Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jet and arms of my workspace has become completely disordered.
Speaker 1: It's just it's out of control. Mm hmm. And I
Speaker 1: think it's a disordered mind, disordered workspace something like that. Dude,
Speaker 1: maybe we should take an hour and simply tidy. I
Speaker 1: think it's a reflection of a maniac a sort of
Speaker 1: living environment. Live from Studio C, a dimly let room
Speaker 1: within the bowels of the Armstrong in Getting Communications Compound.
Speaker 1: And hey, y'all on a Tuesday or under the tutelage
Speaker 1: of our general manager, Peace and tranquility. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: they did what he said? What they So do you
Speaker 1: know where we are currently? I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: a handle on that because I was watching a bunch
Speaker 1: of news when I got up and since then, and
Speaker 1: a lot of it was recorded, like you know, news
Speaker 1: that happened really really early in the morning, and so
Speaker 1: I wasn't watching it live. But so it's all recorded,
Speaker 1: but it keeps getting surpassed by breaking news. So where
Speaker 1: are we currently? Trump announced a ceasefire last night or
Speaker 1: late yesterday afternoon, he said, hey, Israel and Random agreed
Speaker 1: to a cease fire. Then there were all kinds of
Speaker 1: news stories floating around saying Israel has An agreed to
Speaker 1: a cease far, Iran has An agreed to a cease far.
Speaker 1: And then by the time I went to a bed,
Speaker 1: both Israel abed my bed. By the time one isn't enough.
Speaker 1: Any bed will do, just any bed near me. Once
Speaker 1: I went to abed, Israel and Iran had agreed to
Speaker 1: a ceaspire. Yes, And I was reading some of the
Speaker 1: commentary on that. Ian Bremer said. On his side, he
Speaker 1: said Iran has as an expression recently used in the
Speaker 1: Oval office, Iran has no cards to play, so he
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised of a sea spire. Okay, so where are
Speaker 1: we currently, well at this minute, I wish I could
Speaker 1: tell you in a definitive way as of this minute. Well,
Speaker 1: the last I heard, and I'm checking again, the idea
Speaker 1: was that, look, you got operations going on, you got
Speaker 1: planes in the air, you got missiles you're launching at
Speaker 1: Israel Iran. Everybody you know, you got like twelve hours
Speaker 1: to mop things up. This was yesterday, last night, and
Speaker 1: it would seem that the mopping up has not stopped
Speaker 1: according to the President's intended timetable, so he's pissed off
Speaker 1: about it at both parties. He's mad at Israel and Iran. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: In fact, he said some shocking strong things about Israel
Speaker 1: which I thought were ill advised, but that's just me. Well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. I was just watching a really interesting discussion
Speaker 1: with the Washington Post leading analyst of this sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: and I think he's right, and that Trump is a
Speaker 1: make trade not war guy. He doesn't understand why anybody
Speaker 1: would ever want to do anything that disrupts their ability
Speaker 1: to just make money and live your life, which I
Speaker 1: understand on a certain level. It is amazing that human
Speaker 1: beings ever want to do anything other than figure out
Speaker 1: a way to, you know, just better your life. And
Speaker 1: you would think you would, no matter what you disagree on,
Speaker 1: come up with a way to figure out, how are
Speaker 1: we both going to move forward and better our lives. Well,
Speaker 1: I think net Yahoo has to go to him and
Speaker 1: speak a language he understands. Mister President. This problem we
Speaker 1: have with Iran and its proxies, it's like a leak.
Speaker 1: It's like a water leak around the foundation of a
Speaker 1: hotel you're building. And if you just wait till you've
Speaker 1: got the leak dealt with ninety per and then you
Speaker 1: start building, you're just begging for a problem. We gotta
Speaker 1: get the leak stopped one hundred percent. It's gonna take
Speaker 1: a little longer. Well, I expect the ceasefire to happen.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I expect it to happen
Speaker 1: and hold at some point. It just it doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense to me that it wouldn't. Iran does have no
Speaker 1: cards to play. They got nothing, They've got nothing to play.
Speaker 1: Obviously Israel wants the war to stop. Uh. Well, the
Speaker 1: question becomes one hundred percent. Has Israel accomplished what it
Speaker 1: thought was necessary to you know, push off Iran's nuclearization
Speaker 1: for whatever time period they deemed as the minimum. That's
Speaker 1: the only question to me. If they still have a
Speaker 1: couple of sites to take out, a couple of you know,
Speaker 1: manufactures of the electric motors of centrifuges or whatever it
Speaker 1: happens to be, you gotta finish that, and and an
Speaker 1: artificially imposed, hastily announced truce is not necessarily going to
Speaker 1: allow them to accomplish that goal. So yeah, who knows,
Speaker 1: but Trump is annoyed. I know that. As one old
Speaker 1: international hand I saw on one of the channels who's
Speaker 1: followed a lot of wars for many, many decades, said,
Speaker 1: ceasefires and lands of wars always go this way. There's
Speaker 1: always like last minute. It's like separating two boxers at
Speaker 1: the bell. They're each trying to get one jab and
Speaker 1: as they get away, which is horrifying if you've ever
Speaker 1: read or watched all is quiet on the Western Front.
Speaker 1: I mean the idea that they're and this has happened
Speaker 1: in many wars, including that one World War One, where
Speaker 1: there are generals that want to like take one more hill.
Speaker 1: I know the ceasefire, the war is over, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to take one more hill. I don't care
Speaker 1: about that particular nineteen year old who's going to die
Speaker 1: as I take that hill. It's just absolutely horrifying, but
Speaker 1: it is a reality. I guess, yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: less that than what I was describing. Honestly, from the
Speaker 1: Iranian side, it's just a apathetic I mean, like pitiful
Speaker 1: effort at face saving going on right now because they
Speaker 1: aren't achieving any strategic goals whatsoever. By shooting their missiles
Speaker 1: about they're just depleting their supply of missiles. So I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at the headline on CNN Trump, I think
Speaker 1: they both violated the ceasefire. Fox Iranian missile barrage kills
Speaker 1: four in Israel. They're going with at least a headline
Speaker 1: right now that doesn't suggest Israel did anything. They're both
Speaker 1: still lobbing at each other. Yeah, be interesting to see
Speaker 1: where this ends up. I'd like it to stop. I'd
Speaker 1: like all kinds of frequents when we've accomplished the goal.
Speaker 1: But yeah, in general, of course, ye ormonger neo con
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking. Oh, you're right, gosh, there's no
Speaker 1: answer to that argument. That's an old over work at
Speaker 1: you in the argument working with a neocon, which is
Speaker 1: like the term fascist or what was the other one
Speaker 1: we had yesterday. That can mean anythani. Nazi means anything
Speaker 1: anybody you don't like for any reason. So whoever, for instance,
Speaker 1: whoever cleaned out the fridge last week and poured out
Speaker 1: my dream clearly a Nazi fascial Nazi neocon versu sort
Speaker 1: of Nazi o'conn. We should start the show officially because
Speaker 1: the clip we've got is so good. It just happened
Speaker 1: a little bit ago, and it shows you how mad
Speaker 1: Trump is. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, June twenty fourth, the year twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program. All right,
Speaker 1: let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 1: so much to do. As always here we go at
Speaker 1: mark you what we have.
Speaker 2: We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
Speaker 2: long and so hard that they don't know what the
Speaker 2: fuck they're doing. You understand that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is the press. Why is it athleeked?
Speaker 1: That is presidential news? Damn it. So I'm looking up
Speaker 1: at CNN Israel, Luran quote, don't know what the f
Speaker 1: asterisk asterisk k they're doing? What is the word I
Speaker 1: wonder for funk? I believe fork fork they don't know
Speaker 1: what the fork they're doing, right, Flack with a K.
Speaker 1: That is from a guy who's been in rate his
Speaker 1: whole life. Standpoint, absolutely one hundred percent justifiable to play
Speaker 1: that unbleeped. But nobody's gonna have the guts to do it.
Speaker 1: I would if I were running this place, but I'm
Speaker 1: not our boss would s a b if your pardon expression, Wow,
Speaker 1: if I think you can say brick, but you know whatever,
Speaker 1: these are uncertain times. Yeah, don't do it the other
Speaker 1: way around. Yes, I think he would be if we
Speaker 1: played it unbleeped. But no chance in hell that you
Speaker 1: could get fined by the FCC for that. The President
Speaker 1: of the United States during a moment of wartime, just
Speaker 1: made a comment. You have to be able to air
Speaker 1: that to people on the public airwaves so the people
Speaker 1: know what the president said. Right. It could be argued
Speaker 1: we know what he said, but yeah, it's ironic that
Speaker 1: we both abhorr people using foul language in public. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can have a choice whether to see it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no news, it's absolutely defensible on First Amendment.
Speaker 1: I understand your point that we know what he said,
Speaker 1: but it loses so much of its sting. Yes, and
Speaker 1: the president wanted it to have a sting. Yes. Indeed,
Speaker 1: speaking of sting, let's not hold back, Michael. You got
Speaker 1: forty b in front of you. The president was running hot,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump coming in hot here, and I.
Speaker 2: Will say I think CNN or to apologize to the
Speaker 2: pilots of the v twos. I think that MSDNC o
Speaker 2: to apologize. I think these guys, really, these networks are
Speaker 2: these cable networks are real losers. You're really you're realising.
Speaker 1: Oh he's just getting started. Roll on, Michael, roll on,
Speaker 1: come on, if you do.
Speaker 2: With gutless ness. I say that to CNN because I
Speaker 2: watch it. I have no choice. I gotta watch that garbage.
Speaker 2: It's all garbage, it's all fake news.
Speaker 1: But I think CNN is.
Speaker 2: A gutless group of people, and the people that run
Speaker 2: it nobody even knows. There's been sold so many times,
Speaker 2: but the people that are run it or to you're
Speaker 2: a shamed MSD. And see a guy named Brian Roberts,
Speaker 2: he heads it. He's a disgrace. He's a weak, pathetic disgrace.
Speaker 1: And earlier, because I was watching this live, he called
Speaker 1: CNN is scumb CNN is scum. Unfortunate. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that helped anything. See unique fellow this Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: He didn't like the reporting that fodoh may not be
Speaker 1: as damaged as they're claiming. Okay, all right, so yeah
Speaker 1: there's that. Well there you go. That's uh, that's the
Speaker 1: whole ceasefire or not war in the middle least story,
Speaker 1: and we'll be dipping in and out of that throughout
Speaker 1: the show with probably Trump and the Prime Minister Netna
Speaker 1: who just spoke okay, asking him not to resume, Nenya
Speaker 1: who says they're going to stop. So we'll see what happens,
Speaker 1: and we'll report any minute now. And we're stopping. In minutes,
Speaker 1: we're starting to stop. We haven't started the end of
Speaker 1: the stopping, but we've started the beginning of stopping, mister President.
Speaker 1: We've stopped the end of the starting, is what we've done. Indeed.
Speaker 1: But you believe there will be a ceasefire, like I do.
Speaker 1: You think this actually will? Oh yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't mean like five years from now, I mean like
Speaker 1: today or tomorrow. Certainly by tomorrow, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think it'll stop here real soon. And then there's
Speaker 1: plenty of other news that we can report on a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different fronts, and Katie's got all the
Speaker 1: headlines on the way next we'll see what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world. Stay tuned. We're going on vacation. We're
Speaker 1: on vacation next week as a lot of the America
Speaker 1: will be fourth of July, you know, laninging right and
Speaker 1: kind of in the middle of the week and either
Speaker 1: taking a day or so on either side, or your
Speaker 1: company has days off or whatever. I'm taking the kids
Speaker 1: to Florida, where it's going to be one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty degrees and mosquitos so thick you can't breathe so right,
Speaker 1: But that's what keeps the other tourists away, jungle environment
Speaker 1: there for you. Just we're just pack loin cloths. It's
Speaker 1: all you're gonna need, high cloths and flip flops. Maybe
Speaker 1: hiding the whole tell room the entire trip and told
Speaker 1: time to come back. Wow, sounds great. We've got so
Speaker 1: much to get to coming up a strong, strong defense
Speaker 1: of the constitutionality of what Trump did, but only Congress
Speaker 1: can declare. We'll get to the reality of it coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm working on this headline, Katie, since you're the queen
Speaker 1: of the headlines, Bunker bombs for Iran, f bombs for CNN,
Speaker 1: love it, Trump on the Attack. It's probably a little long.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. We can end. We can end
Speaker 1: the headline segment. Now that was it that, Let's figure
Speaker 1: out who's reporting what It's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie, starting with The New York Times, Trump lashes out
Speaker 3: at Israel and Iran amid cease fire violations.
Speaker 1: They don't know what did what did he say? They
Speaker 1: don't They don't know what the f they're doing, except
Speaker 1: he said the actual word. I think Israel knows precisely
Speaker 1: what the f it's doing. Every time I start thinking
Speaker 1: Trump is, you know, thinking clearly and gets it. He
Speaker 1: says something like that just seems nuts. From boxing, we.
Speaker 2: Basically have two countries that have been fighting so long
Speaker 2: and so hard that they don't know what the fuck
Speaker 2: they're doing. Do you understand.
Speaker 1: That that's historic? That's an historic F bomb. It's the
Speaker 1: w t F doctrine. Mm. It's like the Monroe doctrine
Speaker 1: before it put somewhat more F.
Speaker 3: Bomby from Box News, Pam Bondi confirms officials are on
Speaker 3: high alert amid concerns of Iranian sleeper cells.
Speaker 1: Are you worried about Iranian sleeper self personally? No. I
Speaker 1: understand that there could be agents within the country hoping
Speaker 1: to strike, But the last thing in the world I
Speaker 1: would do, even if I were a crazy Mola is
Speaker 1: provoked some sort of terrible, terrible a vengeance by the
Speaker 1: United States. Right from NBC.
Speaker 3: Supreme Court allows Trump to swiftly deport certain immigrants to
Speaker 3: quote third countries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting situation being badly reported by our media as usual.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're pedro from l Salvador and they won't
Speaker 1: have you back. Well, look forward to your new apartment
Speaker 1: there in Angola or wherever. Wow. And then and then
Speaker 1: what do you do? You just land in the country
Speaker 1: you've never lived in. You have no maybe you don't
Speaker 1: speak the language, you don't know anybody there, Like the
Speaker 1: closing time at many of our the policy is you
Speaker 1: don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker 3: Hey, speaking of Florida, Jack CNN Florida did it to
Speaker 3: detain illegals in new Everglades facility, dubbed the quote Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm going to the Everglades. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. So, yeah, there's some you'll
Speaker 1: see lots of illegals. It'll make me feel at home
Speaker 1: as a California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a used air strip that apparently they're They
Speaker 3: said they don't worry about security perimeter, securing the perimeter,
Speaker 3: because there's plenty of gators for that.
Speaker 1: There you go, Ooh, cater Guards, cater Guards.
Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, Powell reaffirms weight and see
Speaker 3: posture on rate cuts, citing a solid economy.
Speaker 1: There you go. So this good news is bad news,
Speaker 1: or the bad news is good news or something.
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, prosecutors are expected to rest their
Speaker 3: case today against Sean Combs.
Speaker 1: Then Nitty's defense takes up the uh, takes the ball
Speaker 1: and runs with it. It could get damned interesting, then,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, Hunter Biden sued over fifty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars in unpaid legal bills, including from his Delaware
Speaker 3: gun case.
Speaker 1: He needs to meet another weirdo. What a party who's
Speaker 1: willing to pay all his bills for some reason? Not
Speaker 1: with the old man out of power, forget it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sugar daddy's are no longer interested. What do you
Speaker 1: mean people aren't interested in my art anymore? What gives
Speaker 1: I was getting half a million bucks apiece for these
Speaker 1: what do you mean thirty five dollars? People told me
Speaker 1: I was a brilliant painter. And finally frown.
Speaker 3: The Babylon v Obama distraught as Trump bomb's cool nuke
Speaker 3: factory that he paid for.
Speaker 1: Oh oh wow, auci that one landed. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: just reading an update the Trump was on the phone
Speaker 1: with Netanyahu. Is that right? Yes? Correct? Yeah, and uh
Speaker 1: and uh what do you say to him? I was
Speaker 1: just talking about it. It's flitted out of my head. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it was big news. Oh. He told Netanyahu to
Speaker 1: bring back military aircraft that were on the verge of
Speaker 1: attacking Iran, essentially turn around the planes. Getting a nuke
Speaker 1: is the last thing on Iran's mind right now. So
Speaker 1: Netanyahu was saying, well, I've already got planes in the air,
Speaker 1: so they'll have to fulfill their mission. And Trump said, no,
Speaker 1: turn them around. That's the way it seems, yes, Incording
Speaker 1: to reporters on Air Force One, well, nt Yahu's going
Speaker 1: to try to squeeze as many bombings as he can
Speaker 1: out of the final moments before the ceasefire is cease fire. Certainly,
Speaker 1: we'll be keeping our eye on this throughout the show.
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting stuff, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Near Governor Kathy Hocho yesterday declared a state of emergency
Speaker 4: amid a heat wave that's expected to break one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty five year old records, which means it's time
Speaker 4: for my favorite hobby, going down to Times Square to
Speaker 4: watch the Elmo's face.
Speaker 1: Down to watch the Elmo's face. Wow, that's a very
Speaker 1: letterman like joke. Um uh So, here's one of the
Speaker 1: exciting things today that I'm watching the New York mayoral race.
Speaker 1: It's the Democratic primary, but that's basically the race because
Speaker 1: no Republicans going to win, and unbelievable turnout early voting,
Speaker 1: crazy off the charts high, mostly young people. Already huge turnout,
Speaker 1: mostly young people. I think the freaking he calls himself
Speaker 1: a democratic socialist, he's a socialist communist. He's downplaying as socialist,
Speaker 1: but I think that guy's gonna win. Anti Semitic pro
Speaker 1: hamas communist. Yeah, I am torn. I want to talk
Speaker 1: more about that. Part of me thinks I don't live
Speaker 1: in New York, so it will be found it happen. Well,
Speaker 1: not only that, but what's the most effective way to
Speaker 1: discredit progressive policies enact them. You've got to hit bottom
Speaker 1: like Portland did, like Seattle did, like Chicago is in
Speaker 1: the process, like San Francisco did. Oh my god, please, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: how could I leave off the city by the bay Yea?
Speaker 1: So a couple of interesting pieces of news in terms
Speaker 1: of the Israel Iran US conflict. First of all, in
Speaker 1: exclusive the Washington Post is reporting that in the hours
Speaker 1: after Israel launched its first devastating wave of strikes against
Speaker 1: Iran exactly a week ago, or it's just over a
Speaker 1: week ago, killing top military leaders and nuclear scientists, you
Speaker 1: remember that one Israeli intelligence operatives launched a covert campaign
Speaker 1: to intimidate senior officials, apparently trying to divide and destabilize
Speaker 1: the theocratic regime. So people who work for Israel's security
Speaker 1: services who speak Persian, Iran's primary language, called senior Iranian
Speaker 1: officials on their cell phones and warned them that they
Speaker 1: and their wives and children would die unless they ceased
Speaker 1: supporting the Ayahtola and got the hell out of dodge.
Speaker 1: And they didn't quote I can will I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some may have. Do you think they did quote I
Speaker 1: can advise you now you have twelve hours to escape
Speaker 1: with your wife and childs. Otherwise you're on our list
Speaker 1: right now. An Israeli intelligence operative told the senior Iranian
Speaker 1: general close to the country's rulers. The operative then suggested
Speaker 1: that Israel could train weapons on the general and his
Speaker 1: family at any moment. Quote, we're closer to you than
Speaker 1: your own neck vein. Put this in your head. May
Speaker 1: God protect you. Yikes. The general, a member of Iran's
Speaker 1: powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Court, was told he had twelve
Speaker 1: hours to make a video disassociating himself from the Iranian government.
Speaker 1: How should I send it to you, the General replies,
Speaker 1: I'll send you a telegram ID the operative says, send it.
Speaker 1: Unclear whether it was made or sent or anything like that. Boy,
Speaker 1: all these guys, we got a bomb pointed at your
Speaker 1: head right now. You got a cute little kid, don't you. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: do the right thing, see ya am I right to see.
Speaker 1: Ayatola has not been seen in quite a while, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks from what I understand. Yeah, so he
Speaker 1: could be gone. I'd read one report that he you mean,
Speaker 1: like he ran for his life gone. Surely that news
Speaker 1: would break, right, I mean, somebody would try to take
Speaker 1: over the country or yeah, you would think. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just assume he's in hiding. I mean, he's older than
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And I'd seen one report where they suggested
Speaker 1: that he was acting and speaking erratically. People weren't sure
Speaker 1: if he had his marbles, but don't know. So on
Speaker 1: a completely different topic, John Yu who was a Pentagon
Speaker 1: lawyer in the Bush administration, among other names, senior fellow
Speaker 1: at various places, a professor law UC Burke. He became
Speaker 1: a big deal around the torture stuff. I think, yes,
Speaker 1: that is correct. Not exactly a shining place on his
Speaker 1: resume in my opinion, but he is a highly respected
Speaker 1: constitutional scholar. But anyway he's talking about, well, he says
Speaker 1: Trump's strike on Iran was constitutional. The President acted to
Speaker 1: protect the nation security within the powers granted to his
Speaker 1: office by the Constitution. And he goes into some of
Speaker 1: the catterwauling about it. Bernie Sanders AOC. I just saw
Speaker 1: her on cable news talking about impeachment. Roe Conna, a
Speaker 1: Democratic California who's trying to raise his profile. He has
Speaker 1: a sniff of the Oval office. He immediately voted. He
Speaker 1: demanded the Congress vote on his newly introduced War Powers
Speaker 1: Resolution quote to prevent America from being dragged into another
Speaker 1: endless Middle East war, an endless war that may have
Speaker 1: ended an hour ago, right after like eight hours of
Speaker 1: our involvement, well, flight time thirty seven hours anyway, And
Speaker 1: then on the isolationist right you got Thomas Massey griping
Speaker 1: about it, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Marjorie Taylor Green came hardcore.
Speaker 1: But then you and this is the part I really
Speaker 1: found interesting. He gets into some of the Federalist papers
Speaker 1: in which Lexander Hamilton explained Alexander Hamilton, it gives the
Speaker 1: president the primary constitutional duty of quote, protecting the community
Speaker 1: against foreign attacks. And the founders vested these powers and
Speaker 1: the president precisely because only a single man could act
Speaker 1: quote with sufficient energy in the executive to respond to
Speaker 1: the challenges of foreign national and national security. Decision activity, secrecy,
Speaker 1: and dispatch meaning speed will generally characterize the proceedings of
Speaker 1: one man, Hamilton wrote in the Federal seventy four. Hamilton
Speaker 1: was even more explicit of all the cares or concerns
Speaker 1: of the government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands
Speaker 1: those qualities which distinguished the exercise of power by a
Speaker 1: single hand. Blah blah blah. Now how that relates to
Speaker 1: the declaration of war, I don't know because, as you
Speaker 1: were discussing yesterday, Jack, we have congresses declared war five
Speaker 1: times in our nation's history. Presidents have come mitd military
Speaker 1: forces to combat abroad one hundred and thirty plus times.
Speaker 1: And here's the historical part I found extra ange. So
Speaker 1: we didn't declare war in Vietnam, right or Korea? It
Speaker 1: was a police action. Yes, So, Temilton, two giant wars
Speaker 1: with many Americans dead, and we have huge memorials to
Speaker 1: them in Washington, d C. Were not declared wars by Congress,
Speaker 1: and we call them wars. Well, they look a lot
Speaker 1: like a war with the whole guns and dying thing.
Speaker 1: All right, Hamilton's defensive executive power and wars held sway
Speaker 1: for more than two centuries, and it has had little
Speaker 1: Uh well, what does he say? With little variation. The
Speaker 1: president takes the lead and deciding when to initiate armed conflict,
Speaker 1: with Congress exercising a check through its sole power of
Speaker 1: the purse. So here's the history. The practiced extends at
Speaker 1: least as far back in the Korean War. In cases
Speaker 1: of smaller conflicts, the practice can be traced to the
Speaker 1: very first administrations. George Washington conducted the Indian Wars without
Speaker 1: a declar Thomas Jefferson fought the Barbary pirates on his
Speaker 1: own authority. That's a pretty good parallel to what Trump
Speaker 1: is doing. Abraham Lincoln raised an army and navy and
Speaker 1: launched them against the South without calling Congress into session.
Speaker 1: Fdr ordered escorts for British convoys aid to the Allies
Speaker 1: attacks on German submarines in the face of Congress's neutrality acts.
Speaker 1: In the wake of the Vietnam War, political leaders adopted
Speaker 1: a radical academic theory that only Congress could authorize any
Speaker 1: sort of war, and they enacted the War Powers Resolution
Speaker 1: over the veto of a weekened Nixon. It required the
Speaker 1: president to receive Congressional approval for any use of military
Speaker 1: force abroad, and if they do not get it, to
Speaker 1: pull troops out after sixty days. And Ted's Kennedy and
Speaker 1: Jose Biden claimed that the Constitution's War Powers Clause forbade
Speaker 1: Republican presidents from waging war without Congressional permission. And then
Speaker 1: they go through the history of plenty of democratic presidents
Speaker 1: doing them that very thing, and nobody said a word
Speaker 1: that presidents have refused to accept the legality of the
Speaker 1: War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three, and neither Congress
Speaker 1: nor other courts have shown any interest in enforcing it. Ford, Carti, Carter,
Speaker 1: Reagan all engaged in several military actions without Congressional assent,
Speaker 1: and you got hw and then w Clinton interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia,
Speaker 1: the Middle East, most significantly Kozo votes, part none of
Speaker 1: which were authorized by Congress. Part of it, a lot
Speaker 1: of it, maybe practically all of it is because the
Speaker 1: pante wasted, weak willed. I shouldn't say panny wasted, because
Speaker 1: that that that's implying what women wear pandies and women
Speaker 1: are weak. And I shouldn't because that's not true when
Speaker 1: it comes to like taking votes or whatnot. So we
Speaker 1: learned a couple of weeks ago that it was actually
Speaker 1: a reference to a small child's war. Okay, then I'll
Speaker 1: go back to anyways. No, how about lily livered? Is
Speaker 1: that unaffair to people with who drink too much sirosa
Speaker 1: white purple livers? No? I don't know. Anyway, it's because
Speaker 1: the weak, weak, cowardly congress people don't want to have
Speaker 1: their name attached to a vote for or against any wars.
Speaker 1: Because they've seen how it can get used against you
Speaker 1: in future elections if you're wrong on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, how many politicians, including Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: just the other day with Tucker Carlson, still have to
Speaker 1: talk about their vote on a rack, whether they voted
Speaker 1: for it or against it, and it gets drug out
Speaker 1: and held up. So they don't want to have to.
Speaker 1: They don't want their name attached to any votes, which
Speaker 1: is incredibly weak. But by doing that, they just let
Speaker 1: the commander in chief do whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 1: Then they'll take all the credit of the blame. But
Speaker 1: then at least me and Congress I don't have to
Speaker 1: risk my vote. It's time for a John Kennedy like
Speaker 1: figure to not write a book because Kennedy didn't write
Speaker 1: Profiles and courage not write a book entitled Profiles in
Speaker 1: Cowardice and really, hammen, that'd be great chicken beashes of
Speaker 1: Congress for their their unwillingness to take a stand on
Speaker 1: anything with their child's panties around their waist, Yes are
Speaker 1: lily colored. I would like, you know, I'd like to
Speaker 1: go into even more detail about the War Powers Resolution
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three, but again I think the key
Speaker 1: sentence is that all every single president of both parties
Speaker 1: has said yeah, that's nice, and neither Congress nor the
Speaker 1: courts have decided to do anything about it. So what
Speaker 1: are we talking about? Uh, well, I can tell you
Speaker 1: a couple of things. We're talking about. We're talking about
Speaker 1: fundraising and your constituents seeing that you're talking impeachment against
Speaker 1: Trump and you send them a check. They ask for
Speaker 1: a check and you send it to them. So that's
Speaker 1: part of it. Truth bomb run for your lives. Jack
Speaker 1: is dropping mave ordnance truth bombs. There should be a ceasefire.
Speaker 1: I just saw John fo Crap penetrating truth bombs. I
Speaker 1: just saw John Fetterman on Fox saying impeachment is going nowhere.
Speaker 1: It doesn't need to go anywhere. They just want to
Speaker 1: go through the process and get all the credit for trying,
Speaker 1: because we live at a new age of performative politics.
Speaker 1: You ask your pollster, if I announce an impeachment resolution,
Speaker 1: how many sad sacks will kick me twenty five bucks
Speaker 1: through the internet. Well, Sarah, we would believe that'll be
Speaker 1: efully two percent of your district or fifteen hundred people. Really, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: I'll write it up this afternoon, right exactly. I'm becoming
Speaker 1: enraged about a local skateboard park story that I've seen
Speaker 1: in the news today that I think is worth sharing
Speaker 1: with everybody because it's emblematic of a certain mindset. Love it.
Speaker 1: We've got mail Bag on the Way was the other
Speaker 1: story that I want to get to. I teased it
Speaker 1: a little bigger right at the beginning. Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: New York may oral race. If you don't know this
Speaker 1: communist who's going to end up being the mayor of
Speaker 1: New York, it's worth taking a look at him. What
Speaker 1: a story, What a thing to watch, As Joe says,
Speaker 1: it's going to be good for the rest of the
Speaker 1: country to watch a communist run the biggest city in
Speaker 1: the country and get all the news attention as it
Speaker 1: fails and fails and fails, and people get angry and
Speaker 1: angry and angrier. New York has got to stop electing
Speaker 1: Moron's mayor or they will suffer for it. And I
Speaker 1: think they're about to this guy, is he is? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll explain that later. Mail Bag on the Way next.
Speaker 1: I am so agitated. I get so agitated by do gooders.
Speaker 1: Oh they make me so angry. I can barely and
Speaker 1: I've been away my whole life. The zero tolerance for
Speaker 1: everyone's crowd to try to make the world safe and perfect.
Speaker 1: That makes the world unfun and unexciting and unadventurous, the
Speaker 1: safety of cest they make me insane, me so crazy,
Speaker 1: And I'm so agitated about this local skate park situation
Speaker 1: that I've seen play out across the country. Actually we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that later in the show. Here's your freedom
Speaker 1: living quote of today from a gentleman who celebrated his
Speaker 1: seventy seventh birthday yesterday. And he should be a hero
Speaker 1: to young children, particularly black children, all across America. That's
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. But he's been so denigrated in bad mouthed
Speaker 1: by the liberal media. He's not, but he was talking.
Speaker 1: He gave a speech not too long ago about the
Speaker 1: importance of standing up for truth, even if you're the
Speaker 1: only one doing so. And here's the quote. You can
Speaker 1: be in the middle of a hurricane, or you can
Speaker 1: be on a calm day. North is still North. You
Speaker 1: could be in a thunderstorm. North is still North. People
Speaker 1: can yell at you. North is still North. It doesn't
Speaker 1: change fundamental things. And in this business right is still
Speaker 1: right even if you stand by yourself. Yeah different, different
Speaker 1: version of two plus two equals four. No matter what,
Speaker 1: anybody else is right. Exactly, Well said Clarence, and happy birthday, Sir.
Speaker 1: I got a couple more later in the week from
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. Trump's a note mail bag at Armstrong in
Speaker 1: getty dot com. Dirk's the German Rights It was a
Speaker 1: mostly peaceful bombing. See. Iran is a nation of over
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand square miles. The US bomb three small
Speaker 1: nuclear sites to protest Iran's nuclear ambitions. It was clearly
Speaker 1: a mostly peaceful protest. That's fantastic, Well done, Dirk. How
Speaker 1: come nobody's commenting on the rest of Iran the vast
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of Iran that was untouched by bombs.
Speaker 1: Iran's a very big country. It was just downtown Nukeville
Speaker 1: that had the problems. Well play. Dirk uh Don writes.
Speaker 1: If President Trump Wantseranian women's support of regime change, could
Speaker 1: she should offer swapping their burkes and other oppressive head
Speaker 1: coverings for red make Around Great again ball caps. Wow,
Speaker 1: just ship cases of those over to Iran. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: hair's covered with this truvy redhead. I just got that
Speaker 1: secret police. Of course, they'd probably get the hell beat
Speaker 1: out of them for that, and then you'd be tortured
Speaker 1: and then executed. Yeah, let's see why I am not
Speaker 1: stressed out by Steve and Everett Washington. Seems to me
Speaker 1: that two very important metrics should be considered whether or
Speaker 1: not we're at peace with the regional conflicts in the
Speaker 1: Middle East. One did oil prices increase or decrease? It
Speaker 1: decreased significantly more than ten bucks in barrel. Two did
Speaker 1: the Dow Jones increase or don't look at the Dow?
Speaker 1: Look at the S and P five hundred? Did the
Speaker 1: S and P increase or decrease? It increased the better
Speaker 1: part of one percent. I'm not one to engage in
Speaker 1: industrial espionage, but I trust the fact that Wall Street
Speaker 1: has those resources. If the markets seem to think things
Speaker 1: have calmed down, I'm inclined to agree with them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Up again today on the ceasepire talks, although might have
Speaker 1: more to do with the FED chair and what he
Speaker 1: said about interest rates. I was just reading about how
Speaker 1: uncertainty affects hiring and investment in business, and I find
Speaker 1: myself wondering whether at some point we become just more
Speaker 1: comfortable with a higher level of volatility uncertainty as a culture,
Speaker 1: get an economy. We better get used to it or
Speaker 1: we're gonna go crazy. Yeah, Paollo with an interesting topic.
Speaker 1: It looks like Iran has at least a fly in
Speaker 1: the ointment of its nuclear ambitions. It's probably only a
Speaker 1: bump in the road for them. But it's not just
Speaker 1: Iran and nukes. We have to worry about the development
Speaker 1: of technology and learning generally snowballing, and eventually just about
Speaker 1: everybody will have the capacity to do great harm. May
Speaker 1: take a while, I hope, very long while, but it's inevitable.
Speaker 1: How can we avoid it except by our destruction or
Speaker 1: some sort of great reset that sets us back centuries.
Speaker 1: We'll have to hope that we get a lot wiser
Speaker 1: before our knowledge progresses to the point where the power
Speaker 1: to destroy ourselves is ubiquitous and available to just about everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Let's see JT and Livermore makes the point
Speaker 1: that none of the former presidents have come out and said,
Speaker 1: nice job, Donald j getting, you know, taking the nuclear
Speaker 1: capabilities away from Iraq. That's a decent point considering I
Speaker 1: saw a montage of Clinton, Obama, Biden all saying Iran
Speaker 1: will never get a nuclear weapon right and doing very
Speaker 1: little about and doing very little about it in some
Speaker 1: cases helping them along. If you miss a segment an hour,
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