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Speaker 2: Mark, I'm doing pretty well, although I'm getting a little
Speaker 2: bit seasick watching this market go up and down and
Speaker 2: up and down. I mean, we had a fabulous week
Speaker 2: and then today there was a pretty big sellof but
Speaker 2: overall it was a pretty good week. And look, I
Speaker 2: think the economy is looking stronger. Trump is coming back
Speaker 2: with a couple of big victories and is from China.
Speaker 2: Looks like he got some good deals with with a
Speaker 2: president g there in Beijing. So I'm doing pretty bullish,
Speaker 2: pretty good about things.
Speaker 1: So if things went so well in China, why the
Speaker 1: market drop? Are they worried that he's going to go
Speaker 1: back to bombing Iran or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, everything is so dependent right now, mark on what's
Speaker 2: happening in the in the Strait of Hormuz and whether
Speaker 2: that oil is flowing and right now. The last time
Speaker 2: I checked them and looked in the last couple of hours,
Speaker 2: but it was about one hundred dollars a barrel oil.
Speaker 2: Remember before Duran conflicts started, we were about seventy dollars
Speaker 2: a barrel. So when the price of oil goes up,
Speaker 2: and the price of gasoline goes up, and the price
Speaker 2: of energy goes up, it affects everything. It affects groceries,
Speaker 2: it affects housing, it effects transportation. So but you know,
Speaker 2: I'm going to use the word resilient. This is an
Speaker 2: incredibly resilient economy, even though we've taken the shock hit
Speaker 2: from the from the oil price in you know, look
Speaker 2: at the investment by businesses very good. You look at
Speaker 2: consumers are still spending, although they're getting angry when they
Speaker 2: go to this gas pump. I know, my wife does.
Speaker 2: And so that's the kind of situation. But I really
Speaker 2: believe once this gets resolved in the Middle East, we
Speaker 2: are primed for a major, major boom in the US economy,
Speaker 2: just like we saw last year. I mean, last year
Speaker 2: was a very good year. And people forget, before the
Speaker 2: ram conflicts started, we had the lowest gas prices in
Speaker 2: forty years adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so all you read about is the high gas prices. Now,
Speaker 1: when this thing is over and the gas prices plunge,
Speaker 1: you'll never hear about it. You'll never read about it anywhere.
Speaker 1: It won't report it. But hey, the other good thing
Speaker 1: besides getting rid of the worst terrorist regime in the world,
Speaker 1: it looks like we might be getting rid of Opek.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Speaker 2: Wow, that'd be so amazing, you know. So I'm sixty
Speaker 2: six years old now, so for most of my life,
Speaker 2: you know, the oil price has been dictated by this
Speaker 2: cartel Opek, And you know, for decades now, they've had
Speaker 2: a blade at our neck. And they could, you know,
Speaker 2: just by turning on and off the spigots, they could
Speaker 2: throw the American economy into a recession and cause real hardship.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid and my you know,
Speaker 2: the sixteen years old, going up in Chicago and we
Speaker 2: get up in the February morning and meet five degrees
Speaker 2: and we'd pack up in the station wagon and have
Speaker 2: to drive to the gas station. We'd be ateh the
Speaker 2: line to get gas.
Speaker 1: They ste gas lines around the block. Back then, exactly, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you read the New York Times or you watch MSNBC,
Speaker 1: our economies a total shambles. China's the most biggest powerful economy.
Speaker 1: What is the truth?
Speaker 2: Oh? My god, So you know, here's There was a
Speaker 2: big piece in New York Times, shock Shocked that said, oh,
Speaker 2: China is just kicking our body. The economy is doing
Speaker 2: so well, and they're going to leave us in a
Speaker 2: cloud of dust. And I just looked at the evidence.
Speaker 2: Over the last ten fifteen years, we've been beating China.
Speaker 2: Our stock marker has got way way up. Theirs has
Speaker 2: been flatlined. We still produce way more than the Chinese do. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I take the China threat very seriously as Trump does.
Speaker 2: And they are in an enemy, in an adversary of
Speaker 2: the United States, and they're an enemy and adversary of
Speaker 2: freedom and so Trump I was very glad to see
Speaker 2: he took a very hard line, you know with President
Speaker 2: g and these negotiations, because the real issue of the
Speaker 2: next twenty to thirty years will the United States or
Speaker 2: China be the world economic superpower? And Mark, I'm going
Speaker 2: to put it my money on the United States as
Speaker 2: long as we don't elect AOC as president.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, China economy is not strong. In fact, they're
Speaker 1: trying to alter their business model a little with the
Speaker 1: exporting and all that. The fact that the President brought
Speaker 1: the most powerful, biggest business leaders in the world with
Speaker 1: him in his entorage that was pretty impressive and almost
Speaker 1: intimidating to China, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: I think? So? I mean you had you had you
Speaker 2: know a number of billionaires in that room. Who are
Speaker 2: the I think Elon Musk was there? Was he not?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Musk and Tim Cook and in video all those things.
Speaker 2: These guys are creating these incredible companies, Uh that are
Speaker 2: you know, some of these companies are work more than
Speaker 2: some entire countries are. So they've done very well.
Speaker 1: They're creating.
Speaker 2: And look, all of us benefit when American companies benefit
Speaker 2: because we almost all of us have four one k
Speaker 2: plans and money invested in the market, and you know,
Speaker 2: so uh so that's a good thing for America that
Speaker 2: we've been so dominant. And I would say this the
Speaker 2: big issue for America going forward is will the United States.
Speaker 2: I think we will dominate the AI and robotics age
Speaker 2: that's coming in the way that we've completely dominated mark
Speaker 2: the Internet age. You know, we have these incredible companies
Speaker 2: like Amazon and Google and Microsoft and on and on,
Speaker 2: and now we have you know, in Nvidia and Tropic
Speaker 2: and so I want to make sure. I think one
Speaker 2: of Trump's you know, missions in life, is to make
Speaker 2: sure that we remain number one. And I want to
Speaker 2: mention something else that my may mark, which is the
Speaker 2: tax cut, the big beautiful bill, huge positive impact on investment.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I like getting a little bit
Speaker 2: bigger reef on this year. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: No, it was good. It was good. However, bear in
Speaker 1: mind I live in New York. How bad are our
Speaker 1: taxes here in New York?
Speaker 2: Well, my god, you know, we were just looking at
Speaker 2: the per capita state and local taxes. This was in
Speaker 2: our hotline this morning. So we're looking at all the
Speaker 2: fifty states and not only does New York have the
Speaker 2: highest per capita tax burden of any state. Are you
Speaker 2: ready for this? Mark? Are you sitting down right now?
Speaker 1: I hope for this. I better be lying down. I
Speaker 1: think New York.
Speaker 2: Is now has a per capita tax burden that's per person,
Speaker 2: that's almost twice as high as most states. What money go?
Speaker 2: Where's that all the money going?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, they just put out the bar for
Speaker 1: New York City one hundred and twenty four billion. That's
Speaker 1: double the budget of the whole state of Florida. It's
Speaker 1: just waste and fraud. What do we do?
Speaker 2: And there's no evidence that you know, the one thing?
Speaker 2: Did I go to from New York a lot? As
Speaker 2: you know, I work for the Wall Street Journal and
Speaker 2: don't anymore, But I did, And I used to go
Speaker 2: up to Manhattan all the time, and it's still new.
Speaker 2: And I've been to Florida many times. And I got
Speaker 2: to tell you, Florida has better services, you know, better
Speaker 2: public services than New York does and they spend half
Speaker 2: as much money. How did it happen?
Speaker 1: Well, again, it's all waste and fraud. You know, we
Speaker 1: spend it costs forty thousand a mile to pave a highway,
Speaker 1: we spend a million a mile. It's stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's nobody to crack down on this or do anything,
Speaker 1: certainly not Democrats. How can we can we ever fix this?
Speaker 2: Well, how about you know the mayor of New York City,
Speaker 2: Mondamine saying, you know, they're running a multi billion dollar devaity,
Speaker 2: So we can't find anywhere to cut in our budget. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean, you got one hundred billion dollar budget. You
Speaker 2: couldn't find anything. So they want to raise taxes again.
Speaker 2: And so this is the big story in America today,
Speaker 2: the Blue states. All they want to do is raise
Speaker 2: taxes high or hire. And how we're going to tax
Speaker 2: the rich, tax the companies, tax with the stack if
Speaker 2: you're success. By the way, they've defined someone who's rich
Speaker 2: as anyone who has a job. Right, And so where
Speaker 2: are all the all the people going, Where are the
Speaker 2: company is going? Where is the money going? It's going
Speaker 2: into the red states. I mean there's been a two
Speaker 2: trillion dollar massive transfer of income and wealth out of
Speaker 2: Blue states like California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Where's it all going? Oh, it's going to the Carolinas.
Speaker 2: It's going to Texas, it's going to Florida, it's going
Speaker 2: to Tennessee. By the way, Mark, do you know what Texas,
Speaker 2: Tennessee and Florida have in common? No, no income tax?
Speaker 1: Florida has no income tax. How are their services better?
Speaker 1: And would you would you say There's schools are obviously better, right.
Speaker 2: Because they as my mom used to say, my dear
Speaker 2: old department, mom used to stay. They watched their p's
Speaker 2: and q's.
Speaker 1: But Florida they're talking about even getting rid of property text,
Speaker 1: how would that even be possible?
Speaker 2: And well, you know, this is a state that has
Speaker 2: so much money coming in, so many businesses coming in
Speaker 2: that they're able. You know, when you have economic growth
Speaker 2: and you've got prosperity, guess what that helps pay the bills.
Speaker 2: And that's why you know Texas the same thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: my gosh, Texas Dallas is pretty practically the new Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Wow. Hey, hey, Steve Moore, you know I used to
Speaker 1: get my mail. You get a whole big bunch of envelopes.
Speaker 1: You know, I get my mail. Not it's like one thing.
Speaker 1: Do we really still even need this postal service?
Speaker 2: But the postal service has lost one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: billion dollars. What eleven years one hundred and twenty billion dollars,
Speaker 2: you know, I think, look, we all have a kind
Speaker 2: of romantic vision of the blue and white and red
Speaker 2: you know, trucks and the mail man coming to the door.
Speaker 2: But let's face it, you know, in ten years there's
Speaker 2: not going to be a lot of snail mail left.
Speaker 2: It's a dying industry. I think it's probably time to
Speaker 2: you know, it's like the telegram. Whence the last time
Speaker 2: you got a telegraph.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can send one anymore. Is there
Speaker 1: such a thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So they've got to they've got to do something
Speaker 2: about this because they can't keep losing, you know. And
Speaker 2: when I say they, who's who's who's absorbing all that that?
Speaker 2: Those losses you and I and all the people who
Speaker 2: pay taxes. So it's just it's losing more and more
Speaker 2: money all the time. And let's have some company. Let's
Speaker 2: let anybody, you know, FedEx or any of these ups
Speaker 2: or any service. They should be able to deliver the
Speaker 2: mail and they wouldn't lose as much money as the
Speaker 2: postal service does. By the way, the cost of a
Speaker 2: stamp in just the last ten years has gone up
Speaker 2: eighty percent. They're still losing money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I got these forever stamps which you just
Speaker 1: use them forever whatever I paid for them.
Speaker 2: My advice is use him quickly, folks.
Speaker 1: All right, Well Steve Moore, great stuff. Now you should
Speaker 1: go to he runs the committee to Unleashed Prosperity. They
Speaker 1: put out the best daily briefing. It's called the Hotline,
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Speaker 1: And of course you'll see Steve Moore all over television.
Speaker 1: Steve Moore, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark, have a great week on my friends.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. Yeah. Actually I don't even mail
Speaker 1: any checks anymore. Online banking. You know, it's actually safer
Speaker 1: now you put stuff in the mailbox. There's mailbox thiefs
Speaker 1: that steal all the envelopes looking for checks in there.
Speaker 1: You're actually safer now with online banking. Hey, we got
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, a Miranda Divine and more
Speaker 1: coming up. You can call us one eight hundred nine
Speaker 1: four to one. Sean is the number one eight hundred
Speaker 1: nine one seven three two six one eight hundred nine
Speaker 1: four one seven three two six. Mark Simone here on
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. Hey, welcome back. It's the Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show. It's Mark Simone here for Sean. Linda is here.
Speaker 1: How's it going, Linda? We're doing all right.
Speaker 3: You know what, Mark, any day that I get to
Speaker 3: spend with you and your illustrious talent is a day
Speaker 3: that I don't even deserve the fact that I get
Speaker 3: to be here among such greatness.
Speaker 1: What a phone?
Speaker 4: I feel like that's kind of what happened between g
Speaker 4: and Trump. No, you're wonderful. No, no, no, you're wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh no. Hey, she agreed to a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: He agreed to buy two hundred Boeing jets, he agreed
Speaker 1: to help with the RAM. Well, now the good news
Speaker 1: is they never live up.
Speaker 4: Then I was gonna say, I.
Speaker 3: Was like, well, you know, it's kind of like promises
Speaker 3: me promises, kep, we shall see you know, show me
Speaker 3: your actions.
Speaker 1: Tire history. China's never lived up to an no one thing.
Speaker 1: That's why it's heeasy to negotiate with them. How about
Speaker 1: eight hundred Yitess you got it.
Speaker 4: That's great. Absolutely, it's like the Ponzi scheme of all
Speaker 4: Ponzi's schemes.
Speaker 3: Whatever you say, we got it. In fact, we got
Speaker 3: four of them, all yours.
Speaker 4: Whatever you need, just give us, you know is what
Speaker 4: are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: He doesn't buy the jets, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Take the court as nothing.
Speaker 3: Although I did think I'm curious how the summit was
Speaker 3: written up in Chinese newspapers. Obviously the government is overseeing everything,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of undercurrent, you know, Epoch Times
Speaker 3: talks about that a lot that there's this undercurrent of
Speaker 3: news where you can find out what's actually really going
Speaker 3: on and what the Chinese people think. And obviously before
Speaker 3: the American detail got back on Air Force one, they
Speaker 3: dumped everything, every gift.
Speaker 4: Every on your phone, every everything went into the trash.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Everything is bug tampered with, embedded with stuff. So they
Speaker 1: get rid of everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm kind of curious about, you know, how
Speaker 3: that was written up, like if they thought was it
Speaker 3: was ungrateful or I don't know where they would have
Speaker 3: disposed of said items.
Speaker 1: Right over the ocean Jesus.
Speaker 3: But do you know what I'm saying, Like, how do
Speaker 3: you tactfully do that? Because they're in a surveillance state
Speaker 3: quite literally, So no matter what you do, no matter
Speaker 3: where you go, no matter what you're throwing away, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: They probably brought like some kind of secure bag to.
Speaker 4: Lock it in, and then I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hey, my phone is blowing up right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people are upset.
Speaker 1: Huh No, because I went to the doctor today. Oh,
Speaker 1: you make a doctor's appointment, you get a text before
Speaker 1: you even hang up, thank you for making your appointment.
Speaker 1: Click here. Then I get a text every five minutes
Speaker 1: just to confirm your appointment.
Speaker 3: I actually asked my friend about this, who's a physician,
Speaker 3: and she's pretty.
Speaker 4: She's here in New York and she's got a great practice.
Speaker 3: And I said to her, you know your office, since
Speaker 3: like thirty nine text messages to day off, I already
Speaker 3: told you I was coming. She goes, we have zero
Speaker 3: control over that. She's like, it's a hot mess. We
Speaker 3: can't control it.
Speaker 4: It's super annoying, you know, shut it down.
Speaker 1: I'm walking to the doctor's I'm like a block away.
Speaker 1: You can check in now if you want text, so.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about that?
Speaker 3: Is there a reason why I can no longer check in?
Speaker 3: I went to the dentist today. They are lovely. By
Speaker 3: the way, if anybody's looking for a dentist, doctor Abadeinio
Speaker 3: on said second Street. He's fabulous. Awesome office. Lisa and
Speaker 3: Dina Pam shout out to my dentist. But I'm serious, Like,
Speaker 3: you walk in, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4: Here's your paperwork, Here's what you need to do. It's
Speaker 4: in person. I don't need to predo anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way to do it, you know. I
Speaker 1: go to the doctor, he's great. I'm leaving. I walk out.
Speaker 1: I didn't even hit the button for the elevator. I
Speaker 1: get a text. How was your appointment? Take our survey?
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I had the they came to like college hunks taking
Speaker 3: junk the other day from my house. I had four
Speaker 3: survey requests. I'm like, yeah, they were great.
Speaker 4: They took junk.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: How many times I gotta tell you I gave you
Speaker 4: a tip?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's a What do they call those hunks
Speaker 1: lugging junk?
Speaker 4: College hunks lug and junk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty good psyche.
Speaker 4: Call in junk. Either way, it works for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good. If you gotta throw away stuff back
Speaker 1: with Miranda Divine, don't go away. Well, actually it's Mark
Speaker 1: Simone here for Sean Hannity. Sean will be back on Monday. Hey,
Speaker 1: with us right now, the superstar columnist Miranda Divine. Her
Speaker 1: columns in the New York Post, but you can see
Speaker 1: him there. Also, she does the great podcast Force One,
Speaker 1: phenomenal podcast, and of course you see her all over television,
Speaker 1: Fox News contributor and get her books. She's written some big,
Speaker 1: big best sellers yet the big guy in Laptop from Hell.
Speaker 1: And she's with us right now. Miranda Devine, how you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm Mark, I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey, what do you think President Trump and China? Pretty
Speaker 1: impressive entourage he brought with him, wasn't it?
Speaker 5: Oh? It was incredible And I mean he had, of
Speaker 5: course his fantastic cabinet, but he had all the big
Speaker 5: business people that I'm sure President g was very keen
Speaker 5: to get his clutches into. So it seemed to.
Speaker 2: Go off really well.
Speaker 1: Now you think this was better than Joe Biden bringing
Speaker 1: his crazy son Hunter that was his entourage.
Speaker 5: It's so funny that you say that exactly. How could
Speaker 5: we forget December twenty thirteen, there was Joe Biden arriving
Speaker 5: on Air Force two, and behind him trooping along in
Speaker 5: his groovy sunglasses, just like dad was Hunter. And you know,
Speaker 5: Joe Biden was supposed to leave China with things for
Speaker 5: America and he didn't. China just kept on militarizing the
Speaker 5: South China Sea, kept on stealing our ip. Joe Biden
Speaker 5: got nothing, but Hunter Biden got a share in a
Speaker 5: billion dollar company. You know, I don't think that Donald
Speaker 5: Trump was doing that. Instead, I think he got a
Speaker 5: whole lot of promises from China. Let's see. I mean,
Speaker 5: you never trust a thing they say, but to invest
Speaker 5: in America. And you know he brought along chim Apple
Speaker 5: and Elon Musk and the sort of business titans of America.
Speaker 5: And so I think it has to be good for us.
Speaker 5: Even though China is an adversary, we have to learn
Speaker 5: how to get along with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're the Hunter expert. Hunter made as you said,
Speaker 1: he had that billion dollar deal. He made millions in
Speaker 1: the Ukraine, he made millions on the paintings. Why is
Speaker 1: he now broke. Apparently Campase bills.
Speaker 5: Well, he says he's broke to the court because Abby
Speaker 5: loll hilariously. His lawyer is looking for money, and I mean,
Speaker 5: I hear it's millions of dollars that he's owed. And
Speaker 5: obviously his sugar brother Kevin Morris in California has closed
Speaker 5: his wallet, having forked out several million dollars to keep
Speaker 5: Hunter in the lifestyle that he's become used to. Hunter
Speaker 5: is still living high on the hog. He told the
Speaker 5: court that he was living overseas, which is why he
Speaker 5: couldn't show up in person. And he has been known
Speaker 5: to travel and have holidays in South Africa, which his
Speaker 5: new wife's second home or original home, but he's not
Speaker 5: there all the time. He's constantly popping up in California
Speaker 5: at various places that expensive restaurants, at swanky digs of billionaires,
Speaker 5: where I suppose he's still getting free holidays, free vacation time.
Speaker 5: And in fact, London Roberts his baby mama, whose little
Speaker 5: girl Navy must be God, she'd be six by now,
Speaker 5: I think, and Hunter. She kindly agreed to Hunter reducing
Speaker 5: his child support payments, and then he renigged on the
Speaker 5: new cheaper deal been paying her, so she's had to
Speaker 5: go back to court. And as her lawyer, who's fantastic
Speaker 5: Clint Lancaster pointed out in the Arkansas court, Hunter has
Speaker 5: been living the high life. And Clint Lancaster just listed
Speaker 5: out a whole lot of the swanky restaurants and you
Speaker 5: know the expensive rentals that he has. How on Earth,
Speaker 5: when the man does not have a job he can
Speaker 5: afford to live the way he does and you can
Speaker 5: I mean, the trips back and forward to South Africa
Speaker 5: are not cheap, and you can bet he's not flying economy.
Speaker 1: So he has a current wife. You say, how desperate
Speaker 1: do you have to be to marry Hunter Biden?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess she was from South Africa, so she
Speaker 5: didn't know any better. The only thing I can think.
Speaker 5: And look, a lot of people are very attracted to celebrity,
Speaker 5: and Hunter Biden is a sort of a celebrity. You know,
Speaker 5: he's the son of the notorious son of who was
Speaker 5: then the president when they got married, So that, I
Speaker 5: guess is a pretty heady combination power and celebrity to
Speaker 5: a young woman. So she's there, she seems to be.
Speaker 2: She's still with him.
Speaker 5: They have a son together, so they seem to be
Speaker 5: happy enough, but who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure this will have a very happy ending,
Speaker 1: this marriage. But what does Joe Biden do all day?
Speaker 1: We don't hear from What do is think he does
Speaker 1: all day?
Speaker 5: Well? I actually quite like the fact that it's the
Speaker 5: one good thing I will say about Joe Biden, although
Speaker 5: he may not have any control over it. We haven't
Speaker 5: seen very much of him at all. He gives the
Speaker 5: occasional ridiculous speech, but he's obviously his services are not
Speaker 5: sought after as a speech giver. But the person that
Speaker 5: we see ad nauseum the former president is Barack Obama.
Speaker 5: Unlike all other past presidents, he inserts himself repeatedly into
Speaker 5: the political process in a very slimy, cunning, sly way.
Speaker 5: And whenever I see Barack Obama pop up, I think
Speaker 5: to myself, there's trouble brewing. Trouble always follows him. I
Speaker 5: think part of the reason that he's so frenetically involved
Speaker 5: in the Democrats issues now is not because he's a
Speaker 5: great party man and he wants to help the party
Speaker 5: that's in dire straits. I think it's because he's concerned
Speaker 5: that the Trump doj is closing in on him. That
Speaker 5: there's a attorney in Florida, Jason Miarez, who is looking
Speaker 5: at a conspiracy case which involves all of those people
Speaker 5: James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, etc. Who were involved
Speaker 5: in that dodgy intelligence assessment just after the election in
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen that basically fingered Donald Trump or framed Donald
Speaker 5: Trump I should say, as an agent of Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 5: and kept that Russia hook collusion hoax going right through
Speaker 5: the Muller investigation and crippled Donald Trump at least the
Speaker 5: first half of his presidency and has left, you know,
Speaker 5: attained ever since. There's still some people who still believe
Speaker 5: that Donald Trump is a rush An agent. So Barack Obama,
Speaker 5: he was the one who held the meeting, who came
Speaker 5: up with this, or instructed his minions Brennan and co.
Speaker 5: To do his bidding and create this false intelligence assessment.
Speaker 5: And he's gotten off scott free. And you just hear
Speaker 5: rumbles sometimes, you know, when I interview some senior administration people,
Speaker 5: that maybe Barack Obama is not going to get off
Speaker 5: scott free. So I think he might be worried and
Speaker 5: he's trying to keep his profile high so that it
Speaker 5: seems like if they do in diet him, will come
Speaker 5: after him in some way that he can pretend that
Speaker 5: it's because he's such a potent political adversary, they're trying
Speaker 5: to neutralize him.
Speaker 1: Ah. Interesting, So hey, Miranda Devine, your latest calm. It's
Speaker 1: a great combat the violence, which is all coming from
Speaker 1: the left. Yet all the you know, the Biden types
Speaker 1: kept talking about ultra maga domestic terrorists. Will the public
Speaker 1: ever get the story straight from the regular media?
Speaker 5: I don't think so. It really is quite scary and
Speaker 5: sinister that you still have the New York Times talking about,
Speaker 5: you know, domestic terrorism being a right wing issue and
Speaker 5: talking about right wing violence that is so outdated if
Speaker 5: it was ever true at all. And they always rely
Speaker 5: on January sixth, which was a riot at the Capitol
Speaker 5: and reprehensible those people who broke in and you made
Speaker 5: a mess, I guess, and fought with police more importantly,
Speaker 5: but they were a minority of the Trump supporters who
Speaker 5: turned up at the capitol, and many of those who
Speaker 5: were indicted in the biggest FBI investigation in its history. Ridiculously,
Speaker 5: we didn't even go into the Capitol. They were totally peaceful.
Speaker 5: This was an unarmed protest or turned into a riot,
Speaker 5: and only one person was killed, and that was Ashley
Speaker 5: Babbitt by a Capital police officer who was then protected
Speaker 5: and his name was suppressed, etc. Unlike all the cops
Speaker 5: we had seen on the other side, and unlike the
Speaker 5: reaction to the Summer of Love, the BLM and TIFA
Speaker 5: riots that we all suffered through in twenty twenty, this
Speaker 5: was brought up as if it was worse than Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 5: That's what Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden said, worse than nine
Speaker 5: to eleven the Capitol right. That went on for a
Speaker 5: couple of hours. So the New York Times and the
Speaker 5: Washington Posts go along with that narrative. And I don't
Speaker 5: see them ever breaking from the Democrat narrative. And you're
Speaker 5: seeing them even with their anti Israel, the New York
Speaker 5: Times with its disgusting anti Israel lies, there's still running
Speaker 5: the left wing playbooks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and you've had how many three assassination temps
Speaker 1: on the president, plus if you count the guy with
Speaker 1: the bomb heading to mar Alago. That's for you were
Speaker 1: sitting there right at the White House Correspondence dinner when
Speaker 1: that happened.
Speaker 5: Yes, I was, and you know, it was remarkable how
Speaker 5: calm and sanguine Donald Trump was just even while it
Speaker 5: was all happening. He sort of just surveyed the room,
Speaker 5: and I guess he saw that there was an immediate
Speaker 5: danger from his vantage point up high, looking towards the
Speaker 5: back of the room. I was sitting up the front,
Speaker 5: facing towards him the stage, and so all I heard
Speaker 5: was some plates what sounded like plates or glasses breaking,
Speaker 5: and I just thought, Oh, a waiter's dropped a tray.
Speaker 5: How embarrassing for them. And then everyone around me just
Speaker 5: got under the table because I think, if you grew
Speaker 5: up in America, which I didn't, you maybe I used to.
Speaker 5: You've been trained, you've been drilled into, you know, take cover.
Speaker 5: So I wasn't. So I was sitting there like a
Speaker 5: bunny looking around and would have been a sitting duck
Speaker 5: if if there had been a gunman in there, which
Speaker 5: there could have been. And then I eventually went down,
Speaker 5: and then Scott Bessant, who was I was sitting next
Speaker 5: to Treasury Secretary by kindly offered me to go with him.
Speaker 5: So we went back to his house and I continue
Speaker 5: doing some work from back there. But it was, you know,
Speaker 5: another frightening reminder of the fear. And well he doesn't
Speaker 5: feel fear, it doesn't seem, but certainly the threat around
Speaker 5: Donald Trump, they're never going to stop trying to kill him,
Speaker 5: whether it be left wing assassin's young men who have
Speaker 5: been groomed I believe, like Thomas Crooks, or whether it's Iran.
Speaker 5: You know, whether Iran is behind any of these other attempts.
Speaker 5: We know certainly there was one Iranian well he was
Speaker 5: not Iranian, but he was ordered by the IRGC in
Speaker 5: Iran to take out Donald Trump. And he was convicted
Speaker 5: recently in New York. So these threats are known by
Speaker 5: the Secret Service, by the CIA, by the FBI. I
Speaker 5: think we just see the tip of the iceberg. And
Speaker 5: it's really remarkable that President Trump just you know, popped
Speaker 5: up just very shortly after that, gave a press conference
Speaker 5: in his tuxedo and was just you know, making jokes
Speaker 5: and on top of things and making everybody calm, because
Speaker 5: I think you had the whole press gallery who then
Speaker 5: had to assemble over at the White House, and they
Speaker 5: I think they were calmed by the fact that he
Speaker 5: wasn't panicked. I think the entire country gets calmed, just
Speaker 5: like at Butler when he stood up and raised his
Speaker 5: fist in the air, blood streaming down his face, and
Speaker 5: said fight, fight, Fight. It just makes you realize that
Speaker 5: things are not spiraling out of control. The president is
Speaker 5: still the president, He's still in charge. And for most
Speaker 5: Americans who aren't psychopaths or totally unhinged, that's a good thing.
Speaker 5: And let's hope on keeping on well.
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Speaker 5: Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: I take care. Hey, well, we've got a lot more
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