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doing. Now, one political party in this country, there are only two, Republican and Democrat, there are minor ones, but it would take billions of dollars, and I mean maybe 10 billion to really get a third party up and running. So the one political party that's established has fallen apart, and that would be the Democratic Party, absolutely evaporating before our eyes. What an interesting historical time that is the subject of this evening's talking points, let me back it up. Not since the presidency of Jimmy Carter has the Democratic Party been so weak. A controversial man like Donald Trump sweeps into office, not because so many Americans love Donald Trump, the MAGA people do, but because Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were a disaster. Biden's second worst president in our history.

I document that in confronting the presidents. So on a new poll by the Associated Press, 1,175 adults. The sample is fair. A question, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party? Favorable 36%. Unfavorable 55. Are you kidding me? That is a disaster. Now this week, with Donald Trump having some success economically in the Gulf and the stock market coming back to where it was before Liberation Day, The Republicans have regained some momentum. And the Democrats are, don't know how to counter that. I think that's an accurate statement. But even worse is now that the administration of President Biden is begin to be exposed. And all of these books are coming out saying that the Democratic Party knew Biden was challenged mentally. his acuity was declining, they lied about it, so did the media that props them up, everyone was lying.

Now, the most powerful Democrat in the country right now is Senator Charles Schumer. Roll the tape. I'm interested to know whether the man that you saw sitting there on that couch on that day, you were in there, you saw him up close and personal. Did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term? Casey, we're looking forward. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us. We have the coal federal government at risk. You're facing all of this because you lost a presidential election.

And is that not Joe Biden's responsibility for deciding to run again? We're looking forward. That's it? That's it. All right. That's embarrassing. Right? That's embarrassing.

We lied about it. Our entire party did. But now we're not going to talk about it. Why we lied to the American people? I mean, that's really, that's one of the worst sound bites I've ever seen. Okay. So enter the media, which propped up Joe Biden. There's a question they did because they hated Donald Trump.

Now is a book coming out by CNN's Jake Tapper, who was one of the proper uppers. Hey, it's Trump. Okay. and used his position, at CNN, to put Biden in a favorable light. Now he's got a book, said, oh, no, oh, no, no, Biden was compromised. Okay, Jake, I mean, who would buy this book? So let me give you two examples of what Tapper did in the past. First one is September 8, 2023.

Go. Right, he's sharp physically. mentally. I think the question is physically, right? Right. Well, and so, and then how do we ask that question? So everybody slows down as they age. And he maybe doesn't have the stamina to do the type of public appearances he would have done when he was 70 or 60. But does that mean that he doesn't have the stamina to do the job?

I mean, I don't think there's like a simple answer to these questions. I assume you think he's sympathetic and well-meaning. He's 81, and his memory, you know, it doesn't seem great. it's not horrible, but I don't understand the outrage. He doesn't understand the outrage. Okay. And so then Biden gets exposed and the Democrats lose and then Tapper writes a book saying,

yeah, it was a cover up. But not Tapper. Although he did, to be fair, say something today about, well, maybe I could have done a better job. Yeah, maybe. Boy, boy. All right, finally, the Democratic Party continues to do what got it in trouble. Push propaganda.

Now I'll give you two. Okay? So this gutter plane controversy is the media is pushing this, and the Democrats are on board. This is terrible. Trump shouldn't take the plane. And one of the reasons that the Democrats say Trump should not take the plane is because gutter supports terrorists, Hamas in particular. Well, that's not true at this point in history, roll of tape. If you know what's happening over there, and I do,

all of those Gulf states are pumping in billions of dollars to the quote-unquote anti-terrorism programs, all of them. Now, last night on News Nation, I had to chastise our pal Leland Vitterd, who told me that Hamas is still living in Gutter. That's not true. Okay, there's not one big Hamas guy in Gutter, not one, okay? So all of this media stuff that comes out, and people believe it, it's just not true.

Now, how did the Democratic Party and the media, some of, they get a hold of Hamas's living and being harbored in Gutter? They did that because Gutter allowed Hamas big shots to negotiate the hostage release with American and Israeli diplomats in Gutter. That's how Hamas got there. Here's the foreign minister. Go. But what I can tell you very clearly is that the office of Hamas in Doha was created for the sake of the mediation process.

Obviously, when there is no mediation process, the office itself doesn't have any function. All right, so that because Gutter allowed the negotiation to take place, Hamas representatives came, and that's how the media and the Democratic Party threw that in Trump's face. Oh, no, they're fostering terrorists over in Gutter. Now, I don't trust any of those Gulf states. None of them. I don't trust Saudi Arabia. I don't trust Emirates. I don't trust Gutter. I mean, to me, they turn on us like that. But right now, they like Trump because Trump is going to dismantle Iran.

And they are pumping billions of dollars into helping the United States neutralize Iran. And that, of course, helps Israel. That's what's happening. You would never know that. Listening and reading to the U.S. media. Second example, and this is even worse. Okay, the big Medicaid cuts. You're going to hear this 10,000 times.

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The Republicans in their budget bill want to cut $880 billion over a 10-year period, 10 years. That's $88 billion a year, okay, out of the existing system by inserting a responsibility clause called community engagement. They're not cutting the program so that old ladies and unwed mothers get thrown off. They're saying that if you are going to get free health care, that includes some portions of Obamacare, that you have to work if you can find a job and if you can't, you have to look for a job. And if you can't get a job, you have to do community service. Now, who opposes that? Not for women with young babies, they can't do that. But it's for primarily young men who can work and some women, single women, who can work. Do you oppose that?

Who, what American would oppose that? So the layabouts and the drug addicts are supposed to get free medical care and they don't even care about getting a job? That's what this is all about. But you'd never know it by listening to the Democratic Party. Roll it. Let's be clear. This is not a health care reform plan to improve our health care system or lower costs for families and patients. Nope, Republicans are looking to dismantle the basic Medicaid program to help tax cuts for billionaires.

And this is all being done in service of the basic Medicaid program. service of trying to provide a massive tax break to mega-billionaire donors like Elon Musk. Okay, so if you want to believe the Republican Party wants to reform Medicare in the sense of asking for people to look for work or do community coverage because they want to help Elon Musk make more money, then you're a nitwit. Beyond a nitwit, you're a moron if you believe that. But that's what the Democratic Party is peddling. okay so when you add it all up when you see the massive distortions and what they have and what they're grabbing onto instead of saying yeah i'd like to reform medicate too we should have a

community engagement there so that the taxpayers aren't ripped off we're for that they're not for it they're not for it at all they want a massive thing now let's get to the tax cuts for the rich so you just heard congressman jeffrey's the speaker of the house I'll say. All right, there are no new personal income tax cuts in the proposed bill. It's simply an extension on the personal front of what Trump passed in 2017, because his 2017 tax bill runs out this year. That's all. It's not slashing my income tax rate. I stay the same. And I'm paying a lot of money to federal, state. A lot big.

Okay. Now, there are some provisions in the bill that raise deductions for estate taxes because so many farmers are losing their land because they can't pay the estate taxes. They're too high. So the Republicans are raising now and I raise that estate tax. That's true. You oppose that? Remember, a state, you already pay tax on that money.

And there is some help for business. And it's complicated. But there's no personal tax cuts for the rich. But that's all you hear. Go. You're going to throw over 13 million people off of Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich. They're doing this for tax cuts for the rich. doing that for tax cuts for the rich. If you actually take away tax cuts for the rich,

what is a punchline for the Democratic argument? They don't want people focused on their economic needs. They're not interested in tax cuts for the rich. I think that if the Democrats are going to be aligned on one thing, it is not extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich. We got beat up for, I think, unfairly calling the tax law of tax cuts for the rich. All right. So the Democratic Party, to sum this talking points memo off, and I'm sorry it was so long, is, okay, they don't want any reform for Medicaid. They want anybody to get it, and you don't have to look for a job, you don't have to look for a job, you don't do community service.

There's no personal income tax cut yet they say there is over and over and over and over and over because the Republicans want to give more money to Elon Musk. Okay, there's no Hamas presence in gutter to speak of, okay? But they say there is, and that's why Trump is betraying the nation by considering taking complaint. How much more it is can we, can we absorb? And that's the memo. Not much happened in Saudi Arabia today. President had a briefing, but he didn't say anything differently. Ryan can't get a nuke, and we're making all kinds of deals. So on the table is 600 million from Saudi Arabia, billion, I should say, 600 billion. The biggest part of that is U.S. defense firm contracts.

All right, so the sultans are going to buy a lot of arms from us, and then 20 million in AI. they're going to buy from us, and then all kinds of other stuff. So $600 billion of deals that the Saudi is going to buy from the USA. And it's a good thing. I know a lot of people don't like Saudi Arabia. I'm not crazy about it. But if they're going to spend that kind of money, okay. Let's get another perspective on this.

I've been bloviating too long here. Let's bring in Edward Jujiri. from the Kennedy School at Harvard, up in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is a former U.S. ambassador to Israel appointed by President Clinton. Before that, ambassador to Syria appointed by Ronald Reagan. Now, that can't ever happen again. So the professor is in a unique position. A Democrat appoints a very important position.

Israel, after a Republican, appointed him to. to Syria. But you never get that now, because the two parties are so far apart. All right, my analysis, Professor, did I make any mistakes here? No, I don't think you're getting any mistakes, Bill. I think you've characterized President Trump's modus operandi on foreign policy. I think pretty well. He's, as we know, a transactional president. He's not a intellectual strategy. president like Richard Nixon, but I like to define his methodology bill as disruptive or constructive uncertainty. What do I mean by that? He throws out a lot of ideas, as we've

seen on domestic policy and foreign policy, and some of them really seem to be totally wild. But then it causes in the interlocutor, be it a country or another leader, You know, it puts the interlocutor he's dealing with immediately on the back foot. How am I going to respond to this? And it sort of softens him up for the deal. And then he negotiates the deal, as we've seen on the tariffs with China. You know, we've gone down from 145 percent down to 30 percent, and Chinese are putting in 10 percent against us.

And this is his methodology throughout. And I think that's his methodology. I think his principled approach is America first in all dimensions and domestic and foreign policy. What's good for America's prosperity, security, et cetera. And then the other thing I think is very important, and I may be dead wrong on this, but I really think inherently that Trump is adverse, adverse to America's engagement in foreign wars, the Vietnam's, the Afghanistan, the Iraq wars. And he doesn't want, under his watch, to be an American president that is mired in yet another, for example, Middle East War.

And this, I think, is really critical because when you look at the team he's put together, it's really, it's really hard line. I won't call him neocond. Let me jump in. Let me jump in, because I know something about this personally. You're absolutely right, 100% right. Trump doesn't want any armed conflict. You know, he'll threaten. He'll be bellicose.

Yeah, we're going to go invade Panama or going to do this guy. But he doesn't want to do it. He won't do it unless we're attacked. And the proof here this week is that he went to the Gulf without consulting Netanyahu in Israel at all. And Netanyahu is an armed confrontation guy. He wants to wipe out every Hamas, Hezbollah terrorist that he can find. Trump doesn't want that. And that's one of the reasons he got the hostage out.

Now many people know this, but I was directly involved in December last year in the hostage negotiations. And I can't really explain on television why, but there was a reason that I was involved as a private citizen. And that was when a lot of the hostage. laydown happened. Not before Trump was inaugurated because that both administrations were involved. And as you know, as former ambassador Israel, there's so many different factions over there working against each other that Trump is just, it's blank this. I'm going to do what I want because I'm the big dog and they're just going to have to follow in line. That's what's happening over there. I could agree with you. It's exactly what he did. And it's remarkable.

remarkable, there's such a body of public opinion in Israel pressuring Netanyahu to prioritize the remaining hostage releases. I think they're 51 now. 24 alive, they say. And I think that, yeah, I think that number is solid because Trump has sent a message to the Hamas people. You lie to me, then I'm going to let Netanyahu loose. So I think it's 24 alive. All right, I have to, I'm using this interview as a personal, and this is kind of like the gutter plane. This is personal to me.

I'm going to China in 10 days, and I'm meeting with a lot of she's guys. So, I mean, I'm doing this, again, as a journalist, number one, but as a private citizen number two. so I'll be carrying some messages over to Beijing. Did you know that at Chevron you can fuel up on unbeatable mileage and savings? With Chevron rewards, you'll get 25 cents off per gallon on your next five visits. All you have to do is download the Chevron app and join to start saving on fuel. Then you can keep fueling up on other things like adventure, memories, vacations, daycations, quality time, and so many other possibilities.

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Can I be me over there? Can I just know spin it and say, look, this isn't the deal? Can I do that? I think you can. I think they've done their homework on you, Bill. Yeah, they invited me. They invited you. They've done it on you.

So that's a green light right. there. No, I think you can be very open in your characteristic way with the Chinese. But if you're asking my advice, one thing I would do is, first, I'd listen to what they have to say, listen and try and convey that you know where they're coming from, you want to hear where they're coming from, and then you listen to what they say, and then you discuss that and see if there's any common ground. No, I will. It's a Q&A at the Beijing Club.

I don't even know there was a Beijing club. I'm glad it's inside. For every question they ask me, I'm going to ask them a question. That's what it's going to be. So I'm going to do exactly exactly what you recommend. Hey, Professor, it's a pleasure to talk with you. I hope you come back. And if you see anything interesting, just let us know.

We appreciate your, you know, realistic view of the world. rather than a partisan view. Thank you very much. All right, so the U.S. budget surplus. You don't hear that word budget surplus? We're always in debt. But again, you know, my job is to report the facts. And here they are in April.

The U.S. government ran a surplus of $258 billion. That compared to a surplus of $210 billion under Biden last year, an increase of 23%. Now, in April, they always run a source. surplus. Why? Because it's tax day. You gotta get your tax. So the most money comes in in April. So that's not unusual. But the big, the 23% increase is because of the Trump tariffs. That's the why it increased, $49 billion, because $16 billion of that was taken at the ports of call. So when Trump says we get $5 billion a day, it's a little.

little exaggeration, but he's getting tariffs to bring a lot of money into U.S. Treasury. You should know that. McDonald's. So everybody remember the McDonald's campaign thing where Trump was at the driving window, giving McDonald's food to the people, and it was a big hit and all of that. Now, McDonald's is thrown

in with Donald Trump. Did you know that? I didn't know that. So we're going to see Ronald McDonald wearing a MAGA hat next? I don't know. But there was a joint announcement with the U.S. Labor Secretary Laurie Chavez de Remmer and the CEO of McDonald's Christopher Kempinski, McDonald's going to hire 375,000 summer workers. Now, why is this important? Because it's gateway. I worked at Carvel when I was 17, fast food ice cream

place. And what does is it trains you, all right? And you've got to show up on time, you've got to do your job, you know, and so McDonald's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, $375,000. We're going to hire all young people, temporary work, and we're doing this in conjunction to federal government. Now, McDonald's, I don't think he's getting any money for this. They donated more than $135,000 to Trump in 2020 when he lost. Last time around, that dropped $100,000.

McDonald's didn't pump a lot of money into Trump. I guess I felt he was going to lose in 24. 20 yeah in 24 um but anyway i thought that was an interesting deal Gavin newsom wants to run for president because he knows nobody else with the name recognition and the hair style that he has put his picture up there please and here's newsome he's a kind of slick guy so in order to run for president he's got to get away from the far left stuff that he's champion for decades so now he says he's going to wipe out all of homeless camps in California. Go. Over 16,000 encampments, we've cleaned up at the state level.

That's unprecedented in the state's history. We'll do more. We have to do more. We have a model ordinance that the state is using, and that's what now I want to see happen in other municipalities across California. Okay, so why did he do this 10 years ago? Why did he let the homeless situation in California get so out of control? You realize that about a quarter of all homeless people in America live in California because the weather's good. And in San Francisco and places like that, they pay the homeless people, they give them cash so they can buy heroin or fentanyl, wherever they want their money. Gin, beer, because most of these homeless people are addicts. They're substance addicts.

These aren't people that lost their job. These are people who make a lifestyle out of not being able to support themselves because they spend all their money. on substance, on drugs and alcohol. That's what they do. So California is OK, 3.3 billion, which they don't have, for programs, for the homeless people. It's a total waste of money, because what are those programs going to be? Well, they're going to be rehabilitation. Well, according to every survey, most drug addicts don't want to be rehab. They're like getting high every day. That's what they want to do. And they're going to do it. No matter what you say, unless you force them into rehab, which they do in some countries.

Okay. So, but this whole thing comes back down to Newsom wanting to run for president. Okay? And now he's got to be, oh, I'm not, no, no. Hey, for 10 years, you let these people run wild, destroy cities, L.A., San Francisco, drain the treasury of the state of California. It did nothing, nothing. But now, oh, we've got a 16,000.

Oh, my God. Anyway, that's coming. You should know it. Joining us from Washington, Clayton Weimers, the executive director of Reporters Without Borders, USA. So what's the biggest problem we have here, Mr. Weimers, with the press? Well, thanks for having me, Bill. Really a pleasure to be on.

But not a pleasure to be talking about how badly the United States has fallen on the index. RSF started doing this in 2002, at which point the United States was 17th in the world. Not bad, I think, you know, as Americans, we would all like that to be higher because we're so proud of our First Amendment. But we've gone in the other direction in recent years, and it's really been the past decade. We've seen a consistent backslide on press freedom in this country across the administrations from both parties, Congress changing hands between both parties. So this really isn't tied to one particular political movement. It's really endemic of, I think, Americans starting to take press freedom for granted.

I do want to take a step back and talk about how we put together the index. We measure on five categories of indicators, and we've seen a decline on all five of those categories in the United States, and those are economic, political, legislative, security, and social. And across all five of those, we've seen declines in the past decade. All right. Give me a specific example of something that's horrendous in the United States, vis-a-vis the free press. Sure. Well, the biggest indicator that's taken a hit in the United States, and frankly, this is true around the world, is the economic indicator. And I think anyone who's been paying attention in recent years, this shouldn't be too surprising because we've seen massive job losses across the news media.

We've seen the consolidation of media companies leading to fewer. voices in the media landscape, and we're seeing the disappearance of small independent local news outlets. There's an estimate that on average, two local newspapers shut down eke in the United States. And that's leading to a situation where more and more Americans simply don't have access to an independent local news outlet that is based in their community. Yeah, but you use the word independent, very few of these are. Now, I have the most successful independent news agency in the world by revenue.

I mean, there's nobody comes close to us. And the reason we are successful is because, I mean, you could say that I lean traditional, and that's true. But we're not in business to prop up a party or an ideology. Most of the media in America is. they take sides and once that began in earnest and it happened the Iraq war Bush the younger

that's when it really fractured when I was doing the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News okay once that happened Americans lost faith in the media and then you combine that with the technology

where you can go and watch me anytime you want around the clock anywhere in the world on YouTube. So the state, well, one more time. The state traditional media that was in the tank for one party or the other, they lost a lot of credibility and a lot of attractiveness. This MailChimp-Firific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp. MailChimp, your marketing with AI and more.

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And by the way, it's a model that the United States has been exporting to other countries. And we've seen that become a big part of the media landscape in a lot of other countries around. But it was already there in other countries. Come on, the BBC. Are you kidding me? I mean, I lived in England for a year. I was already there. We didn't have to export anything.

We can't force anything. Look, when you had the Dominion voting machine scandal, all right where certain news agencies were basically telling their audience they knew that the stuff wasn't true what they were saying and they said it anyway that was it that was it was it but it didn't have anything to do with the constitution it didn't have anything to do with the folks it had to do with these big media corporations that are going to say we're going to make money we don't care how we do it am i wrong don't think you're wrong. And I think actually there's an additional element here that has exacerbated

the problem since what you identified during the Iraq war, which is the way people get information largely now is through social media platforms and it's delivered by algorithm. And these are systems that are set up to incentivize engagement, not education and propaganda. Information. Right. And so They're set up to disseminate propaganda, right. And the only goal of the algorithm is they get you to keep clicking. That's a fault of the people, though. They're not seeking the truth. Many Americans don't want to know the truth.

They want to believe what they want to believe, right? Well, I don't know if I would go that far. I have a lot of faith that Americans do indeed want to know what's going on in the world. Oh, come on. Come on. Clayton, you think people who sit there watch MSNBC want to know the truth or CNN? or even Fox? 95% of people that watch FNC

are conservatives. 95% it was 60 when I was there. You think they want to know the truth? Come on. They want to hear what they believe reinforce. You know that. And that is why

the whole media thing, landscape is collapsing in this country. Last word. I think that's a big part of it. And it's hard to separate those things out from things like safety, which is what we traditionally think of as press freedom, because when you have this diminished standing of the news media in the public

mind, you're really lowering the bar for harassment and attacks, and that's one of the reasons we see attacks against journalists on the rise in this country, which also contributes to the United States falling on the index in terms of the safety score. Yeah, I'm going to bring you back. I want you to research the attacks on journalists in this country. If you would do me a favor, because I'm the most controversial journalists in a country, I think. But it's an argument. I'm up there. In the beginning when I started, I got attacked. I had people on my property. I have to have security. And even now, if I go to Madison Square Garden or someplace like that, I got to have a couple of guys with me. So I know what you're

talking about. But I want to get deeper into the physicality and what you see as putting U.S. journalists in danger. That's a fascinating topic. And we appreciate your point of view, Mr. Weimers. Thanks to taking the time today. Right. Thank you for having it. Okay. Smart life. So I'm the wrong guy to give you this advice. I don't want to be a hypocrite.

I am not a patient man. And that's good and bad. I get a lot of things done because they cut through the BS. I got no tolerance for it. But sometimes it's ridiculous. Okay. And I'm demanding that things happen and read. But if you are patient, you are smarter than I am,

or more disciplined than I am. However, about a month ago on April 16th, and all hell was breaking loose about these tariffs, this is what I said, go. Now, stock market's crazy again. Today, again, I reiterate, I'm not doing anything. All right, it's up down, it's annoying beyond belief. But to sell on the down, and I, you know, I think it will sort itself out in the next month or so.

I could be wrong, but that's what I'm doing, which was nothing. Not selling. I bought a little bit, but not much. Now, I'd turn it out to be right today, May 12th. but three days hence I might be wrong so here is the smart life tip number one be as patient as you can

I was patient I didn't make any crazy moves but now I've recovered and maybe you have two all of the things that I lost when the terror of hysteria kicked in what am I going to do now I looked at it today, I looked at my portfolio today, and I'm going, I didn't pull the trigger

on any sales, but here's a smart life tip. If you went through mental anguish earlier this year because of the stock market craziness, if that happened to you, you might want to consider slimming it down. Now, okay? I told you a few weeks ago that I sold some gold that I had because it was at the high level. I can't give you individual financial advice. I can't tell you what I'm doing. I have a tolerance for risk, so I don't have to sell. But I know a lot of people who were really almost physically sick

about what happened to their portfolios in April. if that was you cut it down get your money out get your money back maybe you made a little money okay and just live so you're not suffering because it's going to go down again I don't know when nobody knows when

all of these economic signs today were good but if somebody does a terror attack if some crazy thing happened yep, okay, that's smart life. You've got to know yourself. So, this weekend I got invited to the Nick Celtic game on Friday night. I got invited to the Met Yankee game on Saturday night. I can't go to either.

Breaking my heart. Why? Because my son is graduating from Salvea, Regina, University in Newport, Rhode Island. he got a three nine his last semester out of four he is so much smarter than I am in every way it's unbelievable I keep asking me really my son anyway I'm so proud of Spencer O'Reilly is my wingman he's going to be going with me to China Japan South Korea in our upcoming trip and he got into Georgetown University He's going to be taking a master's in American government.

I'm predicting right here, Spencer O'Reilly will be president of the United States someday. Now, I know, I know you're hooting. I know you're throwing your slippers at the television set or the radio. This is a very smart, honest kid. Boy, boy, very proud. Yes. I wanted to tell you all that. I don't do a lot of that stuff.

You know I don't. But a very special weekend. And even though I'm missing Mets, Yanks and Nick Celtics, nowhere else I'd rather be, but at Salvei, Regina, for that graduation. And it's an excellent school, by the way. Have a great weekend. We'll do a Sunday column for you. See you on Monday.