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The summer of Trump continues taking over D.C., Putin on Friday, Russian collusion investigation in September. We have General Michael Flynn coming up this evening. He's probably knows more about rushing collusion than anybody, the only person prosecuted so far. He's got a book out. But first, the talking points memo, President Trump takes Washington, D.C. So 800 National Guard are going to the D.C. Armory right now. Associated Press is reporting, and they will patrol neighborhood, suppressing criminals. So if you're a criminal, you want to go out and hijack a car or stick up an old lady to get money for drugs, and there's National Guard standing there, you are less likely to do it. Okay, there's also 120 FBI agents, and they are in the neighborhoods

where crimes are most committed. So again, this is a suppression of crime, an institution of more safety for the public. Everybody understand what's happening here, I hope you do. Well, the progressive left, the Trump haters, they hate this. And then the simple question is, wait, wait, if you're going to make human beings, American citizens, more safe, and you have the legal authority to do it,

because the federal government runs the District of Columbia. Why wouldn't you do it? Okay. So, in addition to the crime and murders, by the way, by the way, I'm sorry, I said that murders in D.C. rose between 2012 and 24, about 100%. And they've come down a little bit. But D.C. is a violent city, and everybody knows it who lives there.

You've got to be careful. Everybody knows. Okay. In addition to the crime, there are about 6,000 homeless people, most of them drug addicts. And a lot of them live on public land, federal land. And Trump goes, no. So today, Caroline Levitt, the press spokesman for the White House, said, hey, the Metropolitan Police are going to get the homeless. and they're going to give them a choice.

You can either check yourself in, and I guess there would be accompanied to a shelter, receiving mental health services, but if you do not do that, then you will be put in jail. Okay. Why that tactic? Because it's the only tactic that works.

You're not going to persuade people to give up inebriation unless they're desperate. So if you talk to any drug rehab counselor, you can't rehab somebody who doesn't want to be rehabbed. And most of these people, not only in D.C., but all over the country, living on the streets, are drug addicts, or alcoholics, and they want to get high all day, every day. You put them in jail, which you can do because there's an ordinance on the book to Washington, they can't get their dope or their booze. They're going to leave.

They're not going to hang around for that. That's how you get them out. And that's what the federal government is now doing. So the U.S. Park police are going into the public areas owned by we, the taxpayers. And they're saying, you're out of here. No debate. That's not going to take long. But the progressive left, of course.

They don't want that. They don't want anything like that. Because they hate Trump and they don't want law. to be enforced that that's a complicated issue but it's absolutely true all right so the first guy i'm going to feature on this is our pal pete buddha judge perhaps the worst transportation secretary in the history of the country under joe biden you remember pete former mayor of south bend indiana under pete the u.s airline industry almost collapsed and p. did nothing because we didn't know know what to do. And of course, President Biden didn't do anything. So people were delayed and

that canceled and on and on and on and on. Well, here's what Buddha judge says about Trump and the feds going into law enforcement in the District of Columbia. So as we speak, the federal government is taking over the policing of a major American city, Washington, D.C. The president is doing this, not in order to make the city safer. That's the job of local law enforcement. But to solve his own political problems. He needs to get his base talking and thinking about something besides his refusal to open up the Epstein files. Well, how would Buttigieg know that? Does he read minds? Does he talk to Trump about it? No. He's doing, oh, he wants to divert away from Epstein. F's story is largely dead. Okay? We're going to have a little bit on it tomorrow.

put a bow on it, but it's largely dead. But Buttigieg end up, progressives, they want to tie Epstein to Trump. So anything Trump does, Putin meeting, anything. Oh, it's a diversion. How would you know? How do you back that statement up, Buttigieg? You can't back it up.

Just ridiculous. He's a ridiculous man. Okay, the other guy is former FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe. Listen to this, go. Most FBI agents were not police officers before they came into the FBI. Even the most tactically astute, highly trained FBI agents, those who serve on SWAT teams. I know this as a former SWAT team member, they don't know, they don't do community policing. Are you kidding me?

This is so ridiculous. So all they're supposed to do, the FBI agents, is to stop crime by their very press. presence and to investigate gang members and things like that who may have organized carjacking rings. You tell me the FBI can't do that? Oh, fine. This is so absurd. I mean, I sit here every day and I go, these people, I guess they believe the American public is that stupid to listen to this garbage. All right. Now, there was a protective operation in Los Angeles. We all know that. those riots out there got out of control, and the federal government, Donald Trump, sent a National Guard and stopped the cold. Stopped the cold. And that's what's going to happen

in D.C. I guarantee this. This is 100%. This is easy. This isn't hard. The gangbangers in D.C. We can't come out of their holes now, as long as the federal presence is there. Now, you would think that a McCabe and a Buttigieg, not fair people, not looking out for you by any means, would listen to the police union chief in Washington, D.C. Go. Well, look, we completely agree with the president that crime in the District of Columbia is out of control and something needs to be done with it. We have to go back to how we got here, though. In 2020, the D.C. City Council passed an enormous amount of legislation that handcuffed police officers exposes them to administrative, of civil and even criminal liability, even when they do their jobs properly.

And that happened in New York, that happened in Chicago, that happened in L.A. and San Francisco. Same thing. We will hector the police. We will make it hard for the police to do their jobs. But the police union chairman, Gregory Pemberton, said, hey, we backed Trump. We know the situation in D.C. is out of control crime wise. Enter her. This is unbelievable. And Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House. Here's what she tweeted, quote, Donald Schump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our capital was under violent attack and lives are at stake.

Now, he's activating the D.C. Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education, immigration, just to name a few blunders. Okay, so it's not Epstein. it's tariffs, everything like that. All right, Nancy Pelosi. Now, the Capitol Hill police chief at the time of the riot, his name, Stephen Sun. Here's how he reacted to Pelosi.

Quote, ma'am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3rd, I request the National Guard assistance, but your sergeant-at-arms denied it. Under federal law, I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. At the same day, Carol Corbyn at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority. So this, we have known, that Pelosi was a saboteur of the National Guard coming to protect the Capitol. and yet she is the gall and the deceit.

Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global stories going on of the day, this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon, and on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report with excellent guests, including national security insiders

and foreign policy experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, also on our YouTube channel at President's Daily Brief. To criticize Trump doing this, hard to believe. All right, now looking forward, the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, very close ally with Donald Trump, is going to have another round of hearings, and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is first up. You announced it yesterday. It's going to be in September. We don't have a date. So they're going to call in all the D.C. locals and say, why do you oppose something that would make your own

citizens, your own residence, safer? Why would you do that, madam? Now, crime's going down. So what? So what? If crime goes down as zero, that's what we want. Okay, so that here, another House oversight. That's a busy bunch over there, okay? On the homeless situation, They can solve the problem fairly easily by saying, look, either help yourself or you go to jail for a few days and then you can't get your drugs and you're in withdrawal or whatever. And so they're going to all lead. They go to Baltimore. Baltimore, you can do whatever you want with drugs. Easy.

So summing up, I expect this to be successful, this D.C. stuff. the opposition to Donald Trump continues to embarrass itself and be deceitful, Nancy Pelosi, incredibly deceitful. And that's where it stands, and that is the memo. Joining South in South Carolina is the former acting chief of staff under President Trump, 19 and 220. Mick Mulvaney, you see him on News Nation, and he is the co-chair at Actum, AC.

a global consulting firm. Am I over to doing it here? Am I too agitated for my own good? No, where to start? I'm with you on where the meeting is. And oh my goodness gracious, I can't believe he's coming to the United States. What did we extract? If you wanted the meeting to take place, Bill, it was going to take place in the United States.

Period. End of story. Why? Because it's really hard to move the. president, especially on very short notice. If they were going to have this in Oslo, for example, it probably would have taken six weeks. Trump didn't want to wait six weeks. He wanted to meet as soon as he could possibly put together a meeting. That means it's going to be someplace in the U.S. Yes, there's a military base in Anchorage. I think it's attached to the airport there. Believe it or not, a little piece of trivia. I think it's where we held the very first people

that came back from Wuhan at the beginning of COVID on the layover back to Southern California. It's a very- Yeah, it's a transit stop. And it's also the place where Sarah Palin saw Russia, I think. Yeah, you can see her house from this place, which is fantastic. A little tower there. Going forward as well. Okay, so. It's much to do about nothing on where the meeting is.

The meeting is the story, not where the meeting is. All of this is just garbage. So are they traitors? Are they miscreants? These people, because I use two sound bites, Mick. I could use 20. I had 20 soundbites. Yeah, you know, I don't know Kelly, so I won't opine on that. I know Bolton.

Bolton would say anything to make President Trump look bad. I don't know what that makes him. I don't know if it makes him a traitor or a miscreant or just an idiot. I'm not really sure, but he really, really hates the president. Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing. Yeah, absolutely. And John Boone has got as bad as anybody. All right, when I talked to President Trump about these things, he's very clear with me. and I'm a kind of judgmental guy.

If I'm talking to you, even if it's off the record, I'm assessing what you know, what you don't know, and what the message is. What I get is that President Trump really understands that the only way this will be solved is to give Putin something, and I expect that to happen. Okay?

Now, I didn't read the soundbite from Zulu. Zelensky, who is basically saying, well, we're not going to give up anything. Well, you're going to have to give some. You're going to have to. If you want to stop the bloodshed in your country and hundreds of thousands of people being killed in Maine, you're going to have to give this villain Putin. It's not right. It's not fair.

But that's what's going to have to happen. That's how I see it. I don't remember anybody starting a war over Crimea. I know the Ukrainians were upset about it. But I don't even think they went to war over that. I know that we didn't. the Europeans didn't. I can't imagine Zelensky actually going on TV as he did this weekend and saying, look, all of Ukraine is Ukraine and there's no negotiating. That's wrong. Crimea is gone as part of any

discussion here. That's just, that's the way it's going to be. And if the U.S., Russia and the EU all want to stop this war and the price of that is Dombast and X and Crimea, that's how it's going to end because the Ukrainians cannot fight this battle by themselves. And they can't fight it without the United States' arms. I mean, because now Trump is committed to sending arms over there. So what I expect to happen is there's going to be some land given to Russia. They'll occupy the land and maybe they'll have a vote two years away, which will be a ridiculously corrupt thing. But then there'll be some guarantees from Putin that this will stop and he won't go further. That's the way I think and that Ukraine won't join NATO.

I think that's probably how it's going to do that. I'm not sure about Ukraine joining NATO, but if you want to look to something that Trump has done already that doesn't get the attention that it deserves, there is a de facto security guarantee already. It's that critical minerals deal that Trump cut, and he didn't get nearly enough credit for it. Look, I'll criticize the guy if I have to from time to time.

This was genius because it's a non-security guarantee, security guarantee. Because Trump knows that Russia is not going to invade Ukraine, if Alcoa is pulling aluminum out of the ground there. So I thought that's genius. And I think it lays a foundation for what the next round might look for. No, I don't think Ukraine is going to NATO, but there's going to be some type of structure that guarantees their security, at least Russia doesn't go into Kiev.

Do you think Trump derangement is worse now than it was when you were in the White House in the first term? Yeah, because they really don't know how he won again. They were able to convince themselves back in 2016-17 that he pulled the wool over everybody's eyes. Those in 24, they don't have any idea what's going on because Donald Trump was the most well-known person in the world and still won the election and they don't get it. There's a cognitive sort of dissonance between that. They don't understand a world where Donald Trump can become president. By the way, Democrats aren't the only one. I think Mitt Romney never

was able to grasp that. Mitt Romney was never able to accept how Donald Trump was president and he wasn't. So it's not partisan. It's heavily Democrat, but it's not exclusively Democrat. No, it's a real thing. I see it every single day. But to be fair, Donald Trump did attack Mitt Romney, the Bush family, and I understand the portraits in the White House of Bush, the younger and elder, have been moved into the janitor's closet someplace. And that brings me to my next question. If he would, if President Trump would just stay on the issues, which I think he is right on most of the time, and stop the bombast and the, you know, the small ball.

Wouldn't it be better? Did you ever advise him? Hey, let that go? No, I mean, Bill, I don't know how old you are. You're a little bit older than I am, but not much. My guess is I'm not doing much to change your personality at this point in your life. You are who you are. There's an old saying that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, and that's true.

You were never going to change Donald Trump. He got where he was. I remember having a conversation one time about the campaign in 2020, and he wanted to do X. And I'm like, Mr. President, maybe Y is a really good idea. I'm not sure about X. He looks at me, he goes, how many campaigns have you won for president? Right, he always does that. But it's a tactic, it's tactics.

You see? But there's tactics, and they were. Right, you just, you just pointed out that the mineral deal in Ukraine didn't get the attention it deserved because something else not important overrode it. And that is, I believe that if Donald Trump gets the piece, stealing Ukraine, and sorts out the Russian, the Chinese trade thing, which I'm involved with. I don't know how that happened, but I am, that he then propels himself into the top 10 presidents of all time. But he could go faster into that arena, and that really means a lot to him.

If he would just stop some of the bombastic stuff that doesn't matter, am I wrong? You know, look, we're having a discussion about style, and I get it. A lot of folks don't like his style. His style works for him. And he may listen to you because, you know, you've achieved a tremendous amount in your life and you're very successful. So he might listen to you, but he's not going to listen to very many people when it comes to changing his style. It's worked for him. He's been elected the president, you know, twice. He thinks three times. So I don't think he's going to change. And look, I honestly, I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't know whether he won't or not, but I have talked to him a few times where he has modified. He's modified. Because I present it in a historical way. I don't want him to change its style. Searchlight Pictures presents The Roses, only in theaters August 29th. From the director of Meet the Parents and the writer of Poor Things,

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I agree with him that he never would have been elected president either time, okay, if he wasn't a populist bomb thrower. because that's what the country wants. They're tired of the Kellys and the Bolton's and the guys who have no solutions to anything just undermining and undercutting for partisan reasons. They hate that.

And that's why Trump is successful because he isn't a BSer. Okay? I would never tell him to change. I think he's wise in presenting himself in a flamboyant way. There are things he changed. chooses to overlook. He overlooks a lot about Putin. When you read, and I'll send you my new book

after this conversation, confronting evil, Putin's evil. But in order to get a deal, Trump's got to overlook it. He's got to overlook China, the worst police state in history. He's got to overlook it if he wants the best for America. Right? Bill, I look at this as probably the single most significant couple of days in his two terms so far and maybe the most significant in his terms when he's finished. He's done a masterful job. He knows how to play Macron. He knows how to play Kier-Starmer. He knows how to play Washington, D.C. He's better at all of those folks when it comes to negotiating. I don't think he's figured out Putin yet. I think he really got elected going into office thinking Zelensky was the primary impediment to peace. Now I think he

knows it's Vladimir Putin. I think he believes that Vladimir Putin doesn't necessarily want this war to end. He thought that he did, and he doesn't know how to deal with it. This is the biggest challenge I think he's going to face. And if he does it successfully and manages to negotiate an end to this war, I think you're absolutely right. It rockets him up the list of successes. How could it not with the accomplishments that you go with the style of waste? You don't get style points for being president. You get results points. Yeah, you don't get results points from the American, not from the American media. You're never going to get results points from the American media, not Trump.

And I disagree with you on one very important thing, okay? I think he knows Putin now. I think you're right. He thought he could reason with Vlad because he did the first term, right? You were there. He reasoned with Putin. Putin didn't do anything like he did under Biden. But I think that Trump now understands Putin, not as well as I do, because I've spent a lot of time on this guy.

Where do you see what we came up with? But the only way to deal with Putin is through strength. And what Trump is likely to say to him in private, remember, this is not all going to be public. Because Putin speaks English to Trump in private. he's going to say look lad we'll get your deal here you're not going to look like a schmuck you'll get your little don bass or whatever you want but if you don't i'm going to break you i'm going to crush you he's going to say that to him last word and here's my question and this is this is i think this is the the seminal issue of this does he have the credibility um trump

Is Putin looking at him as somebody who keeps changing a deadline, who draws red lines, and they can't stand up to him? We know what that did to Obama in Syria, but Trump has changed some deadlines here. He's given him a lot of rope. There's no doubt about it, but Trump can shut down those banks. And that's the issue. How do you reestablish that credibility? I think that's what the Trump team should be working on this this week. Yeah, you can do it militarily, but that's awful ham-fisted and runs the risk of dramatic escalation.

How do you get that credibility back quickly? And I think if they can do that, this could be hugely successful this week. He doesn't need his team. He knows what to do. Okay. Trust me on that. All right, that was a great interview, Mick. I really appreciate you taking a time.

I know you're really busy and everything, but thank you very much. New study. So this is important. It's not at the level of war and peace, but it's important. So last night I had a little dinner here on Eastern Long Island and an urchin. you know, they're in the dinner, high school kids and middle school with their parents and run around. And they're very interested in my upcoming book confronting evil, okay, because we've got Hitler on a cover, we got Mao, got Stown, we got Putin. And there's 12 other guys inside

the book that are as evil as you can possibly imagine. Anyway, they, oh, what's about, what's about, these are kids are asking me. And I'm trying to explain it to them. They knew nothing, nothing about even Hitler. And I said, don't they teach you? No. No, not taught. And then I looked at the parents, and the parents kind of embarrassed. And I said, well, it's hard to engage these kids in conversation because they're always on the phone.

Every waking moment they're in the house. They don't watch TV anymore. No watching TV. And you're not reading books, they're on this. And it's very hard to get them away from that. Okay, and I think that is an accurate assessment of where we are in America. So there is a new study, comes out of the University of Southern California. The Financial Times printed it, about 15,000 younger people about the effects of the phone.

And here are the highlights. 20 to 30-year-olds report being more easily distracted and careless. I see that, my own urchins. They're on the phone, they forget they've got to clean the room or whatever they have to do. Reduce tenacity and follow-through on commitments. So, yeah, I'm going to do this, Dad, and it doesn't get done. Because they forget, because they're on the phone. Then there is higher anxiety levels.

Why? Why would that be? because there's so much stuff they don't understand and so much negativity on the phones. Bullying, huge. Huge. The kids getting bullied by name, getting destroyed in their communities, and kids are anxious about it. And less outgoing, you know, people, they stay in the house. Instead of going out, jumping in the ocean or the pool or playing stick ball and the stuff we didn't know.

Nope. In the room with the phone. So joining us now from Brooklyn, New York is Colby Hall. You may know him. He's the founding editor, Media, I read a column on how all of this stuff is going to negatively affect the United States big time, and it's coming up fast. Should I have included anything else in my lead before we get to the specifics? No, I mean, I think you set it up wonderfully, but I also think that in one level, this is kind of obvious to anyone that has kids or you go outside, you go to the park, everyone's on their phone. With the study, I thought, sort of hung a Lanternon, was just how bad it's gotten.

And no one's really talking about what an enormous, not just a generational shift, but a millennial historic shift. And we should start to talk about it because I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better. But there has been talk in New York State, for example, there's a new law that bans phones in school during class time. They are concerned about the distraction, they being the authorities, but it hasn't risen to the level that parents are banging the emergency bill. And that's what I'm seeing. They allow the urchins to do this because if they don't, there's tension in the house.

you know, there's angst. Now, with me, that never work because I don't care about angst. So I'm going, there's no phones at the table, and it never was. And that put the phone down is one of my favorite phrases and do this. But I'm a Martinette, word of the day. But most parents, they let the kids do it. So I think it's the parents' fault. And I do think it's going to adversely affect this country.

Well, I think you're right. I think it's everyone's fault, but the parents are the ones that are responsible, right? I also abide by no phones at the dining room table ethos as well. And I'm proud to say my 22-year-old reads books. He's a big reader. My 18-year-old is not. And maybe that's because one just graduated from college. The other's about to go to college.

But, yeah, this is an issue where we need to figure out how we sort of, the genie is out of the bottle. The genie's out of the bottle and has got his own TikTok account and is just a distracted enough to try to solve this, right? And, you know, I put in my column that I compared it to the Gutenberg, you know, vetting of the printing press, which, you know, changed, you know, it spread and started the Renaissance. It spread knowledge and understanding of Christianity and so many great things came from it. But the effect of that took centuries to unfold and for people to read across the world.

This is the same thing, but it's unfolded over a decade, right? And so there's been no guardrails. There's been no sort of, you can't really regulate it because it is what it is. I think you make a very silly a point that parents need to take a lead role and be a lot stricter about this. And I happen to think, you know, I've done some research on this in the New York public schools. Turns out, you know, who's the biggest fan of not allowing phones in schools are many of the students? Because they want to, they want to have a break. You know, the isolationism and the anxiety, the lack of consciousness,

I think a lot of these kids that are addicted to their phones, they're somewhat aware of it. And when they can, when you force them to detox and, I don't know, play a parlor game or spend quality time with your parents or your friends or, you know, I sent my kids to summer camp mostly so that they wouldn't be on their phones and they would be playing, you know, pick up baseball, wiffleball, you know, swim and fish and what have you. Not everyone has that opportunity, but I don't know what's the solution. I think we are at a point where we need to recognize it so we can try to detoxify our brains before it's too late because I think we're raising a generation of zombies who don't even know what's wrong with them, right?

And they're not getting stronger. This makes you weaker. It makes you weaker mentally and it makes you weaker physically because you're not out there, exercise or anything like that. It's easy to isolate yourself in your room with their phone. And my 22-year-old, who I think is smarter than I am, he doesn't read many books, but he does research and good research on the stupid phone. But I have to explain to him that, look, you've got to broaden it out, particularly if you want to be president of the United States, which I think he's got a shot at.

You can't just be a phone addict. Now, the thing that concerns me the most about mental health, and that's big in this country now, with all the addiction we're seeing, with all this violence we're seeing across our country. We are the most addicted, violent country in the world. Okay? We are. And that's shocking, because we are based on Judeo-Christian philosophy. But the urchins don't even know what Judeo-Christian philosophy is.

Okay, they don't know. So when I was teaching high school, I saw the bullying in the halls. I stopped it, I stopped it sometimes in a very confrontational way. Now the bullying is on a machine, and they can tear kids apart, leading to suicides and all of that. And a lot of the kids don't tell their parents. They're afraid to tell their parents, all right, because they think the parents are going to run down at a school, they're going to run to the kids' parents, and they're going to make it worse. That, I think, is one of the most dangerous aspects of this phone culture.

I couldn't agree more. And I think, you know, you've worked in the media space for a long time, as have I. You've developed a certain level of skepticism and you have a critical mind and you can kind of, you can smell a scam a mile away, right? These young teenagers don't have that. They don't have the wisdom of those experiences. I mean, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, right? And that's made me smarter, right?

And I can see, you know, a fishing scheme, a spam, some sort of, you know, a, attack to try to steal your data. I can see that coming. A lot of these kids can't. Do other things. I mean, I think there's been this rise of, I was talking about this with Jonah Goldberg yesterday, who was a comedian. He's a conservative thinker. He started a national review online. And, you know, he was kind of like a comedian. He was sort of a troll. And now he can't do that because the trolling behavior from the extreme left and the extreme right has kind of ruined it for everyone. It's no longer funny. it's just mean-spirited. And I don't think that kids are equipped to handle that.

And then the one last thing I would say, this isolationism, people just get lost in their own phones. They don't want to, you know, engage in the other world. Right. And there's a lack of community. There's no faith-based living. There's no churches, people don't go to church anymore. And so there's a lack of community that is helping, not every parent can do it on their own,

but if there's elders in the community that can help out, that's gone away also. It's a kind of a perfect storm of negative influences. I feel bad for our kids. We shouldn't blame them. Yeah, and in a free society, there isn't legislation that can stop it. And the cruelty factor is rising because every tape of somebody being cruel is on that machine, TikTok or whatever it is. So the more cruel you are to your fellow man, the more exposure you're going to get,

and they're just absorbing it like this. And it's real. It's not movie. It's not Terminator. Okay, this is real. And now the anesthesia fills in. I've seen it so much, it doesn't even affect me anymore. So I don't know what the solution is.

I know you can't legislate against the First Amendment. I do like all of this school stuff. No phones. Wild classes are underway. And I think that we have to spread the word to parents of a responsibility. But the irony is, some of the parents are worse addicted than our kids. Last word. I think you're absolutely right.

I think we can't solve this problem immediately, but recognizing it is the first step. And calling out adults to parent is a major first step. And I'll take it from there. All right. Thanks, Gawby. Appreciate it very much. Mexico defiance.

So you know the drug cartels are murdering politicians, journalists, everybody. Mexico's most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere. Trump administration said, hey, we're going after the cartels. We're going to take them out ourselves. The USA is going to take them out. Okay? Claudi Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, does not want that. Here's what she said on August 8th.

Go. No, but no, no. The United States will not come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there will be no invasion. That is out of the question, absolutely out of the question, because in addition to the fact that we have stated it in all the calls, that it is not allowed and is not part of any agreement, much less they have not raised it. Okay, so here's what likely to happen. What Ms. Shyamam says doesn't mean anything. All right, she has no power.

This is an executive order. I think that the Defense Department is going to go after gang members in Venezuela. All right, narcotics, gangs, and in Mexico, probably with drones. If you read Killing the Killers, my book on terrorism, you'll see, oh, it's done. It's not hard. I expect that to happen, and Claudia Scheinbaum will have nothing to say about it. She should be happy, just like the D.C. officials, she should say, bring it on. Get these guys out of here.

They're murdering hundreds of thousands of people in my country. Help us, USA, right? Shouldn't that's what the woman be saying? Come on, geez. Smart life. Best city for job opportunities. You want to move on up. You go to Raleigh, North Carolina.

It's the best city. This is according to a website checker. Nashville number two, Austin number three. Salt Lake City, four. Portland, Maine. Five, Denver. Omaha, Durham. Charlson, Indianapolis.

All right, here are the worst cities for jobs. Bakersfield, California, Scranton, Pennsylvania, McAllen, Texas, Fresno, California, Memphis, Tennessee, Jackson, Mississippi, Rochester, New York, Toledo, Ohio, Augusta, Georgia, Spokane, Washington. Don't go there if you want to work. Okay. I got a segment on Bernie Sanders I'm going to do tomorrow because I'm running heavy on town. Bernie's run around. I wrote a message of the day. He's on his oligarchy tour. I love

this. So tomorrow I'm going to play you the soundbite. But I think Bruce Springsteen should be opening for Bernie, right? Read my message of the day on bill o'Reilly.com. Here is the final thought of the day. The Constitution gives every American the right to be a moron. And many of us exercise right every day. There is a book, sold 6 million copies so far, by Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory. It's basically, you're not going to change the morons. You are not going to educate them. You are not going to make them better people. You are not going to make them see the light. And when you get a kid, that just drives you crazy, right? So Robin says, you got to let them do it. and work on your reaction.

My reaction usually to morons is, I am polite. And I would throw out maybe a line, maybe you want to think about this, keep it pithy. That's all. Because I know people believe what they want to believe, you're not going to change them, they don't have a frame of reference, they don't understand how anything works.

I'm writing my message of the day tomorrow about these letters I'm getting about Putin. People have no idea about what this is. You've got to have some kind of clue, but you don't have to do you. You have a right to be a moron. Thank you very much. All you smart people, because morons don't watch this. Don't listen to this program.

You've got to know something to watch me. So we appreciate you. Bill O'Reilly, we'll see you again tomorrow.