1 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: and Jetty and he. 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: Armsrong nine from the studio scene see signor Jimily lit 5 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: room deep with them the Bowels, the Armstrong Bowels, the 6 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: Armstrong in getting communications compound day Friday, we are under 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: the tutelage of our general manager Trump and Putin. 8 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: But who will generally manage the other only history than Josh. 9 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm Jake. I know I'm jokingting you're Joe. I'm joking. 10 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: Here's my favorite thing I've heard. Wait for the music, 11 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: den Here we go, Pouf. Putin's leaving Moscow Friday night 12 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: to get to his meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday morning. 13 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: If he can bend the time like that, I don't 14 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: see how he can possibly compete good time travel. I 15 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: hadn't even goodness I started. I know if he can 16 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: do that, I just I don't see it. I don't 17 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: see how we have an advantage. Yeah wow, you'd think 18 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: his troops would have been doing better and had less 19 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: death anyway. Oh yeah wow, high high stakes, unbelievably high. 20 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: Does Trump know what he's walking into. I heard the 21 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: latest numbers are Ukraine has now lost one hundred thousand 22 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: men dead in the three and a half year war. 23 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: We lost seventy five in the Vietnam War in fifteen years, 24 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: and it roiled the entire country with a much much 25 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: larger population. I mean, it's hard to imagine a hundred 26 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: dead in three years. Just stunning number. And of course 27 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: soific numbers wounded, how to commission terribly damaged. Russia's got 28 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: something like a quarter of a million dead and another 29 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: three quarters of a million off the battlefield. Just the 30 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: numbers are shocking. And I heard Trump this morning. He 31 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: asked about it will be some sort of mineral rights deal. 32 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: He said rarers. He said, I don't care about rare earths. Now, 33 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: this is about stopping the killing. So if he's going 34 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: in with that attitude, I like it better. Yeah. I 35 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: have been I suspect you have been as well, reading 36 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of analysis from different quarters on the negotiation 37 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: and how it might go and which eats you know, 38 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: what each side is bringing. And the fundamental fact that 39 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: I don't think I distilled down as succinctly as I 40 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: should have yesterday is that Putin wants Ukraine to disappear 41 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: as an independent country. He wants either to absorb Ukraine 42 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: into the into Russia or have it be a powerless 43 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: and defenseless client state. That is his goal. Some of it, 44 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: it's difficult to reconcile that with whatever you know, Trump 45 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: slash Zelenski would bring to the bargaining table. Yeah, some 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: of it goes back to as we've talked about during COVID, 47 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: Trump or Putin was so freaked out about COVID he 48 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: just hid in the Kremlin and he went down in 49 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: the basement and started reading the archives, is reading stuff 50 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: going back hundreds and hundreds of years about Ukraine's role 51 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: in Russia and all that sort of stuff, and just 52 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: became all encompassing fascinated with the idea of Ukraine being 53 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: back part of Russia. So it's really important to him. 54 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: So I wonder how does Trump handle this. What if 55 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: they sit down and Putin launches into one of his 56 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: multi hour screeds about the history of Russia and Ukraine 57 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: land like he did with Tucker Carlson, and Tucker just 58 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: sits there with his mouth opening, you know, not want 59 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: to interrupt. I mean, I hope. I hope somebody has 60 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: mentioned that to Trump so he's not caught off guard 61 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 1: because if I'm sitting there as soon as he starts, well, 62 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: actually in the year eight No, no, no, we're not 63 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: doing the history lesson. Okay, we all know the history 64 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: of Russians. Some we're skipping over that. I mean, you 65 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: got to interrupt him right away, or it's just going 66 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: to go off the rails. There's nothing but what if 67 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: it's at this point, But what if Putin were to 68 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: say to Donald J. Donald, I want Ukraine to well, 69 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: you just repeat what I just said. I want it 70 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: to no longer be an independent country, certainly not a 71 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: Western country. I want it to be a vassal state 72 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: of the of Russia. I keep wanting to say the 73 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: Soviet Union. Probably for good reason anyway, Ah, And Putin 74 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: says to Trump, and it's so important to me, I 75 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: will lay on you a deal so ridiculous you're not 76 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: gonna believe it. And he just drops his pants, as 77 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: they say in the negotiating business, and promises Trump permanent 78 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: supremacy in the architect. Of course, Putin breaks every deal 79 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: he makes, but sure, you know, and half a dozen 80 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: other things because he wants Ukraine that badly. He's obsessed 81 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: with it. As you are describing, this is gonna Trump do? Then, Donald, 82 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: what it should he do? But what do you think 83 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: he might do? Donald? This will knock the socks off 84 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: your swollen ankles. I read the news. I will give 85 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: Siberia to your beautiful wife. That's obviously rename it Milania. 86 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: That's obviously a possible weak spot. Since Trump is so 87 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: into deals and all kinds of complicated negotiations, and you know, 88 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: trying to win that sort of deal that that might 89 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: really get his interest. That's why I was excited to 90 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: hear him say, we're not talking about rare earth metals now, 91 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: this is about stopping the killing. That if he goes 92 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: in very focused on on cease fire, ending the killing, 93 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: he won't get sidetracked by these more complicated deals, right right? 94 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: What is one? What do you think of this? And 95 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: I just it's it annoys me so bad. We've discussed 96 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: it the last couple of days, but I heard it 97 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: this morning from a high level former person in the government. 98 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: Putin has already won by allowing him to meet with 99 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: the President and come to the United States. I think 100 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff is just crap. I just think 101 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: it's crap. I think it's pointing at academic crap. Look 102 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: back on all the big negotiations throughout history, does anybody 103 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: remember where they were, who called the meeting or no, 104 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: it's what comes out of it is what matters. I 105 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: tell you what. The consensus among the heavyweights is what 106 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: you are rejecting. Wouldn't you feel that it's practically unanimous? 107 00:06:54,800 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: And I either you're missing something. I'm gonna pretend like 108 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: I don't agree. Either you, sir, are missing something or 109 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: the conventional wisdom is just dopey and antiquated. Well, conventional 110 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: wisdom is sometimes dope. Yeah, but I also heard somebody 111 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: else say, no, them coming to you is a victory. 112 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: If Trump got on a plane and went to Moscow, 113 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: that would be embarrassing, But them coming to your countries. 114 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just don't think any of 115 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: that matters. I think whatever deal they strike in the 116 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: conversations they have with matters everything. But I don't know. 117 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: Of course, it'll obliterate the details. Yes, yes, absolutely true. 118 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a Trump basher, it's just so 119 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: easy and fun to say he's already given Putin a 120 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: victory by allowing whatever. Putin, who had been isolated, now 121 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: he's come out into the open and blah blah blah 122 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,119 Speaker 1: on American soil. Note, Yeah, I know, the on US 123 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: soil thing. I'm one hundred percent certain doesn't matter. I 124 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: think that's absolute, one thousand percent horse crap, academic horse crap, 125 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: the on US soil. Who cares the meeting with them possible? 126 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: Zelenski said that yesterday, he said, this is the end 127 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: of the isolation, that Putin gets to stand there with 128 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: the President of the United States. I mean, if there's 129 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: a picture of Trump and Putin's shaking hands and smiling, 130 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: which are almost guaranteed there's going to be I think 131 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: that does help with this whole isolation, and certainly domestically, 132 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: right right, yeah, Well, it's been played up big in 133 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: the Russian media, of course, because they have state controlled media, 134 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: that the great leaders of the world, will you meet 135 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: with Vladimir whenever he demands it, and that he is 136 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: going to take care of the whole Nazification of Ukraine 137 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: problem with the big man himself Trump. A quick sentence 138 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: or two from a piece I thought was very good 139 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: by Michael Kimmage who writes about Russian and Europe and 140 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. A twofold dilemma confronts the White House. 141 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: Putin's love of obfuscation and delay makes negotiating with him 142 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: fiendishly difficult. And I'll just end it there. I like 143 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: that writing number one and number two. That is what 144 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: he does, obfuscate and delay, and he is perhaps the 145 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: best ever at it. That's a hell of a deal. Yeah, 146 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: I would say it's a hell. I'm sorry, I was 147 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: a deep in thought about metaphors. It's a hell of 148 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: a deal to wander into a negotiation with a guy 149 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: like that knowing that you will be met with every 150 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: trick of the trade. And surely somebody is in Trump's 151 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: ear saying, look, dude has studied you. He's gonna flatter you, 152 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: He is going to he is going to pull every 153 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: single lever you can conceive of psychologically to get the 154 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: better of you. Does Trump have those kind of conversations 155 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: with anyone? I don't know. I don't know either. Putin 156 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: yesterday lauded Trump as energetic and sincere in his efforts 157 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: to end the worn Ukraine. Putin appeared optimistic that forthcoming 158 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: meetings and anchorage between Moscow and Rushtern could create long 159 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: term conditions for peace between our countries. Yeah, the last 160 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: minute pronouncements have been flattery of Trump. The guy has 161 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: no interest in peace whatsoever unless he gets what he wants, 162 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 1: and even then peace will just be until he rearms 163 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: enough to take whatever the next thing is he wants. Right, Yeah, 164 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: help Trump knows that. Anyway, We got headlines on the way. 165 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: What if Putin shows up with McDonald's Like again, that's 166 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: another one of the levers we were talking about Michael 167 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: and probably a large fry too. Who's not going to 168 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: spare any expense although the Russian economy is struggling. Who 169 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: did that recently? Was that Saudi Arabia where they had 170 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: a McDonald's there, or so they opened up a temporary 171 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: McDonald's like a food truck McDonald's authentic. Wow, be like 172 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: greeting me with a plate of biscuits and gravy. Here 173 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: you go, Oh what do you think, like really world 174 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: class biscuits and gravy. You'd appreciate the chest shay huh, oh, 175 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: pretty good. We got headlines on the way. We've got 176 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: a lot more news today. He's traveling Trump is traveling 177 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: five thousand miles. Ohn't know how tired he'll be when 178 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: he gets there, five thousand miles to get to Anchorage, 179 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: Alaska for a meeting that Oh, and this is an 180 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: interesting little look at itself. According to the Kremlin, the 181 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: meeting starts at twelve thirty Pacific time. According to the 182 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: White House, it starts at noon. Somebody better work that 183 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: out before somebody is standing there by themselves. A lot 184 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: on the way stay here, it's listening to people list off. 185 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: I guess it was Peter Doucy on Fox. List off 186 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: the heavyweights that are going with Trump. Heavyweights. You're going 187 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: with Putin too. You know these other meetings where nobody 188 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: of any any importance showed up. No, the heaviest of 189 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: heavyweights are showing up with Putin from Russia and their government, 190 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: and same with Trump. I mean, Marco Rubio and a 191 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: bunch of other people are going to be there, But 192 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: no JD. Vance who's on vacation, No Secretary Defense Hezeth, 193 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: and no Tulsi Gabbard okay for whatever? Yeah ah, so uh, 194 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: before we get into Katie's headlines, I got a guest pitch. 195 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: We probably got a decide on. I was just scanning 196 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: the email and this guest pitch is pretty compelling. Is 197 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: rainwater good for house plants? Must know that's good stuff 198 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: when it comes to watering our houseplants. Many of us 199 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: will simply head straight to the sink to fill up 200 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: our watering cans. But is rain no no, no. Plants 201 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: have evolved over millions of years to crave yummy, yummy 202 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: municipal water, and gosh, they hate rainwater. Who the what 203 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: the why? The Henson says he'll book it. Guess big? 204 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: If true? Holy cow, let's figure out who's reporting what. 205 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green. 206 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 3: Katie from ABC News as Trump departs for DC. Russia 207 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 3: attacks Ukraine overnight. 208 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: Good point, How big of an attack was it? It 209 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: was minor, but still it happened. It was an attack, right, 210 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure human beings lost their lives. Right from the 211 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: Washington Post. 212 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 3: Crime hotspots targeted encampments cleared as Feds expand the DC crime. 213 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 1: Push, Boy and the anti push is just deliciously hilarious 214 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: to watch people still screeching about dictatorship, and even the 215 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal many of Who's whose reporters are just 216 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: Lefty Columbia Journal grads saying this all comes in spite 217 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: of the fact that crime dropped thirty five percent in Washington, 218 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: d C. Last year. Excuse me, crime never drops by 219 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: thirty five percent anywhere. Secondly, there are multiple lawsuits being 220 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: covered rather lavishly everywhere. But your publication about the fact 221 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: that DC's been faking their crime statistics, How are you 222 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: not aware of that? You suck at your job? As 223 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: how you suck. I'm sorry to be so frank. Go 224 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: water your plants with toilet water you Yeah, idiots From 225 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: the New York. 226 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 3: Times, tariffs are high, but so is the stock market. 227 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot there, a lot to untangle, 228 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: including many birds that have not yet come home to roost. 229 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, Gavin Newsom lays out California 230 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 3: redistricting plan to counter Texas. 231 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: Republicans, and he's counting on the fact that the media 232 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: and Republicans are not doing a good job of explaining 233 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: how California's already jerry mandered, so's Illinois. So over lots 234 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: of democratic states. This has been going on forever. This 235 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: is nothing new, but most people don't know that well. 236 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: And Gavvy boys calling for a special referendum to overturn 237 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: the referendum that cause that came up with a nonpartisan 238 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: redistricting commission. If he gets this horrific, if he gets 239 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: his signatures and people vote for that, then yeah, I 240 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: gotta leave. I gotta move. Everybody's got to leave. Everybody 241 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: leaves California. That'd show him tax BASI is now one 242 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. We have one hundred dollars in tax revenue. 243 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 3: And because I know you guys can't resist a catching 244 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: name from USA today, Florida to open second immigration detention 245 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 3: facility known as Deportation Depot. 246 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: There you go, Yes, right up the road from Alligator Alley, 247 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: your Alligator Alcatraz. That's right, that's what it is. Yeah, 248 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: it's in the constitution that all prisons have to have 249 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: a name where the first word and the second word 250 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: have the same letter. It's part of our flaw. 251 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 3: From the New York Post, metas twisted rules for AI 252 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 3: chatbots allowed them to engage in quote romantic or sensual 253 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 3: chats with children. Oh Lord, got to get this under control. 254 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: I need to know more about that. And the lists. 255 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: We're giving handguns to chimpanzees. That's what AI is. If 256 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: this will not end, well, that's gonna be your quote 257 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: from We're giving handguns to Chimpanzee. It's just like that, 258 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: Michael aye on it from Wired dot Com. 259 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 3: World's first humanoid robot games begin in China like a competition. 260 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 3: It's like the Olympics, but with robots. They're playing soccer, 261 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:25,359 Speaker 3: table tennis. 262 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: Wow, you gotta watch that. It's actually kind of funny. 263 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: How amazing would that be? 264 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 3: And when the soccer players fall, the guys come out 265 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 3: with little gurney's and carry them off. 266 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: The robots lay on the turf for a while, even 267 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: though they're not actually injured. 268 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 3: From study fines, two thirds of Americans lie about financial 269 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: struggles to their. 270 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: Loved ones in which direction. 271 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 3: When they're struggling, they pretend if they're not, they minimize. Yeah, 272 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 3: I get that and fine From the Babylon Bee, Adam 273 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 3: Schiff worried legal troubles will make it hard for him 274 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 3: to afford his upcoming head reduction surgery. 275 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: He's got a big head comment large head shot. What 276 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: he kind of comments along a bee too better, that's 277 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: beneath even us. We've got more on the way. Wow, 278 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Trump was in the air right now, 279 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: flying five thousand miles to Anchoraedje, Alaska for the big 280 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: meeting later today. And we've got more details on that 281 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: coming up later. Yeah, some good analysis to man would 282 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: a minefield Trump is walking into, but so is putin 283 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: in a way. So stay tuned if you can. Plus 284 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: controversial measure punishing parents for the kid's delinquency. It's a 285 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: very very good moral political debate and it's got some 286 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: strange bedfellows too. Conservatives are saying, no way, wait a minute. 287 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: I thought we were in favor of law and order 288 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: and accountability, all right, So we'll talk about that as well. 289 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: So headline in the Wall Street Journal, Oh my god, 290 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: I remembered, like ten minutes ago, do you settle down? Katie? 291 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: Myself is settled down, cheering. Way to go, Michael. Listeners 292 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: at home cheering, Yes, Oh my god, you lying, and Jack, 293 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: you piece of fath We spent the commercial break discussing 294 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, What can I do? What can 295 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: I do? Michaels here, you can have a little respect 296 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,959 Speaker 1: for your partner of however long we've been doing this, Michael, ka, 297 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: I have the buzzer ready. I would if it wasn't 298 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: for we get somebody texts the listeners enjoy so much. 299 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 1: So quick question to the listeners, have you ever been 300 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: betrayed by everyone close to you? Here's our question for 301 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: the hour. What's it like to be betrayed by everyone 302 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: close to you? We'll take your calls, all right. So 303 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: apparently it's time to take a fun look back of 304 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: the week. 305 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 4: That was. 306 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: It's cow clips of the week. Let's punch them, doggies, 307 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: it's cow zips. 308 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 5: Of This is my brand new album, The Life of 309 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 5: a show Girl. 310 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm. 311 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: When Charlie said that he was smoking seven grand rocks, 312 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: he was, he was smoking seven gram rocks. So now 313 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize 314 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: to the first lady. That's not gonna happen. 315 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 4: There's a split from the Democratic Party on Unless you 316 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 4: have the IQ of a of a meat thermometer, you 317 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 4: can see that, yes me take my meat. 318 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: I have no will of my own bath. Right in 319 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: front of the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, hundreds 320 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: of people block an intersection as drivers perform dangerous donuts. 321 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: If you're a. 322 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 6: Driver and you want to see that car literally crushed 323 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 6: as we impound it, go ahead and test us. 324 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 3: Newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be 325 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 3: workers from the world's Central Kitchen. 326 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: We got a lot of thrown at us by Putin. 327 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: For you one another truth. And the message that they're 328 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: obviously trying to send to audiences here in Russia is 329 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: that Vladimir Putin is going into this meeting a winner. 330 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: This is really a feel out dating. There's a very 331 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: real chance President Trump will get up and leave that 332 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: Putin refuses to concede anything. You'll have some land swaps, 333 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: but only after you have security guarantees to Ukraine. It 334 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: is important to see how serious Putin is, and the 335 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: only one who can do that is President Trump. President 336 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump saying he wants to make Washington, d C. 337 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: Safer and more beautiful. 338 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 4: I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of 339 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 4: Columbia Home Rule Act. 340 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: You know what that is. 341 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 3: I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks. 342 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 3: A police commissioner was just put on leave for allegedly 343 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: cooking the books on the data, saying, you know, saying 344 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 3: that crime was down. 345 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: Washington DC very dangerous. 346 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 3: There that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks 347 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 3: down from here. 348 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 5: I mean I I've had friends who have been shot at. 349 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 6: If people are afraid to come to DC, go to 350 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 6: Disney World, get fat, eat French fise I don't care. 351 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 6: I've lived here thirty seven years. 352 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: Clips of the week, we got a number of texts 353 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: saying basically, thank you, Joe Day made wow. The joy 354 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: you brought people is the key. Wow. Wow. So the 355 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: abuse has no end apparently where you could look at 356 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: it like you're about bringing joy to others. Whatever. Others 357 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 1: can go get their own damn joys, not on me, 358 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: all right? What am I the joy fountain? You know? 359 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: I was struck by a number of the clips in 360 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: reference to the Washington d C. Police semi sort of 361 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: takeover by the Feds and the wing of Democrats who've 362 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: apparently been tasked with pretending to be angry about it 363 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: and in large measure, pretending that there's no crime to 364 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: worry about. Like that one just checkass with his you 365 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: feel unsafe in DC, go to Disney World and eat 366 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: fries and get fat. We kind of lost the thread 367 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: there for a second minute. Sir, I'd sure what my 368 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: eating habits have to do with anything, but how pathetic 369 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: that is. And I was protesting earlier that the Wall 370 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: Street Journal, of all places, and they need better editors 371 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: to ride herd on their lefty twenty four year old 372 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: Columbia journalism school grads claiming that it will. And I 373 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: actually read an article today in the Journal where the 374 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: journal said crime is actually down thirty five percent in Washington, 375 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: d C. From twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four. 376 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: Just ridiculous. And not only is a precinct captain suspended 377 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: for cooking the books on crime, but DC, as we 378 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday later in the show, settled quietly a lawsuit 379 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: from a sergeant who accused all sorts of the Metropolitan 380 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the crime statistics. 381 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: And she goes into specifics, and there are all sorts 382 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: of in the discovery, They have all sorts of emails 383 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: in which these officers describe specifically. Okay, so we're going 384 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: to we're going to have everybody not call it theft. 385 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: We're going to downgrade the arrest reports to taking property 386 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: without right. Right. Yeah, that's the way we're going to 387 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: lower the crime statistics. Hey, that'll work. Good idea, Jim, Thanks. 388 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just spell right out there. We need 389 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 1: to reduce all these crime statistics. How can we undercharge 390 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: people to make it look better? It's right there in 391 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: open court. Well, like you said earlier, crime doesn't drop 392 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: thirty percent in a year. If you see that stat 393 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: your first response should be, all right, what's wrong here? 394 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: Because right way of the way the world works. Yeah. Yeah, 395 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: And there are all sorts of examples where you know, 396 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: assault with a it's called a dangerous weapon in DC 397 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: was downgraded routinely to simple assault. Otherwise, is this police 398 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: sergeant alleged dinner suit You would get chewed out by 399 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: your superiors for actually filling out your report for the 400 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: appropriate crime, and people's careers were being threatened. And the 401 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 1: city of DC settled the suit said yeah, you're right, 402 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: we don't want this to go to trial. Wow. I 403 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 1: hadn't heard that. Yeah, that is something. This is actually 404 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: some fantastic reporting by the Washington Free Beacon that has 405 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: pages and pages of exhibits from the suit, verbatim transcriptions 406 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: of conversations. Here's a good one. Let's see. The Kapuu 407 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: suit reported one case in which a female was cut 408 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: a deep knife wound on the side of her face 409 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: with an unknown object from her forehead to the bottom 410 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: of her chin, while the responding officer split her face 411 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: wise open. Sorry, folks, disturbing and I apologize. Might be 412 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: the blunt. But while the responding officer had called in 413 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: the crime as assault with a dangerous weapon, the captain 414 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: allegedly classified the offense as sick person to the hospital. Wow, 415 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: and then there's an email about it that's way beyond 416 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 1: the dispute over Trump and whether or not he gets 417 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: to federalize blah blah blahh. This is horrific, right, So 418 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: the cop called the captain, who had ordered the officers 419 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,719 Speaker 1: to use that taking property without right instead of theft 420 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: to to lower those statistics, and an on duty watch 421 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: officer had downgraded an assault like that to a misdemeanor 422 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: simple assault. Let's see, then there was an assailant strangling 423 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: a victim, threw her over the couch. She had scratches 424 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: on her neck, shirt ripped. He threw a knife at her, 425 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: missed her head. She moved out of the way, and 426 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: the captain downplayed the crime, saying it only tangentially involved 427 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: the knife because the knife never made contact with a complainant, 428 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: and the cops said, yeah, it only missed her because 429 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: she dodged out of the way. Captain asked, are you 430 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: gonna classify it? Because I don't see any issues with 431 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: the current classification, and I suggest you stick with it. 432 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: So it's just unbelievable bullying to artificially lower the crime 433 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 1: statistics in an absolutely crime rotten city. And just one 434 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: final point, so what are the Democrats politicians priority priorities? 435 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: Is it the people of Washington d C. I mean, 436 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: because obviously if that were your priority, you would be 437 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: doing what we're doing, acting with outrage, reacting with outrage 438 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: to this lawsuit. But no, they're saying it's safe, it's safe. 439 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: If you don't like you go to Disneyland. Well, that's 440 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 1: why it's such an easy political win, I feel like 441 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: for Trump and why people like Joe Scarborough and Arama 442 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: Manuel are saying that Democrats are playing into his hands. 443 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: Just on the face of it, it's a lot easier 444 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: to believe Trump's just doing this to get crime lowered, 445 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: not to become hitler, than it is to believe that 446 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: other narrative of you know, well that he's becoming Hitler. 447 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: It wants to be Hitler. And it's not about crime, right, 448 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: which is not. But again, even without this this legal dispute, 449 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: how awful is it to have your people, you pay 450 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: their salaries lying to you about the crime in your 451 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: own town. God, that is unconscionable. And what danger you're in? Oh, 452 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: yaysical danger? And then one more note on this story. 453 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: Two left wing nonprofits spearheading protests against Donald Trump's DC 454 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: crime crackdown have received millions of dollars from liberal megadon 455 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: or George so Community Change and Community Change Action, the 456 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: two progressive nonprofits that have funded the anti Trump Free 457 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: DC protests this week, received twelve point six million dollars 458 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: from Soros's Open Society Foundations, according to The New York Post, 459 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: based on analysis by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust. 460 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: They've also received five point six million dollars from Arabella 461 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: Advisors and one point nine million dollars from the Tides 462 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: Foundation between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. So, these groups, 463 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: these protests, these outraged citizens of DC, you just can't 464 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: believe that the Timu Hitler has taken over their perfectly 465 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: functional city have received what is the total of that, 466 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars from activist groups just in the last 467 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: few years. Twenty million dollars. What's the opposite of grassroots? 468 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: I think they call it astro turf. That is unbelievable. 469 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: I can't handle this. I want to go back to 470 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: the discussion about whether it's okay to use rain water 471 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: on your plants. It turns out it's great for them. 472 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: Who knew? Effing everybody, everybody, God nature, plants. I don't know, 473 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: second graders, lots of people. Some details you haven't heard 474 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: yet about the Putin Trump summit. How does Hillary Clinton 475 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: play into this very interesting comment she made today? Maybe 476 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: we can find that to have the audio. But lots 477 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: of stuff on the way. It's going to be quite 478 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: the historic day. I think. I wish it wasn't all 479 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: happening after we get off the air. But still a 480 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: lot that is known that is super interesting to discuss. 481 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: We've got mailbag coming up next to here. I guess 482 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: I should fact check everything I hear. I was watching 483 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: MSNBC last night The Eleventh Hour with Stephanie Rule. How 484 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: many times they said, well, he's traveling five thousand miles. 485 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: You would travel five thousand miles and then come back 486 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: in one day. Blah blah blah, five thousand miles. Then 487 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: a texture said, it's not five thousand miles from Washington, 488 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: DC to Anchorage. It's thirty three hundred miles. So I 489 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: looked it up in the right it's five thousand kilometers. 490 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: So MSNBC discussed the five thousand mile thing over and over. 491 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: I repeated it look like an idiot, do it. You 492 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: have to fact check every single thing you come across. 493 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: Obviously you do with me. I appreciate you watching those 494 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: fools just to figure out what they're talking about. It 495 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 1: would rankle me. Oh boy, here's your freedom. Let me 496 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: quote it to day. I love this one. This is 497 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,719 Speaker 1: so simple, so powerful. From John Adams. Get this tattooed 498 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: somewhere on your body today, my friends. All right, all right, 499 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: Liberty once lost is lost forever true that John Blanken Adams. 500 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: If you need them, mailbag rob us, no mailbag at 501 00:31:53,960 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot com. That's sneazy. Here he comes. Ah, 502 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: how just come after me for some reason? Let's see. 503 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: Oh I love this note from Sean guys. Oh my gosh, 504 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna sneeze again. It's the worst mail bag ever. 505 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: Where was I? Ah, Yes, Sean, guys, I'm a longtime listener, 506 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: literally jumped out of my desk at work when you 507 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: started talking about the video of the drunk airline passenger 508 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: waving a skateboard around the guy who had to be 509 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: detained multiple times. The big guy who restrained the guy 510 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: into the seat like a toddler is my best friend, 511 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: Ray la Native. He said it was way crazier than 512 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: the video even indicates. First off, Ray had a son 513 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: next to him who was recording the video. The drunk 514 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: guy had assaulted a flight attendant, was swinging his skateboard around. 515 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: They had restrained him. He broke free and was swinging 516 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: his belt around and the belt almost hit Ray's sun. 517 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: Oh my godness, that is when Papa Bear took action, 518 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: picked the scumbag up like a toddler. I'm my best 519 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: friend as a national hero. Keep up the good work. 520 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: You keep up the good work. Ray, God bless you, 521 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: my friend. That's awesome. But I'm surprised their email. I 522 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: don't know what the makeup of the crowd was in 523 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,239 Speaker 1: the plane, but there weren't enough like younger guys that 524 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: you can just stand there and let a guy swing 525 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: a bat basically around and hope he doesn't hit you 526 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: in the head. We have such good email and I 527 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: want to get to it, but there's too much here 528 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: to pass by. We have been systematically turned into a 529 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: nation of sheep that have been told let the authorities 530 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: take care of it, don't take the law into your 531 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: own hands, don't be a vigilante, these nasty, scary sounding 532 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: terms which often refer to people just protecting their own safety, 533 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: which is if there is a god given right, that's it. 534 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: Got to admit when I ran this scenario through my 535 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: head the other day when I was in the shower, 536 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: when I first hold the story, what would I have 537 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: done if that happened to me? And my first thought 538 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: was how much trouble would I get in if I 539 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: tried to tackle this guy. My first thought wasn't what 540 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: if he clocks me in the head with the skateboard 541 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: or whatever. It wasn't the like physical safety. It was 542 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: the what's going to happen to me legally if I 543 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: try to stop this guy? Right, because, like you said, 544 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: it's been beaten into us. Yeah, anyway, I think I 545 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: made my point moving along, we have practically no time. 546 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 1: Let's see on the topic of protesters and grassroots versus AstroTurf, etcetera, 547 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: Jen and the People's Republic of Marin rights. Guys, you've 548 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: often said you wondered what it would be like in 549 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,399 Speaker 1: the head of a crazy person. And she recommends a 550 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,280 Speaker 1: podcast that includes a discussion with a lady who talks 551 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: about her activism addiction. She's addicted to yelling and waving 552 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 1: signs and feeling like she's changing the world even though 553 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: she's just yelling and waving signs. I know a few 554 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: people that go to every dang protest there is. The 555 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: whole family goes. It's just part of their lifestyle. I 556 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: don't know if it's an addiction. Yeah, all right, we 557 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: barely have any time, so I'll read this one from 558 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: Aaron Hey to my democratic, black and actual gay friends. 559 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: No teas or drunk girls. Well, yeah, drunk girls who 560 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 1: kiss are not counted as gay. How pleased are you 561 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,240 Speaker 1: with the overwhelming support from the media and white women. 562 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: We've been literally overwhelmed by the overwhelming support, but it 563 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: seems to be having the opposite effect. Right, that's a 564 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: very good point. I'm gonna talk Putin Trump an hour two, 565 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: among other things. I hope you can stick around, Armstrong 566 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: and Getty