WEBVTT - Jasmine Crockett Interview: Why Trump Won, Fixing The Democratic Party 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:11.200 Okay, Happy Monday. Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Podcast. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.880 I have a fascinating guest today that I think you're 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.480 going to be very interested in hearing from. It's Democratic 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:22.400 Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett from Dallas. My guess is, if you 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.120 haven't heard an interview of her then, and you've only 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.400 seen clips, you may have drawn a conclusion about her 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.239 based on snippets, based on social media, based on a TikTok, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.160 based on this. Well, here's what you're going to get today. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.800 You're going to get forty plus minutes getting to know 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.360 the congresswoman. This isn't going to be short snippets and 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.479 sound bites and all of that. And I just have 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.760 a feeling that if you have not had spent a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.480 long time listening to her and just have a sort 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.240 of quick take hot take about her, after you listen 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.559 to this interview, you will follow those hot takes where 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.520 they belong, which is probably somewhere in the garbage. Anyway, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.160 The point is, I think you'll learn a lot and 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.000 listen to the conversation through the premise, and I'm going 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.119 to have a couple of conversations over the next week 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.640 about this because she's making one recommendation of how Democrats 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.959 should deal with this current moment. I'm gonna row conna on. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.320 He's going to make another He's going to have another take. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.640 You've heard other Democrats make their take, and that's there. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.320 Really is an interesting debate that is happening. You're going 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.320 to see it, I think over the next couple of years, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.880 frankly through in the run up to the eventual actual 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.840 start of the presidential primary campaign on the Democratic side. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 But of just what tactic is better. Do you need 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.000 to be Trump light, do you need to be a 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.800 bit hot if you will on social media? Or is 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.240 this a time to actually zag just as Trump is zigging. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.279 But before I get to that, I think we should 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.360 talk about the week ahead that we're going to have 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.360 in politics and where the news is going to be made. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.840 President Trump is going overseas. It's his first official overseas trip. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.920 Even though he actually took one to the Pope's funeral, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.520 that was an unplanned This was the plan, and just 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.160 like he did in his first term, he decided to 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.640 make Saudi Arabia his first stop and the relationship that 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.240 he has developed with Saudi Arabia and UAE and Qatar 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.560 is quite close, and he's, let's just be honest, he's 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.440 blurring the lines between public and private in a way 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.200 that that that it's it's not even subtle, right, it's 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.440 it's it's so it's so blatant. But I think at 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.960 the heart of what you're going to see this week, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.560 and the shiny metal object of the week is going 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.520 to be the news that was broken over the weekend. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.680 And we had already gotten hints of this, and that 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.680 is the the fact that the President of the United 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.640 States is about to accept the largest gift that any 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.720 entity has ever given the United States. And what if 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.959 I told you that this gift was coming from the 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.280 chief patron of the terrorist organization known as Hamas. You 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.360 remember Hamas. This is the group behind the killing and 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.600 kidnapping of Israelis and Americans on October seventh. This is 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.440 a terrorist organization that has the blood of Americans on 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.040 their hands, the blood of Israelis on their hands, the 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.880 blood of other Palestinians on their hands. This is not 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.440 a good group of people, Okay. Hamas is a bad 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.280 organization and their chief protector is the government of Qatar. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.200 And what is the government of Kantar about to do. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:50.280 It's about to gift Donald Trump a plane, a seven 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.800 forty seven. And Donald Trump, it's considered it's so ornate 0:03:55.200 --> 0:04:00.000 that it's called a palace in the sky. So Donald trum, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.400 what's to accept this gift? He toured He sort of 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.120 kicked the tires on this plane down in Palm Beach 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.400 when it was parked there. It was just sort of 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:13.080 showing it off to him, and he got to tour it. Look, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.839 there is an actual clause in the Constitution, the Emoluments Clause, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:23.400 that makes foreign gifts like this personally taking it illegal. Now, technically, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.480 the Trump government is saying that this is a gift 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.160 to the US Air Force and that it'll eventually end 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:36.760 up as a gift to the Trump Presidential Library. And 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.600 so since it is not being given to an individual 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.279 and it is not connected to any specific act, that 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:49.679 somehow this is not bribery and that somehow this is constitutional. Okay, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.680 So meanwhile, I'm about to sell you some land in 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.839 the Everglade Swamp. If you'd like to buy that great land, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.800 trust me, you should be able to develop on it 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:03.479 quite easily. Look, this is as corrupt of a bargain 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.120 as we've seen any president ever make. And I know 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.240 that it's it's hard to keep up with the amount 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:15.320 of blatant corruption that has taken place in just the 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.880 first one hundred and twenty so days. Right, this trip 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.479 was preceded by the way this trip to the Middle 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.599 East that the president is on was preceded by his 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.640 sons going there doing some various business deals, including in 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.520 the crypto space, in some ways laying the groundwork for 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.839 the quote official presidential visit. And oh, by the way, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.880 the White House is actually signaling that, hey, this isn't 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.400 a big national security visit, this isn't about Iran or 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.600 the future of gods or anything like that, that this 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.560 really is more of a business trip. Now they're claiming 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.920 it's the business of you know, Gulf States doing business 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.400 with the United States and with American businesses. And there's 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.039 going to be a big event on the thirteenth, on 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.080 Tuesday in Saudi Arabia that is a public private event 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.760 in order to essentially connect American businesses with potentially with 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:12.039 Saudi money. And look, Saudi Arabia is an ally, right, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.720 they're an ally. We can have the conversation about whether 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.200 Saudi Arabia, Ua, and Qatar. Whether these countries are small, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:26.240 d democratic, here's a clue they're not. But certainly they 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.120 have things we need, including access to energy. Right, this 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.839 has always been a very transactional relationship that we've had 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.800 with them. But what Donald Trump is doing it by 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:42.200 personalizing this relationship. And there's already so many uncomfortable aspects 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.359 to this. His son in law has private equity money 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.080 that came from the Middle East in and around the 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.080 deals he was doing for the so called Abraham Accords. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.720 Steve Manushan when he was Treasury Secretary, as he was leaving, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.360 was taking trips on official government business getting ready for 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.799 his own private equity money that he now manages there 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.520 and has a significant investment from these Middle Eastern players 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.280 in the Gulf States. And now you've got the President 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.200 the United States just blatantly accepting this plane. Now look 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.520 the plane itself. There is no possibility this is legal. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.680 But the irity is that the White House is claiming 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.040 they went to the Attorney General, and they went to 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.040 the White House Council and they somehow think on a 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:33.240 technicality that they're getting around any constitutional problems with accepting 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:38.160 this gift. Whether it's legal or not, it's inappropriate. This 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.720 is a terrible look the president of the United States. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.440 The United States of America can't afford to buy its 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.320 own presidential plane, so they need a gift of a 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.480 monarch slash dictator in the Middle East. They have to 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.280 get a plane from them. By the way, it is 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.320 a Boeing plane. At least it's American made. I will 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.280 give the president that. It would have been even more 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.000 awkward if if he was being gifted an air bus 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.480 in order to make it the presidential plane. But if 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.400 they remotely want to make this legal, if he's going 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.200 to make it air Force one, and apparently that's what 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.120 they're going to do. They're going to accept this plane. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.679 It's going to get essentially retrofitted with all the things 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.680 a president needs in the air and it's going to 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.880 be Air Force one for the remainder of Trump's term. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.920 Trump is frustrated because there was supposed to be a 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.600 new Air Force one. There hasn't been a new Air 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.560 Force one in thirty years, and there was supposed to 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.520 be a new Air Force one. There's been delays and 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.600 it looks like Boeing because they can't deliver anything on time. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.839 These days, Boeing is not going to be able to 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.400 deliver this until twenty twenty nine, when Donald Trump will 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.280 no longer be president. But he he needs his plane now. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.000 I guess he stomped his feet and pounded the table. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.000 He wants his plane. Give him his PS five, give 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.679 him his video games. Now, give him his plane right now. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.959 Sometimes I've always said with Donald Trump, if you really 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.679 want to understand his psyche, if you have a teenage boy, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.320 or had a teenage boy, then you know what it's 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:07.200 like to manage Donald Trump. They want stuff instantaneously, they 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.360 can't handle no for an answer, and they're always looking 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.679 for a shortcut to get what they want. This has 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.319 been Donald Trump's life for what is he now? It's 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:23.199 going to be seventy nine in June, so the plane 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.600 is going to be the latest shiny metal object. The 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.000 irony to this is I think Donald Trump believes he's 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.839 untouchable now right his own base is not going to 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.959 care about this. The elected Republicans who all were outraged 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.360 about Hunter Biden making money off of Joe Biden in 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.920 his last name, have been incredibly silent as Eric and 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:49.280 Donald Trump Junior have done this crypto business using their 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.120 father's name to do this. Never mind half the deals 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.000 they've been conducting in the Middle East, all all with 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.120 overtures having to do with what the federal government, with 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.720 the US government form policy, is going to do. It's 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.400 totally been mixed in here. If Hunter Biden were doing 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:12.080 ten percent of this, you might have had Democrats agreeing 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.240 to impeachment proceedings against Joe Biden if this is how 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.240 Hunter Biden and the business of the Bidens were behaving. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.240 But that's what the business of the Trump's are behaving. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.679 And I'll be very curious if any Republicans are comfortable 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.800 putting sticking their head up and saying this is wrong. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.840 We saw what the crypto when he did his crypto fundraiser, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:36.720 where basically they announced, if you buy his fake token, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.520 the Trump coin, the top coin holders are going to 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.839 get access to the president, going to get a private fundraiser, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.400 and then if you are really a top buyer of 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.360 his coin, you get even further access to VIP two 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.760 or possibly of the White House, possibly of something else. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.520 And Cynthia Lummus and a few others they thought, oh, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.000 that might be a bridge too far. And actual crypto 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.880 advocates have quiet I actually been whispering that Donald Trump's 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.880 greed with these Millennia coins and these Trump coins, his 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.480 personal greed in trying to make and scam crypto money 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.800 here is probably making it a lot harder to legitimize 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.120 the idea of the crypto industry. And you saw some 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:22.560 Democrats who are trying to be pro crypto here. Look, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.320 I'm a huge skeptic of this. It is, you know, 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.280 ideal in baseball cards. There's no difference to me between 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.840 crypto and baseball cards. I believe in the blockchain. The 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.160 blockchain is an incredible technology, but we're not turning it 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.079 into a currency, and we're not replacing the US dollar. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.560 And by the way, if you ever wanted to spend crypto, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.080 do you know what you have to do to spend crypto? 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.319 You got to exchange it for the US currency. Then 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.000 you can actually spend this money and it is and 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.080 it is assigned to this So it is simply just 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.480 buying something with a baseball card or buying something with 0:11:55.520 --> 0:12:00.079 a piece of art, except we're calling it crypto. And 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.120 there's no doubt there's a lot of people who have 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.600 over invested in Crypto and are desperate to see this 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.120 legitimized and decided Donald Trump was their best vehicle to 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.680 essentially try to get him to, you know, find a 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.079 way to line his pockets with crypto, to make him 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.640 invested in it so that he too wants to see 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.199 some sort of federal government legitimizing crypto so that they 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:29.080 can so they can all sort of make whatever money 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.800 they think this crypto should be worth. They want to 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.560 make it work. So you add all this up there, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:37.880 you know, this is one of those where I'm going 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.000 to quote Bob Dole from nineteen ninety six when he 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.000 was frustrated that when the Clintons were raising money in 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.640 the White House. But I remember when Republicans thought that 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.000 was a bridge too far. I'll be curious to see 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.920 if any of these Republicans speak up today about the plane, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.160 about crypto, about this entire trip to the Middle East, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.240 which seems to be more about personal business dealings than 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.040 it is for anything professional. On behalf of the federal 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.080 government and behalf of the US taxpayers. But here we are, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.360 and the question is whether this is something that is 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:15.480 going to be tolerated by elected officials. Look, he's been. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.200 I think he thinks he's untouchable because he's been impeached twice, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.599 and he's probably right, what are they going to do 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.160 and peach him again? They don't have the votes, so 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.800 they'll not do it. He knows he can get away 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.240 with it, and he knows that there's enough people in 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.880 his orbit also trying to surf with him and make 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.120 money off of these questionable deals that they're not going 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.920 to say anything. And some of these folks are getting 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.480 campaign money from some of these groups in order to 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.840 also keep quiet. So look, this is a it's a 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.480 blatant violation of the Constitution. Anybody trying to claim that 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:56.200 it's not is just rationalizing craziness, if you will. The 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:02.599 idea that this somehow meets does it violate the Amolument's 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:08.600 clause is willful ignorance on that front. So look, I 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.920 think this trip is he at some you know, I 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.480 don't know, right, I used to say, at some point, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.360 this is you know, there's only so much the public 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.119 can take. There might be only so much elected officials 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.880 can take, but maybe not. We are living in such 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.800 a transactional environment these days. Everybody's got to get theirs 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.680 everybody's got to monetize this. Everybody's had that. And there's 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.240 also such a nobody's shocked anymore that Donald Trump is 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.840 always trying to make personally gain on whatever he's involved with. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.920 In fact, in his own mind, he probably sees this 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.640 to the plane or any of these deals as sort 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.520 of a commission. Hey, I'm making the deal. Why shouldn't 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.440 I get a little something? Trust me, if you want 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.560 to ask him that question, I promise you if he would, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.840 you could lead him down that road where he would 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.840 sort of accept the prevature. Yeah, I should get a 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.440 little something for the effort, because these people are only 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.040 making deals because they're making deals with me. That's that 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.720 would be the an example of that kind of of 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.560 that kind of rationalization. So look, this is this should 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:24.360 be one of those things that should be extraordinarily uh 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.120 one of these moments. It should be a feeding frenzy, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.440 and it won't be. There should be bipartisan outrage, but 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.440 there won't be. Again, I'm old enough to remember when 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.360 Nuke Gingrich thought the Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright, 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:44.000 was unfairly making money on a book deal and drove 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.800 him out of the speakership. I'll be curious to see 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.880 if Nuke Gingrich says a word about what's going on 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.520 with with with Qatar essentially bribing the United States, because 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:02.360 here is Katar the chief patron of AMAS, and they're 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.840 they're doing everything they can to keep us off their back, 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.520 how by essentially buying America off by the way, Qatar 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.320 has been buying up you know, they have a piece 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.280 of the Wizards and the Caps. This is not a small, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.280 d democratic country, mind you. And yet they have been 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:24.720 buying up various entities in DC. They are huge, Uh, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.160 they're huge, sort of contributors to the lobbying community as 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.200 a whole. There's plenty of events that get held in 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.400 DC that couldn't be held without the generosity of the Kataris. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.320 And that's the that's the corrupt bargain that I think 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.800 both parties have made with the with these Gulf states. Again, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.520 these are places that don't give women equal rights, that 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.920 treat that don't that don't exactly have democratic values, and 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.080 we turn the other way because of how much money 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:59.920 they give they put into our system in this town. Uh. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:05.480 And then of course whatever personal benefit that is happening 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.080 with the Trump family and the derivative businesses involving the 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.760 Trump family. So look, this is I've said before it's kleptocracy, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.760 that he's turned the party in the kleptocracy. This is 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.480 yet the latest sign. I mean, the idea that he 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.080 is going to get a personal plane to use once 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:30.439 he's done being president from Katar via this gift to 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:37.720 the federal government. I mean, it is audacious. That is audacious. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.400 I will give you that. I mean, every time you think, boy, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.159 would he really do that, you know what the answer is, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.000 The answer is always yes. All right. A few other 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.359 things I want to hit on. I was glad to 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.840 see that the Vice President and the Secretary State did 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 get involved in India and Pakistan and trying to get 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.160 this ceasefire. Is the last time i'd left, you made 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.720 it pretty clear that I think what was happening over 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.280 there is an indirect result of america retreat, essentially of 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.000 the Trump administration signaling that America is going to be 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:15.960 retreating from the world stage, not wanting multilateral agreements and 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:17.560 all of this, and that there was going to be 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.240 this this pullback. When you have this pullback, more countries 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.000 are going to take matters into their own hands. When 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.200 you signal that you're for nationalism, you're signaling the other 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.600 countries they should be nationalistic in their decision making, whether 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.200 it's on the economy or national security, and I think 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.840 that we had that. But it was good to see 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:44.480 that both Ruvio Advance realized that America is the essential nation, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.520 whether whether we want to admit it or not. And 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.840 if we're not involved, nobody else is going to get 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.600 involved to try to try to stop a war between 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.919 two nuclear powers. So I was glad to see it. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.879 I know there's been some back and forth, you know, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.359 if you're telling me the United States is over the 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.520 role that Rubio and Vance played because Donald Trump announced it. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.200 I know. I'm shocked that that could possibly be the case. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.320 But the fact is we did get involved a little bit. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:14.399 A few other things that I want to get to 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:19.440 before we get to the conversation with Jasmine Crockett. I 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.400 can't believe the ad campaign speaking of US taxpayer dollars 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:31.520 being used for personal and political purposes. I was on 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.280 Saturday morning. There wasn't a lot to watch as far 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.760 as live sports was concerned, so I put on my 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.320 ESPN Plus. I was watching a little multi screen of 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.720 the Truest Championship. It's a golf tournament based in Philadelphia, 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.280 and it had a lot of the top tier golfers 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.480 actually participating. Right these non major events, they're usually frankly, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:55.040 you know, I'm sort of a I watch golf if 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.399 there's nothing else on, and there are players that I 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.960 recognize playing, and in this case there were Roy mack 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.159 le Roy people like that. Well, there was one ad 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.760 that kept running over and over, and it was an 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.600 ad paid for by the US Homeland Security Department, and 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.520 it was voiced by Christy no and it was basically 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:21.280 bragging about all the arrests, bragging about showing footage of 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:27.080 that questionable prison that's been run in El Salvador that 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.000 certainly has plenty of outside groups say violates basic human 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:37.360 rights and certainly doesn't abide by I think US standards 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.200 of how we would be expected to keep a prisoner 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.520 and things like that, and it's paid for with US TEXTPA. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.320 It felt like a campaign ad. You know, she was 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.640 saying President We're keeping President Trump's promise, We're rounding these 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.040 people up. And it was clear think about what this 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.440 was being advertised on golf. The demographic of the golf 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:02.280 fan is older and wider, and they are trying desperately 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.959 to make them think that a roundup has taken place. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.720 So they put the big number on screen, one hundred 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.719 thousand detained, and I guess in order to have it 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.879 pass legal muster. At the end is this awkward transition 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.960 where Nomes says, so download the app. If you download 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.040 the app, you can avoid this fate and you might 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.120 be able to come back. So it was clear that 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.600 that was what their lawyer instructed them, that if you 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.120 want to run this campaign at paid for with taxpayer dollars, 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:37.000 you've got to at least make an attempt to do 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.919 a public service of some sort, and right at the 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.399 very end, the public services to download the CPP app 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.479 in order to avoid the fate apparently of going to 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:53.040 prison in Al Salvador. I will just say again, considering 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.320 what I opened with with this plane, you know, to 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.840 find other bits, the amount of sort of illegal uneff, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:04.880 the goal behavior taking place in different cabinet agencies. It's 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.960 just blows my mind. And this one again, is it 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:10.800 going to rise up a lot of people aren't going 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.800 to notice it, but it's your taxpayer dollars being used 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:19.000 to try to sort of buff up President Trump's image 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.280 on the border and again or and frankly a way 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:29.440 too for Christy Nome to give herself more of a 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.800 national name as well, but again using taxpayer dollars, because 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.840 I promise you there wasn't the people they're trying to 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.120 get to download that app weren't watching the truest Championship 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:46.280 golf tournament. All right, There's a lot more that I 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.400 wanted to get to. We've got current negotiations as I'm 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.040 talking now here on Sunday evening. We know that the 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.840 China talks in Switzerland continue, fourth round of talks with 0:22:55.880 --> 0:23:00.560 Iran continue. It is clear Donald Trump, being missed not 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.159 the best negotiator. His signal he's desperate to make a 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.159 deal with both of them. So some form of a 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:08.359 deal I think is going to be coming, and coming soon. 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.160 It'll be interesting to see how the Gulf States. By 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.080 the way, there's no doubt Donald Trump's not going to 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.640 want to have an Iranian deal while he's over there. 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:20.800 So my guess is that that continues to get slow 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:22.840 walked a little bit. He wants to get through his 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:27.359 trip with the Saudi's UAE guitar and then and you know, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:31.080 get his loot, including the plane. Then when he comes back, 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:33.480 my guess is that's when he's going to do that 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.159 Iran deal, because the Iran Deal isn't going to be 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.000 popular in Saudi Arabia and the Iron Deal isn't going 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:41.640 to be popular in Israel, because it's clear jd Vance 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.520 has already signaled this that they plan to allow some 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:52.320 Uranian enrichment if it's for quote unquote civilian power it is. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:55.680 I'll tell you this, it looks like Donald Trump's pulling 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.120 a NAFTA that basically he's doing the same deal. He's 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.000 going to be cutting pretty much the same deal with 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:03.720 the Iranians at Barack Obama cut, but they're just going 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:05.560 to give it a different name and say, hey, look 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:09.080 it's a brand new deal. And as for China, obviously 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:12.000 he already signaled he desperately wants to bring down the 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.600 tariffs and wants jointly to bring down the tariffs. Doesn't 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:18.480