PBD Podcast - DOGE Audits The Fed, Pam Bondi vs New York, Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed, JFK Two Shooters? | PBD Podcast | Ep. 547

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick cover Elon Musk calling out corrupt bureaucrats, Anna Paulina Luna's claims that JFK was killed by two shooters, and the Departme...nt of Government Efficiency (DOGE) taking on the Federal Reserve.----🖥️ REGISTER FOR THE MINNECT CIRCLES ECONOMY: https://bit.ly/4hVTkPK📺 VOTE ON TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS:⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4gXLioq⁠⁠⁠👕 GET THE LATEST VT MERCH:⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BZbD6l⁠⁠⁠📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY":⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/41rtEV4⁠⁠⁠📰 VTNEWS.AI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh⁠⁠⁠🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS:⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A⁠⁠⁠📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC⁠⁠⁠👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7⁠⁠⁠🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw⁠⁠⁠📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or⁠⁠⁠💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time!ABOUT US:Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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Starting point is 00:00:48 I'm the one. I'm the one. Okay, so episode 547, we got a big announcement to make here today, but before we do so, yesterday we did a very, Rob, can we qualify that as a strange, unique podcast, yes or no? Yes. Maybe one of the, because maybe it's directly involved
Starting point is 00:01:04 with my life and where I was raised at, but let me tell you who sat down with us yesterday. Yesterday we had the founder of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, the ones who have Hezbollah, ISIS, Hamas, Houthis, the founder who was in the room helping Khomeini put it together, this man right here, the founder of it was yesterday, got very, very heated because he was a guy that was not a fan of what the Shah did and he was also a guy who his direct report ended up killing the president and the prime minister of Iran at the time while he was on the fourth
Starting point is 00:01:41 floor of a building. They were on the first floor, that direct report came and dropped a bomb, killed him, and then he came back and said, the founder, he came back and he says, well, the guy is dead, the country had a funeral, millions of people mourning, and then afterwards the country realized the guy was alive the entire time. You're going to hear me when I ask him that question. We had a lot of other heated debates about population being brainwashed. Anyways, I'm excited about that one being released.
Starting point is 00:02:07 It's very heated, very controversial. I think you'll enjoy it. Aside from that, there's a lot going on right now, obviously, that we'll be talking about. These politicians, they're so funny. There's a clip I want to show you of Maxine Waters saying, this is not fair. What they're doing is they're finding out what we're doing and they're finding out what we're doing. I'm sorry, what is they're finding out what we're doing and they're finding out what we're doing. I'm sorry, what? They're finding out what we're doing.
Starting point is 00:02:27 That's exactly the point of Doge and why they're trying to find out what you're doing because we want to know. That's what people voted for. Yesterday I was on Fox Business having a conversation with them. I said it's so funny the fact that they don't mind hiring IRS agents to audit you. They don't mind coming and finding out what you're doing with that $600, what you're doing with that $300. They want that money for sure.
Starting point is 00:02:46 They want to audit every one of you because they don't trust you, but in return, we're supposed to trust that everything they're doing is good and we don't have to worry about any of that stuff. No audited financials on every governmental institution on its way by these guys and we're excited about it. We'll talk about some of the numbers here on what's coming up Story here Daily Mail Elon Musk vows to root out the highest paid corrupt bureaucrats MAGA head of JFK files task force claims ready there were two shooters what?
Starting point is 00:03:20 What now we find out 60 something years later there were two shooters? Weird. Yeah, two shooters, right? California's insurance last resort runs out of money to pay LA fire claims. Wait till you find out who is running out of money and who they're coming to. They're going to be coming asking you for some money, so stay tuned. That's coming up here soon. Caruso claims that LA slams LA after Olympics construction delayed
Starting point is 00:03:46 over fire. These guys may not be ready for the Olympics by the way, just so you know that, with all the stuff that's taking place. Tulsi Gabbard sworn in congratulations to her as the director of national intelligence DNI. Trump speaks with Putin, says negotiations to end war in Ukraine will begin immediately. Freed American hostage Mark Fogle lands in US after prisoner swap with Russia. Billionaire hedge fund guru wants Trump's tariffs are harmonious. And by the way, this billionaire guru is a supporter of Trump and you know who this man is.
Starting point is 00:04:14 And he left the state, Illinois, Chicago to move to the state of Florida, Miami and you'll see why he's saying that. We'll talk about that. Donald Trump demands NCAA strip trans athletes of women's titles and wants the Olympics to adopt his transgender athlete ban, which by the way we fully support. Borders our Tom Homan accuses FBI of leaking information to the ICE, rates lives at risk is what he says and he's not satisfied with the number of arrests. There's another story that comes out with the fact that I believe ICE was, whereas the
Starting point is 00:04:47 ICE wants you to know if people are posting negative things about them online. That's a little bit disturbing. We'll cover that as well. It's not just the good, it's got to be the bad as well. Doge slashes over $100 million in DI funding at education program, win for every student. Elon Musk warns they want to audit the Federal Reserve. And Jerome Powell pushes back and says, the Fed is overworked, not over satisfied. Biden is the least popular living president as Trump enjoys near record favorability polls.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Massachusetts City okays sanctuary city status for transgender community. Francis Macron says, plug baby plug, probably not a phrase he should use, amid push for nuclear powered AI. Another major company moves its headquarters from California to Texas and students have a grade behind pre-pandemic levels in math reading study. It's funny, I was just sitting down this morning with my daughter looking at her where she ranks on math against norm. And that was one of the things we were talking about. This next one, I've got a clip I want to show you here in a minute of what Bill O'Reilly
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Starting point is 00:08:44 Okay, so this story's coming out, and this is backed up by Trump wanting to go after Federal Reserve. Well, let me first read this to you here. Department of Education Efficiency Doge, led by Llamas, announced termination of 89 Department of Education contracts worth $881 million, including $101 million
Starting point is 00:09:04 in diversity, equity, and inclusion funding. The canceled DI training programs aim to help students understand and interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression and recognize areas of privilege and power must react to the spending of stating your tax dollars were spent on this. Rob, do you have a clip on this by the way? Is this it? This is, yes, Jesse Waters last night from Fox News kind of breaking down what they stripped from the department of education Go ahead the whole government's being audited the Department of Education is being actively dismantled
Starting point is 00:09:36 The dozers are in the building on the sixth floor canceling grants and contracts Nearly a billion dollars of wasteful contracts were ripped up yesterday. Like this one. A contractor was paid $1.5 million to observe mailing and clerical operations at one mail center. Did you see $1.5 million? Sky was observing mail being opened and being sent for $1.5 mil. This is the kind of no-show job a mob boss gives their cousin. Doe's also terminated 29 DEI training programs at the Department of Education worth over a hundred million dollars. By the way, one and a half million dollars is $750 an hour is what you're making. Let me say that again. $750 an hour they're paying somebody making. Let me say that again. $750 an hour, they're paying somebody
Starting point is 00:10:27 to watch others do what they're doing if the math breaks down to one and a half million year. Tom, what do you know about what's going on here with Doge and them going after the Department of Education? So the Department of Education has long been thought to be nothing more than an indoctrination lab. Like the things they're doing in Washington, they're pushing it out.
Starting point is 00:10:44 It's like they're pushing policies out. Like you can see the things that they were talking about. And Nick Naley praised the move and he was the education president. He said, DEI was never about equity. It was about enforcing ideological things and institutionalizing them from the federal level down to the state. Shutting down the wasteful programs is a win for the student. So now, you know, you would send your kids to school and all of a sudden there's this saying, well, the federal government and therefore the school board is going to follow the federal government and we're going to do this and we're going to do that.
Starting point is 00:11:19 And all of a sudden those books would show up that you're upset about and say, wait a minute, you know, Sarah has two mommies and that's okay and it's way worse than that. So what was happening is the Department of Education was not working to move test scores, meaning to measure nation's youth to see is reading and math improving. The Department of Education was off that.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Were they, did they control certain things to standardize testing? Well, sure, they designated them, but they were out there pushing programs down, and the Department of Education was nothing more than a liberal think tank that was pushing policy down to our schools, which is why Trump and how many conservative governors are correctly pointing out, hey, if you want to help me, federal government sends monies to the states all the time for this or that. Send us the money and let us work on the schools and improving test scores. It's indoctrination. And now when you rip off the cover of the budget and you expose the table of contents,
Starting point is 00:12:21 it's exactly what we saw in Jesse Waters, exactly the things you've talked about, Pat. And it is nothing more than programs coming from the federal government to change the minds of our youth. And guess what? It's not going to make a bit of difference in the education of them. By the way, I want to read this and Vinny, I'm going to come to you here. Watch this here folks from the Hill. Students half a grade behind pre-pandemic levels in math, reading, this is study finds, okay, the 2025 education recovery scorecard found that the average student in 2024 remained nearly half a grade level behind pre-pandemic achievement in math and reading. The study which analyzed data from 8719 school districts across 43 states using national
Starting point is 00:13:03 assessment of education programs, NAEP, and the state results reported that no state scored higher on NAEP assessment in 2024 than they did in 2019. That is insane. Not one state scored higher than they did in 2019. While 17% of students were in districts with mean math achievements above that of 2019, only 6% of students in the districts where the scores have recovered in both subjects, only 6% have recovered.
Starting point is 00:13:31 The other 94 have not. The study revealed growing educational disparities with highest income districts nearly four times more likely to have recovered in both subjects than the low income districts. The gap in math scores between high income the low income districts, the gap in math scores between high income and low income districts has grown by 11% since the start of the pandemic, while the gap between predominantly non-minority and predominantly minority districts has grown by 15%. So the Hill is not a conservative outlet.
Starting point is 00:14:01 It's a liberal outlet. They're writing this, my feeling, is the fact that they're trying to say, if they get rid of the Department of Education, this is even going to make it worse. That's what they're trying to claim, right? That's what they're trying to say. But even Bill Maher, when he was saying, I almost agree with everything Rahm Emanuel says, he says there's a reason why this doesn't work. Kids are not getting better grades because of this, so the fact that they're auditing them getting deeper to see where the hell is this money going, how are we holding these
Starting point is 00:14:32 guys accountable to do a better job with our students, I think that's a good thing. Vinny, your thoughts? Vinny Hines Yeah, well, there's a guy that told me to read this book called Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill. His name is Patrick. You might know him. And one of the main things that the book had,, you could attest to this, was that traditional education system suppresses independent thinking and creativity in schools. They teach kids to conform, memorize, and obey, then develop critical thinking and self-reliance. So the education system is a tool to keep kids trapped. It doesn't surprise me that all this money and all this suppression it's there was two things. It was religion how religion keeps everybody
Starting point is 00:15:08 separated and it was a school system and just to take a step back as Tom reminded me think about what Fauci did what they did with the pandemic and all the policies Tom that screwed over the same students in public schools in public schools. So it's like and again this is just on top of the list pad of all the other stuff where kids are the most neglected. There's a million of them missing from the border, 300,000 here, 200,000 here. They're the most neglected. But I think this type of situation is one of the best things, Pat, because they're
Starting point is 00:15:36 exposing all these people for who they are. Yeah, by the way, if your kid is over 12 years old, have them read Outwitting the Devil. Thousand percent. I had my son read Outwitting the Devil. 1000%. I had my son read Outwitting the Devil. Now my second son is reading Outwitting the Devil. And he's 11 years old. He's going to go through this book as well. It gives them the ability to think for themselves without being brainwashed.
Starting point is 00:15:57 That's really what it is because there's a lot of brainwashing going on. Rob, how heated would you say the debate was yesterday about folks being brainwashed? And he says, I cannot believe you would think that two-thirds of Iranian people would be brainwashed to turn against the Shah. And I'm like, what? What are you talking about? Brainwashing works. You know, I asked him a question.
Starting point is 00:16:16 I said, let me ask you a question. You sound like somebody that probably believed, and by the way, the person I'm talking about is Mohsen Sazeghal, who was the former founder. He was the founder of the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was here yesterday for two and a half hour podcast. Never done this before. I said, let me ask you a question. I said, you claim brainwashing doesn't work.
Starting point is 00:16:36 No, you can't brainwash more than half the populace. I said, really? Did you believe in the Russia collusion that Trump was tied to it? He couldn't answer for three seconds. He says, well, I read two books and one of the books said the fact that, you know, etc., etc. I said, really? I said, Rob, can you pull up a number on what percentage of Americans believe that Trump
Starting point is 00:16:53 was tied to Russia collusion? Remember when you pulled up that study, Rob? Over half of Americans believe. Over 50 brainwashes. Brainwashing worse. 100%. Especially when they start with kids early. Bingo. Tom, I know you have more thoughts on this.
Starting point is 00:17:06 Yeah, this is also, you know, there were the states, so every state had the issue, meaning in every single state, when you took those poor kids out of classrooms, and the public schools didn't have as much resources for Zoom and things like this to have the kids at home, my girls were, and your kids, were on Zoom, and I forced this to have the kids at home. My girls were and your kids were on Zoom and I forced them to be on and I made sure they kept reading and they stayed on it. Not every parent was doing that and in the public schools is where it hit the hardest. Yep. Because they didn't and plus you had teachers saying well I'm working from home and I'm wearing a mask of you know
Starting point is 00:17:42 25 hours a day and I'm not going to do this all of that thinking These poor kids at the public school level. That's why this report is called the education Recovery scorecard. Yeah looking at things post-pandemic But you know what? Government never met something didn't want to manipulate and I think Pat you made the best point of the last 10 minutes here The hill is is trying to build the case. I'm just going to wait. You predicted that they would be trying to pit Elon Musk and Trump against each other.
Starting point is 00:18:15 I'm going to follow your lead here. I predict we're going to start seeing stories that say Trump is impeding kids' ability to recover from COVID. They're going to admit the kids had a problem with COVID, and Trump is impeding kids ability to recover from COVID. They're gonna admit the kids had a problem with COVID and Trump is impeding their ability to recover because he closed down the Department of Education. Because I believe you're exactly right, your observation. I hadn't thought that way and I believe you're right.
Starting point is 00:18:38 They're running this story to plant the seed to blame Trump when really what the story proves is that the public school kids were messed up the worst by COVID. Let me read this next story, and then Adam is officially here. Adam, I'm gonna come to you. So Elon Musk warns Federal Reserve may face a Doge audit.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Okay, Elon Musk is wanting to go out to Federal Reserve next. He signaled that the Federal Reserve could face an audit by Doge, stating all aspects of the government must be fully transparent and accountable to the people, no exceptions including if not specially the Federal Reserve. Musk has long criticized the central bank, calling its workforce bloated and questioning its monetary policy decisions. Musk previously claimed that the Fed has a crazy high number of employees and criticized
Starting point is 00:19:23 its handling of interest rates, stating in August that the Fed needs to drop rates and has been foolish not to have done so already. The Federal Reserve later cut rates in September, followed by additional cuts in November and December. Fed Chair Jerome Powell dismissed Musk's claim that the central banks absurdly overstaffed, stating, we run a very careful budget process and we're fully aware we owe that to the public and we believe fully aware we owe that to the public and we believe we do that.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Rob, I think you got a clip of Jerome Powell if you don't mind playing. Here's Jerome Powell. Would you say that the Fed is overstaffed? No, I would say that, you know, overworked maybe, not overstaffed. Everybody at the Fed works really hard. It's a place where people work very hard. I love this conversation right now about staffing numbers at different departments and agencies. You know, it's going back to this sense of the taxpayer dollar, you
Starting point is 00:20:11 know, in terms of accountability there. But I guess I just want to ask you, is the Fed paid for by the taxpayer dollars? Can you explain to us what the burden is on the taxpayer? So we're self-funding through our large balance sheet. So when it comes to the staffing at the Federal Reserve, not coming from the taxpayers, is that right? You know, indirectly, we give away all of our profits we give back to Treasury, and those profits would be higher if we didn't pay for the Fed. So in fairness, it does ultimately come, it's ultimately paid for by the taxpayer.
Starting point is 00:20:44 What does that mean? In that sense, we're self-funded self-funded Yeah Just one last question here You talked about the different actors that are involved when it comes to levying tariffs in terms of paying that the exporter Yeah, the importer the consumer he said middlemen could be part of that I guess I just want to ask you do you know of any way in which to 100% guarantee that the consumers will not have to pay higher costs when it comes to tariffs? Not really.
Starting point is 00:21:09 It's not going to be easy to identify with any accuracy exactly where costs do fall, but I think it would be hard to guarantee any particular outcome. I think we're just going to have to see. Great. Thank you. Got it. have to see. Great, thank you. So, by the way, the Federal Reserve has roughly 23,974 employees and their operations are primarily funded by the interest they make off the securities they own. So that's kind of what he's talking about, the additional money being sent back to the
Starting point is 00:21:40 Treasury. But, Adam, your thoughts on this story? Well, I don't think it's any secret that Jerome Powell and Trump have had a long-standing beef. I believe that Trump, when he was in his first term in 2016-17, he would basically demand that Jerome Powell would lower the interest rates. Jerome Powell wouldn't do it. It was sort of immune from Trump's criticism. I believe Jerome Powell's tenure at the Fed is up in 2026, like Trump appointed him, I believe in 2016. And it's can you believe it's in 10 years later? And I think his term is coming up. But look, I think overall, if you had to give a grade to what Jerome Powell
Starting point is 00:22:20 has done, I would say B plus a minus, I would not say that he's done a bad job. The whole premise is the Fed should be immune from presidential directives and basically what I mean, if Trump might feel a certain way, and then all of a sudden he feels a certain way the next day, he's sort of holding down a steady ship. And I think he's doing a pretty decent job. We've gone through COVID. What do you think about? What do you think about? Ilan talking about accountability. So as far as Ilan goes, you know who can get it? Anybody can get it. I feel like every single institution, every single part of government should not be immune from going through this. You know how Santa has his has his list is not naughty and nice list and he's checking his list and he's checking it twice. Every single part
Starting point is 00:23:04 of government should be checked, what if they every single government should be checked what if they're independent and what if they're independent and taxpayers are not paying for it what if what if there's a level of independence time do you think Doge has the jurisdiction to audit Federal Reserve or do you think that's a little bit of because of the way the money is being made it's got to be a different level of accountability? Well I I think Doge has the authority and a lot of people say well Federal Reserve is really the fourth branch of government and they're somewhat autonomous. I mean we've heard that dating back forever. Well when Jerome Powell says I think we run a very
Starting point is 00:23:42 efficient operation I think people are working very hard. Okay, maybe that's true. That's okay. Let's say it's true. But the best run public companies still by law have to have an audit every year. If you're on the stock market, you have to have an audit, you have to publish your quarterly reports and even the best run public companies find opportunities to improve. So the the don't bother me part
Starting point is 00:24:05 of this and that's not exactly what he's saying but it is what he means is I disagree with very strongly. I think Doge has the ability to audit and I think they should audit. Even the most best-run companies have an audit every year so why shouldn't the Federal Reserve especially with 23,000 employees and by the way I'd like to say something about what Powell said. Did you hear him at the end? He said, well, it's not easy to identify with any accuracy where costs in the economy come from.
Starting point is 00:24:35 You hear that? Yet there's headlines out there saying Trump is causing inflation. So maybe Jen Psaki should go work for the Fed. Apparently she's figured it out. Whereas the Fed themselves are saying, man, it's not easy to invite any accuracy where these costs are coming from this a little early. So a I, I, I think Doge says the authority and I think they should do don't we just show a video on Tuesday of Ben Bernanke not knowing where a half a trillion
Starting point is 00:24:59 dollars went. Yep. And wasn't he the chairman of the Fed right before Janet Yellen who was the chairman of the Fed right before Jerome Powell, so listen the whole premise of the Doge Department of Government efficiency is accountability and open up your book. I'm just trying to see Rob Can you do me a favor go on Google or do you have chat GBT if you got it? Yep, go on that and ask the question does Doge have the jurisdiction to audit the Federal Reserve? Does Doge have the jurisdiction to audit the Federal Reserve? Rob, you're a fantastic typer by the way.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Thank you. Let's see here. Okay, zoom in a little bit. No. Does not have the jurisdiction. The Federal Reserve independently entered the U.S. government and is all the primary conducted by the GAO, Government Accountability Office, which can audit certain aspects of the Fed, but it is restricted from auditing monetary policy.
Starting point is 00:25:51 The Federal Reserve's own Inspector General, IG, who conducts the internal audit, which is pathetic, external independent auditors who review the financial statements. Okay, so wouldn't DOGE be an external, well independent is what it is, of the Federal Reserve. It is independent of the Federal Reserve. If you mean DOJ in reference to something else like, no I'm talking about the Department of Government Efficiency. Okay, so then who does GAO, the Government Accountability Office, who has that?
Starting point is 00:26:21 Who does GAO report to? Who does GAO report to? Who does GAO report to? The government accountability, I report directly to Congress. GAO is independent, unpartisan, Chicago's agency, but sometimes it's the controller of the United States, who leads the GAO president 15 year. Okay, so then, by the way,
Starting point is 00:26:36 no, the only reason I'm looking at this is because if you, I want that to happen. I'd like to see it. But you need to go through, I remember when Vivek was first getting started, he was saying a lot of this stuff that we can't do ourselves, that we have to go through Congress. This is what Vivek was talking about, that they're going to need some of these areas,
Starting point is 00:26:52 they need Congress's help to be able to do that. Tom, am I spot on? Am I on track here with what I'm talking about? Tom Hanks Absolutely. And as a matter of fact, there's something that impresses me here and I'm going to throw a golden thank you in your direction. You were always trying to educate everyone at PHP at the big conferences. You had people that would come in from different things.
Starting point is 00:27:13 We had politicians came in and talk. It was Santorum came there one year. But the year before you had a Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker came and talked. And so you've tried to educate this but the way I read this is David Walker, you know is appointed by the president So in other words
Starting point is 00:27:35 Congress the GAO may report to Congress, but the Comptroller is appointed by the president's what it just said there, right? So there's how there's like the check and balance of our government right that okay Congress will you know is the power of the purse and GAO reports to Congress but over here the president will report will appoint the Comptroller General who leads it and that's part of our checks and balances so I think when you peel this back there is purview for DOJ on the Federal Reserve. It may not be literal, you report to me, but I think there's a clear path here for auditing. But I don't think it can go through DOJ, is what I'm trying to say.
Starting point is 00:28:15 I think there's a part of it, a part of it where for Elon is, and he's pulling it off right now, helping him work with Trump, is okay, there's certain things as a doer that you're going to get done because you know you're controlling, you trust your instincts, right? Trusting your instincts and intuition, most people don't have a high score on that, okay? Elon's got a high score on that area. Instincts and intuition. Great. This area, even if it's high instinct, high intuition, you still need Congress. You're going to need to go sell Congress on this idea. And I don't know what percentage you need.
Starting point is 00:28:53 I don't know how it's going to work out to be able to get it done. But I would want to do an audit and find out what's going on with Federal Reserve. By the way, Rob, do you have a clip of what happened this last week with President Trump and Elon Musk being in the office with his son and not this one, just when they're talking to each other. If you have the clip of them together in an office, not this one Rob. There's one where Musk is there, President Trump is sitting down, while he's sitting down, Musk is behind him speaking and his son is kind of running around doing this thing, and you watched the press conference, you saw the exchange between the two of them.
Starting point is 00:29:28 If you got the clip, I'd like to show it. If you go on Twitter, just type in Musk and Trump press conference. Musk and Trump press conference. Press conference. It went for like 40, 45 minutes? Yeah, it was long. That's kind of what it looked like. Okay, if you want to, you know, is there a highlight of it?
Starting point is 00:29:45 Or this is- Yeah, let me find one. Yeah, if you go to, pick the shortest one you got. 109, right here. Go for it, go for it with that one, go ahead. So here's Trump and Musk. Free the builders of America to build. And if we do that, that means, I think,
Starting point is 00:30:03 you get the economic growth to be maybe 3, 4%, maybe 5%. And that means if you can get a trillion dollars of economic growth, and you cut the budget deficit by a trillion, between now and next year, there is no inflation. There's no inflation in 26. So you can pause this. You can pause this. I mean, you watched the whole thing, right? Your thoughts on this exchange between Musk and Trump and the son being there running around picking his nose. It's kind of weird because, I mean, obviously Trump doesn't have any little kids, but for Elon, and by the way, I love it. I love that he's proud that he's a freaking father. He has how many? 11?
Starting point is 00:30:38 11 of them. And the kid was having fun picking his nose. I don't know. I think he might have been talking to a reporter going, you shut your mouth. It was funny, it was cute, but the dynamic between them, Pat, was very very interesting because Trump is sitting there and he's saying, you know, all right, Elon, go ahead. And Elon was answering a lot of freaking questions and he was going in-depth. It was long, but I felt the uncomfortableness of Trump because Trump, when they're in there, he's the talker Pat. He's the one that's in there. But it was an interesting dynamic because he let Elon go.
Starting point is 00:31:10 But like I mean as you guys saw, Elon's there and Trump is just kind of you know waiting to talk which was kind of awkward but it's undeniable the stuff that Elon was saying and the exposure of everybody and all these things even though they were trying to fight back like when they said about the what was it how many millions of dollars 50 million dollars for condoms in Gaza something like that. That's a lot of comments. Yeah it was a lot of but then they're like you know it was false reporting because it went to somewhere in Africa and he's like what does it matter where the 50 million dollars went to Gaza or Zimbabwe where through Gaza or or Zimbabwe?
Starting point is 00:31:45 Where was it was a Zimbabwe Robbie if it left the u.s. When people in North Carolina are suffering from a hurricane exactly So it was it was interesting. It was long. I think I mean if you're having your kid in the white like he's picking his nose He's acting crazy. I mean, I think it's a kind of a distraction I know you let you love your kid, but that that is something serious. I think you can Rob play this clip this picture here that you see Kennedy with his son and you see Was this under the yeah, you know the legendary picture Rob. I just sent you it's the picture of a history photograph These guys do a phenomenal job
Starting point is 00:32:24 Yeah right there if you if you go to the tweet, not this one Rob, it's actually a tweet. I send you the tweet if you can go to the tweet. Yeah right there okay so they put it right next to each other right. So you see Kennedy on the left but then there's Trump not with his son. Exactly. Trump with Musk's son. So I don't know. I don't know about the fact that and by the way what is the clip that you're talking about? Shut your mouth. Can you play one of those two clips Rob? I think there's a you just literally had two of them up. Yeah do do one of them first and then do the other angle because I think you got two of them. Do the other one first. Okay. You have both of them right up there.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Right there. Play this clip. from one year to the next are the same and their and their is he talking to the reporter? No his eyes are not directly to Trump. Yeah it's still the other one Rob go to the other one that you have go to the other one and zoom this in go ahead. And the prices from one year to the next are the same and they're, and they're, he doesn't like the media back. So you know, 34 minutes Trump sitting, Musk standing up. Yes. But if you watch the, if whoever's going to be out there to watch the whole clip, he is saying at the pleasure of the president, and I mean he's giving all the right credit.
Starting point is 00:33:40 I just felt as when Trump's in the room, you know this, he's the talker. He's the guy. There's the guy there's cameras it's him talking it was very very interesting to see him literally give the baton to Elon and let him go and you already know what happened the media like oh he should be sitting in the chair he's a president I don't think it's getting to Trump but you could feel that it was a little bit awkward and it doesn't help when there's a kid picking his nose and telling the media What do you think about it? So I I thought at that moment that wasn't the place to have to have a child there with you
Starting point is 00:34:12 You're talking about the economy United States. You're talking about things are going forward, you know, I appreciate that Elon takes X everywhere, but that's not the place for a kid It's distracting for exactly this reason when important points are being made first second They have set up the Oval Office almost like a permanent press conference Have you seen the wide shots everybody there? Yeah, they got tripods extension cord seats a little riser in the back so they have set this up like a permanent press conference place and This I think is not the place for this. I don't think this is the stage for this.
Starting point is 00:34:45 I think the president at the resolute desk speaks for himself for the country and sets vision. I would have preferred to see this. You know the long cabinet table that they have? And then the president will be there and others will be speaking. Well, I'm here with the defense secretary. John, why don't you tell them what we talked about?
Starting point is 00:35:02 And then the president's sort of at a meeting allowing his staff to speak I think that's a better look for this and so, you know Adam your thoughts. That's what I thought I freaking love it. I mean, are you kidding me? I mean this the the the days of Doing business as usual are officially over. Look, we're 37 trillion dollars in debt. We're running a $2 trillion annual deficit and we just can't continue to do things we've always done. Thank God we have someone like Trump that comes in and he's like, you know what? F you, F you, F you. You're cool, Elon. You can stay.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Let's figure this thing out. We got to get efficient. We got to get accountable. We got to get proficient. What we're doing in this country, whether it's from a cultural standpoint, from an economic standpoint, from an immigration standpoint, Trump has a mandate to clean this mess up. And you're talking to somebody who basically fell for the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff, who fell for the grab them by the stuff. Now I want him to grab everybody by the blank and clean up this day, this damn country. So special interest groups in Washington, you can get it lobbyists, you can get it. Everyone that's just sucking at the teat of DC, you can get it. How many of the top 10 counties in the country are richest
Starting point is 00:36:17 country counties in the country are around the DMV area, I think five out of 10. You've done that you've done a whole breakdown about how basically anyone near Washington, D.C. is fricking rich in the DMV area, D.C., Maryland, Virginia. Enough's enough. I'm with all of that. I'll give you a basic etiquette for me, okay? The basic etiquette for me is,
Starting point is 00:36:41 I don't have a problem with you having your kids everywhere that you go, all this other stuff. If President Trump said it's okay, then it's his call. If President Trump says it's okay, he said it's okay. But if President Trump's grandkids are there, I don't have a problem with that. He's the president. There's gotta be a little bit of etiquette in this setting They can be anywhere else press conference behind that desk in the Oval Office
Starting point is 00:37:10 That is sacred and it's kept for president and his kids. This is me. You can call it traditional You can call it whatever you want. That's the only thing I'm saying right here. This is not a big deal All I'm saying is when something like that is happening, I think anywhere else in the world that can happen. I don't give kids, I actually love the fact that kids, I love seeing Elon with his son on his back. I love doing that with Senna. I have a picture, the only picture I've never changed on my phone is, it's been the same
Starting point is 00:37:40 picture the kids fight over whose picture is on the phone. It's been the same picture of me and Senna since she was two years old. She's eight years old right now. This picture has never changed, okay, on my phone. I love, this is when I used to walk her in Plano around our community, she would fall asleep on my head. She would put her head like this on her hands and she would fall asleep. It was the best when I would do that with her.
Starting point is 00:38:01 But Oval Office, if the president said no problem, fine. But if the president deep down inside wouldn't want that, it needs to be a little bit more protection for, and you got to kind of stand on the side of the table, not behind it. You got to stand a little bit to the side of the table when they're speaking and standing all of that. Can I tell you one of the things that I actually love what you do, and I understand the, you know, tradition and respect and obviously with that, but love what you do and I understand the you know tradition and respect and obviously with that but like when you interviewed Shaq you had Dylan on stage with you yeah that was amazing I mean he calls him Uncle Shaq even at the at the
Starting point is 00:38:36 election event you had Dylan on stage with you there there's there's something human I agree about but especially when you bring your kids even when there's one room in the world. Yep there's one room in the world that's super sacred and as this room and This room has to be protecting of the man sitting behind that shit like that chair right there. Mm-hmm There's got to be respect for that shit. That's all I'm saying. By the way, Elon's given respect. He's standing on the side It's good, but just something to think about behind him massaging or something like that No And you know why I'm saying this don't give the media more So just something to think about. I mean if he was behind him massaging or something like that, that would be a little awkward. And you know why I'm saying this? Don't give the media more things to talk about.
Starting point is 00:39:12 Don't give it to them. They're going to find already plenty of stuff. Don't give them any additional things to be talking about. Anyways, okay, so let's go to the next story of what we have here. California's insurer of last resort runs out of money to pay LA's fire claims. So let's see this here. California's insurer of last resort, the fair plan, has run out of money to cover claims from devastating LA fires and will receive a billion dollar bailout. By the way, the fair plan, you know the fair plan that's supposed to take care of all these guys?
Starting point is 00:39:47 It ran out of money and needs a bailout of a billion dollars. State regulators announced Tuesday the fire destroyed roughly 6,800 structures in Pacific Palisades and 9,400 in Altadena, leaving homeowners who could not get private insurance dependent on fare. To date, the plan has paid $914 million in claims with more expected. California's insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, approved a billion dollar assessment on insurance companies
Starting point is 00:40:15 that operate in the state, allowing insurance to pass some of the costs onto policyholders, potentially raising homeowners insurance price statewide. Tom, your thoughts on the story. This pisses me off at a high, high level because if you read that last sentence, Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a one billion assessment. There's two things here.
Starting point is 00:40:34 America, we're sending a billion dollars to California to help bail out the fair plan because of poor forestry management, old equipment from PG&E that would spark and start fires, poor management of reservoirs, poor water management, poor funding of fire departments, all of which caused this, even if it was a natural start of the fire during fire season, all of it caused it to be worse and to be the incredible tragedy, the unprecedented record setting tragedy, and a billion dollar bailout. Guess where it's going to come from it's going to come via FEMA and it's Going to come back to California because the states don't run permanent deficits
Starting point is 00:41:13 They have to find a way and that's when they reach out for government grants and government money to do that The second thing you did because there's two billion. That's the first billion the second billion He approved a one billion dollar assessment insurance companies companies. When the state of California puts an assessment on the insurance companies, Vinny, you know what that means they can do? They can pass that on to the subjects of the assessment, the policyholders in California. So you can take that billion and you can spread it across the policies next year. So for the people that manage to still have insurance from a carrier that manages to still be doing business
Starting point is 00:41:48 in California, they're gonna have a rate increase so that the carriers can pay for this. This starts at the top with bad management of the forestry and the things that I talked about. And now you end up here, that's the upstream. It starts with Gavin Newsom, and then you end up all the way at the bottom, Gavin Newsom, asking the federal government for money, and then changing the rules where it's been burnt down,
Starting point is 00:42:12 telling people you can't rebuild your house, you're gonna have to build low income housing. This is the biggest screw job on property owners whether you lost your company, you lost your house, or you're still in the state and gonna have rates go up even higher. So here's how this works, so here's how this works, okay. Vinny, imagine if you are very irresponsible
Starting point is 00:42:36 with your finances, okay? So you go ask, you go ask your mom for money to bail you out, because you don't want to go to your dad. Great. Then you go and ask your dad for money. Then they bail you out. Then after they bail you out, you go back again.
Starting point is 00:42:58 You go back again. You depleted their savings. They're done. Then you go to your siblings. Then you go to your next brother. Then you go to your next brother. Then you go to the next sister. You're asking everybody for money because you are irresponsible. Then you keep coming back to mom.
Starting point is 00:43:13 Then you keep coming back. And then all of a sudden, you hate everybody because they're not paying you anymore. Now you don't want to talk to them because they're like, well, you know, you didn't bail me out. You didn't bail me out. You didn't bail me out. You just stole half of your dad's money, your mom's money because you've been begging them for so much money.
Starting point is 00:43:29 That's what California is doing. So first they're like, no, California is a great state. Everybody moves to California. We have the best weather, we have the best everybody moves to California. Then people start creating jobs and all this stuff. Oh my God, start making money. Then they start raising taxes, gas taxes, this tax, that tax. So now we're going to put money into homeless, we're going to fix homelessness, don't worry
Starting point is 00:43:46 about it, 24 billion dollars are missing. Then you go to homeowners insurance. Well homeowners insurance, how about these other insurance companies come here and compete and whatever the market is, let them do it. Oh you know what, we're starting to pay out a lot of money in California, year over year over year. The state of California becomes a red flag, red alert and every board meeting of top homeowners insurance companies nationwide, they're like, dude, we've got to do something about California.
Starting point is 00:44:07 Raise the rates. Oh, regulators in California came and said, you can't raise the rates above this price. Then what are we supposed to do? Oh, by the way, they're forcing you right now. If you want to be able to get this business, you're forced to participate in this fair act, fair plan to insure these companies and you're going to take a percentage of the risk. Wait a minute. I can't do that. This is what we're going to do.
Starting point is 00:44:25 The government's here to always take care of you. And now California is coming back and saying, hey, we forced insurance companies out. We forced them to do a fair plan. We forced them to do this because we said the government's going to solve your problem. Hey, we failed miserably. Guess who we're coming back to? You. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Taxpayers. You got to help out California. And people are saying, no, I'm not going to help you out anymore, bro. You can't handle yourself. You always want to go to siblings or family or people for money. I'm not giving you money anymore. Get your act together when it comes down to money. So then there's a following out.
Starting point is 00:44:58 All you care about is money. All you care about is money. California is saying that to all the other states in the government. But you're exposed eventually and it takes 10, 15 years and everybody finds out you suck at handling money. That's what's going on with California. By the way, Rob, there's a clip I put on my notes, if you can pull this off. There's something going on right now with New York.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Bill O'Reilly said something I think everybody should watch. I'm going to first read this story, then I'm going to go to this clip. It's unbelievable. Let me read this to you first. Here's what it is. Okay, so the story is, Rob, what page is that on? Let me see if I have the page. Is it an addendum? It's an addendum.
Starting point is 00:45:36 Okay. So you're next. DOG files lawsuit against New York, Hoco, Letitia James over immigration. This is an NBC story, and here's what it looks like, okay? Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against New York City Hoco Attorney General Letitia James and the MV Commissioner Mark Schroeder stating that this is a new DOJ. Rob, if you have the clip of this first, then we'll go to Bill O'Reilly's.
Starting point is 00:46:02 This is a new DOJ and we are taking steps to protect Americans. New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops today the lawsuit challenges New York's Green Light law, which allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's license and includes a provision requiring the DMV Commission to notify them when a federal immigration agency requests their information. Bondi warns. President Trump has directed this to stop and if you won't comply with federal law, you will be held accountable. Read it to Illinois, strike one, strike two is New York.
Starting point is 00:46:34 And if you are a state not complying with federal law, you are next to get ready. Pam Bondi stood alongside Tammy Nobles and Angel Mom. Is this them talking? Did I just pretty much read everything she said? Yes. Okay, so don't worry about playing the clip. So then, by the way, she stands next to Tammy Nobles, an angel mom whose 20-year-old daughter was killed in Aberdeen, Maryland in July 2022 by someone from El Salvador who entered the country illegally months earlier in Texas. So that's this.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Watch what Bill O'Reilly says on this whole thing and then he ties Newsom in California at the end. Just watch this three-minute clip. Go ahead, Rob. Trump wants to get Letitia James and Alvin Bragg. That's what this story is all about. Nothing else there. He went after Illinois because he wants to get Pritzker.
Starting point is 00:47:24 Hates him. Hates him. And the way to do that is to deny the states of Illinois and New York the federal grant money. The New York Post reports today $8 billion is going to get held up by the Justice Department that would have flowed into New York State, which is running an astronomical deficit here. The easiest way to do this is to file civil suits against the governor and the attorney general.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Then the question was, why is the mayor of New York left out? Because he doesn't matter. He doesn't matter. Trump wants to get Letitia James. Good. Hokel is just an ornament. Doesn't have any bad feeling toward Hokel, Trump. But Adams, the deal that was made, I don't know what Adams is giving Trump.
Starting point is 00:48:21 I have to tell the audience upfront. I don't know and I don't use anonymous sources But I again call after call after call That said and all of these people have agendas who are calling it. They all have agendas All right, and they're saying that Adams knows where the bodies are very Listen with James and Brad Listen just throwing it out keep for your consumption with James and Brad. Wow. Listen.
Starting point is 00:48:45 Just throwing it out. Keep watching. For your consumption. I'm not reporting it to be true, but it kind of makes sense, right? It's kind of weird that, like, you can say he has no power, but he's in charge of the city, and when they went after Pritzker in Illinois, they named Chicago, and they went after the mayor. Yeah, I'm just saying, you know,
Starting point is 00:49:05 if you're going after the city of Chicago, you name the mayor. No, Johnson and Adams have no power whatsoever. None. They do what they're told to do. The real power lies in the state legislature. Now, in both Illinois and New York, state legislature gives the big middle finger to Homeland Security. Blank you. Maybe Anderson Cooper could articulate it a little more than I am by using some vernacular. Wait for it. But that's what's happening. And the Trump administration knows that these mayors, this is like the utility infielder
Starting point is 00:49:42 on the New York Yankees who plays maybe three innings a week. These guys have no power. They do what they're told to do. The big power is Newsom in California, and Newsom's next. Hey, Gavin, they're coming for you. Pritzker's going to get destroyed, and Trump will bring down, and I'm going to predict it here, he will bring down Let my I'm gonna predict it here he will bring down let's issue James and Alvin Bragg because they went on a crusade to destroy him and
Starting point is 00:50:12 President Trump is not a forgiving man What what how do you believe it? Yes, I do and I think what what Bill O'Reilly has just done is gone past the headlines I do and I think what what Bill O'Reilly has just done is gone past the headlines One of the things I used to enjoy about Bill O'Reilly was the talking points memo because I used to think it was very well thought out and it was very Articulate and specific and would take you as a viewer down the path to see what he's talking about. He's right He's calling the current mayor. The mayorors are ornaments. The real power of state legislature. The real thing is the governor.
Starting point is 00:50:48 And so he's going after them. I believe that they're right. And by the way, this is not a revenge campaign. This was judicial activism illegally using the power of the judiciary and the AG to go after a political opponent. The Biden administration was completely complicit or lose one of the three. They either liked what was going on and didn't stop it. They instigated it or they called the shot.
Starting point is 00:51:18 One way or another, the Biden administration was right there with Letitia James. Do you think Letitia James files those suits? If the Biden administration doesn't, read it and say, yeah, I like it. Wait a minute. The fifth count there, kind of move it around a little bit. And Alvin Bragg, remember we broke down how he turned three counts into 14, whatever it was?
Starting point is 00:51:37 When he made every check was, oh, you wrote the check, you signed the check, you processed the check, and each step he was claiming was a misdemeanor grade three, which he rolled up to felony, low level felony. Yeah, guess what? You can't do that. That's militarizing the Justice Department, and guess what? It's illegal. And they're going to find out what they did was complicit, was conspiratorial, and in
Starting point is 00:52:02 my opinion, that's what's gonna happen here and what Bill O'Reilly is unpacking is how that? What is the method that's gonna go and Pam Bondi? Let me tell you she means business She means business she might as you might as well play the Darth Vader music bum bum I love I love it because she's coming for it because what these people did is they cross the line And I think why they did it is because they thought Tom They thought that this plan that the entire left the deep whatever the hell you want to call them It was all gonna work. Let's try to destroy him. Let's try to say he was you know the R word I don't even want to say that he did it with that crazy was that crazy girls name the
Starting point is 00:52:42 Blonde chick that told and Anderson Cooper that she thought rape was- E. Jean Carroll. E. Jean Carroll. All that, the Stormy Daniels, everything. Tom, if you're going all in as a prosecutor and as a IG, you were promised, like, hey, listen, we're gonna win, we're gonna destroy him, there's no way he's gonna win, and then there's an assassination attempt, failed.
Starting point is 00:53:01 They thought that they thought either Biden or Kamala was gonna be president right now, and that they thought either Biden or Kamala was going to be president right now and that they were going to be fine. They had no idea that he was going to win. They went all in. And this makes me so freaking happy. I hope it doesn't stop with them. It doesn't stop with Newsom and Fauci. I know the states are going to be going after him. It's accountability time. And we have who have been behind this freaking movement for nine years.
Starting point is 00:53:22 We deserve it. And I want to see it. All of it. Do you remember the liberal media would sit there and say, do you think, is he going to prison? Is he going to prison? And they'd be up there talking to each other with orgasmic glee. That they just couldn't wait for him to be there. Well, when he's sentenced, when he goes, and you would hear that word goes, and they were
Starting point is 00:53:40 thinking that he was going to be in prison. Or dead, Tom. Or dead. And you're finding out now, some of those people you mentioned or the corner loan shark he's going after Capone. Yes. A lot of people think that Trump you know after he got shot he sort of found Jesus and found God he's become more religious. I actually think it's something a little bit different than I think he's on his almost
Starting point is 00:53:59 gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius revenge tour and he's just gonna make Everybody pay I don't think of this has to do with like I have a second chance on life and let me Get closer to God and let me Do all the right things. I think he's completely and I mean this in a positive way Vindictive and wants to vindicate himself from everything that happened. I feel like he'd watched the movieiator and it basically was like my name is Donald Trump, Decimus Meridius, commander of the legions of the North and the true servant of the true emperor Marcus Aurelius, husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered son, and I'll have rep my vengeance in this life or the next. And I feel like he's just going after everybody. And you know what, Pat?
Starting point is 00:54:45 Rightly so. I mean, think about what he's gone through for the past almost nine years from Obama and all those deep state spying on him and Russia collusion and the impeachments. That's just three of them. There's so many of them. He deserves it. I know people are like, well, he shouldn't be and he should be above it. No, no, no, no, no, no. You tried to destroy him and it's
Starting point is 00:55:09 retribution time. It's payback. He could do it. And people are like, he should be worried about running the country. No, no, he's running it just fine. But you know what? Now he's going to go back and turn around and be like, you tried to destroy me. You tried to destroy me. You use lawfare and he's going after everybody. And makes me feel good that he thought he wasn't just talking about it he promised it and he's doing it by the way justice and let me just say this to you guys let me just say this to you I cannot tell you how monumental November 5th was because if Kamala would have won none of this stuff would have happened Rob can you go to YouTube I'm gonna send you this clip if Kamala would have won, none of this stuff would have happened.
Starting point is 00:55:45 Rob, can you go to YouTube? I'm gonna send you this clip. If Kamala would have won, you would have heard things like this. This is a clip of, if you go and type in Letitia James on YouTube, okay? And then type on the top right filter, views. Go to Letitia James and then click filter, go to views.
Starting point is 00:56:06 Okay, and just watch the second one. That's from a year ago, three and a half million views. Go ahead and play this clip, Rob. Can you put the audio, yes, play this clip. Watch this one. This was a year ago. Oh shoot, Rob. Yeah, it's fine, just.
Starting point is 00:56:21 He's called me venomous, he's called me disgraceful, he's called me radical, He's called me a racist. And this is only week three. None of his behavior, which can best be described as performative, will change what's happening in the courtroom. The courtroom, as you know, where we have submitted evidence, and the evidence is clear, and that is he inflated his statements of financial interests To enrich himself and his family Biden and nothing will change that
Starting point is 00:56:51 Not the attacks are me or anyone you can pause this when you go back and look at the highlight reel when she first came on and she says we are announcing a lawsuit against Trump There's Rob if you find some of these and we remember when we watched this and how they were like we are not gonna stop until dot dot dot and pop pop pop and everybody is watching this stuff right? If Kamala Harris wins, every one of these things would have been pursued and they would
Starting point is 00:57:21 have convinced the populace that he is a criminal, he is this, he is that, they would have not stopped till the very end because they would have controlled it all. Look at the way she's speaking here. People forget this wasn't too long ago. Go ahead Rob. Comprehensive three-year investigation by my office, including witnesses, interviews with more than 65 witnesses and review of millions of documents That were submitted by mr. Trump and others I am announcing that today We are filing a lawsuit against donald trump. You can pause for this is all the stuff. We were watching
Starting point is 00:57:58 No, i'm telling you vinny i'm telling you if Kamala would have won This is a very different america, this is a very different America, this is a very different country, this is a very different climate. If Kamala would have won, Google and Facebook are not giving the million dollars to Trump
Starting point is 00:58:15 and all that other stuff. Of course not. If Kamala would have won, the climate would be very, very different. That's why November 5th, every single person from the smallest, you know, guy that sat there talking to their cousins and brothers and all that stuff, Adam Stopp, to the people that are running the podcast, to others that are doing whatever they did to get November 5th. You went out there and stood in line for a few hours to vote every
Starting point is 00:58:39 one of those people. You have to be so proud of yourself because we were about to witness a shit show for four years. Life was going to be very, very different. There would have been no accountability. And so then we would have waited until 2028, which most likely the establishment Republicans wouldn't have been behind Trump because they would have said at this point, you can't win, you already tried twice back to back and that argument would have convinced people to step away from him. The fact that this took place and this is happening, this is great for America, for
Starting point is 00:59:11 us to find out what really happened, who was playing games. Everybody just wants simple accountability. That's really all it is. Very happy to see what they're doing here and I thought Bill O'Reilly's breakdown was spot on. Let's see what happens from here. Next story. Gang, for many years we've been told there was only one shooter.
Starting point is 00:59:31 For many years. John F. Kennedy assassination. No, no, there's one shooter. You guys are delusional. There's only one shooter. You're crazy. Oh my God, you guys are just following all these stories and movies. Stop it.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Stop watching Oliver Stone and stop watching this and stop watching that. MAGA head of JFK files task force claims there were two shooters. And this is, I want to say her name properly, Anna Paulina Luna. She does phenomenal work, launched a task force on the declassification of federal secrets along House Oversight Chairman James Comer declaring, I believe, well I'll let you watch it for yourself. Go ahead Rob. What's your priority list? Is Epstein 9-11?
Starting point is 01:00:11 Our first investigation will be announced, but it's going to be covering on a thorough investigation into the John F. Kennedy assassination. And I can tell you, based on what I've been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty in the single bullet theory I believe that there were two shooters and we should be finding more information as we are able to gain access into the skip hopefully before the files are actually released to the public. Vinny. Okay and I've been besides Oliver Stone's JFK, the movie, which I've probably seen, no joke, maybe 15 times, so accurate, so much details.
Starting point is 01:00:51 Back and to the right. Back and to the right. And just doing all your own research, Pat, with your own eyes, okay? And then watching that video, and I'll send it to Rob after we all break it down, where Secret Service is running by his car and he's about to go down Dealey Plaza and he's called off, I got goosebumps, they're calling off Secret Service because when you're out there in the open in a pretty dangerous place which is Dallas which you've gotten death threats, you release everybody because there's supposed to be a
Starting point is 01:01:19 human being running just to be able to stop the shooting. And as a marksman, as an expert in the rifle, there's no way that Oswald with the pump, there's no way. And we all saw as it's going, because they slowed down, this is the video right here, look at this, while I'm telling the story, look at it, these guys are called off of protecting the president, even the Secret Service guys, like wait, what? And then look at this, leaving him going completely naked out there with no protection, they're supposed to be running by the vehicle.
Starting point is 01:01:47 So then seeing the video and then seeing him getting shot once in the throat and you see him like asking for help and then Onassis comes and gets to his aid and then his head goes backwards and they proved in a court of law in the United States a magic bullet theory. in a court of law in the United States a magic bullet theory and if you haven't seen it they're saying Tom that a bullet came in hit him hit the governor spun around and came back and as you guys all know the word magic is make-believe it's fake the fact that they called it a magic bullet theory and I just can't I cannot wait for and again you talk about accountability vindication for people
Starting point is 01:02:24 like us that have been saying it forever, they have been lying to us, they lied about the golf at Tonkin, they lied about this, they lied about 9-11, that's all they've done is lie to us, and this is the main reason, Pat, that people like Trump and people like Elon are such a threat to them
Starting point is 01:02:40 because they're messing with their money. This is, Tom, what was this? He went up against the military industrial complex. What is that doing? You're messing with people's money and they shot him with their money. Tom, what was this? He went up against the military industrial complex. What is that doing? You're messing with people's money and they shot him in the head. What Trump is doing right now, what Elon's doing right now,
Starting point is 01:02:52 and what he's suggesting with the Fed is messing with their money and it's a dangerous game that they're playing, but I think it's a game that has to be played, period. Tom. I'm looking forward to this and I'm glad that she's on it and I want to see the stuff coming out so that all of the theories, not just theories, there's some real informed
Starting point is 01:03:11 research that was done, but I think that much of that research is going to be validated, absolutely validated. And we have seen, you know, it's not Oliver Stone, you know, theatrical, making a theatrical interpretation of what was going on with, you know, Garrison, the character. It's also looking at common sense from men who have served on the battlefield, that have served with the police departments, that have served with ballistics, saying, you can't cause the president's wound, the head wound, the kill shot from above and behind him. And it's just, we've all known that.
Starting point is 01:03:51 That's like the, that's a simple fact. You can't do that. Well, then where'd it come from? Now you have all the theories. Oh, the CIA was over here, the guy in the grass, you know, but I am very, very happy that it's starting to come out. And we've also heard, you know,'ve also heard things coming from others over time, and people that have said it.
Starting point is 01:04:10 Saying, well, it's not a who, it's a what. You know what? It's an agency, or it's a group. And I'm very glad that it's coming out. And she just stood there and said, from what I'm seeing, there was two shooters, which we have forensically understood. We just want to know who are the two shooters, which we have forensically understood. We just want to know who are the two shooters. Is there documents in the Kennedy files that would indicate who was
Starting point is 01:04:31 or who called or who paid or who placed? Yeah, but my problem is, okay, they've always known. They've always known. Why keep it from the public? That's the, I mean, we know, but what's the reason? Who was that guy? So that means they brought it to court, they all freaking lied, all these witnesses, witnesses showing up dead, they've been lying to us. They keep lying to us. And it pisses me off when we find out who that person is, Tom, because I believe that they might have been even more than that guy.
Starting point is 01:05:00 I think there was multiple people, I think it was a triangular position and maybe even some of them had blanks so at the end of the day no one is actually at fault and nobody knows, nobody can say why I definitely did it. I had blanks on my gun. I want to know who gave that... So that's the firing squad theory. One out of seven men on the firing squad has a blank. So you can always think maybe I didn't... So you could sleep at night. I did my duty but maybe it wasn't me. And Pat, there's my thing. There's another shooter, who did he work for and who told him to go there?
Starting point is 01:05:29 And who told it to cover it up? That's the problem. That's what I look forward to, is finding out the who behind the second shooter, because I don't think there's a question. Which of the two are you more interested in, this or Epstein's List? Epstein's List.
Starting point is 01:05:42 Could I be honest with you? Yeah. If JFK, you know why? Because that to me, besides 9-11, is the worst moment in the history of the United States. They murdered, murdered, a sat, whatever you want to call it, the sitting president. Meaning if it's true, the CIA, all these guys, Lyndon B. Johnson, they all colluded to kill him. To hell with treason.
Starting point is 01:06:04 It just sucks because none of these people are alive. They kept it, held it for all these years. Everybody's dead. We're not going to have any accountability. And if it was the CIA, what's going to happen to the CIA? That's why I was a little bit more prone to wanting to know what's on Epstein's list. Because yes, is the assassination and murder of a sitting US president JFK important? You bet your ass it is. However, whatever happened with Epstein, these people are walking around. What's going on? What did they do illegal? Who was this guy? What happened? Where are these people? This pedophile island? Yes, this is important. I'm not downplaying the how important this
Starting point is 01:06:40 is. But you know what I find interesting under the Trump administration, this is going to be coming out. Hopefully we'll see. I would love to know what the democratic wing of the Kennedy family these days, other than basically JFK, would they owe him a debt of gratitude? Would they say thank you? Do they want to know what's going on? Like would they at least admit, Hey, you know, we're not the biggest fans of Trump or a Democrat legacy family But thank you for shedding some light of exactly what happened in this situation right here So I'd love to see what happened with that But this but this was the first bit like this I get the Epstein thing and trust me anything with children
Starting point is 01:07:19 I'm 100% all in you know, that's the hill that I would die on freaking fall on the sword all that But this is one of the first ones. This is the main one I'm 100% all in. You know that's a hill that I would die on, freaking fall on the sword, all that. But this is one of the first ones. This is the main one. Assassinating a sitting president. And if these freaking agencies were involved. So go down the path here. Okay, so it turns out there was a second shooter and it was involved in the CIA or something.
Starting point is 01:07:40 Yeah, whatever. Or was the mafia? What then? What do you do then? Be like, I told you so. No, everyone knows that there mafia what then what do you do then be like I told you so no Everyone knows that there's some sort of foul play going on here. We have to know the truth would change What would I what would actually change CIA was involved Adam? Guess what happens to the CIA? You're going bye. Bye. You can't be you you were yeah, he's not going by what do you mean?
Starting point is 01:08:02 You find out today, yeah, but Let me spend 75 years. I don't give a shit if they, but the organization killed the city president. You're saying you have little interest to find out the truth about what happened 62 years ago. That's not what I said. I didn't say I have little interest.
Starting point is 01:08:21 I said that I have more interest in what's going on on Epstein. You asked a binary question. What do you have more interested in Epstein or JFK? Yes I have interest in this but but it's not like any of these people are even a lot 100% But guess what happened to Donald Trump a couple months ago Adam. They shot him. Yeah, I'd like to know that What happened with that already for this they and this is again as a shooter. I'm not freaking showing off the cockiness I don't think it was crooks. This is me, personally.
Starting point is 01:08:46 The guy had six cell phones, we know nothing about him. Like Luigi Mangione, that guy in three hours, we knew everything. He might be gay, he might be this. The fact that we still don't know shit about that guy, okay? And as a shooter, to shoot somebody and try to go for their head, that is a cocky shooter. Because as a sniper, when you're trying to shoot, bro, you're shooting center mass. Whatever your front sight or your dot,
Starting point is 01:09:08 you're here at him because no matter where, you're breathing, whatever, even if you hit Trump, here, here, here, here, he's done. He's 78 years old, he's not gonna survive. This person was trying to do, because when you shoot somebody here, that's trying to send a message to the world. But God intervened, and that's why, Pat, you nailed it. That November 5th, this movement, saving humanity, we are living
Starting point is 01:09:29 in such an amazing time that I believe God said, now's not the time. And he stepped in. That's divine intervention. Thank God for that map. The chart. I believe in the simplicity theory that even in the deepest conspiracies you have simplicity. And I think it's very simple. Our government has been trying to spin the minds of its populace, its citizens for decades, centuries. And to keep the mind going, to keep MKUltra, to keep things going, to to spin you can't admit to the Kennedy thing because you can't
Starting point is 01:10:07 have transparency and have the public saying well you know what maybe they're just lying to us just like Kennedy so you can't have you can't legitimize that you can't put that out there because you need to keep the secrecy in the spin to to to brainwash the citizens tomorrow. And you can't go back and say, okay, look, we're sorry. Vietnam War, we did this thing and we were drafting mostly African Americans, yeah, we did it. CIA killed Kennedy, all those people are gone, Alan Dulles is gone, but we named an airport after him.
Starting point is 01:10:40 And, but yeah, we did it. They can't do that because you can't have the citizens able to say, had to have legitimate doubt. How about your thought? What's your thought on that? They're probably being another shooter, them, them, if it's true, lying to us, the CIA involved, all that type of stuff, all that. What? Because I know you're passionate about it. Yeah, you know exactly what they let me tell you.
Starting point is 01:11:00 What you know, when when you go into relationships that you have in your life, yesterday we're sitting there with a few of our business managers that we have and we're spending more time with middle management. We're having a conversation about who typically ends up moving up, getting promotions, what happens with them, okay? And what qualities we value. Trust somebody that can deliver, somebody that keeps their word, somebody that's reliable. And in your community as you age and you have family, kids, peers, you want your kids to
Starting point is 01:11:40 be surrounded by men and women who are like that. Then people you do business with, people you do business with, companies you do business with, you size up all the partners and vendors and you want to trust what they're saying. You want to trust what they're saying. You want them to tell the truth because you want to be able to continue doing business with them, they don't have any issues with them. How many people you think want to be able to continue doing business with them, then you don't have any issues with them, right? Okay, how many people do you think want to believe CIA? How many American people, what percentage do you think would like to believe what the CIA is saying? Genuinely want to believe them.
Starting point is 01:12:15 The majority of them. All of them, right? I would say everybody. How many people would like to believe that what the government is saying, they're being straight up and it's the best interest of the American people? All of us want to hope. They want that. They want to experience that
Starting point is 01:12:29 because then you know there's credibility, accountability, trust, execution. Things move faster the higher trust is. The lower trust is things move slower. Things get executed slower. Right now trust is low. And the reason why we're moving so fast in the first few weeks is we have an operator that's driving the hell out of everybody executed slower. Right now, trust is low. And the reason why we're moving so fast in
Starting point is 01:12:45 the first few weeks is we have an operator that's driving the hell out of everybody and all of them, Glenn Beck put it the best way, team of rivals that are willing to work together to increase the credibility of our nation. And you've got to give credit to that. That's what I'm excited about. I want our credit score as a country to go up where we can believe what they're saying. We're never going to be at a point that you're going to believe 100% of them. Never. I'm not expecting, nobody has a 100% credit score when they're financing something. Everybody has had a late or something like that.
Starting point is 01:13:15 But guess what? When you're financing at a bank, you want a 750, 760, you like to see a lot of 800s, but you're willing to entertain 760s. Our government score right now, as of two months ago, is probably in the 450s. Nobody trusts, what can you finance with a 450 credit score? Nothing. Nothing.
Starting point is 01:13:33 You've got to increase your credit score. That's my interest. Okay. All right, so next story I want to get into is, which one should we go here with this one? Let me go into, yeah, let's go into this one here. So billionaire hedge fund guru warns Trump's tariffs are harming us. This isn't just anybody saying this, by the way.
Starting point is 01:13:59 This is Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel and a Republican supporter, warned that Trump's tariffs create an uncertainty and chaos that hinder economic growth, making it difficult for multinationals to plan long term. Speaking at a UBS group conference, he criticized Trump's bombastic rhetoric, stating, "...it sears into the minds of CEOs and policymakers that we can't depend upon America as our trading partner. Gryffindor has donated millions to the the Republicans but not directly to Trump's campaign, believes tariffs could increase the U.S. deficit and make domestic companies less competitive and productive. Trump's tariff policies are
Starting point is 01:14:34 causing businesses to struggle with supply chain and pricing, with Griffin pointing out that Canada's energy sector may now turn to China instead of the US, Trump imposed 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports without exceptions or exemptions and 10% tariffs on all Chinese goods while threatening Canada and Mexico. Griffin warns that these moves could force US allies to form new trade alliances saying the damage has already been done. Tom, do you agree with them? It's hard to disagree with Ken Griffin's argument the way he's putting it.
Starting point is 01:15:09 But I think also he's getting out in front. And what he's getting out in front on is about the disruption. The market jumps up, the market jumps down. The market jumps up, the market jumps down. But the market hasn't had permanent change related to tariffs nor have we had economic Statistics that we can point to related to tariffs, but we have had a market that's been jittery a stock market Okay, well he's saying that's uncertainty and chaos. Okay, Ken's right and he says planning for long term What is a hedge fund manager want a long-term?
Starting point is 01:15:43 Predictable market so they can make their hedge bets. So he's in the business of doing that. So you could translate it this way, hey, my business needs a little bit of stability and long-term point of view. That helps me run my business. My business is pretty effing big and I touch a lot of this economy,
Starting point is 01:16:03 so I would imagine you all want me to have a long view and some predictability. That's part one. Then part two, along with the long run and predictability, what Griffin is saying is, hey, you don't want any of this temporary stuff to cause someone to make a spontaneous decision about a trade partner. You don't want them to think, oh gosh, this stuff's going to be bouncing around for a while, they're going to make different decisions.
Starting point is 01:16:29 What he's really saying there, I don't think he's being completely altruistic about the United States. I think what he's saying there, hey, I'm making hedge bets, and I know who the bets I make, who they're depending on for suppliers. I know who they're depending on for partners. And if you mess that up, it's like suddenly telling me there's 61 cards in the deck rather than 52. Ah, crap, what are the other 11? Is there more aces, more jacks? There's a bunch of twos and threes.
Starting point is 01:16:56 I think that's what it is. So I don't disagree with Ken Griffin at the core. However, I think when you break it down, what he's really saying is that in the short run, you're bumping things up and you're saying a bunch of things. I don't want people to make long run decisions based on short run chaos, but I think deep inside Ken Griffin knows what's going on here. He knows exactly that these are tactics, not taxes taxes for the long term. But he doesn't
Starting point is 01:17:27 want people to make short term decisions that affect him. Adam, I think Ken Griffin sort of spot on and we're all rooting for Trump. We all want the best for the country. All want to know what's going on. But it's almost like the yin yang theory. What goes up must goes down. It's everything's interdependent. So if you're going to do things and from a negotiation standpoint to throw off foreign governments, whether it's China, whether it's Canada, whether it's Mexico, you know, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords withdrawing from who everything you're doing with tariffs, you're going to create
Starting point is 01:17:59 uncertainty for foreign governments. That's great. But you're also going to create uncertainty for domestic corporations and consumer sentiment. So just like you're throwing people off of the negotiation tactic, from a foreign standpoint, you're also going to throw people off from a domestic standpoint. So like Tom said, the markets like certainty and they like predictability. There's something called the VIX, right, the volatility index, which basically shows like how crazy is the world going right now?
Starting point is 01:18:26 Is the world certain? Is the world uncertain? We know about the fear greed index. But while you're negotiating with these foreign governments and over tariffs, there's a lot of domestic corporations and companies that are like, all right, like, well, we don't know what to do because they need a price in future risks and price in future tariffs and they're not necessarily sure what to do. From a consumer standpoint, people like stability, people like clarity, and there might not be a lot of that right now. So basically, if you're disrupting foreign governments, you're also disrupting some of
Starting point is 01:18:58 the domestic. So let me take it. Yeah, let me tell you on a part where I don't know if I agree with Ken Griffin, and here's the part, okay, for me. Common sense, when you think about the keyword reciprocal tariffs, what is a reciprocal tariff? Rob, if you can pull up this New York Post story that came out.
Starting point is 01:19:21 So, if somebody, Vinny, you don't have to be a business expert, you don't need an MBA, you don't even need to be a business person, sales person, you can be any average person, if somebody has a 10% tariff on you, but you have zero tariff on them, is that fair? No. What should the right number be? 10 and 10.
Starting point is 01:19:40 10 and 10, okay cool. If you're gonna charge me 10%, I'm gonna charge you 10%. Is there anything wrong about that? Absolutely not. 10 and 10. 10 and 10? Okay, cool. If you're going to charge me 10%, I'm going to charge you 10%. Is there anything wrong about that? Absolutely not. Now, what if I've been doing 10% on your country for the last 30 years and you've done zero on me, to make up the last 30 years of me only putting 10 on you and zero on me, is it fair for you to do 20 on me for a few years to catch up?
Starting point is 01:19:59 I think so, 100%. That's something you can debate. I feel, nope, yeah. But what I'm saying is that's something, you don't need a degree to process that. I don't, yeah. I have an associate, but still. So if you read the Trump-to-impose, reciprocal tariffs is a bold move, why is it a bold move? Here are the possible risks and rewards, go a little bit lower.
Starting point is 01:20:18 I don't even understand why they're saying it's a bold move. They're tariffing you! You shouldn't do it to them, reciprocal? What do you mean a bold move? I don't even like the word bold in that title. It's a very straight up move. The idea is straightforward. I agree.
Starting point is 01:20:32 If another country imposes a tariff on American products, the US will respond by applying the same tariff to that country's goods. Common sense. The strategy is intended to create a fairer trade environment but could also escalate tensions and potentially trigger a new tariff war. Why would it? Why would it do that? The European Union currently placed a 10% terror from cars imported to the US, whereas
Starting point is 01:20:50 the US only charges 2.5%. Why? Why? I don't know. Give me the 7.5%. So you get to send your BMWs, Mercedes, everything, we got to pay that 10 points, but we send our Ford, we send our GMC, we send all that stuff. We only do 2.5%.
Starting point is 01:21:04 The goal of Trump's reciprocal terrorists is to eliminate these imbalances. I agree. So I'll be announcing by the way What if Europe eliminates the 10% brings it to zero different kind of a conversation? I'll be announcing that next week on reciprocal trade so that we're treated evenly with other countries We don't want any more or any less Trump told reporters in Oval Office fair I agree The president added that he planned to hold a press conference on the matter as well as a meeting on this show either Monday We don't want any more or any less Trump told reporters in Oval Office. Fair, I agree. The President added that he planned to hold a press conference on the matter as well as a meeting on the show either Monday or Tuesday.
Starting point is 01:21:30 Trump indicated on Friday that reciprocal tariffs might replace the proposed 10 or 20% universal import duties. That was a key part of his economic, by the way, which by the way, people should be happy about that. Because 10 or 20 means what? It's blanket. Reciprocal is not blanket. You know what reciprocal is?
Starting point is 01:21:46 So if I say 20% on everybody, but you don't tariff me, come on. You know what I'm saying? But if I say, what do you impose on me? 15%, 15% back. We're at seven, we're going to 15. No, no, no, no, no. Then lower your 15 to seven,
Starting point is 01:22:00 because that's what I'm making. So then maybe BMW cars will be cheaper for us. Go ahead, do it, lower it for us, right? right and $80,000 cars now $72,000 we'll take that seven thousand eight thousand dollar savings so he stated that he was leaning towards implementing mostly mostly reciprocal tariffs rather than broad import duties Trump announced on Sunday that he is set to implement a universal to 25% tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum That's all great. Tom go for it. You know what? I think I think there's also something here people forget about
Starting point is 01:22:33 Do for those of you that went through it? Do you remember the day that you had to stop spending on your credit card? You were up at your limit and you had to stop. It's painful because now you were living a lifestyle You were spending on things you were doing things you had to stop it's painful because now you were living a lifestyle You were spending on things you were doing things you had to stop the day You said you're gonna stop drinking your body is reacting. That's hard. That's physical What Pat was talking about is things have been going on for years even decades And now they have to stop if anybody thought this was gonna be a painless procedure here
Starting point is 01:23:03 You're not you've had a pain in your side for a while, pain in your side for a while. You finally go to the doctor. The doctor says, you know what? I'm detecting a tumor here in your abdomen. We got to give you chemotherapy. We got to take the tumor out. You're going to go bald. It's going to be painful.
Starting point is 01:23:18 That's the price you got to pay for the correction. And right now, what people need to understand, and you don't need a college degree, we have been manipulated in so many ways by other countries with their products. And we're saying, it's stopping now. But the process to change it is not easy. You've got to negotiate with these people. And if they won't negotiate, you say, here comes my tar tariff this is what I'm gonna do get ready I'm gonna be
Starting point is 01:23:47 reciprocal with you the other side screams loudest when you hit the target mm-hmm and that's exactly what Trump is doing right now he's hitting the target and this is painful it is not easy to undo this stuff so you have to remember America you had cancer you had you had import-export cancer, you didn't know it. And now to get through it and to remove the tumor of unfairness from the other side, this is a negotiation. Yeah. Rob, can you check to see which countries
Starting point is 01:24:17 tariff US the most? Let me give you an idea of what happened yesterday. I'm talking to a business owner who's in a construction space in Western Australia, one of the clients we consult for at Bedavid Consulting. You can go to bedavid.com to learn more. So I'm talking to this guy and he says, I'm trying to compete for the other business,
Starting point is 01:24:34 but I can't because my clients, my competitors that I'm competing with are non-union and I do union work and so union work causes my cost and labor to be 20% higher. So I said, okay, so how are you competing with your competitors? What percentage of them are non-union? 90%. I said, so does the quality of union when you do the work, is it better than non-union? Not necessarily. So why are you union?
Starting point is 01:25:04 And so he says, so let's just say somebody places a job that's $400,000 and you're non-union, I have to charge what? $480,000, because I'm what? Hiring union. And union has stipulations if somebody works after eight hours on the ninth hour, 25% increase on the tenth hour, another 25% on the 11th hour, another 25%. So a person making 30 bucks an hour in the 8th hour, for example, is, you know, 37.50, okay? On the 10th hour, it's 45 bucks. Understand what happens. Eventually on the 12th hour, you're making 60 bucks an hour. So guys like,
Starting point is 01:25:40 you know, construction, sometimes we work late. What do I do with this? I said, well, as a client, I'm almost always going to go non-union. Why would I pay that additional 20 points? So how do you compete? So what's the point? So what's going to happen on some of these items that tariffs are put on and prices on those items go up, it may cause Americans to buy more Ford. It may cause Americans to buy more GM. It may cause Americans to buy more GM. It may cause
Starting point is 01:26:06 Americans to buy more Chrysler. It may even cause some of these guys who are Mercedes and BMW to produce their cars here and those cars may be cheaper than the ones that they're shipping to us from Europe. It may cause that. But to get to that, it's two years of a lot of pain. And here's my concern. Here's my concern why they have to move so quickly. Because if they drive tariffs as hard as they do, and within a year and a half, it doesn't produce the results that they want and the offset of lowering taxes doesn't make Americans happy enough, it will be a bloodbath and two years at midterms. Let me say that one more time. If we have to do this, I'm convinced we have to go this route,
Starting point is 01:26:49 but I think we need four years for this to work. I don't know if it's gonna happen in 18 months. If they go this route, and you go like this on the knob with tariffs, right? You have to go like this on taxes and regulation to offset each other. I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. So if I go tariff like this, taxes like this,
Starting point is 01:27:07 do it, you're choking, right? But if I go like this too much, it's also too loosey-goosey. You spoil everybody's 0% interest rate, so it's a lot of fake success. You don't want that. I think it's gotta go like this. You go tariffs higher, you lower taxes regulation, so this place is a little bit loose,
Starting point is 01:27:24 money's being reinvested, IPO market goes a little bit higher, guys are starting to put $5 billion, a billion dollars, half a million dollars into new business being started, and then all of a sudden these guys are going to be like, oh shit, we just threatened the US and they're realizing they don't need us anymore. Hey, we were kidding, we were kidding, we were kidding, but they have to do it fast before midterms. If after midterms they take control, now you got a gridlock, now
Starting point is 01:27:46 nothing's going to get done in the last two years, it's really only a two-year term. That's my concern. So I don't know. We'll see what's going to happen. Speed will be critical. That's why this is called the year of surprises. And the three words in 2025 are speed, product, signal. Speed, product, signal. That's the key. I think you just taught me something and I think just taught the audience something. So like, Trump is basically DJing the economy right now. So you got the treble and you get the bass right here. So he's basically saying, Hey, America, get ready. Things are going to cost a little bit more. You know, Tom said, basically, you're going to have to go through
Starting point is 01:28:18 a little bit of pain. What's the pain paying higher prices? So how can we offset that with the DJ DJ PBD out in the house? We're going to lower the base a little bit aka your taxes. And we're going to increase the treble out here right now. So this might be music to your ears. Trump is a brilliant marketer. He has to basically make the under people understand one thing, be very clear. I'm going to be raising tariffs. It's going to raise prices, but I'm going to be lowering your taxes to offset this. It's a messaging campaign. If he can convey the message to the American people, Hey, need you to go out there and buy American, need you to have an
Starting point is 01:28:54 American pride, get out there and buy American. Remember, remember like X amount of years ago when we, we wouldn't eat French fries. It was like, no, we're going freedom fries now. No more French fries, freedom fries. Everyone was like, okay, I guess we're not eating French fries anymore. But the messaging was understood. All right, we got to, we need some freedom. That's what Trump needs to convey because I think most people don't understand what the hell's going on with these tariffs.
Starting point is 01:29:18 And I think that's what Ken Gifford is sort of alluding to. So if we understand like DJ PBD over here, turn up the treble, a little bit of bass, like Warren G, I think we're gonna be alright. Just hit the east side on the... LBC, that's right. On the mission trying to find Mr. Warren G. Mr. DJ T. Yes, seeing the car full of girls, ain't no need to...
Starting point is 01:29:36 That's true, ain't no need to trick. Alright, so that's what it is. Let's see what's up with 1-2-1-3. Let's go, guys. So hooks are left on 2-1-1 Lewis, some brother shooting dice. So I said, let's do this. I said, what's up with one two one three. Yeah, go guys. So I hooks a left on two one and louis some brother shooting dice So I said let's do this. I said, what's up? Anyways, so let's do this thing all day long stay focused stay focused. All right border czar tom homin accuses FBI of leaking information about ice raids lives at risk But Tom is also not's a little bit not satisfied
Starting point is 01:30:05 with the numbers of ICE arrests. What I do want to bring up with this that's kind of a little bit, Rob, which clip is that? Is that the one that he's not happy about the numbers so far? Yeah, so I have three Tom Homan clips. The first one is him saying that the FBI leaked information about the raids. The second one is him saying he's not satisfied with the ICE arrests. And then the third one is his message to the Pope. Because the Pope said what?
Starting point is 01:30:24 He's just not comfortable about it and all this other stuff right okay go in the order that you have go for it Tom Holman Tom where are these leaks coming from well look who we're thinking it's coming from inside and we know the first leak of arores under current investigation we think we identified that person under investigation right now. The California leak, Secretary Noem, she's correct on some of the information we're receiving tends to lead toward the FBI. But I talked to Deputy Attorney General all this weekend.
Starting point is 01:31:01 They've opened up a criminal investigation and they have promised that not only this person lose their job and lose their pension, they won't go to jail. They won't criminally prosecute. So we're all over it. Okay, so that's that. He's saying it's an inside job. Somebody's leaking information, they got to find it. Okay, this one here is responding to the numbers. Go for it. Mr. Jaramillo, why is the President happy with the number of arrests? to the numbers. Go for it. We need to increase the rest of the... Can you stop right there Rob? And then go to the last one here with the Pope, you know, taking some shots at him and he responds, Pope Francis rebukes Trump's mass deportation efforts.
Starting point is 01:31:55 You know, Pope is out there. Let me read this to you. What is built on the basis of force and not on the truth about equal dignity of every human being Be begins badly and will end badly in a letter to American Catholic bishops He stated the rightly formed conscious cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreements with any measure that tactically tacitly and explicitly Identifies the legal status of some migrants.
Starting point is 01:32:25 Okay, so with criminality. Yeah, with criminality. Some migrants with criminality. Basically saying criminal migrants. Go for it, Rob. Here's how he responds to it. They're all the Lord's children. I got harsh words for the Pope.
Starting point is 01:32:35 The Pope ought to fix the Catholic Church. I'm saying this as a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized as a Catholic. I was the first communionist in the Catholic, confirmation of the Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and lead border enforcement to us. I'm saying this as a lifelong Catholic. I was baptized as a Catholic.
Starting point is 01:32:43 I was the first communionist in the Catholic, confirmation of the Catholic. He ought to fix the Catholic Church and concentrate on his work and lead border enforcement to us. He wants to attack us for securing our border. He's got a wall around the Vatican, does he not? So he's got to wall around, protect his people and himself, but we can't have a wall around the United States. So I wish he'd stick to the Catholic Church and fix that and leave border enforcement to us. Mike Drop. Common sense. Like what are we even talking about? You got him.
Starting point is 01:33:10 Tom, your thoughts. I think Tom Homan is a beast and I think he's exactly who we need. I'm a little bit nervous on one thing, hiring contractors to go out there. It is one thing to hire some contractors and say, hey, go look at Glassdoor, go look at Yelp for me, go look at Google, is there a positive or negative reference about my company? And what is being said in that? Maybe do we need to do things in HR
Starting point is 01:33:40 and to take a look at ourselves? Is there an opportunity to learn here? And then we can do that. American companies do all that a day, and there's services that you can subscribe to, so you can see what's said about your company, and maybe you find out that you have some blind spots, you got some things you gotta fix.
Starting point is 01:33:54 But when you go over and say, as well as looking for contractors that could perform a personal identification of who is saying it. No, we're not just sentiment. Not just like it's 78 degrees out there, you know what I mean, Vinnie? 78 degrees, but who caused it to be 78 degrees? That's different. That's different. And then including asking which contractors could use PC cameras and find facial recognition for people that did a narrative or they actually posted something on TikTok, it was their own face saying, I don't like these people, they're full of crap, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 01:34:36 Well now your face is there. Anyone know who that is? I think that crosses the line. I think it's a good idea to find out what the public sentiment is because the news media lies Front right and center in my opinion front right and center the news media lies what Tom I will get up Tom they can't I'm not gonna wait for the news media to tell me and it's not a bad thing for me to find out If the public sentiment is one way or the other yeah, do so in a real way what concerns me with ice This is the only thing.
Starting point is 01:35:06 I'd like to debate this and maybe there's some leaks in my thoughts that I have here and I'm fully open to it. ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about them online. ICE is seeking contractors to monitor online discussions including negative references
Starting point is 01:35:22 to the agency. The contract requires real-time threat mitigation and monitoring services to track criticism and potential threats. Contractors must analyze behavior on social media sentiment and compile weekly reports on the total number of negative references to the I's found on social media. The program also includes identifying individuals being flagged posts, gathering data, such as previous social media activity, affiliation with a group which has violent tendencies and using facial recognition capabilities
Starting point is 01:35:49 to link online identities. Critics warn the program threatens free speech and expands ISIS history of mass surveillance. Cynthia Rodriguez, American Right Group, Mijent states, ISIS attempts to have eyes and ears in as many places as we exist. Both online and offline should ring an alarm for all of us. Vinny? I mean, anything that has to do with facial recognition and stuff like that, I mean, I could see how, if this is like Tom Holman's directive and worrying about, you know, the
Starting point is 01:36:18 threats because, I mean, there's a bunch of people threatening them. There have been death threats. I know the cartels were trying to send up drones and stuff to actually attack ICE and border agents and they were putting hits out on them. I think this, but I'm not a fan of that mass surveillance. I'm not a fan of it. If they have wind of people posting and stuff like that that are threatening life, then deal with it like that. But I'm not a big fan of any mass surveillance. You know what my concern is with this area is the following. My concern is if your side, let's just say the company has a CEO that you don't like. He's a POS.
Starting point is 01:36:59 The company you work for has a CEO that you just can't stand, and they are overly monitoring everything in ways that's crossing the line. When I'm saying stuff like crossing the line, like stuff. Let's say you're doing your emails to work email, they can read your emails. Well, no, they can do that anyways. I'm not talking about that. Most CEOs don't have time to go. I've never read an email of my, what do you call it of a two employees exchanging email with each other
Starting point is 01:37:29 that's not what I'm talking about, but like just annoyingly obnoxious and Annoying to work with and the guy's not in his golf in three days a week But he's expecting you to work and there's all this other stuff that's happening Then a new CEO gets hired and you like them a lot, okay? And it's great. But he also wants to take everything to the highest level of investigation and all this other stuff like hardcore, hardcore, hardcore with everybody. You know what then it happens?
Starting point is 01:38:00 It's a guy you like, but guess what? If he creates those standards, anybody else after him, the same thing is going to happen. Meaning, you may like the people that are in the White House today. You may like Tom Homan. I'm a big fan of his. If you go and type in on YouTube Tom Homan PBD, you'll see what I said about him before he got elected. And Rob, if you can pull up this clip on Tom Homan, just type in Tom Homan and then go
Starting point is 01:38:23 to YouTube, search for views and go to most viewed, okay? You'll see right there, the top clip is right here. Okay, this is, go play the clip. Can't hear it, Rob, can you go back a little bit? Yeah. If Trump wins, this guy is gonna be back running the border. This was a year ago.
Starting point is 01:38:42 And I wanna remind you guys who this guy is when he sat down with AOC and AOC tried to grill him. Yeah. And watch what happened to AOC when she tried to grill a man who knows the law. Go ahead and watch. It's just entertaining. Go ahead. You don't need to play the whole thing, but that's that's a year ago, right? So he's the right guy for the job. So happy the fact that he's in there. But if you allow and be okay with this additional surveillance on you, then the next administration that comes in that you don't like, they're going to say, well, what's wrong with it? They did it anyways. Your favorite guy, Tom
Starting point is 01:39:15 Holman came up. You're giving permission for them. This guy may be doing it for the right reasons because he's trying to find all the other, but the next guy may be like, no, we're watching you Vinny. So today you went to the bathroom zero times is your stomach okay no are you eating your what do you call it the powder whatever the powder you eat collagen collagen hey what happened with that we know you're drinking collagen in the morning that's right that's what I'm listening I work with us so we watch and we follow stuff close isn't this what happened with the Patriot Act yeah, we're just gonna do a little
Starting point is 01:39:52 Obama didn't know this was They started November of 01 if I'm not mistaken what month did it get started? Can you talk about the exact month? What month did it get started, Patriot Act? October 26th of 2001. There you go, October 26th of 01. Literally a month after 9-11. TSA, all that stuff changed. So I'm just saying, like some of this stuff you've got to kind of watch when it happens.
Starting point is 01:40:19 I will say this to you. For some of you guys that want some news that it's tough tough, rapper Cardi B claims her uncle got deported. No. Yeah. And is anti-Trump rant. Uncle got deported. She's not too happy about it. Is this it, Rob? It is. It's really long. I can just forward to the end. It's a minute and 40 and she just eats chips the entire time. But towards the end, she complains about how Donald Trump deported her uncle. I think we'll be okay without watching.
Starting point is 01:40:46 And you know what she's mad at? She's furious about, because like an idiot, I had to watch the whole thing because I was waiting for the part that Rob's talking about, she's complaining about her $3,000 shoes, the red bottom with the spikes on them. Let me see what she's talking about, Vinny. Vinny, let me see what she's talking about. She's saying that the security at the Super Bowl, she's like, the freaking Secret Service, they were like checking us and like, I got dumbers. Vinny, let me just see what she's talking about she's saying that the the security at the Super Bowl seems like the freaking secret service They were like like checking us and like I got me just talking about
Starting point is 01:41:10 Any other beginning go ahead she's sold no just place it Look at my shoes What are we doing yeah What are we doing? She calls me three bands. Yeah. Three what? $3,000. $3,000 BBD.
Starting point is 01:41:30 Come on, three bands. Now I hate him lesser. Now I hate him lesser. Now I hate him lesser. Is she ignorant? Now I hate him lesser. You're not saying the right- I like him lesser.
Starting point is 01:41:38 She's educated. Fuck you, I like you. Look at her. Oh, God. What you gotta understand? This is everybody's fault that Look at her. What you got to understand? This is all everybody's fault. That listens to our music.
Starting point is 01:41:47 You guys made this person. We're going to be OK, guys. Oh, God. Not really. I feel like everything, everything is just completely emotional and no one has the best, whether it's her and her stupid uncle that got that kid away or Selena Gomez or like the best is when a guy's like or she's just saying something you want to
Starting point is 01:42:20 hear it yeah I don, I'm just asking. Yeah, good. That's all she says. I want my uncle to come back because my uncle got deported. By the way, can you imagine if somebody really investigates who her uncle is and her uncle is tied to some traffic and some stuff like that, it's like,
Starting point is 01:42:40 yeah, that's good. Thank you ICE, if that's the case. If it's not, if it was tied to something else and he's Doing everything right legally and all that other stuff then that's a bad you know the best videos though when the guys like listen guys, I don't know how to tell you this but Look my mother-in-law who lives on? She's an illegal immigrant. She doesn't have a dog in the back door. She's usually unlocked mid-morning.
Starting point is 01:43:07 Ah, I got it. Please stop crying, Adam. All right, let's go to the next one here. Anyway, my mother-in-law, she's a... Yeah, you need a mother-in-law. Okay, so next one here. Entry-level homes in Miami are going extinct. It's a Wall Street Journal story
Starting point is 01:43:25 and I have some thoughts on this. But I'm gonna go to Mr. Ellsworth Firth because he's a biz doc. So entry level homes in Miami are going extinct as single family prices skyrocket. The number of sales under $500,000 dropping. Ready? 79.6% from 2019 to 2024.
Starting point is 01:43:45 Vinny, let me say this to you one more time. Folks, please listen to this. The number of houses under the price of $500,000 dropped 80%. There's 80% fewer homes under $500,000 in five years. We're not talking 20 years five years, okay Anna Bozovic All right founder of analytics Miami explained the marquee below 500,000 is going extinct It's kind of shocking in December 2019. There were
Starting point is 01:44:19 3518 single family homes listed under 500,000 But by December of 2024 it went from $3,518 to $641. Rising home values, high land prices and construction costs have pushed most of these homes into higher price tiers, with the median sale price hitting $675 into December up 78% from 2019. Rob, is that active listings right now? 75 into December up 78% from 2019. Rob is that active listings right now? Can you go up a little bit to see, because I can't see the cameras.
Starting point is 01:44:50 I know the other way, the other way Rob. Yeah. So that's active listings from 2015 to today in Miami. Wow. Is that really what that is? And can you go into home sold, go a little bit lower on the next one? Home sold annually, this is specific to Miami. What was it in 2015,
Starting point is 01:45:05 Rob? 12,820 and today it is 2,229. So I'm not moving to Miami anytime soon. Luxury real estate has surged with a number of single-family home sales above $10 million, increasing 248%. So $10 million homes in Miami have gone up 250% from 2019 to 2020 and Miami's top 1% home threshold jumping from $3.5 million to $10 million, 3X. Bozovic noted, these price points didn't exist pre-COVID. The sheer appetite is completely a different reality.
Starting point is 01:45:35 Notable sales including Hedge Fund, Ken Griffin, record breaking $100 million purchase, Bezos spending $234 million assembling a compound on Indian Creek and soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham buying a $72 million home mansion that set off a market frenzy. Thomas. So here's what happened. Three things happened. And then there's a solution and there's a way out.
Starting point is 01:45:59 The first thing is the number of listings are down historically. Why is that? Because a lot of people have those two to 4% mortgages and they don't want to sell their houses. So the actual supply of houses is down. Then we printed money, Biden printed money, which artificially increased the price of assets because there was more money and price of assets went up artificially, but it stayed
Starting point is 01:46:24 there because of this money supply. And then you have demand. People moving to Florida. Listen to those names. They're not in New York. Ken Griffin, the Beckhams, all those folks, Bezos. Bezos moved from California down here. So you have incredible demand. So you have
Starting point is 01:46:45 Inventory is down Demand is up people moving here for the inventory that is available So and the money you printed money, so the price went up. So what do we need? We need More building in the outlying areas. So they have more family areas in the outlying areas so they have more family areas. Except on the east side of Miami, there's this thing that prevents building called the Atlantic Ocean. And on the west side of Miami,
Starting point is 01:47:13 there's a thing that prevents building called the Everglades. So Miami is kinda out of space. So it's kinda part of urban planning as industrial areas and things get repurposed to encourage developers to give them incentives to build, you know, maybe more condos and low-income housing so that the workers have a place to live. That's a good thing. And if you build enough of them, then you're going to have some price moderation. And if the interest rates on mortgages come down, you're going to
Starting point is 01:47:41 people want to sell existing houses. But Miami's price has gone up, and the overall net price of the area is probably not gonna go down anytime soon. So what's the solution, Tom? Well, the solution is slow. It's like Miami is going to be an expensive place. I'm gonna give you a solution. You ready?
Starting point is 01:48:00 Here's a solution. May I? Okay. Here's what I think the solution is. I think exactly what Miami is going through is what happened to California and multiple cities where people with money showed up. And then guess what? You don't have a choice.
Starting point is 01:48:17 That's what the market's going to pay for that community. And you're going to have to pay it. You don't want it? Don't worry about it. Move out. So, if I'm long in any city in the state of Florida, you know what I'm long on? Fort Lauderdale. Okay?
Starting point is 01:48:32 Fort Lauderdale. I am long on Fort Lauderdale. Why? Because you got Palm Beach, which is a different climate, okay? You got Boca, very different climate. Boca's a great area. Boca could be the Glendale of California. Meaning if Armenians wanna move to a city
Starting point is 01:48:51 that reminds them of Glendale, go to Boca Raton. There's an Armenian Catholic Church, it's a great place to go to. Boca would be a great place for Persians, Iranians, Armenians, Assyrians to move to. It's not like as if I'm lobbying, but Oryk. Bolorit Oryk. Talacha.
Starting point is 01:49:07 Tell them to go to Boca. Kush Boca. I couldn't agree more. Yeah. Biya Inja. Biya Inja. Boca, Boca Raton. It's a great city, right?
Starting point is 01:49:16 But I think Fort Lauderdale is going to have the next explosive growth, the next 10 to 20 years. Why do I think that? Because I don't think it's going to slow down of people moving to Florida. I don't think that's slowing down. I think where they slow down to is going to be Miami because it's way too expensive. And I also think a lot of people are going to sell their homes in Miami and move up to Fort Lauderdale with that additional equity that they've made, with the market that's
Starting point is 01:49:38 willing to go there. If they want to pay you for a big check for the place, do it. If not, there's going to be some changes taking place. All right, so go for it. No, I just think you're spot on. I mean, a lot of my friends who are married with kids no longer live in Miami, they live in places like Cooper City or Pembroke Pines or anyway, just Broward west of Fort Lauderdale. And there's a lot of people that are basically moving up to Palm Beach area, whether it's Port St. Lucie, Vero, Stewart, where they're just priced out of Miami.
Starting point is 01:50:06 This is supply and demand. Miami, thanks to Mayor Francis Suarez, thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis, Miami is the best city in America right now, straight up. Whether it's taxes, whether it's climate, whether it's business, all that and then some. If you can avoid some of the shadier dealings that go down in Miami, there's no better place to live than South Florida these days. By the way, one of my good friends realtor in Miami Geo, he said he started home now cost a million dollars in Miami. And oftentimes, that's for an older home that's pre 1950s, especially if you're closer to Biscayne Bay. But also the the downside
Starting point is 01:50:44 is, all right, so let's say you're like I don't want a single-family home. I want to go get a condo Condos are expensive and we see what's going on with homeowners insurance. We see what's going on with taxes We see what's going on with HOA's It's people are getting priced out. But if you want to live in a Some fun place you got to pay the price. Yeah, I agree. It's a beautiful place, we were in Miami this past week doing a podcast with Jake Paul at his, what do you call it, better headquarters?
Starting point is 01:51:14 Dude, what a freaking cool place. He had a dog that if Brooklyn was there, he would've thought that's a horse. That dog was so big, yesterday Brooklyn is running and screaming in ways I've never heard her do. Why? Jimbo was chasing her. Jimbo's playing. She thought he was chasing her but she was so scared. And Jimbo's 15 pounds. This 150 pounds. But anyways we're trying to leave Miami to come back. I don't know how long it took us to get on the freeway. What do you mean? One light.
Starting point is 01:51:42 One longer light took us 20 minutes. I don't believe you long it took us to get on the freeway. What do you mean? One light, one longer light took us 20 minutes. I don't believe you. I'm telling you right now. I've never been late one time coming from Miami. There is zero interest. There's no traffic. There's definitely no cars on fire on the highway. Keep Miami.
Starting point is 01:51:56 Listen, it is smooth sailing. Every natural reaction was a flip flop. Just go like this. My hand was about to go like this. I'm gonna get a pow-pow? Yeah, a flip-flop. Keep Miami. Anyways, so we're about to wrap this up
Starting point is 01:52:11 with a couple other stories and then we're done. Folks, Trump demands NCAA strip trans athletes of women titles, okay, and then he follows up, which this next one, which I love this next story, and I agree with him, and I think it's gonna happen actually. So Trump, Department of Education, Department of Education demands that the NCAA strip transgender athletes of any women titles or records day one after transitioning, calling it a matter of urgent importance in a letter to NCAA president Charlie Baker and NFHS National Federation of State High School Associations chief Bob Lombardi.
Starting point is 01:52:52 The letter argued that past policies denying the material reality of sex inflicted harm and that reversing them would restore a genuine commitment to girls and women's quality of opportunity in athletic competition. Across the U.S., Trump who issued an executive order on his first day title, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, declared the war on women's sports is over while his administration empowered federal agencies to penalize non-compliant entities. The Department of Education announced investigations to San Jose State University, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Interscholastic Athletic Association for the alleged title, is that Title IX?
Starting point is 01:53:30 Title IX violations. By the way, he also said to adopt, Rob, is this the one about the Olympics? Yes. Play this clip, Rob. Go for it. But Marco is going to make clear to the International Olympic Committees there, and he's going to make it as clear as anybody can make it, that America categorically rejects transgender lunacy.
Starting point is 01:53:49 We want them to change everything, having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject that we even have to talk about this subject. If you went back 10 years or 15 years and you would move forward and listen to this, you'd say, what the hell are they talking about? This is impossible.
Starting point is 01:54:07 But you have people out there, Democrats, that are still totally in favor. They can't win the argument. They can't win a debate. They look like fools and they continue to go on. And it's OK because as long as they do this and open borders and all of the other things they talk about, transgender everything everything all they want to do is transgender and men playing in women's sports and all of these crazy things and if they continue the I think we're gonna end up ultimately it's not gonna matter because we're never gonna go along with them and we're just gonna keep winning a
Starting point is 01:54:38 lecture Vinny listen, I mean you want to talk about common sense. I'm still in disbelief that for this past four years and a little bit before, that we were even not only entertaining the idea, we let grown men, meaning they still have all their junk, all the twigs and berries, and we're letting them compete with women and just the entire left was like how dare you? These are strong women, they're you know, you're trans hating or you're homophobic. All the nonsense, it's embarrassing as a nation that the president of the United States
Starting point is 01:55:20 has to go up there and say listen, you know the dudes that were playing with the chicks? That's not cool. We're gonna give it to the women. has to go up there and say, listen, you know the dudes that were playing with the chicks? That's not cool, we're gonna give it to the women. And I'm just shocked at this. Pat, I can't even articulate the words that we let it go on for so long. Now that we, like that's an issue. With all the other stuff that's happening,
Starting point is 01:55:40 with the border and ICE and economy and inflation, all that, he has to go up there, waste his time, and be like, oh by the way, those dudes are going to lose their medals and we're going to give it back to the actual women. It's unbelievable. And I'll wait for Tom to talk because I'm going to talk about the Sanctuary City situation in Worcester too. Well I think this is great and this is common sense. And I think what you saw in that clip there over Trump's shoulder beaming absolutely smiling and beaming as Riley Gaines and if they strip Leah Thomas a swimmer who allegedly hooked up with a female swimmer from another school how dare he within a week of this is the
Starting point is 01:56:18 thing is allegedly within a week he was in a date in a dating relationship and hooked up with a female swimmer with fully functioning male junk. But stood there on the podium with that. I look forward to the day if they strip the titles that Riley Gaines stands there, she finished second place after years of training, years of going through it, and to receive the award that she rightly won. I'd like to see that.
Starting point is 01:56:45 She has taken so much heat. She was beaten to death by the media for protesting it. She was called insensitive. She was called transphobic. And all she said was, I just want to call myself the champion. That's all I want to call myself. Will someone please call me champion? And I'm looking forward to that. What's also interesting. Where's the Olympics coming to the summer Olympics, California to Los Angeles. So, and Sebastian co Seb Co is actually Sebastian Co. When I grew up, he was one of the guys that, not idols, but he's one of the runners I really admired. You know, John Walker, New Zealand, Sebastian goes Steve Ovet, you know, Doug Padilla, these were runners, distance runners at that time. And Sebastian Koh has been this
Starting point is 01:57:30 voice of reason saying, hey, look, why don't we find ways so trans people can feel included, but just not in the female category. He's been saying that this whole time. So there's common. So all the people that were beat down, that were hiding behind and not allowed to say what they really felt are now coming up and saying, Hey, this is what I felt, but I just wasn't allowed to say that way. I hope the Olympics moves because if they want to come to LA and they still want to come to LA on American soil with these rules, I think Trump's going to have something to say about it. Good. Adam.
Starting point is 01:58:02 Well, you know, when we, this was the podcast I think we did in DC when we were basically saying, you know, what were some of the things that on Trump's agenda that I think were, that won him the election. And I was like, look, I think this trance thing as small of a mini-school issue as it is, literally took over the United States.
Starting point is 01:58:24 I mean, the whole Dylan Mulvaney thing, everything was going with Leah Thomas and Riley Gaines. It's just sort of, it's shocking. And when Trump gets on stage and he's like the transgender agenda, you know, I don't care if your name is Brandon, you want to go by Brenda? I don't think so, honey. I think it resonates with people and they, you don't think so? I think yes. I think that's, I fully agree. That point was made by Mr. Ellsworth.
Starting point is 01:58:51 I wanna see if you had a different angle of thoughts to say about this. Because I think, okay, so that's where you're at. I think if you look at this picture right here, Leah Thomas, I think it's- It's ma'am! I mean, it's, look. The fact that we let it happen bro the fact that yeah everybody
Starting point is 01:59:07 Not us, but that one side was like let them live their truth, and it all started You know where this all started Bruce Jenner this the moment Hey, hey, hey, it's Caitlin no no he was Bruce I know I'm dead naming when he walked out of the ESPN Awards in his white dress and people were going crazy and he went to the mic and was like, I just wanna, you're so lazy, at least attempt to change your voice. And the one thing that bothered me is they kept going, he's a hero. Why? Because he got fake boobs?
Starting point is 01:59:37 No, no, no. That word hero was thrown around so much. I could see like military soldiers that we know that fought in war, those are heroes. The only way he'd be a hero is if those boobs ISIS had them and he had to go kill two ISIS guys and bring the boobs back, then he's a hero. There's no hero in this talk. I'm trying to figure that. I normally agree with you, but I'm trying to figure out the import, export, killing and boob thing.
Starting point is 01:59:59 Well, like you're a hero in war. I'm going to go to this next story. Massachusetts city, okay. San city Okay's sanctuary city status for transgender community Rob if you want to play the clip Then I'm gonna go to the Vinny and we're gonna wrap up go for it Massachusetts okay's if you want me to read it here Tom Rob before you find I have it It's so just so you know, this is a rather long clip But there's a whole it's a montage of different drag queens Show to us of different drag queens and transgender. Show it to us, it's beautiful.
Starting point is 02:00:24 I need the city to protect me because the federal government won't. And if you think you're afraid of Trump, you should see how afraid of Trump I am. Can you wrap up, please? Yes. If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's why you don't want the city to be a safe space for trans people, you better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space. Threat.
Starting point is 02:00:49 Threat. I'm shaking right now. I don't want to be here. He's pissed. I'm sorry. Am I taking too long pleading for my life? You remembered how many children I have and how many, and that two of them are trans.
Starting point is 02:01:03 This trans person has both theam and the T in the LGBT I'm multiply disabled. I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder that causes me immense physical pain. I I'm on the autism spectrum And I have narcolepsy and I couldn't drive myself here. So I had to hide from my driver that I was in drag Which is not an easy thing to do in bread. I do not want to be here. It's my day off. I do not Tracks like Kendrick I want my creativity writing diss tracks like Kendrick. I don't want to spend an hour applying glitter on my face so that you will hear and see me.
Starting point is 02:01:51 I want you to listen to me. Rob, stop. Let us remember. Who's this lady? Oh, let me see this one. This one sounds exciting. This is this lady right here. Nazis burned the books that,
Starting point is 02:02:02 the Nazis burned books on gender sciences first Now the administration has villainized and marginalized migrant workers trans LGBT LG People and even special needs People are making a great point. Stop killing my family! Of course we need to continue celebrating Black History Month. Stop.
Starting point is 02:02:36 Do you, okay. Do you see, okay. Vinny, who are your friends here Vinny? Well first of all, if you were- Who are these friends of yours? If you were- And finally, this really happened at a city council. Yeah, and if you were in an elevator,
Starting point is 02:02:47 and that first chick, I don't know what it was, walked in, it's a freaking person, and I pray that they can find, God helps them in whatever way, these are mentally ill people, okay? And this fake narrative of, they're gonna kill us. That's the complete opposite Okay, it's the transgender community that are responsible for the majority of the past freaking mass shootings Am I am I making this up the majority of them and they keep hiding their stupid? Manifestals from us because they don't want to know the real thing is that these people have problems
Starting point is 02:03:22 And I don't know if you guys saw this I'm pretty sure some of the people in the audience did. Did you see Cynthia Nixon? She's the washed up actress from Sex and the City. Did you guys see her? She was out there, she's protesting against Trump's executive order to protect kids from insanity child mutilations and this is their big revelation. I want you guys to hear this and see what this movement
Starting point is 02:03:44 and why those people are on city council meetings because the people like this that they look up to are pushing this stupid agenda. Go ahead Rob. I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man. Woo! Celebrating it. Woo!
Starting point is 02:04:01 I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man My best friend's kid is trans My wife and I our lives are filled with the most amazing beautiful brave trans people, young and old, but especially young. My trans kid had his top surgery at NYU a number of years ago. This is Hollywood pushing their- His doctors were
Starting point is 02:04:45 fantastic yeah, his surgeon was the best we could have imagined yeah and the idea that the city is filled with young people who thought they had a place to go where they could receive the highest care and that place has now been shot by Rob okay, do you guys okay her entire world is drowning in where they could receive the highest care and that place has now been shut to them. Shut, all right Rob, okay. Do you guys, okay, her entire world is drowning in this ideological freaking cult. What has to happen that everybody in your family,
Starting point is 02:05:17 the friends, your son, your daughter, they're all going down this cult route and it's, dude, Trump is stepping in to stop us from one of the most destructive brainwashing campaigns in history that taking children and saying you can make the decision and I'm going to support you and chop off your this or chop off your that is absolutely insane and these people need to be in a freaking mental institution, period. Like what are we even talking about? Evil is real and one of Satan's greatest tricks is first to make people believe he doesn't exist.
Starting point is 02:05:49 And the other thing is what people need to understand is that there is a deep evil and there's deeper evil that you don't see. And there's going to be a lot of comments on how people come unglued with what I say here. But these are not normal reactions. These are not normal reactions. I mean, and it's sad. It's sad at a big level.
Starting point is 02:06:07 There's suicide statistics nobody wants to talk about unless they use them at city council to say, oh, you're bad and I'm oppressed. And it's just, it's horrifying. And you see this, the city council meeting, and it goes from people who are making a lifestyle choice to people that are obviously, you know, troubled in some way. These are not just, you know, gay people living next door to you and living their lives. These people, if you look at them, they're really troubled and they need help at another level.
Starting point is 02:06:39 Yeah, I think to me it's flirting with a crime. You're flirting with being a criminal when you say, you know, kids, especially the youth, especially the young, how brave they are. Brave to do what? The young need direction. The young need examples. The young need feedback. The young need to identify who's the right hero and who's not.
Starting point is 02:07:01 No, you're confusing kids. And to me, you're flirting with being a criminal because what you do to them, they'll be regretting for the rest of their lives. They'll be looking back at 35 years old saying, what the hell did I just buy into? Why didn't somebody tell me I wasn't doing the right thing? You know, they say sometimes kids love it. Like I had one of these relatives that I'm sitting down having a conversation, it's a tough conversation and this happened a few times,
Starting point is 02:07:28 and she's one of our, one of the kids in the family, and she'd go back and she'd talk to Jen and would say, you know what, I love it when I talk to Patrick and he's holding me accountable because she's like, it's a way of saying I can't believe he cares so much that he's wanting to hold me disciplined. We want to be held accountable. We want to have somebody that's paying attention to us. We want somebody that's holding us at higher levels. We need that. That's a form of love. That's a form of love. Not to sit there and say do whatever you
Starting point is 02:08:00 want to do. No, no. That's not a form of love. That's called you're not a leader. You're a weak human being and you in a way are a menace to society and it's unfortunate when you see these types of things happening. Anyways, gang, go to VT Webinar. I want you to come join us as Kentucky Derby. I will tell you all the details on this webinar and all the new updates and everything that we're doing, especially those of you guys that are watching the podcast. I can't say how many people that say, hey, I'd love for the entire month for me to be able to talk to everybody else who's watching PBD Podcast.
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