companies can do whatever they 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.240 want in America, but our companies cannot do anything over 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.000 there unless they allow it, and even then they steal 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.960 our stuff and reverse engineer it. So just reordering all 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.679 that as traumatic implications on peace of security of the world. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:15.440 So we thank you. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:17.360 Yeah. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.239 China has been ripping off the entire world, and since 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.560 we're the biggest economy, it affected us the most. For 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.840 a very very long time acknowledging that I'm all for. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.160 I think it's a good idea. Whether this total tariff 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.400 thing is what's going to fix that, I don't have 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:38.160 any idea. This story got a lot of attention yesterday. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.560 I feel like it's overblown. This is from ABC News. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.600 Already consumers are feeling the effects. One shopper for Athletic 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.960 where spotting something different on an invoice from a recent order, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.880 a new line that says tariff surcharge sixteen dollars and 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:52.920 sixty two cents. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.720 Yeah, okay, so one place somewhere they put on the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.480 receipt tariff search. I saw that on like eight different 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.600 news sources yesterday. Okay, is that sweeping the nation? Are 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.920 lots of businesses doing that? Because I saw the same 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:15.480 one over and over again. So come on news. If 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.760 that's the only one in the country, it means nothing. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.479 If we all start seeing that on receipts, obviously it 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.400 means a lot. But the Trump aiding media loved that story. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.279 How about this. This is a person on CNN also 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:32.839 with a negative spin on it. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.880 The global economy from inflation numbers that we've got, it's slowing. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.120 It's gonna get worse. It's gonna get much worse because 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.120 everybody has to readjust their supply lines to accommodate this 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:45.960 new reality. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.039 So that's that side of it. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.800 How about we hear the other side of it, people 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.279 who think this is gonna work. Maria Bartiromo on Hannity 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.440 last night, fifty. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.520 Four, Michael, President Trump is not going to back down 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.240 on this because at this point we all know who 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.760 the adversary slash enemy is, and the US consumer is 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.000 paramount here. China needs to sell all of those products 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.880 that they're producing for the world to the very powerful 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.000 US consumer. So if China wants to keep doubling down, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.520 it is not going to be good for the Chinese economy. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:19.920 The economy there right. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.559 Now is a lot weaker than people know, and this 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.160 huge tariff on its products is not going to be good. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:27.440 Man. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.159 It's a heck of a thing for the world economy. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.880 The two biggest economies locked in a trade war in 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.000 a situation where there are two men and two men 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.720 only really that are, you know, playing a game of 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.680 chicken and staring each other down. She and Trumps. You 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.520 wouldn't think this many trillions of dollars could be on 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.880 the line and in the hands of or in the 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:56.479 minds of just two guys, it's really quite extraordinary. We 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.400 like Victor David Hanson, historian, and which he's very proud of. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.120 This is how he thinks it's going to play out. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.480 If Donald Trump can cut a deal with one major player, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.080 and I think that Scott dosn't can, preferably in Europe, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.240 because what he's basically saying, if it's reciprocal or no tariffs, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.400 zero tariffs, they're going to want to make a deal 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.360 just one or two major players, and I think all 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.600 the rest will follow, and China's not going. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.040 To like that. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.880 I don't claim to know anything about this sort of stuff. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.599 I do kind of get the geopolitics of it, though, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:35.880 and I could certainly believe that she thinks that United 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.160 States because he doesn't. They don't, you know, Communists don't 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.280 believe in democracies, don't believe democracies work because the authoritarianism 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.120 is a way to go, because then you can make 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.120 all these important decisions that the populace is not smart 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:47.960 enough to understand. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.880 So she thinks that. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.719 There will be enough political pressure and enough negative news 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.039 on this that Trump will brett back down. I think 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.160 Trump is the rare rarest of rare birds. We were 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:07.240 talking about profiles and lack of courage with Kamala Harris 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.680 Last Hour with Lonnie Chen. If you didn't hear that, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.360 get the podcast Armstrong and getting on demand. But it 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.840 is a profile and courage, perhaps some of you think misplaced, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.680 But it is a profile and courage to lay your 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.200 entire presidency on the line for this. And I think 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.520 Trump will stick with it and not blink in the 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.000 way that president she thinks, and maybe at some point 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.040 President she realizes, Wow, this guy is crazy enough to 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.840 take this clear to the wall. We got to do something. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.360 We gotta call him up and make a deal. I 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.440 hope that's what happens. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.160 Was there one more clip that I wanted to have? 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.960 I thought I had one more. I don't know. I 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:41.280 don't know. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.400 Maybe later I didn't want to hit you with this 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.000 from the Wall Street Journal one more time. This is 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.640 from the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. What 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.400 investors know is that the trade war is far from 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.080 over and damage persists even with the ninety day pause. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.240 The tariffs that continue on all other countries and. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.320 One hundred and forty five percent on China are the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.800 largest tax increase on the American people since nineteen eighty two. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.160 They're bigger than Bill Clinton's nineteen ninety three tax increase 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.880 and George HW. Bush's in nineteen ninety taxes, of course, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.840 are anti growths, as the Wall Street Journal, Trump believes 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.760 that it is worth it. I'll play one more clip 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.040 for you. This is Trump and the term he's using 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:31.640 to describe this clip forty. If you would, Michael, clip forty. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.040 This is Trump describing what this is. He's not denying 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.200 that there's going to be this giant tax using my 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.440 finger quotes on the American people. He's just saying it's 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.600 part of the plant. Which slip was that forty. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.439 So we think we're in very good shape. We think 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.400 we're doing very well. Again. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.520 There'll be a transition cost and. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.840 Transition problems, but in the end it's going to be 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.000 it's going to be a beautiful thing. We're doing again 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:04.280 what we should have done many years ago. We'll let 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.800 it get out of control, and we allowed some countries 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.960 to get very big and very rich at our expense, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.400 and we're not gonna can't let that happen. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:15.000 Can't. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.839 It's not a sustainable. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.480 Formula transition costs, which I guarantee you will be mocked 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:25.000 greatly by the left as these higher prices start to 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.920 hit in the next days, weeks, months, I don't know 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.680 how long that's going to take. You're gonna hear that 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.120 over and over again in a mocking way. The Biden 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.480 administration tried to pretend that inflation wasn't real and wasn't happening. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.400 Trump's going with the Yeah, this is gonna happen, and 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.920 it's going to be painful, but it's a transition we 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.520 have to go through to get where we want to 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.280 be and get China to back down, and we'll see 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.440 if he's right or not. But so that's what we 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.920 all get to look forward to in the spring. In 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.600 the summer, maybe change your vacation plans or not. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:53.720 I don't know. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.760 Actually, there's some news out in the Wall Street Journal 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.520 today that just came out in the last couple hours 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.959 about consumer confidence that is really not good. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.480 Maybe we'll get to that at a different time. Stay 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.680 with us. I'm sorry. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.240 Trump's getting his physical tomorrow, and while I'm sure his 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.720 doctors will be very thorough, I wanted to ask him 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.480 some questions myself. So if you don't mind, thank you, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.400 mister president, thank you for talking to us about your health. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.240 First off, how much do you weigh? That's classified information. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.120 I understood, But how would you describe yourself? 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.240 I'm a perfect physical specimen and I'm very very. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.959 Young, Kem Burman, He says, here you're getting a proseate exam. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.959 How's that going to go for you? 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.400 You are going to hear the wailing and shrieking. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.400 Okay, that's enough. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.600 Now forgive me for asking, but are you getting up 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.760 a lot of night to Yearnate? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.640 It goes drip? Okay? 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.240 Just for just for our record, can you tell me 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.160 the name of your doctor? 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.720 Doctor had of electric? Okay, very good? 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.080 And uh, who would you like to put as your 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:05.880 emergency contact? 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.040 There? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.199 Your wife Elon Musk Okay. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.920 So that's always exciting every year, well it has been 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.440 for the last couple of terms because we have such 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.920 ancient presidents. Wasn't really a big deal when it was 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.319 Barack obaum Er George H. W. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:20.840 Bush. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.760 You looked at him and thought, Okay, you're about fifty 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.200 and you look to be in really good shape, So 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.400 what are you getting physical? But now that we got 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.040 really really old presidents. It's kind of interesting. I wonder 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.440 how honest they'll be about his height and weight and 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.920 blood pressure and everything. Of course, they weren't honest about 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.880 Joe Biden's mental capacity at all. Some texts we got 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:43.920 coming in. Oh, first, someone to mention the uh, how 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.720 about that ballerina we got back from Russia. That story 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.000 is interesting. Maybe we'll talk more about that later. We 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:56.719 traded a scumbag criminal Russian to Vladimir to get back 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:02.120 this ballerina whose crime was she donated fifty four dollars 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:07.520 to a Ukrainian cause yep, and Russia grabbed off for 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.920 twelve years. He's going to put in a Russian prison 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.400 for twelve years, and she's young. We got to put 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.280 a stop to that. We can't have North Korea, Iran, Russia, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.120 China grabbing citizens off the street and then they get 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.560 back scumbag criminals in return. We got to end that somehow. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.040 But different topic for a different time from the text line. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.520 I was talking a fair amount about corporate training, because 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.800 I spent a couple hours doing that yesterday. Not to 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.280 complain about the company I work for. Every company does it. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.400 I realize they're forced to do it. It's not their choice, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.480 but we all know it's a complete waste of time, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.000 and I it's one of the things I wish Doge 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.920 could get rid of. It is unproductive, it's a waste 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.679 of money, and we all know that. You know it. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.120 And then when you tell your boss you finished the training, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.280 he knows it's a waste of time, or she and 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.839 their boss knows it's a waste of time. Yet we 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:01.800 all I'll do it. We got text from people in 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.520 different areas of work. Oh, we talked about how there, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.200 Why are they so long? And I said that maybe 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.440 they have to be a certain length. Yes, actually it's 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.240 legislated that some mandatory training be at least a particular length, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.720 like two hours or whatever. No mention of mastery of 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.480 the topic or what you learned, just the amount of 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.920 time spent. Oh, for cry it out loud, how government 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.320 is that it doesn't matter whether you actually learned anything 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.080 or it's accomplishing anything. It's just got to be this 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.319 length an hour and twenty minutes, to prove that you've. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.000 Yeah, because the government says so. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.640 I hate this sort of thing so much. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.960 We got this text, I just got to work an 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.000 hour early to do harassment training for the third time. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.719 Every year, three times a year. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.760 Even though studies show it doesn't accomplish anything. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:52.839 If anything, it leads to. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.120 More sexual harassment, but it doesn't. I assume you all 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.120 know this, but I'll say it for the eighty millionth time. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.880 It's to keep the lawyers at bay. If they give 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.880 this sexual harassment training and you get you sexually harassed somebody, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.040 you can't go to the company and say I didn't know, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.839 I wasn't supposed to slap her on the ass, and 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.560 then you sue the company for a million dollars and 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.760 a jury full of morons. And that's why we are 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.080 always yes, serve on juries. Don't try to get out 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.800 of jury duty because you don't want morons. Well, who 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.640 say the company owes this guy millions of dollars because 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.960 he claims he didn't know he was most slapper on 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.400 the ass because he didn't get any training. That's why 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.040 we're doing all this training to avoid those lawsuits. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.320 Very very maddening. Different topic. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.000 I brought up how I spilled coffee all over my 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.560 chest on the way to work, like I often do 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.720 because I can't drink out of most travel mugs. I 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.880 just they don't work for me, and I've gotten a 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.680 bunch of text from people who have had the same 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:57.000 problem who really like some of them. The Zorushie zog 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.160 Rushie sixteen out stainless steel muggets the best. The lid 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.640 opens past one hundred and eighty degrees so that your 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.560 nose has space. Everybody have the same complaint as me. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.600 If the flip up lid doesn't fold back far enough, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.720 your nose gets in the way, so you have to 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.400 tip the cup up so high to drink out of it. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.640 You're not looking at the roads. You can't drink it 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.280 while you drive your car. I'm looking at this thing. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.960 Still still some head tipping required. 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:29.440 Okay. Other people suggested the Stanley mug. That is very 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:29.800 very good. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.800 It's like forty Bucks or the Broommate. I'm not advertising 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.400 any of these. The Broommate specifically because the lid flops 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:37.600 all the way back. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.640 So you can drink out of your coffee mug. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.600 So okay, this one looks like it might be a winner. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.720 Yeah, yeah, there you go. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.000 I just want to point out I'm not the only 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.480 person that has noticed that flaw in the design of 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.920 the little thing. That flips up. Look at this one 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.560 my nose right there. That's how far I can tip 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.560 the thing. You can't drink coffee like that. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:58.560 No, you cannot. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:03.840 You gotta tip your head way back that it's this 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:04.440 is tragic. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.680 Yeah, I recommend to yetti. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.600 You like that. Yeah, my wife has them. We use 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.560 them all the time. They're not cheap. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.080 You're drinking out of a thirty dollars Starbucks mug that 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:15.640 you don't like. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.080 Uh, that's true. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.120 And the YETI is thirty dollars. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.480 We're gonna talk to my clients coming up a little 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.440 bit and one to get him on for weeks. We 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.800 could talk about the fact that we're going to bomb 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.080 the crap out of Iran soon. We could talk about 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.640 obviously Israel or Ukraine. I don't know if I'll get 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.160 to that. China getting jump here all the time. How 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.840 about Trump fire in all these military people, a bunch 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.600 of different generals in various positions, and the you know, 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.680 the NPR world calling it a purge. Is this something 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.560 I should be worried about or is he just putting 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:55.560 people in place that agree with his philosophy more. I'm 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.560 not particularly worried about it. One time, we are quoting 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.800 retired generals to Mike Lions, and I remember him saying, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.720 there's like a thousand retired generals out there, So just 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.679 because there's a retired general, you don't have to give 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.040 them some extra credit on what they have to say. Well, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.800 we'll talk to Mike Lions coming up. If you miss 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.440 a seconment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.560 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.320 An important meeting, thanks to you, is going to happen 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.080 on Saturday for the first time in a long time. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.320 They'll be direct talks to Ambassador Woodcoff and a top 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.600 level leader in Iran. We hope that'll lead to peace. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.440 You've been very clear what Iran is never going to 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.679 have as a nuclear weapon, and I think that's what 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.600 led to this meeting. We'll wait for him to come 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.439 back from it, and we're hopeful about that. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.200 I like Marco Rubio saying it. Trump says it regularly. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.080 I do remember hearing various presidents say, for instance, North 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.840 Korea would never get a nuclear weapon, or other people 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.520 would never get to do this or that, and then 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.840 they do it anyway, and we don't stop them. Don't 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.760 don't go into Ukraine, for instance, don't go into crimea 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 joining us on the Armstrong and Getty Show, Mike Lions 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.080 is our go to whenever we're talking about this sort 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.280 of stuff. Mike served with various military organizations in the 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.000 US and Europe throughout his career. He served in Operation 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.520 Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Ordered A Bronze Star. Also 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:16.479 has a BS degree from the United States Military Academy 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.280 at West Point, MBA from Stern School of Business at 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.160 New York University. You can find him on Twitter if 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.280 if something BIG's going on military, I always check his 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.120 Twitter account at maj as in Major Mike liines Mike, 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.840 welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:32.360 Hey Jack, thanks for having me back. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.359 Let's start with Iran, Trump said a week or so ago, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.159 so they're having direct talks tomorrow. And Trump said a 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.120 couple of weeks ago, if Rhan doesn't give up their 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.520 quest for a nuclear weapon, we would bomb them likes 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.600 of which they've never seen. Do you think he means it? 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.600 And do you think we can do it? And would 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:52.000 we do it? 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.080 Yeah? 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.120 I think of all the things on the President's plate 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.679 right now when it comes to national security policy, this 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:01.560 is number one. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.120 This issue with Iran. It's been kicked down the road. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.080 That can's gotten kicked down the road for the past 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.440 ten or fifteen years now with the original JCPO way 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.000 back that Obama signed, and it's something that the President 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.240 wants to take care of. He does set a deadline. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.400 He's got a two month deadline with regard to having 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:21.000 this this conversation. But I do believe that should at 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.680 the end of two months here, I think the rangings 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:24.840 are going to try to find the ball, but at 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.800 the end of two months, you're not going to see 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.080 any more progress. I don't believe that Iran has any 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.160 intention of getting rid of their nuclear capability, and it's 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.720 going to force the hand of the master negotiator here 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.840 because it's likely that it's going to lead to a 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:41.760 military conflict. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:47.159 Well, to be charitable to Iran, they have been told 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.560 this multiple times and nobody followed through, so you know, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.320 I can see why they would think we can get 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:55.119 away with it again. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.560 Well, I think this time Israel is in much better 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.879 position and would feel that they could be involved, having 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.560 literally taken out most of their air defense platforms, the 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.640 destruction of the Uranian nuclear capability would be a very 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.639