PBD Podcast - Trump Gaza, USAID Waste EXPOSED, FCC Investigates George Soros w/ Chris Cuomo | PBD Podcast | Ep. 545

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, and Adam Sosnick are joined by Chris Cuomo as they cover President Trump's plans to own Gaza, USAID exposing millions of government waste, the FCC investigating George Soros, and Trump's proposal to shut down the Department of Education. ---- 🇺🇸 GET THE VT PRESIDENT'S DAY COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/4jKHTeC 📺 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.

Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm so good, so you take sweet victory. Know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here. You are a one on one? My son's right.

I think I've already said this before. Okay, we got a fight going on here today, guys. I hope you're ready for it. It's been very disturbing from the moment Chris Koma walked in, there's been fights, arguments. Vinny, Adam, we had to kind of ask Vinny to step outside for 10 minutes, come out. I'm tired.

This is why we need behind the scenes. I think this is why we need behind the scenes. Oh, they'd love it. They'd love it. To see what's going on. How do you punch someone in the face right when you walk into the room? And he puts you on the... you know what it would remind me? It would remind me of the four Christmases when they come in the two brothers, you know, with Vince Vaughn and says,

that's Dallas, that's Denver. We were named after City, our parents. I got that feeling when you guys right off the bat got into it. But anyways, folks, it's great to be with you. We got a lot of weird stories to go through. Some good, some crazy, some wild, but definitely a lot of stories to go through. You got President Trump with Netanyahu. There's a ton of clips to react to. We'll react to every single one of them, but one of them is my favorite and I'll tell you which one that is.

We got Doge, who is pissing a lot of people off. And there's folks in Congress not happy about it there's a lady that made a video that's funny we're gonna watch and react to it there is an executive order that President Trump signs about women sports that got Martina Navartolova to agree with them do you know what it takes to do something like that she comes comes out and she says, I cannot believe Democrats missed a mark on this. We'll talk about that. Senate confirms Pam Bondi.

Trump was asked about Iran assassination attempt. The answer he gave is fascinating. We'll talk about that. New Jersey governor backlash after claims he is sheltering migrants. Trump's asking about a nuclear peace agreement with Iran. I don't know how that's possible, but we'll address that as well. Borders czar Tom Homan threatens to seek prosecution after New Jersey governor Phil Murphy.

We will address that. FCC launches probe into Sorosback radio station that revealed live locations of undercover ICE agents. That one we're not going to address. Tom said we have to address because they accelerated the process of sales and everybody's wondering why did you accelerate the process this quickly for Soros to get all these radios. They're investigating it. AOC calls Elon Musk an unintelligent billionaire.

That's what AOC called Elon Musk. Bill Gates worried about scaling back USAID, tells View Host, you could have literally millions of deaths because of USAID. University of California schools illegally use racial preferences in admissions, lawsuit alleges. You got Democratic Party unfavorable rating hit 16-year high. The last time it was this high is when Barack Obama took office, I believe, if I'm doing the math right.

Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley team up on Trump's pledge to slash credit card rates to 10%. So a capitalist conservative teams up with a socialist Democrat, Bernie Sanders. That's interesting. Armory recruitment hits major milestone, but it may not be enough. Teen spend more than a quarter of their time at school on phones. Adam has self-notes on that. Joe Rogan responds to Kamala Harris's alleged lies about their interview that wasn't. Fox to launch subscription streaming model as shares jump on election ad surge.

And then you got a bunch of Super Bowl sports they're removing and racism tickets are down 58% I asked Dylan I'm like Dylan you want to go to the Super Bowl says I don't want to go watch Kansas City play why would I want to go watch the Chiefs play this guy is so like he does not like them yeah who's his team Joe Burrow that's his team that's wherever Joe's that wherever is Joe Burrow just Joe Burrow Joe Burrow. That's his team. That's whoever Joe's at. Whoever's Joe's at. Just Joe Burrow.

Joe Burrow sent him a jersey, wrote a letter to him. So him and Joe have a little bit of a relationship. Okay, Fox News' Brett Baer will interview President Donald Trump during Super Bowl pregame. For those of you guys competing on VTNews.ai, when you said yes, you got some extra points there. By the way, go score your contests, your predictions on VTNews.ai. Rob, if you wanna pull it up, let's see what it is for today.

If we can go to it. Whoa, this is a long one. Who will operate TikTok in the US by the end of Trump's 100 days? And this is 800 points. Holy moly. Musk, Ellison, Exuk, Jimmy Donaldson. I take the last.

TikTok will not be purchased in time to prevent it from happening. Really? You're going there? I don't think there'll be any transaction where any of these people are in control. First hundred days. There you go. Cuomo's giving you counsel.

Go to vtnews.ai.b1 the first time. Tom, Tom, Tom, hurry up, hurry up, Tom. Get the vote in. I don't know that it's banned, but I don't think there'll be a transaction. Is that literally what Tom's doing? He's cheating right now? No, no, no. He's not doing that.

Come on, Tom. Let's focus on film. Maverick season ticket holders are receiving huge refunds after Luca Danczuk's trade. And then we've got a couple other things that's going on here we'll talk about. Political, maybe we'll start off with political for how weird it is with what they did. By the way, there was even a $5 million payout to Sean Penn apparently that I read about. If that's true, that's insane if they did that. We will cover that. Okay. Ridiculous.

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It is absolutely sick. This is an actual photo taken of Abraham Lincoln with the glasses when he said, Future Looks Bright. Yes. And he said by the way, one of the best things is Dome. He says, there was a tweet about Abraham Lincoln on Twitter. He says, don't believe everything on the internet, something like that. When I used to tweet back in the day, it's just funny.

But anyways, hey, President's Day, we got an Abraham Lincoln shirt, Future Looks Bright, it's sick, the quality is the best. Feel the quality, Chris, how sick this is. Chris, wake up. Hey, Blinken, the thing is great. Future Looks Bright, let's go to the theater. Future Looks Bright sweaters, we got a bunch of other gear here. Whatever you do, go to vtmerch.com, place your order, you get a White House sticker and a Future Looks Bright sticker. I got my Future Looks Bright sticker and vitamin

sticker on the back of my phone. And I think it's, what's the number here? I gave my inaugural shirt, the white one that I wore on the show, I gave it to a very good friend of mine who loves you guys. And he gave me a great idea about Future Looks Bright. He says, you know what it is? He says, it's a secret test about Future Looks Bright. He says, you know what it is? He says, it's a secret test, Future Looks Bright. I was like, no, I don't think it is. I think Pat's just trying to be optimistic. He goes, exactly.

If anybody looks at my shirt and says, Future Looks Bright and has a problem with it, he goes, they're an Americant. And I was thinking about it and I was like, well, that is true. What would be your problem with it? Future looks bright. That's right.

Why don't you want the future to look bright? And by the way, while you were saying- I think he had an Ellsworth Sosnik version of that. He could have. But anyways, the future looks bright. We also have a for Presidents Day, we have a 47% off for 47. Rob if you want to go to that category as well, there's a bunch of things there. Did I say that these shirts are only $18 now?

Yes. Wow. That's a deal. Yeah, for sure. So go to vtmarsh.com, place your order, especially the Lincoln one because that one is limited. It'll go very, very quickly. Okay, gang, let's get right into it. Rob, pull up the story with Politico.

What the hell is going on with Politico? I saw the story everywhere. We're on a flight back from Vegas. We're coming back. We had a bunch of things we had to do yesterday and the night before. And then you see the story. Pull that up, Rob, the thumbnail that you just had. Doge cancels Politico's government funding after $8 million in subscription contracts

revealed. $8 million of subscription contracts revealed. $8 million of subscription contracts revealed? What do you mean by that? White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, announced that Politico will no longer receive taxpayer money after ex-user Adam Townsend revealed that the news outlet had received $8.1 million in government contracts for subscription and other services as confirmed by USAspending.gov. I can confirm that more than 8 million—is this her, by the way, saying that? Yes.

Okay, pull up that clip Rob, go for it. Coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. And I can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers dime will no longer be happening. The Doge team is working on canceling those payments now. Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line when

it comes to the federal government's books. Oh, I love that. Please do so. We are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books and this president and his team are Making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American. Like I said two weeks ago our CFO the Finance folks went through a line by line asking why do we have a nine hundred and ten monthly? through a line by line asking why do we have 910 monthly memberships that we're paying for services. For Valuetainment. For Valuetainment.

Asking what the hell are we doing paying. Do you know what that means? 910 memberships that we're paying on a monthly basis. You know what the beautiful thing about an audit is? When you go on high forensics, you kind of go through every line by line to see what's going on. That's exactly what's going on right now. They're assuming this was never going to happen.

Tom, what do you know about the story so far? Well, it's very interesting that came out of this and of course the internet is a buzz with a bunch of elements there is Matt Taibbi Glenn Greenwald and CBS apparently asked Politico directly says hey Here's where the money was went. Here's the reference point. Is that you? So giving them an opportunity to say this is what's showing up in the audit. There's the money here. Is that you? And it was at the end. They did not answer Matt. They didn't answer Glenn and they didn't answer CBS as of this morning, supposedly. Now, pause for one second. Everybody watching right now, remember what Tom just said is a fact fact and it's probably the most important part of the story and here's why. The next time any major media outlet

plays a no comment as a tacit admission of guilt, remember they refuse to comment themselves. This happens all the time in the media where they'll come to you, they give you no time to respond. PBD, turns out we hear that you're eating babies and you're like wait this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Sorry, I gotta go to print. PBD had no comment. And they play no comment as if PBD has something to hide.

They did the same thing when they were asked a question. So just remember that. When someone says no comment, doesn't mean that they're guilty. And outlets like Politico, like the New York Times, it's also involved in this story. I don't know why they're getting a pass. They do this all the time. And outlets like Politico, like the New York Times, it's also involved in this story, I don't know why they're getting a pass,

they do this all the time. So just be aware as a critical thinking citizen, when they play no comment as a tacit admission, they did the same thing. Gotcha. And so everyone is looking at it, making the natural comment saying, why on earth is our government through USAID

sending money to a news outlet? outlet. Why are they doing that? This is not like, hey, you know, we're all going to go over to Vietnam for this commemoration of this and, you know, we'll help you with travel. A couple of you extra people can be on Air Force One. Those things happen. But this is why are you giving them the money for this? Then there was a things happen, but this is why are you giving him the money for this? Then there was a indication, this is my favorite, apparently Politico by a couple hours was the first breaker of the Russian interference story during the election. And so it's like wow, so now the question is was the government not only sending money but was the government also sending narratives?

Four o'clock the story will be Russian interference and here's what we got. It doesn't look good. It looks very, very gooey is the word I'm coming up with for Politico. You're dovetailing a little bit with what Schellenberger has been talking about with some other coordination that he found between government funding and the CIA and the media, which is very cloudy at this point. The problem with this story when it came out, and I believe it was most likely leaked by the Doge guys because of who broke it, you don't see far right podcasters breaking a

lot of news, right? And they all came out at once with this story, so somebody probably leaked it to them. It was leaked as a USAID story, and it isn't. Most overwhelmingly, the money does not come from USAID. Totally 44 grand from USAID. Right, but it is. So they came out heavy on USAID. Why? Because that's the narrative that they wanted to run, right? And that's what was leaked to them. That's the problem with not being an accountable media organization, is that you'll just take what you're fed. But there is two legitimate questions here. There are two legitimate questions. One is, should

taxpayer dollars be going to any outlet for any reason? Okay, because of the inherent conflict that Tom is bringing up. And I think that's a legitimate question and it's a little surprise. I've never heard of this before. There's a second question though. Congress funds a lot of regional and local media. A lot of outlets are dying, right? Local news is struggling in a lot of places, especially in print. There's a lot of subsidies.

Is that a good use of taxpayer dollars? That's a harder question for me. It's easy to say, should you be given outletslays, should you be given the New York Times money. It's different if you're talking about the Topeka, Kansas Register newspaper. Why would you give them money though? That's, look, it's a debatable issue. I don't think left, right, center, anybody should get money from the government because you, in a way, your loyalty lies there because they're paying you.

Right. That's the argument. But I'm saying we haven't heard that story yet. But give the opposite argument though, like argue that. Argue it and say, the argument that people would say to say, no, we should fund these small little media organizations, what is that argument for? In the public interest of information and news, that you want to inform citizenry

and that these outlets are going to close down, there will be fewer outlets, there will be more driven by agendas, and we want to make sure that there's a robust free media, even if that means there has to be some supporting of smaller outlets that wouldn't survive in the marketplace. That's the argument. Remember Voice of America was funded by the government, it's supposed to be out there right on a global basis

Capitalism freedom and all that well all they did is the government has taken that same technique and said hey wait a minute if we do It that way then we could also do it this way and we could Whoever's in power, you know has the power of the pendulum swinging that side of the aisle Yeah, and go and spend the money and look you can argue that we are living proof right now But you don't need to do it this way anymore. Again, it's a political question, not a legal question. And I think that the media has evolved in a way where everybody has immediate access to information and they have their own microphone. So maybe the situation has changed and it's time to look at it because every dollar you save is a deliverable on what the promise of the last campaign was. I'm looking at this one here it says

most so political received $44,000 from USAID but was given millions more from by other agents. Yeah mostly HHS. HHS gave them 1.37 million dollars. Yeah. So I did a little research on this they have an an energy, a special, they have a special product that has like deeper experts and stuff. But here's the problem. Congress buys subscriptions also, Pat. But they do like a subscription that you can go in and everybody uses the same code for the New York Times so that all members of Congress can get access to these different media outlets. I don't have so much of a problem with that. want to subscribe to value-tainment so that everybody can see what's going on here. That's cool They should be informed about what's happening at significant places

It's when you allow it on an individual basis you wind up netting up these costs and now you have like 937 as we were talking about earlier your own audit people getting separate subscriptions. Yeah, that's when it gets expensive This comes down to basically one thing. It's the government efficiency. So imagine you're a family and your income is $100,000 a year, okay? And then you look at your line by line budget or your audit as Pat called it.

And hold on guys, our income is 100 grand, but we spent $120,000. But not only do that this year, we did that last year, the year before and the year before. But it's also not, it's not car and driver. It's the New York times and there is a conflict, but I don't even know what that means Cuomo, but let me get to my car and driver magazine. Who cares if you subscribe. There's no agenda. You subscribe to the New York times. There's

a conflict. Okay. But I'm talking about income and expenses. But the point is this, imagine that you're the US government. How much was our US government income this year? $5 trillion. How much was our expenses? $6.8 trillion. There's a deficit of $1.8 trillion. Guys, these aren't small numbers. These aren't millions. These aren't billions. Almost $2 trillion. We're in the red. So how long is that sustainable for Pat? We talked about the US GDP of what it was in 2024. How much was it? 29 trillion dollars and you know, which party how much about that more?

Hopefully both but it's probably the Republican Party neither Neither give a damn they never cut spending tea party. I would say I would say agrees with that But I don't know if they do anything. But the point is, what's our federal debt? $37 trillion. How long is this sustainable for? So what she said, Caroline Levin said one thing that was actually super important. She goes, we're going to go everything line by line.

Hell freaking, yeah, let's go line by line and see if this service the interest of the American people I just hope that's what I just keep doing it. Hopefully they figure this out and they save that money They do that. I hope they keep doing it. I have a feeling why would they stop doing it because something else will become more important And I don't know be it would be the Iran nuclear deal It'll be what's happening Ukraine and then people stop covering it, they stop paying attention, you stop hearing about it. Well, I mean, I don't think that'll happen because isolating responsibilities to certain individuals. Trump may get sidetracked with a different issue, but the Doge, their job is to cut,

like, you know, the numbers came up that X's EBITDA went up, I don't know if you saw the numbers about X's EBITDA went up the last 24 months. Now, wait a minute, how did the EBITDA double in 24 months? Well, he was able to make the, well they're losing money, they're doing this, they're doing that, the story just came up. We'll cover that story here in a minute, but Vinny, you wanna say something?

He cut 70% of his labor force. Yeah, 6,500 employees gone. He didn't need any of them. Yeah, which goes to my point. So what, USAID spends $50 billion a year, okay? And under, by the way, I did, last night, spends $50 billion a year. Okay, and under the, but I did last night, that's all I was watching under the guise of humanitarian aid.

They in part, top of governments, they install politicians in different countries and they do regime change. This is besides the political stuff. Okay, they paid, Pat mentioned it, Sean Penn, $5 million taxpayer dollars to go meet with Zelinskyinski just to give him an Oscar and that moment to give backing,

to keep giving this guy hundreds of billions of dollars. That's that. They allegedly paid Ben Stiller $4 million to meet with Zelinski. This is, again, all of our money. 68 million to the World Economic Forum. Michael Schellenberger was just on Jesse. Ben Stiller says that was not true.

That's what Ben said. Yes, it's not true about Stiller or Penn. Penn has an organization that he started called CORE, which is kind of like the Red Cross that does amazing work in Haiti and other distressed areas. It is a relief organization. That's what the money was tied to. And they have done a lot of work with displaced people in Poland and in Ukraine. So these guys aren't the problem photo ops aside, okay? But okay, so go back to my point the money spending is absolutely insane And then now you're seeing all these people you see um

Jamie Raskin and everybody in watching all the Dems are losing their minds because now their money's gonna go bye bye and yesterday I had an epiphany no wonder why Trump has been such a freaking threat and why they've been trying to ruin him destroy him and kill him because this by the way the first four years he didn't have this the first four years it was right out the gate Russia collusion impeachment everything it's so refreshing that now we have four years he doesn't he's not seeking reelection and it's down to brass tacks and he doesn't give two shits about anybody else and anybody complaining and good what money why are we spending I don't care if it's one dollar transgender DEI plays in Ireland are you what what are

we talking about? See, Alberto just told me, you know how much money we were spending for a pillow fluffing situation? Yeah, he did send it right now. What was it? It's a sesame street workshop in Iraq. In Iraq? What? $20 million? Diversity, equity, inclusion, scholarships in Burma. I have. $45 million. Is this her saying it?

Yes. Go ahead and pull that up. Go for it. Our hearts and the president and this administration are committed to ensuring that these individuals get the funding that they need. And I would just say a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending to be outraged about the long list of crap that this administration is cutting federal waste and funding like $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.

Yeah. Six million to fund tourism in Egypt, 20 million on a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, 4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan. I could go on and on and I'm happy to provide this list to every single one of you. Democrats are outraged that the American people want to be – they want their taxpayers going to good uses, not stuff like this. But then they're very quiet about the fact that there are still North Carolinians and people in California who have lost everything, and in the last four years this federal government

did nothing to help them. This president will continue to put Americans first and I think the successes of this week so far speak to that and it's only Wednesday. So I'll see you guys on Thursday. I think it's super important that they go line by line. The tourism in Egypt, whatever's going on in Colombia, what's going on. But listen, leave Kazakhstan alone. It's very nice in Kazakhstan. Let's not misinformation. It's kind of funny. What cracked me up was Iran and

Sesame Street, you know, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, even even worse, Iraq, it says me street. It's like, today's show was brought to you by the letter U and the number 238. You know, it's like this is this is really kind of nuts. You know, you said a uranium joke. That was a nice. That's right. You 238 is what they take out and they were fine and they make very loud cake. But I think what's what's going on is that this is exactly what was promised. Get past all the photo ops and running to the microphone and being outraged or being so on top of it. And it really comes down to Americans are seeing the rock has been lifted up and we're seeing the bugs underneath it that is where our taxpayer dollars has been used.

If you remember a few days ago, we're doing a podcast. I read a story from Politico and I re-say the story and I say, wait a minute, why would you write the article this way? I remember that. And then I'm like, oh, it's Politico. That was literally, no, it was one of them that I read. I don't know what the story was, Rob, but I read,

I'm like, what kind of a title is that? It's kind of a weird title to write that with. And it was Politico and then five days later, the story comes out with Politico. I know, so That's the problem That's the problem with the conflict is that you know, you can have problems with headlines I mean headlines are all disingenuous, right? I mean, they almost never reflect what you'll find halfway down a story That's the problem with balance and media and judging your outlets

And now they created in a conflict and that's that's what they have to deal with because now the suspicion has a reasonable basis I don't have it. Nobody has any problem with cutting waste waste fraud and abuse Literally the acronym WFA is part of everybody's political science handbook in messaging They just say WFA and you know, they mean waste fraud and abuse. It just never really happens And I have no problem with this list of things if you don't like them, that's fine But the idea that you know, this is the big nut, everything that they've listed so far from USAID is less than half a percent of its budget.

So that's why Marco Rubio came out and said, hey, USAID matters. There's certain things that equate- He changed real quick though. With soft power. But no, even this time, he wants more control over this. He doesn't want Elon to just shut USAID because as Secretary of State, you want the power of some money for soft power. So I think you just got to be careful about the extremes, but the concept of let's go through it

and let the people feel and let political judgments be made. No one's going to have a problem. But Chris, why is it that, because this is all I've been seeing, I haven't seen one Republican in Washington in the street yelling and cussing and saying, Elon is a threat and let's go after him. Let's go on the streets because of the US ID. It seems like one side is pissed off that we're wasting all this money because it seems like their wallets are getting hurt. Why haven't I seen one Republican out there?

Because Elon works for the Republicans. If Biden had done this with Bill Gates, Republicans would be going crazy. Vinny, there is an immutable truth here that everybody has to get their hands around. If you think one party is better than the other. I'm not in a party. When it comes to playing to advantage,

then you are being sold by the game. But here's my thing. Let's just say, I'm an independent, which I am. The past four years, compared to what's happening right now, I don't need to be a Republican or a Democrat. I just need to have eyes and ears. And the left is the shit show of this world. And if Kamala won, where would we be right now?

The hole we'd be going in would be done. Let's go through this. I don't know, but you guys would be very upset. I know that much. Oh, what do you mean? Bill Gates, worried about scaling back USAID right tells the view host you could have literally millions of deaths. So if you want to play this clip, you said Bill Gates, here's Bill Gates. Go for it. And you Mr. Gates, you also called Elon Musk political influence abroad,

quote insane along with another word we can't repeat here, but what's your take on his political access and influence here in America right now? Well, Elon, his private sector work, you know, has been very innovative, really fantastic. A lot of private sector people when they get into government, they don't take the time necessarily to see what the good work is or what structure the way it is. So I'm a little worried, particularly with this USAID stuff. My foundation partners with USAID on nutrition and getting vaccines out.

You know, there's incredible people, they're not actually worms that work there. So, you know, hopefully we'll get some of that work back in shape. In fact, if we don't, you know, you could have literally millions of deaths. So, you know, with aid, people think, you know, wow, how much do we give these countries?

As you said, it's less than a percent. People think it's 5% and it should be 2%, but it's actually under 1%. Wow, and still saving lives. Well, am I the only one that doesn't trust anything that comes out of his mouth? Is it just me? Do you trust anything that comes out of his mouth?

With his sweater vest, with his button down underneath? What is it exactly that you don't trust about him? Adam, sometimes, you know, people like facts and What is it exactly that you don't trust about him? Adam, sometimes people like facts and 100%. My intuition, I don't trust anything that comes out of his mouth, zero. And if you listen to what his wife, Melinda Gates said about him, and one of the main reasons she left him

was his relationship with Bill Gates, with Epstein, I don't wanna hear anything about this guy. The computer nerd that's pushing vaccines and incriminating millions of people. How come the Epstein files aren't one of the things that are being exposed by the way along with JFK and Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King's deaths how come they're not releasing Epstein what's what if what if they're timing it perfectly they're going one at a time what's your

insinuation I don't know I just I think people make choices about what matters to them and what does it matter to them and I don't I don't know. I just I think people make choices about what matters to them and what doesn't matter to them and I don't I don't disagree. Yeah, I'm not being skeptical of it because look my problem with skepticism is it's the lowest form of intelligence So you now have to take a couple more steps is gates right that millions could die. It's a possibility It's not a probability Why because you're doing the things with the mosquito nets and the AIDS and the malaria and all these different things that fall under USAID. I get it. Things could be worse in situations. The mistake is making it like there's a right and a wrong.

There's a preference and they are legitimate political questions. And if Trump wants to go through this, fine. How Musk does it is worthy of scrutiny. The first thing that should have happened that didn't happen, that would have been very helpful, Musk should have done personally what he's doing with these agencies. What money do you get from the government? What are your relationships? What information are you accessing and what does that mean to your businesses? That's my only concern about Elon is I don't want him, I don't know him, I'm not judging him, but you're giving a private citizen access to information and dynamics when they are in

the business of information and those same dynamics. That's all. So I just think he has to be transparent. But here's what I would say to you. When you're saying that, to me, everybody gave the Democrats many years to prove that they were right and guess what ended up happening they were wrong about what about God knows how many things they were wrong about by the way don't ask me so I'm not I'm just a regular guy don't ask me about you are not just a regular well but when you

look at the data and you see it's saying that the trust in the Democratic Party is the lowest in 16 years. How did that happen? Because they lost to somebody they thought they were told Democrats were told they were going to win and people get really angry. I disagree bro. Why do you think it is? Let me tell you why I disagree. So let me we're going here.

I got a couple things. Let's stay on USA and then I'm going to go to the Democratic Party 16% to address the what comments you just said. So let's stay on the because we have Epstein we got to get to we got the Democratic Party and we got to finish up USAID so we can go to the next one. All right. Do you think USAID has had more good or more abuse there? Do you think they've done more good or abuse with the money that they've got? Good. You think more good? What percentage is more good? I have no idea.

It's not a relevant metric to me. The metric would be go through it line by line and then prove me wrong because I think that Democrats and Republicans have contributed to their budget since 1961. So you're going to have to look at it and you can go through it and I don't have any problem with any of that Yeah, I do think look there's always politics at play the idea that you know, Trump was there at 2016 2020 Okay, what there was no waste fraud and abuse there at USAID So the idea that this is new no, I don't agree. That's not it though No, this is not about 2016 versus 20. The difference in that argument would be Trump when he went in 2016, he had no clue what he was doing. He knew nothing.

He knew not where the bodies were, who to trust, who not to trust. Four years later... He went in there saying he was gonna drain the swamp, he was gonna do exactly what he's doing now. Four years later, he looked at everything, he says, oh, so the strategies I used wasn't effective in the first term. Okay, but this time around, some could say he's done more in his first three weeks than he did the first year when he was president. What he's doing the first three weeks. Yeah, I agree.

He's actually doing what he said he was gonna do in the first term, but the first time he didn't know where the bodies were. So, let's go to the next one with the Democrats, right? Where the story comes up here, Rob, can you tell me what page that is where it says the Democratic Party's trust is at the lowest in 16 years? I think I read it. One of you guys

had that as a story that you wanted to give comments on. Bottom of 11. Bottom of 11. Okay, thank you Tom. So it says Democratic Party unfavorable rating hit 16 year high. Okay, 16 year high. Let's read this. Good. And it's my reaction. Okay, great. But I'll give you this. Good. And it's my reaction. Okay, great But I'll give you why I think because you said something else. They thought they were gonna win so Papa papa papa. Here we go a Quinnip a Quinnip a pack Quinnipac poll finds a Democratic Party and favorable rating at 57% the worst since the poll began

Tracking while only 31% of voters view the party favorable, leaving them 26 points underwater. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is in a much stronger position with 43% favorable and 45% unfavorable, making them only 2 points underwater, a 12-point advantage over the Democrats' favorability and 12 points lower than unfavorability. Trump's numbers are stronger than both parties with a 46% job approval rating against 43, placing him 3 points above in real clear politics. Poll average, Trump is doing even better at 49.4% approval at 44.8%.

This approval, giving him a 4.6% lead. Even Trump's favorability in the RCP average is positive at 48.9% approval on 47. Anyways, we see all these polls. But here's where I go. So would you consider Martina Navratilova conservative? No. Absolutely not. Would you say she wakes up in the morning and her screen saver has a Trump picture on

there, you know, fight, fight, fight? What are the chances of that? No, it's probably with Kathy Griffin holding his head off of a... Something like that, right? So Trump yesterday is at his office, okay, with kids. Rob, if you can actually pull up, is this the video of the kids coming there? Yes. But is Trump speaking there?

No, I have a better video of that. Get the one of him signing. So for me, I'm going basic common sense. I just came from this morning, I came from, Dylan was singing. So I went to church to be with Dylan and he's doing his thing and I come out, we had a very interesting morning about what he should wear. That's a complex. My biggest debates are dealing with this guy's fashion because he's so firm on what he wants to wear. Where is the one rap with him around the kids signing the order?

You just had it. There you go. Watch this here. Watch this. Go ahead. Who relates to this? 100% of common sense parents. Who relates to this? What a nice picture this is, huh? Got me out.

100% of common sense parents. You ready? Who relates to this? Girl dads. Girl moms. Who relates to this? Anybody and everybody that wants their kids to be able to compete and do what they want to do, right?

So common sense women's sports compete against women. And a lot of sports and men are open, meaning if you want to compete as a woman, you can. Alright, so now watch this. Go to Martina Navartalova. Go to Martina Navartalova's tweet if you could, Rob. If that was Joe Biden, Pat, he'd be smelling all those kids. Watch this here. Watch what she says.

I hate that the Democrats totally failed women and girls on this very clear issue of women's sports being for females only. I believe she's a lesbian tennis player. And by the way, go in the comments section. Go in the comments section. I'm with you. However, I truly believe that the trans and sports issue was blown way out of proportion. A successful tactic by ours, Republicans.

Media won't tell you. And woke liberals are clueless. If you keep going down, you would see folks who are liberals, who are liberals, okay? I'm so glad the movement has you. Never stop trying to change their minds. Remind them that the movement is filled with Democrats and liberal women. I'm trying to just do that. Thanks, right?

They're going through it and she's responding. Easiest way to include everyone is to have COED, intro, what is that word? Intramural sports on all levels. They should have universal scholarship. What does that mean, universal scholarship program? So she's responding, unless she actually wants to hear people out. Guess what? When you say this isn't a Republican or a Democratic thing, Chris, Democrats had four years to sell their ideas. Vaccine, you take it, it won't spread. Bullshit. Trump, Russia, bullshit. Hillary Clinton, 35 million. You know, if you... Nothing wrong with puberty blockers.

It's not fair. The state of Florida, we may have to move. Because my daughter, you know, he knew he was a girl. He can't take his... She can't take her puberty blockers. And we have to watch this video. Puberty blockers at 16 years old, at 10 years old. What are you talking about? Guy sends me a picture yesterday, says, Pat, I don't think you understand what was really

going on on Manect. And he sends me this picture of an organization called PLUME, P-L-U-M-E. Can you type this Rob? Go to PLUME, right there, you have it right there. Just type it in there, go to the website, Gender Aff website, gender affirming hormone therapy and everyday care, right? And you go lower and guess what it says, with or without insurance, essentials you need to get your gender journey. So these moments, Chris, they lost so many people that even the common sense Democrats

said, I'm out of here. So Stephen A said something great on Bill Maher the other day. The truth is rarely easy for everybody to hear. He said for all of these people trying to wonder how you could vote for someone like Donald Trump, change the question. The question is, what does it tell you that more people in America saw Donald Trump, for all we know about him, as closer to normal than the Democrats? That's the question you have to be asking. And once you ask that, a lot of things start to be very clear to you. This issue, okay, what's the strength of

this issue? It is a common-sense vibe, not just for girl dads. You know, I mean, you and I are girl dads, but I don't think you have to be. You don't want somebody like you or like me playing against a female. Okay. That's a no brainer. The Democrats miss that because of what? The nuances of the issue. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than playing against a transgender female athlete. That this is a very bullied class of people and the last thing they need is more pressure on them as being a problem. Those are fair points, but they don't remove the common sense aspect of what this is. And if it happens so rarely, then don't worry about the prohibition

then because you're not really affecting that many people anyway. So you might as well do what seems to be common sense to the majority of the country. That's what this issue was about. And the left found itself in a dynamic that we've seen the right in also. This is the problem with the binary system. They are co-opted by their fringe. Radicals that fight their own culture wars their own way, which is not that everything is okay. If somebody wants it, it's okay. Okay, that's America.

No, that's not what I'm saying, Pat. You have to say it the same way. You have to believe it the way they want you to believe it. You have to let your kids use the vocabulary and the ideas that these people want for themselves. You have to use it also. If they want to be called something, you have to say that. And your kids have to be taught that. That's where the left lost the country, was that you do not do this in this country. You do you, I do me. That ends as soon as what you do for

you becomes what I have to do for me. That's where they lost the narrative. And we saw that with canceling. So if I were to question this, look, you know how many times I've said this? You don't want somebody my size playing against your 16 year old girl. And people come, show me somebody your size doing it. I don't have to show you. I'm telling you you don't want that. So to the extent that it's possible you don't want it. You're a bigot. Why am I a bigot? Because you're basically saying that all trans females are your size. No I'm not. I don't know that any are my size. I'm saying that as a possibility it's something that you should rule out. It offends common sense. No, you're putting your mores on these other people. You're

judging. You should be canceled. You shouldn't be in your position. It happened immediately. That's why their numbers are where they are. That's the answer for the left. The question is how do they get back to what makes sense? Let me follow up with that. Your entire family, life, politics, Democrat, you've seen things change Mario Cuomo your father the party doesn't even resemble his party Trump's base was Mario Cuomo's base so so watch what you just said right there okay so two term your father two term your three term your father two term your brother

also three terms yeah his got cut a little short i'll tell you the story you may not have heard i'll tell you i haven't but maybe one of these days if we have time no but but the point is here's the question for you tell me why people voted democrat when your father was a governor in new y and why, where Democrats were winning then and where are Democrats winning today? Like if you were to say, I still believe the Democrats have the edge with the American people in one, two, three. Okay? So go Pops first term, go now. So the theory, the argument for Democrats with Pop, okay, what was Pop? He was you. Not even, right? Because you were born somewhere else. Pop was first generation for Democrats with pop okay what was pop he was you I'm not even right because you were born somewhere else pop was first-generation American not seen as

white pop got described a lot of the ways that you deal with when people start exposing you right well he's an ethnic he's swarthy you know he's an other right that's who I'm a white guy okay my father wasn't so he was speaking for people like that. They say we're not good enough. They say we don't belong. They say that they get to tell us how to be and who we are and that we don't get to succeed or fail on our own merits. I'm going to fight them. He was the original anti-elitist. When my father found out I was being recruited, I wanted to go to an Ivy League school, he was so disappointed.

He was only disappointed that much one other time in my life, which was when I decided to leave the law and finance and go into the media. His joke was, why can't you do something that matters more to society like sell crack? That was his feeling when I went into the media. But when I wanted to go to an Ivy League school, he was like, do you know what they think of me? Do you know what those people thought about me? And that was his sell to people. I know they think you're not good enough. They're wrong and their rules will not apply to all of us. That was the sell. The working man. What was the union about? Civil liberties and what is the government keeping us from... That was his sell. And it was... What was his Union about? Civil liberties and what is the government keeping us from,

that was his cell. And it was, what was his tagline? All the government you need, but only the government you need. That was his tagline. What is it now? It's welcome to the freak show. The Democrats flipped their narrative to,

hey, this culture war keeps buying up, beating us. So let's have our own version of it, which is inclusion, acceptance, and anybody who doesn't want to include and accept as we do, we'll get rid of. And that's why their numbers are where they are. The AOC mentality, look, I'm not a straight hater on AOC. I respect success.

She's built a real following for herself. There's no question about it. You've got to respect that. She's got passion and she's got purpose. But this is politics. And her calling Musk an idiot. But why are they winning today, Chris? Well, they win, they still win.

If you were to say, these are the two issues, okay, they were the anti-war party, okay, well they killed a guy that didn't want war, okay? They were the little man party. Let's take care of the little guy, the guy that, you know, that's not the case anymore, right? They were the... So what is their party now? Who are they for? Look, I know their numbers are very underwater and again, it makes sense. By the way, nobody's doing well. Republicans just had an historic victory that nobody thought would happen. They're underwater.

Trump has better numbers. Let's see where he is in five months. You know, he's at 46. He could easily be at 42, which is where most presidents are. So, but within that structure, what do we see? Okay. They lost this election by like this much,

but they never lose the popular vote. It's very rare So for them, I want to ask this one question Chris This is the only thing I want to get an answer on I asked Ian Bremmer. He couldn't answer it I asked where are they winning? What is the issue one two three issues that the average day-to-day person? Says I agree with the Democrats on these three issues the issues that they campaign on to win day-to-day person says, I agree with the Democrats on these three issues. The issues that they campaign on to win are in the major population centers that minorities

are disadvantaged by Republican policies, that the working class are disadvantaged by Republican fiscal policies, and that Trump is crazy, and that you have a brand of conservatives that are radical Christian, and if they're not Christian, they're just radical conservative that is bad for America as a place for everyone. Those are their three big spots. I don't know if I agree with, let's just say the first one. Okay, I'm not saying that they're right. I'm saying that's their pitch. No, but that's not what I'm asking. What I'm asking is where are they winning? Nowhere. Where are they winning? Well, they just lost this, but look, look at the

House. They lost by one seat. So obviously, they're winning campaigns, right? They're winning campaigns. You have a Senate advantage. This was supposedly historic. Trump says he has the biggest mandate ever. Okay, you adjust for hyperbole. He's got a three-seat advantage in the Senate. It's nowhere near a historic margin. He has a one or two seat, depending on how you look at it, advantage in the House. So the idea that, while the Democrats are losing everything all the time, we're not seeing, except at the state level, Well, the Democrats are losing everything all the time. We're not seeing, except at the state level. You look at governorships and state houses, the Democrats have been getting their clocks

cleaned. Why? Because what they say doesn't match what they do. And that's their problem. They are not for the working man. They're not for regular families. They are for small percentage niche cultural agendas. Tom.

Chris, you said a couple of things. And let's unpack it. small percentage niche cultural agendas Tom Chris you said a couple things and let's let's unpack it you said we're for the you poor people that have had injustice, you know and you've you've suffered and They think that Trump is crazy. Well, wait a minute There's there was a little bit of a hypocrisy not you but in within the argument with them on trans. Injustice is exactly what Leah Thomas delivered to women that had been training as swimmers for their entire, not adult, but their entire developed lives. And suddenly they felt this terrible injustice not by Renee Richards, who by the the way deeper into Martina Navratilova She played tennis against someone who went through a full physical and hormonal

Transition not a change of mind and then shocked female athletes looking over there says Les Leah Thomas changed the locker room Says those are male genitals. She's still making testosterone He he just changed his mind. And they're like, this is a terrible injustice. I get it. This isn't protecting Renee Richards. And by the way, Martina Navratilova and Renee Richards came of age and came out of the closet

at a time it was really hard to do so. We can talk about bravery and guts on something different. But this was a terrible injustice. And then America said, wait, we're crazy? You're crazy. A girl gets knocked out in a high school volleyball. I agree. America went the other way and says, injustice?

This is injustice, and you are crazy. And isn't that what flipped? I get it. I just don't get the America thing. This is a niche issue. It was used very well in the campaign. It is a common-sense issue. I don't disagree with your rationale. I'm just saying the idea that this is why people voted, I don't think so. I think it was more of a feel issue. I'm gonna lower your taxes. So yeah, make people feel that, you know, you're not really in touch with me.

I care about the economy. I care about immigration. Those are my two big ones. Foreign depends on what we're talking about. This is a feel issue. This is, I don't think we're on the same page. I care about other things more, but this makes me feel like you're not getting me. And that matters in politics. I'm just saying the idea that this is, you know, like the 1965 Voted Rights Act, I don't think that that's what it is. You don't have the numbers of people expressing this reality that would make it something where you have to do something about it right away. I'm not arguing with the rationale. I get it. I get what the concern is. I'm just saying I see it as more political than practical. Okay, then what are the black and white issues like

Arizona, people in Arizona, they saw the homelessness, they saw the immigrants in their town. That's a better one. That's not feel when I see these people. That's a better. Well, okay. That's a better one. Your taxes are gonna go down We're gonna take your taxes down and we're gonna fix immigration What are the Dems saying and I come a very black and white that is a much much better Argument for you guys to be making immigration is the biggest failure What do you think what is the black and white are what are the black and for Democrats since the New Deal. What are the black and white issues that the Dems are making right now? Well, right now, right now, they're not making...

Hey, that's a better way. You should listen to it. Well, hold on. First of all, as with people saying, let's judge what Trump has done since he's gotten an office, why aren't eggs less expensive? That's not fair. What are Democrats selling right now? Nothing. They're reeling. I'm still getting emails on my phone this moment from Kamala Harris, the fight fund. So they have not moved forward. They are in a paroxysm of pain and self doubt and blaming in-house. USAID money, these people took in billions of dollars, they

don't know where it went and now they're asking me for more? I mean look, everybody, I get the Trump ones, I get all of them, but my point is they're not selling anything right now. They're figuring it out. That's not an unusual place to be after you got knocked out. By the way, 60 Minutes, did you see the unedited version they released? It opens up with her going, I just bolded. What do you think about that whole 60 minute situation? Look, my problem with that story from the beginning was you edit every interview. You edit every interview.

I've edited every interview I've ever done with Trump, unless it was live. Why? Because that's what you do. You have a certain amount of time, you're trying to fit it in. Yeah, but there's editing versus putting a different answer in to make that answer. Everybody knows you're not allowed to do that. Everybody knows you're not allowed to do that. And here's the standard. It's subjective, but here's the standard.

So I ask you, how you doing? You say, good, but the other day, and then you go down a road. I have to use the beginning of the answer. What you can do is then edit within that answer something that makes a different editorial point that you wanna make. That's okay. There is an argument here that that's not what was done. And by 60 minutes of all people to be in this position is really embarrassing and it is a clear indication. 60 minutes isn't what it was anymore, okay?

They don't have people who are recognized as the best in the business doing the job on issues that are topical and everybody wants to be there It's just another media product now It's not what it was and they have things to answer for here and the silence shouldn't be acceptable just like It shouldn't be acceptable for anybody else when they ask them their questions you get a no comment They're not explaining it and that's on them. I can say one quick thing to the the women, male, transgender, LGBT, it wasn't Chris, I completely disagree, it's not a niche thing when you have one out of four kids now in high school are are either what

non-binary, gay, in that community, the White House flying the LGBTQ flag, bringing transgenders at the White House, they're flashing their breasts, all the all the push on all these kids and all these drugs it's not an issue it was just an issue that Republicans and the conservatives put their hand on it like no no you're not gonna have with our kids but the left kept pushing they're like no a six-year-old can decide the far left I far left and the main left was quiet. Would you say Kamala's far left? Kamala's was just supporting them.

I think she moved like they all do, right? This was weird because it was an artificial process. Pre-election, pre-running. Pre-election, she was left far left. And then she does what a lot of politicians do. She moves to where she needs to be to win that particular thing. So when she was running for attorney general in California,

she was saying one kind of thing about law and order. Then when you wanna be on the national stage as senator, you say something else about law and order. That's typical politics, but they are absolutely co-opted, or they have been, by their left fringe. And they have to deal with it and figure out what they wanna do. Yeah.

But I haven't heard one Democrat logo anti-LGBTQ pushing on the kids. They. Yeah. But I haven't heard one Democrat go anti-LGBTQ pushing on the kids. They all of them. I haven't heard one. There's no need. There's a difference between being anti-diversity of type and what you force on people. There's a very stark difference. And Democrats or anybody, you're not going to be successful in American politics if you think in any way you get to tell people what to think or how to feel. Of course. You will lose. Of course. And when it comes to, because you guys have kids, I don't, but pushing it on

the kids, and we are, and again, and they push the homophobic, that's all transphobic, that's all BS, we're not, but you're pushing it and to pretend that it's a niche thing, we are the gayest we've ever been as a nation and that's just a fact So I don't think it's a not as a pockets as a no as a nation But there's no judgment that's true we're never Sounds like a judgment. No, I don't think it should be anything about PBD. He's never gonna judge you. I never judge me How are you? Go home long you know me Pat? Look Pat asked a very simple question. Where are the Democrats winning these days? I think

there's only one answer. And it's with woke liberal women who are pro abortion, who are anti capitalist pro socialist pro DEI anti MEI. It's it's glaringly apparent that they've lost regular dudes. They've lost families, they've lost people with kids. Just anyone with common sense looks at the Democratic Party and they're like, where the hell do they even stand for these days? I think that's true. You tried to basically say-

Although I don't think women see themselves as pro-abortion. I think a lot of women who men don't even want to have sex with, who are basically saying no sex, no relationships, no dating, no kids. They're like, we're not going to do that during the Trump administration. You take a look at what they look like and you're like, yeah, nobody's going to date you anyway, honey. Sorry, baby. But you know, we tried to equivocate by basically like Republicans are underwater. Democrats are underwater. Republicans are underwater 2% Chris still underwater 2% within the margin of error.

Hold on. Democrats are 26% underwater underwater don't act like that's the same I'm not saying it's a football game. I lost by two points man close. I'm not saying it's saying the other team lost by 26 points and you're acting like it's I understand no, it's not louder. You keep saying it doesn't make it anymore Oh, but you said I'm telling you that two points is the exact opposite exact same as no, I'm saying I'm telling you. I'm saying that two points is the exact opposite, exact same as 26%? No, I'm saying that trust is in an all-time low, okay? And that's why my point was that Republicans, after an historic victory that wasn't supposed to be able to happen, they're still underwater. Why? The American people are very disenchanted with the two-party system. But Trump is not underwater, though. Trump is plus 5%. He is. He is. But by the way, that's not historically... So not historically, but hold on. Trump is plus five. Democrats are minus 26.

I'm with you. How is that even the same though? It's not, they're not the same. I'm saying look at them in context. The president is where most are when they just win. Okay. So it's not out of the ordinary. Are the Democrats down lower than ordinarily? Yes, for good reason. What are they going to do about it? I have no idea. Well, I'm in the business of watching and making sense as we go. But the idea of why are they so low, I think it makes perfect sense and I think you're basically articulating it. I think that what are they going to do about it? I don't know. Let me give you a quick little story. A little. I'm this is about a year ago. I go I'm in Miami. I'm with a girlfriend of mine. And she goes, Hey, real quick. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. Okay, cool. I'm waiting for the

bathroom. She walks out of the bathroom and literally once she has a penis. No, she had definitely not have a bill the other one behind her walks out a dude in a dress with a full-on beard like a Vinnie beard like one of my relatives yes yes and I and I go leave me I'm very basically unshy I go well what is this what is this all about she goes no man don't don't say anything don't say anything I go don't say anything it's a dude in a dress with a beard and he's just like walks the earth and I go don't say anything. It's a dude in a dress with a beard and he's just like walks the earth And I go hunt like what do you how do you not? She's like stop it. Don't be mean. Don't be mean. I go don't be mean How do you what is this? It's clearly not a woman. It's a dude with it. It's Vinnie in a dress

She's like stop it. You're being you're being like mean you're bad. I go who gives a shit about mean It's a full-on dude. So who's right and who's wrong am I in the wrong because I want to say something or she in the wrong Because she doesn't want to offend this guy. That's basically the the parable of what's happening right now Is that me being me? No, you know the point of that story the point is me that's the conversation That's being had he just wanted to give the girl a shot The one with the beard, not the girl. The one with the penis. Yeah, that's right.

He's a fan of the show. But that's exactly what's happening right now. As a matter of fact, he's here. Come on in, John. John A. Bring your balls in here. I think it's fair. This is the reason.

I think it's fair. I get what you're saying. Tampons in men's bathrooms. There's no question that, again, like I said about 15 minutes ago, the left went way too far on what they wanted to describe as normal and what they wanted to insist everybody else must agree with. And that's where they lost the country.

There's one big difference. And this is what I think and we'll move on to the next story. The only big difference to me is I think this is a 1965 type of moment. I think this is a, you know, Barry Coldwater, Lyndon Johnson type of a moment where the voter rights and civil rights and African Americans voting 30% more on the Democratic side than the other. I think the left lost a chunk that I don't think it's coming back. I think they lost a chunk that's not coming back. And look, I hope that that's for true for another reason by the way What else did we see in this election that we've never seen before?

More people voted as independent than did as Democrat almost as many as Republican That is your no longer black swan people are sick of the parties You know who else is sick of the parties? President Donald John Trump. He is not really pro-republican. You hear him talk about Republicans very rarely. I agree. So that's the best hope for us. I think he's the first independent president we've ever had. I don't think he's Republican. I think he is damn close, certainly in our lifetime. Who else would you put him as an independent president? Reagan wasn't independent. I think that you've had a couple. I think that if you looked at Clinton, Clinton could

have made a case. I don't disagree. Of being in either party. It was a different kind of case. He wasn't an outrage guy. He was a conservative Democrat. Yeah. So I think that most people have fallen along that line, which is why they used to get so much done. There wasn't that much daylight between them. Just to just to add a little bit fuel fire to the fuel here, Rob, can you go to this Jersey story guy? So New Jersey governor Murphy comes out and says you know I can is this the one

him saying it? Yes. And then they backtrack by the way Go ahead and play this clip Rob. Go ahead I don't want to get into too much detail But there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not Yet at the point that they are trying to get it to illegal and we said you know what? Let's have her live at our house above our garage and good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her

okay but but but pause it right there pause it right there like no no go back to the video I just want to zoom in on something you act like a tough guy you can't sit like those shoes the socks the way you're sitting dude that's the way your hands are on your knee, it's like the movement. I don't know. I just think there's a different... It's the least of his problems. No, I understand what I'm just saying.

What are his testicles doing in this? Where are they? Let me just read this. So by the way, he says this, then the office backtracks his claim. Do you have the backtrack claim, Rob? They released a statement. There's no video to the backtracking. What course, his claim. Do you have the backtrack claim Rob or they released a

statement. There's no video to the is this backtrack. What is Tom? Yes, this is Tom Holman saying they're going to possibly prosecute Phil Murphy. Go for it. I think the government's pretty foolish. Same way said because I got

an old of it won't let it go. We'll look into it and if he's knowingly knowingly harboring concealingaling, and illegally handling, that's a violation of Title 8 United States Code 1324, I will seek prosecution, or the secretary will seek prosecution. So maybe he's bluffing. If he's not, we'll deal with that. And as far as suing sanctuary cities, well, get in line, because the Trump administration

is going to do that already. Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals. One example, right? Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals. There's one example, right? The sanctuary cities in New York City. If they would have gave us over the killer of Lake and Riley when he got arrested in New York City for endanger a child, he would have been in jail. They would never kill Lake and Riley. Sanctuary cities are responsible for deaths of thousands,

thousands of young children throughout my career. And we're gonna sue them, we're gonna hold them. And look, if we've got to go to the Supreme Court, that's what President Trump wanted to do. He will end Sanctuary Cities. And by the way, while he's saying this, while he's saying this, Rob, do we have a clip of Pam Bondi with Sanctuary Cities, what she just did that, Chris, you were talking about earlier? The only clip that I could find was her, this is a dated clip, but this is her talking about ICE arrests in the state of Florida. OK, well, no, she definitely just signed an order that she is going to halt specific funding that is under her purview, obviously, for sanctuary cities,

pending a review of what they're doing and why they are sanctuary cities. And this is a very intelligent position. It's all over the place, Rob. I just saw it right now. Very intelligent position for her. The way she worded it shows why she was, of course, compared to Matt Gaetz, you know, she was going to be a much easier course of choice. But there's an intelligence to her position. She's not saying it even the way Holman is. She knows, you know, she's a good lawyer, Pam Bondi. She knows why Sanctuary Cities started. They didn't start as what they are right now.

So municipalities were getting jammed up because ICE wasn't funded or staffed in a way to do the job they were supposed to do. So what would happen is you would get these illegal entrants, okay, and you'd be holding them for a really long time because ICE couldn't get it together to come and get them. And these municipalities started getting sued and they were losing because they were holding people too long. And that was the birth of it. What it has become is an open hostility towards the existing policy. They're gonna lose. And you cannot stop, a state can't stop a federal law from being executed.

So if the federal law is we're coming to get them, and it is now, then you can't say no. And if you do, you're gonna lose your federal funding, you're gonna lose in court. And this is a no brainer and Bondi is doing it the right way. She's not just doing it blanket across the board. She's going to say, I'm going to look at each one of them. We'll see why they're doing what they're doing and then we'll proceed.

Did in home and invite you to go see some of the ice raids? Would you do it? Do you take them up? Yes. I mean, I kind of forced the invitation. I kept saying I want to go. I want to go. No, I'm working on it now because what I don't want is what I saw with Dr. Phil, okay?

No disrespect to Dr. Phil, that's not what it's about. But I'm not going there as a propagandist for ICE raids. I want to show the reality over time of what they're dealing with, where they're going, what they're getting. And I think it would be really helpful to the American people. And News Nation is willing to invest and I think there's be really helpful to the American people. NewsNation is willing to invest, and I think there's a bigger production to be done here, of allowing transparency. Because what's going to happen is you're going to be here in stories. Murphy's playing on something that's not a bad game, which is you're also going to sweep up

the wrong people. You're going to people who entered here illegally, but they've done everything right since then. And that is not the threat to the country that was being initially articulated. That'll happen. But I don't want this to be a one-off every time, where an exception is being made the rule. And I think the more transparency there is, the more fair an assessment the American people have. Aren't they going after criminals, people who have done some bad things, some bad hombres?

Yes, but here's the thing, Yes, but here's the thing. And this is why they've been a little slow coming out with their numbers. Where they're going to get people. It's not like they're doing what I thought they were going to do, which is the police tell us this is where the MS 13 guys are hanging out. This is where they live. We know where they are. We just don't go after them because it's like a big deal. And that's what they're doing. They're going to a place and they're getting people who are also there with other illegal entrance. So they're getting like eight people when they were looking for one specifically. What do you mean they're there

with other illegal? They're in that house. They're at that business. Harboring criminals. No, no, they're illegal themselves. They're all illegal. They're all hanging out with illegal. Yeah, they legal. They live there. They work there. They're hanging illegal. Legals are hanging out with illegals. Yeah, they live there, they work there, they're hanging out there, whatever it is. I get it. I get it. But the idea of what the law is, is pretty clear. The idea of whether everybody is the same within that bucket is not true. For instance, Dreamers, I only feel complete compassion

for this group of people who have, through no will of their own, have been put in a position where they are not able to succeed or fail on their own merits in this country because of their designation as Dreamers. Trump agrees with that. He was going to do it as a one-off in his first term and the Republicans wouldn't let him, if you'll remember. Why? Because they had givebacks that they wanted chain migration and other things the dreamers should be taken care of and taken out of this equation and the fact that it's not as just ugly politics how do you define dreamer versus legal alien there's a doc has a specific legal definition I want to go to the next

story I'm gonna go to the next story so Trump prepared a majorly revamped Department of Education as math reading Reading scores show stunning lows. Rob, if you got a clip on that, go for it. I'll read this. Tom, I'm coming to you first on this one. No need for the eyes. I'm just saying, look, I'm going to come to you. All right.

So President Trump is preparing major overhaul of the Department of Education after math and reading scores alarming lows with 40% of the fourth graders, 33% of eighth graders. Readings below basic level, only 28% of eighth graders, readings below basic level, only 28% of eighth graders proficient in math. That is insane. Only 28% of eighth graders are proficient in math according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told Fox and Friends that Trump met with governors

who were not only furious about academic failures, but also about the toxic soup of SEL, DEI, CRT being pushed in schools, refreshing to see social economic learning being pushed in schools. Justice claimed governors urged Trump to give states more power, telling them, parents want more choice, let's help parents to put them in driver's seat so they can make the best decisions for their kids. Go ahead, Rob. Why nominate Linda McMahon

to be the Education Department Secretary if you're gonna get rid of the Education Department? Because I told Linda, Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job. I want her to put herself out of a job, Education Department. So we're ranked

number 40 out of 40 schools, right? We're ranked number one in cost per pupil. So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. And we're ranked at the bottom of the list. We're ranked very badly. And what I want to do is let the states run schools. I believe strongly in school choice. But in addition to that, I want the states to run schools. And I want Linda to put herself out of a job. Do you think that's something you can do with an executive order? Are you going to ask Congress to do it? I'd like to be able to do it.

Look, if I could give the schools back to Iowa and Idaho and Indiana and all these places that run properly, there's many of them. I think so if you look at the list, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, believe it or not, China's doing very well on that list, a list of well-educated, you know, where they run their school system well. You have a lot of countries, not surprising names. I think that if you moved our schools into some of these states that are really well-run states They would be as good as Denmark and Norway and Sweden and some of the other states And then you'd have the the laggards and you know who they are

I'm gonna have to go to it But you'd have the laggards the same laggards that are laggards with everything else including prime Tom, but even them your thoughts the Department of Education is a national bureaucracy that attempted to make an average size shirt and send it and it doesn't fit anybody. What they have done, there were some well intended things and national test standards and stuff, but they're absolutely correct. This bloated bureaucracy has got all this money and you're telling me that that

Mississippi has got the same challenges that Connecticut does they don't and so the national body is actually two steps away with governors of those two states saying hey I've got different problems that I have here with single parent household households and things in Mississippi that have been going on generations, I need to do this, this, this, this, and this, and this is what I need to help these students in Mississippi. And I got it, and it's bad here and here. Massachusetts says, well, Connecticut says, well, my problems are a little bit different. I got this going on and that going on.

I actually got pretty good math and English scores, but I've got these other things going on in the schools here There are regional issues that go on that the national this is why we have governors The reason the president doesn't you know run the entire country without governors is because each state Needs its leadership to act local so you can think global act local So but the Department of Education has has presided over this I mean by definition just look at the test scores look at what he said about international okay who's been in charge Department of Education okay inherently you're fired you're done and we're gonna

do something else with the money and we're gonna move it around. Here's what we're kind of said about it. He's got a completely different perspective. Go ahead. The ABC News is reporting that President Trump plans to eliminate the Department of Education with an executive order. This is an assault on every young American who went to public school like me. This is an assault on every American family who has someone who is disabled and needs the IDEA program to provide education. Chris, your thoughts on this. You can't spend your way out of the problem.

And it is a great if misleading statistic that we pay the most and we get the least. There are a lot of problems with the cost structure. And that is also state by state. What do you mean misleading? It's misleading in that the reason it is expensive is because what goes into government funding in the first place. If you look at the funding, it's not that the kid gets $9,000 a year. It's that the system of what the unions have to, what the unions get out of it and what

all the staffing is and the transportation and the physical plants, there's all this other stuff that goes in it that's all very expensive in America. So that's not why you're failing. Why you're failing is very complicated. Getting rid of the DOE isn't gonna necessarily automatically make things better because the states will have more control. Milton Friedman was very good on this.

Get rid of the Department of Education. He would say yes, but then when you asked him for the rationale, he would wind up really just, it's about scaling. And again, these are political choices. Can Trump do it alone? No. That's easy. That's Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. If Congress funds it, Congress controls its existence. So you need Congress to get rid of a government agency. What percentage? What percentage vote do you need to get rid of it? Oh just like any other law. You don't need a super majority or anything like that. But you need a congressional

act. But that's not the point. He doesn't have to get rid of it to gut it. So he could get rid of it. He could scale it down. Right. But he cannot eliminate an agency. And that's okay because that's not really the debate we're having. That's the debate they'll make. That's what Roe is doing, whom I also think is a fair broker, and I love having him on my show. But it's not about him overtaking constitutional power. That's not where we are. It's about how do you do this better?

And everybody knows, look, I'll tell you what a taxpayer wouldn't argue with, okay? I'm going to raise your taxes, and we're going to have kids in school longer than anybody else in the world. And we're going to have the school day longer, we're going to feed them differently, we're going to educate them, we're going to exercise them, and we're going to do all these things that aren't getting done by families in this country anymore. I don't think taxpayers would have the same kind of problem that they do right now, because it's about the return on investment. All these kids are failing in the schools. Why? Because the standards have sunk.

They're dealing with all these things that aren't education related. And there is no real incentive to succeed for any of these places. Nobody gets punished if their kids don't do well. That's the budget right now. K through 12, 620 six hundred twelve point seven billion annually by twelve thousand six hundred and twelve per kid federal state and local government spend about 720 billion annually which makes a fourteen eight federal government provides seven point seven percent of funding state provides forty six point seven and local Governments provide forty five point six. This is of the funding now you want to talk about

That's the funding. Now you want to talk about, that's the funding. Now let's talk about the influence and CRT and DEI and the SEL and the things that are going in there that the government is invoking. So the government's, you know, if you take a look at the influence and control, it's not 7.7%. It's greater than that. And I think that what Ro Khanna is doing is he's standing up there and it's a little bit of grandstanding. He was just here, respect him, thank you for being here, but to stand up there and saying, this is terrible, this is public, I was a public school kid. And what he's saying now, he picks out a program that is doing some good, IDEA, and says without IDEA then these kids, that's a very political, that's a very populous thing you can say, okay Roe, but now let's go back to it and let's look at all the other things that aren't working and we want to release the states to not be under the thumb of the DEA.

The DEA, they need that. The schools actually need DEA, unfortunately, the DOE. And so to give the local, you know, magistrators, you know, and the governors and the mayors and everything to do it. And what that's going to do is that's going to force the states to come head to head with the unions in their state and things like.D., which is the largest school district in the United States, Los Angeles, and by its own admission and the admission of people that have been there on city council, probably the poorest run school district in the United States. So okay, now let's move all this down local and let's see if we can get some change out of it. It's not just about setting standards,

it's in dealing with all the issues. And rather than IDEA coming from the federal government, Roe, we don't want it to go away. Something's going to have to replace the programs that are good. But let the state do it. They're at 93% of the total spend. 46 from the state and 44 from the local, right?

But take that the seven point set, you can keep this just something else with the money but let's not have the government with the huge not a lot of money just take it's not you to take the take this seven points out the money it's the control I totally get that yeah I totally get on and so what you're saying so you can do it without getting rid of the DOE you can keep the parts that work and you get rid of the parts that don't and these are political court judgments the president could do a lot of it on his own

if he can't that he turns to his party and says, this is what I want. And you're going to find unions that are screaming at senators who are screaming. I think that's massive for the future if they get rid of it. I think DOE getting rid of DOE would be massive for it. I don't think they're going to get rid of the entire agency, but again, you don't have to to make the kinds of changes that are being discussed. But you almost have to for the next administration to come in. You need to show the example of if you don't, the next guy can come in and say, no, let's

impose DEI. Let's bring back all the mindsets that we had before. Let's bring that back again. Somebody can bring that back. It's been proven it didn't work. Adam, your thoughts on this. Adam Fossum Well, would you agree that there needs to be a dramatic change here?

It's not like these are small numbers. Alarming lows. 40% of fourth graders. That's not 4%, 40% of fourth graders and 33% of eighth graders below basic levels, basic levels. Yeah. Almost half below. You don't. So there was a, there was a, I posted this the other day because I want to give a shout out to hopefully the Eagles can beat the chiefs this week. Do you remember when the mayor came out last week and she was like basically saying, let's go Eagles. E L G. Watch this. Yeah.

You all say, Speaker 3rd, 1st, and 2nd, yeah, there she goes. Do you think she can't? Eagles? I'm just saying it's a good thing. She can't spell. It's not anecdotal. I mean, she did. But you know what? Before I posted that ridiculousness, I said, let me actually find out what the hell's going on to spell Eagles. According to the 2022 national assessment of education progress, the nascent report card, Philadelphia's fourth grade students had an average rating score of one 95. That's below the average of large cities only 13 13 of philadelphia's fourth graders was considered proficient reading well below the 40 that we talked about over there adult literacy is

pressing concern philadelphia approximately 52 52 of adults in the city are functionally illiterate, meaning they struggle with basic reading. So that's adults 52%. Yeah. These statistics highlight the urgent need for comprehensive education reform and literacy programs. Rob, let's go EGL S E S Rob. I know that's anecdotal. I know that's anecdotal. This is not numbers. Don't lie. This is not new. Tom says it all the time, words talk, numbers scream. We got some dumb ass people in this country. And it's not a democratic thing or Republican thing. Because if you look at what states are doing well and what states are not doing well, they

all stupid is and stupid does. But this has existed for a long time and we have a culture of accommodation, not of excellence. One of the reasons you guys have been able to distinguish yourselves is that Pat is so results focused and oriented. You do not have that in our culture in a lot of places, specifically within our systems. You don't have it. You don't have it in our government. You don't have it in our education system.

Vivek, could you unpack that for me a little more? Look, I mean, I don't think these are new arguments. The question gets into, well, how do you change it? And the biggest thing in politics that people don't want to touch, you will not hear, whether it's Trump, I don't care who the politician is, no one's gonna say, you know,

Pat, your kids aren't doing well. You're not getting it done as a parent. How much phone time you letting them have? How much do you make your kid read every night? Well, I gotta work, I gotta do this life. No, I understand. But, you know, it's on you. Your kid is a reflection of your efforts.

Well, you're not gonna hear anybody say that. You're not gonna hear anybody say that, why? Because you're not voting for me now so our politics is about giving somebody an excuse for their own behavior and You know, oh we don't we spend too much money if we spent less we did it differently or the states have more control If you don't raise your kids, right? It doesn't matter what what school they're going to I've had my kid, my oldest kid, went to what some think anecdotally, to your point, is the best high school in the country, okay?

Trinity in New York City, private school. I'm telling you, as somebody who watched her go through that school, from K to 12, okay? She's only gonna do as well as we make her do. She was blessed with a good brain. What she's gonna make of it is about what her mother insisted on every frickin' night. And in the fights that we had over this stupid thing.

And the best thing a school has ever done for me was what my public school in Sag Harbor did, of Long Island, of making you not allowed to have this phone in school. My kid has changed academically did of Long Island of making you not allowed to have this phone in school. My kid has changed academically because the environment has changed. She doesn't have to compete with her friends about this distraction machine and that is something that a school can do but otherwise it's on parents. You know we're

trying to absent them from this. It's not fair. We are we are on the same page on the responsibility where it's at. Look at your kids. Yeah. Look how you are with them. What do you think? It's just a coincidence. It's just genetics that they're doing what they're doing at this young age. You're making it happen for them. A great point. But not gonna let you move on. This is one of our stories, but we don't have to get into it. Teen spend more than a quarter of their time at schools on their phones. A quarter. I believe it. Holy moly. A quarter of that. What is it say, teen spend what? Teen spend, it's on miscellaneous, the first one,

teens spend more than a quarter of their time, so Seattle Children's Hospital tracking 115 students, eight to 12, 25% of they spend two hours on their phones in a six hour day, six and a half hour day. Have you watched this generation watch a movie at home? Oh, forget it. They watch the movie and they're on the phone. At the same time. And if you say, do you not like the movie, they're on the phone at the same time.

And if you say, do you not like the movie? Do you want me to pick another one up? Oh, no, no, I like this. Nothing. Nothing's happening right now in the movie. I said, what are you talking about? The movie is happening. That's what's happening. No, nothing's happening when something happened. Yeah, it's too.

I'm telling you, I know our parents were the same way with the TV, the tube stick. Nothing like this. Nothing like this. And the research is way with the TV, the boob tube, nothing like this. Nothing like this. And the research is all over the place, but we don't deal with it. Why? Because it's hard. Yeah. Well, we like to pick on Colorado, at least I do, because it's a big blue liberal state and a lot of things. But they just became the 20th state to put in cell phone restrictions at high school. Phone goes in a Faraday bag during class and you have to be a hundred percent paying attention and you know, that's a good thing. No social media until 16. That should be the national

law. Well, what did the Santa's impose here? Was it 15 Australia was right. Yeah. Australia's right. Santa's imposed here in Florida. Whatever he did is good. I don't even know. I haven't heard of it, but anything I'm telling if I could go back in time and do and fight one fight and win, I would have never given my kids a smartphone. What age did you get one phone? Whatever they wanted it. Whenever the other kids started getting it. And it got younger and younger with each kid. Bella didn't get it until she was 13 or something like that. Mario was probably then going to be 12, because she had it.

Cha-cha was gonna be like 11, because her friends had it. And you lose, because you're weak, and you want it easy. And you wanna pick your fights. And it's a mistake. Have you read Anxious Generation? You're right. Anxious Generation. And the less and less I go on,

Pat was joking around with me when I came in, saying, hey, you look good today. I'm telling you, I have made a conscious decision. Now my timing's not great, because social media is more relevant in our world than it ever has been in media. But I have made a conscious decision to not be on it as often.

And I've seen the change in my search. My search thing is now dominated by car restorations and changing shoes on horses and dealing with problems with cows. I could be a farrier. I watched so many videos about how to deal with ulcers on cow hooves. Why? Because I am making a conscious effort. I'm doing homework all day for my shows. You got an exciting life, Cuomo. But I'm telling you, the more I disengage from what's happening on social media, the happier I become. Have you read Anxious Generation?

You need to. I have not read it. It's amazing. You wouldn't be able to put it down. Yeah. You wouldn't be able to put it down. By Jonathan Haidt. Phenomenal book.

Guys, if you see- Oh yes, yes. I have this book. I have not read it. Somebody just sent it to me. You will not be able to put it down. I don't know how many times we talk about this thing. It's a must-read for every parent to go through. The guys got systems on how to deal with it, which I think it's fascinating. I think it's fascinating.

And you see parents adjusting. These new groups, you probably see them here a lot in Florida. Remember when we used to have the girls where the promise rings and I'm not going to have sex until this age or whatever it was? There are kids now who are agreeing not until high school or something like that as middle schoolers, where we're all gonna stay with flip phones or we're all gonna not have social media as a group, as a team until this age. And it's a great way to counter something

that you cannot convince me is good for kids. I absolutely love that idea. Okay, Rob, let's go to the President's visit with Netanyahu. If you can prepare some of the clips one by one by one, if you can go through it. President Trump is with Netanyahu. There's multiple comments here. Some people were not happy about the fact that he pulled the chair if you want to play that clip, Rob.

They're having a visit, so this is the first one that takes place. This went all over the place on the internet. Go ahead and play this clip. Do you have a problem with that Chris? Of course not. Vinny, do you have a problem with that? I mean I've never pulled out a chair for another man in my life. Adams, do you have a problem with that?

So you have shitty manners? Can I see the man? For a man to the videos a guest in your house all that they had all it was. Yeah Oh, so you just pulled the chip so we're just being a tab. Do you have a problem with that? No, and I've seen this now Two times from two angles. I'm like it seemed like angle a split second couple to just being nice You know have you had your chair? I mean if he started wiping is that's all this and like massaging him I'd have an issue. I have a huge problem chair with people who have a problem with it I don't have a problem with don't act like you've never pulled it. You pulled out the chair for Cuomo today

Hey sit here guys. I didn't have a problem with I'm just saying I've never seen a guy I've never seen a guy pull a chair out for a guy. That's all I said I don't have a problem with it. It just I've never never seen it before. You did it for Kormo today. No I didn't. I moved it out of the way. Yeah you did. No, no, no. You pulled it out. You pulled it out. And then he goes, why don't I get the black chair? Guys, let it go viral. That's it. You pulled it out tiny Jesus. But can I tell you something about that? Can I tell you something about that? I'll push your stool in for you. The pulling chair situation. For example, you know for me, Vinny, like, Vinny always

gets me gifts. If there's a competition on who's gotten who more gifts, Vinny's gotten me more gifts. There's one in my car right now. No, no, but like for example, when I went on Joe, I brought those gifts. I gave him the Andrew Jackson's, all this stuff. I gave him the, what was the other thing? Oh, you're shocked. Lenny Bruce microphone.

Lenny Bruce microphone. It's like, oh my God. The Hendrix pen. But when I had Mark Cuban on the first time, I gave him a first print, first edition of Atlas Shrugged that he didn't have. He's like, you're kidding me. I said, I have this book all over the place. Not this one. I said, it's first print, first edition.

Rob, can you pull up the Cuban thing? And he's kind of like, this is a first print, first edition. I said, yeah. Wow, I don't have this, right? You know, whether it's Kobe, you Kobe, Kobe's reaction after the interview, the late Kobe, whether it's President Bush when we had him, whether it's, it doesn't, sometimes people don't want gifts.

DeSantis wasn't happy about my gift. I thought, well, he's got that restriction. I get that, I get that. But the point being, you have that, there's mannerisms for somebody older than you or somebody that's in a more, what do you call it, like not an elderly, somebody that they are. Veterans, respect.

Yeah, so that's the only thing about it which was kind of a, go all the way to the end, all the way to the end, it's like in a lot, yeah right there where you see even the spikes, go up when you see the view spike right there, that's probably where it's at. Go up right there, keep going, the spikes go up when you see the view spike right there That's probably where it's at go up right there Keep going keep going keep going Keep going that interviews in 20s right there Don't you love that orange So that's the part, but the reason for that is because he gave me his time. I asked for his time, he gave me his time.

That's the only thing. I don't know who asked who to come. So maybe it's, I asked you to come visit me, you came to my house, let me serve you. If I come to you, you serve me. If that's the dynamic. It's hospitality. People are making the point that he is subservient to Israel. That's what they're trying to do. That's what, and look, again, you can feel that way. We have never had an American president, and Bibi admitted it on the stage, that he feels more supported by Trump

than ever before. That's before. Can you dislike that? By the way, let me tell you what I absolutely love about what Trump did. Oh, I can't even tell you guys, when I watched this I'm like, listen, when you're the greatest country in the world and when you have a lot of money, directly and indirectly,

most people around you feel like they can take something from you. What can I get from this guy? That are not in the inner circle. Not the inner circle. Inner circle is a very different story. But everybody is kind of like, let me see what I can get from here, let me see what I can get from there, from other countries. Israel is not US, you know, EU is not US.

Any of these countries are not US. Relationship, hey, Colombia did this, Panama, yeah, we're not going to be doing this relationship with China, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course, you need the US business and now you're allowing our naval ships to go through which is saving us millions of dollars of fuel per year. That's what you're supposed to do, right? When he's giving this message and he throws this curveball, BB doesn't know what to do.

You can tell he had no clue about this. No idea. Rob, is this the clip? So there's two clips. I don't have the isolated, this is the isolated version of BB's reaction, but do you want Trump making the announcement and then we play BB's reaction, but do you want Trump making the announcement and then we play?

BB's... Is this with the announcement? You can hear it very lowly in the background. Okay, let me, but does the other one have what Trump says? Yes. Okay, play the other one, watch this. The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.

We'll own it. We'll own it. And be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different, just can't go back. If you go back, it's gonna end up the same way it has

for 100 years. So now go play the clip with his reaction, watch this. The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site level the site and that's that's you're not comfortable

is this the same guy that pulled out my chair he pulled it out from under him look at that he's looking because he does not know he's going to be saying that. Of course, I don't think anybody knew Trump was going to be saying that. It wasn't what was written for him. He had just said the language where he's like, everybody's going to have to be part of this thing and doing it. And then he says it. I'm supposed to have his hostage envoy, who's his Middle East envoy, come on my show right after this. I get a call, really sorry, I gotta go into an emergency meeting. I gotta go in, I can't talk to you right now. I have nothing to say about this. This is what Trump does, okay? Now, what I don't like about it is, and I

got killed for this last night, and that's okay. Anybody who heard this, and certainly anybody in my business, knows that Trump was going off the cuff and saying something that was never going to be official US policy but everybody played it to advantage on Fox they started saying what a good idea this is and then on MSNBC you got Joy Reid who's an outrage this is ethnic cleansing both of these entities knew that Trump was just riffing right but it works for their agendas. And that's the problem with our whole dialogue. God forbid you say anything that shakes it up and makes something happen and you get attacked from both sides. I don't see Trump as the problem

on this one. Yes, he said something that nobody wants. Levitt came out right away and said, no boots on the ground and we're not paying for it. Well, that's not what he suggested. Yeah, I know, but that's the difference between official statement and when he's just pushing the envelope and rough it. And I think everybody jumped on, I agree with you on a couple very key points there.

And one of the things that people jumped on, he said, we're gonna own Gaza. That's not what he said. Listen to what he said in full contest. We're doing a very good job there. We're going to do a good job and we'll own it. What he's talking about is says when somebody says, you know what? I'm going to clean up that mess. I'm going to own it. I'll take care of it. It doesn't mean that you're taking possession and like physical legal tacit ownership of it. That's not what he was saying. He was in the middle of a riff, but even in the middle of the riff saying we're going to own it didn't mean that we're

going to make it like Puerto Rico or Guam or a 51st state. No, that's not what he said, but it was a riff and everybody jumped on those angles. I like that. But guess what? You know what? It's because they have no other news and they have no other position. I think that I love about this Adam I'll give my thoughts. Yeah. Well is this idea completely out there? Is it outrageous? Is it completely preposterous? Yes, but is it the best idea I've heard so far Straight up. Yes, it is because you know how Winston Churchill said Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried

Show me an idea that has been proposed that is actually possible show me an idea because all the ideas that I've heard are the river to the sea chant I've heard the global into father chant I've heard the two-state solution that has basically been hinging on nothingness since for the last 75 years and does not happened for the second state gets a headquarters in Jerusalem. Yeah, exactly. So what viable solutions have ever been proposed? Nothing. So what Gaza what they basically said what he didn't show here was Gaza could and should be a Middle East paradise. I believe he called it the Riviera of the Middle East.

It could be what Singapore is in Asia. It could be what Dubai is. It could be what literal Tel Aviv is. Have you ever been to Tel Aviv? It is literal paradise. It's like if New York met Miami on the beach. It's incredible. Gaza could be that, but instead Hamas and the Palestinians have squandered billions and billions and billions of dollars by building down instead of building up. Their tunnel infrastructure is bigger than the New York tunnel system. Are you kidding me? So they've taken billions of dollars that have been given to them and they built basically

a terror network. And it's the same vicious cycle. They start a war, they lose a war, they cry foul, they sacrifice their martyrs, and they get they wait a few years and then they do it all over again. And then the last point is this, the Jordanians don't want them. The Egyptians don't want them. They forget that the Egypt has a border right next to that. They're not taking them in. The Lebanese don't want them to say they have millions and millions of Palestinians already. So do Israelis. That's right. They're not taking them in. The Lebanese don't want them to see. They have millions and millions of Palestinians. So do Israelis. That's right.

And there have been problems with the population. People don't forget, Vinnie, that there's two million Palestinian Arabs that live in Israel. Say that again. What do you mean they live in Israel? Yeah, they're Israeli citizens. Every single country in the Middle East has basically kicked out all the Jews and they've moved to Israel. But Israel has absorbed two million Arabs. So why don't the other Arab countries take in the Palestinians? Unfortunately, is because no one wants them. I mean, that's the same. It's a no-win situation. Listen, no-win situation, plain and simple. The only problem is the non-jihad terrorists just the regular Palestinians that had to leave because Gaza was going to be leveled and we knew

it was coming what are they going to come back to are they going to be able to come back to their home meaning hold on there's no more Hamas there are everybody's gone the leadership has changed do I get to come back to my house that was leveled my my you know yeah I yeah, I lost my son, I lost my daughter, me and my wife are still here, can I come back? If they're going to rebuild and make a high rise Trump Tower, can we get an apartment in there? Because my home was here.

That's the only problem that I'm saying. And I get it, people are like, they won't take them and they won't take them. Wait a minute, that's their home. They shouldn't have, nobody should have to take them. They should be able to come back home. And I think if you're going to rebuild and make it nice, I should be able to come back home and I think if you're gonna rebuild and make it nice I should be able to come back and live where I look that was the message that Trump articulated before he started riffing Yeah, and now I'm told after the fact what that the motivation here was the Arab community has to step up

they call the Palestinians brothers all the time until it's time to pay or to play. And if they don't step up, it's 100% true. If they don't step up and pay for... you don't want them in your country, you think you have enough, that's fine. Pay, because there's no reason for America to pay for it. And look, what also doesn't work, and this won't be as popular, Israel being in control of that as an occupied territory doesn't work, and this won't be as popular, Israel being in control of that as an occupied territory doesn't work. So you need an international consortium there to make it work until it can establish itself as a standalone entity.

And if Trump provokes that through this, then fine. But the idea that America is going to put boots on the ground, there's going to be ethnic cleansing, you're not allowed to come back, I think all of that is just to motivate left and right in proving which one is worse, and it's not the reality. It's called art of the deal. He's starting with something, and then we'll see where it ends up. Pat, you were going to say something? I think it's a little bit of that, to be honest with you. I think it's a little bit more than a little bit the art of the deal.

I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing. He may have been riffing a little bit. I think he's got underlying thoughts. And to Chris's point, you know, hours, not days, hours after the election, when it was time to pay or play, what did Qatar, what did Qatar say? Qatar. It's like, uh, yeah, congratulations on your victory. And then they turn around, look over their shoulder and say, all of you Arab brotherhood

that are here, your visas are expired in 14 days, get out. Because Qatar's like, okay, Mr. President, Mr. President, congratulations. We're good. And we don't have any of those guys. Yeah. But meanwhile, guess what? Those people were legal immigrants that were living in Qatar. But when it was time to pay or play, what did they do?

You know, this is a very simple thing. When it's like, hey, if you guys wanna stay quiet and you wanna defend them, it was similar to what Kyle from Nelk Boys did where he said, hey, are you about the open border? He says, yes, it should be open border and Trump, he's gonna be kicking people out. This is their country and what's wrong with that

and open borders? They say, man, we're so glad you feel this, but we have 20 illegal immigrants on the bus right there that we would like to bring into your house since you agree. No, no, they can't come in. No, no, you agreed because let them come into your house. And we think this is a great idea. So they got caught, Vinny. That's the challenge. They got caught knowing they don't want it. So now to me, there's a part of it where it's kind of like, okay, go visualize, US has a whatever you want to call it. What do you call that land if we take it over?

Occupied? We occupy Gaza. Let's just say, I'm just, guys, this is spitballing, guys. Don't jump to conclusions. Let's build it into Dubai. Do we have the money to do it? Sure. Is the guy a real estate guy that can do it?

Sure. Did Jared Kushner talk about how beautiful the water is? Yes. But then you build that, they come back, they don't know how to handle that. They don't know. It's like a lottery winner. What percentage of lottery winners after they win become drug addicts, destroy, destroy, divorce.

Your money, the, destroy, divorce. Your money, the identity is not there. It destroys lives. So if you do and they don't come back, that's the only way it will work. But then if you do and they don't come back, are you kidding me? There's stuff you're going to have to react to. Is this a top five issues? Is this a top ten issues?

I don't know. However, what I love about what he did is the following. Here's what I love about what Trump did. You know, Netanyahu and especially him, his mindset when you're that smart, you think you can outsmart everybody. Okay? When you're that smart, you think you can outsmart everybody. Okay? And it's kinda like, oh, you know, he's on our side and he's this, he's that, he's this.

I don't think he's on Netanyahu's side. I think Trump is on the Israeli people's side. I think Trump is on Israel as a nation's side. I don't think Trump is on the political gamification power brokers behind closed doors side. I don't think he's on that side. And the best part about being a great general and a leader is you need two things and it's so hard to balance.

You need an element of being very predictable, you need an element of being very unpredictable. As a parent it's great as well. You also need to be like this as a husband. You need to be predictable. Your kids need to see you there. Okay, I'm there. Boom. Hey, I'm here. This is what's going on. This is food, schedule, reading, this. They need an element of predictable. But then kids sometimes get so comfortable with daddy, they're like oh, there's a oh boom. Oh shit. Oh He's still in there no matter how much I love you, and I kiss you that guy's still in here So go okay, so every 90 days this needs to be seen a little bit right? Trump is dancing with Netanyahu

Come on in let me pull the chair for you. Oh on the big stage Let me feel make you feel like the king so yeah, here's what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be taking over Gaza. And then, what the, we didn't talk about the, yeah, and it's gonna be great, you know, and here's what, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but. That's the beautiful part about him being unpredictable. You gotta love how he makes everybody uneasy to realize,

hey man, I like you, we have a relationship, but you're in America. It's America first. And that's the most beautiful thing that I like seeing on how that is managed. If he stays like that, he's going to win people like me over every single day by making them feel uncomfortable. And that's the right thing to do by the way Flip side you ought to have a good relationship with them as well. You ought to try to have a good relationship with Russia you ought to do your best to have a good relationship with Zelensky

You ought to try to have a good relationship with China. You ought to try to have a good relationship with Israel But not at the cost of them thinking they own you and they control you. And I think he, man this guy, he's in such great flow state. I just love seeing that. Now, let's go to another thing. This clip Rob, if you don't mind playing this clip, I just love this clip because it kind of goes to what Cuomo said, it prompted me to watch this clip. We're not going to get into it, but this is what Scott Jennings, who is the current

owner of CNN, he said this. If you want to play this clip, go for it. Go ahead, Rob. What is currently the dumbest strategy in politics, which is Democrats taking the 20 percent side of every 80-20 issue in America. USAID, people want this pared down, they want it streamlined, they want to know where the money is going. Democrats have a meltdown.

Today, Donald Trump signs executive order on keeping boys out of girls sports. Democrats take the 20 side of that issue as well. All these issues, this is like Trump's superpower, finding a bunch of 80-20 issues, getting on the 80, and everybody who's sort of reflexively against him gets on the 20. And now the Democratic Party has like a 31% approval rating. This is why. I don't know. He's described. Oh, they lose their minds every single time.

He's the owner. I love that breakdown. He runs CNN. He is the current CEO, owner, whatever you want to call it of CNN. But hey, I got a weird story. Rob, you were digging deep in this one story. What page did you say it's on?

13. Yeah, and this one's kind of weird. Very. Because at one point, I was kind of like, you know, why aren't they getting behind Josh Shapiro? During the election? Yeah, why aren't they getting behind Josh Shapiro?

Talented, capable, speaks well, sounds reasonable. Game changer. Game changer. And then you hear some stories there and it kind of thing. Rob you want to take the lead on this story with a PA official reverse of suicide ruling for women with 20 stab wounds previously upheld by Democrat Josh Shapiro. What's the story about? Yeah, so this teacher, Ellen Greenberg, was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment back

in 2011, and her family has been fighting the state of Pennsylvania to have the case reopened. They originally, the medical examiner in the case, ruled that the death of Ellen Greenberg was a murder. However, he then met with the police and the district attorney who at the time overseeing that case was Josh Shapiro and that ruling was overturned and she was listed as the cause of her death as suicide, but we have some images and I'll pull those up.

Please show this. So, so it was remember initially they were like, oh yeah homicide 100% then Well, how long Rob a week or two weeks or I'm not sure about the they changed it They changed it they go no no she killed herself and this look just really fast you guys tell me this is that is The all the stab wounds and the head gash you mean to tell me that you're the district attorney No, this all happening and that you consider that a suicide Go ahead Rob. So the fiance of this woman Ellen Greenberg. His name is Sam Goldberg He is the one that discovered her body according to Sam Goldberg

He went to the apartment was with Ellen the night that she was murdered went Downstairs to their apartment complexes gym worked out for 45 minutes when he came back upstairs He found Ellen Greenberg and called 911 However, according to an investigative reporter named Gavin Fish before Sam Goldberg called 911 He made two phone calls those two phone calls were to two prominent Philadelphia attorneys one James Schwartzman and then his son came in Schwman, who happen to be Sam Goldberg's cousins. This is where it gets weird. The family of Schwartzman,

the same family that Sam Goldberg called, they have direct ties to Josh Shapiro, dating back to high school. James Schwartzman's daughter, who is Cayman Schwartzman's sister, Kimberly, I forget, Kimmel Schwartzman, she went to high school with Josh Shapiro. Her daughter goes to the same high school or Hebrew Academy that Josh Shapiro's daughter goes to now. Josh Shapiro was the district attorney

overseeing the case at the time and there are financial ties to Josh Shapiro's district attorney campaign from both Sam Goldberg, the fiance's family, his father, as well as the Schwartzman's, the family that is connected to Sam Goldberg. So what it looks like to people who are looking into this case is that there were calls made behind the scenes before 911 was alerted. If you believe the investigative reports into this,

that there were calls made to 911 before that to family members who may or may not have contacted Josh Shapiro, but definitely have ties to Josh Shapiro. And there's, I mean, here's the financial records from OpenSecret, so you can see. But these are, and they're small contributions, $250 from the father of Sam Goldberg, too. And then there's another financial contribution as well. But then show the other, the other, the body image of just the body of straight up Rob on the left side.

So Pat, if you're, if you're God forbid gonna commit suicide, why are you stabbing yourself in the legs and the, and the, it's everywhere and then there's no way you're stabbing there in the back of that. And apparently Rob, when he went down to the gym for 45 minutes, he came upstairs, the door was locked. So do they know, do they know who killed this person? No, they just overturned the ruling and re-investigate, reopen the investigation into the death. What's super interesting is that all of this came out on August 8th of last year.

But if you remember, this video was released and we'll play it real quick. We don't have to play the whole thing. But do you remember when the mayor of Philadelphia accidentally tweeted a campaign video announcing support for Josh Shapiro as vice presidential candidate with Kamala Harris We played it this video comes out on the 5th and then the news breaks on the 8th that this Investigation may be reopened and all of a sudden the Josh Shapiro for VP candidate rumors disappear. Yeah, that's just bad news I'm there Sherelle Parker here with leaders from across our region. Kamala Harris is on the road to victory. The road goes to Pennsylvania.

And in Pennsylvania, we're united behind her. The woman that's tough and can lead. Are we ready to fight for it? She is the right person at the right time for this job. It's going to do right by labor. Can you see him on the side? It's going to do right by working people. And I can't think of a better partner than our governor,

Josh Shapiro. So this comes out. So this comes out, Ralph? That comes out, and then people are saying that that's the main reason, because that story would have been you have to answer I have different questions here, but Chris. What do you know about the story? Nothing other than what's being said now and they're reinvestigating it. It certainly doesn't look good

I don't think it's why Shapiro wasn't picked Why do you think why do you think with the timing Chris? Why would the because that that meaning that story was coming out and the moment it comes out they just announced he's not going. So fifth, eighth, whose pick was Tim Walz? Who was the last second? No, but for example, when you hear about JD Vance and everybody's like, who's going to be the VP?

Tulsi, you know, hey, could be what do you call it? Hevey, could be this person. It was never going to be Tulsi. No, but Tulsi was in the discussions. Oh, you mean on the right. On the right, people were saying. But, and then you hear JD Vance, and some people say, well that was Peter Thiel,

that was Don Jr., that really liked JD Vance. Whose pick was Tim Walz? Great question. I don't remember. Maybe Ilhan Umar's? No, no, I'm actually not being sarcastic. No, it was Harris' pick. It was Harris' pick.

Who brought Harris to her? Who brought Walls to Harris? The DNC and a couple of Harris's Biden crossover advisors, when they were looking at the map of where they needed somebody, they were trying to get a Midwestern vibe, but it was a makeup choice. It was Shapiro. They were trying to get a Midwestern vibe, but it was a makeup choice It was Shapiro Shapiro was the obvious choice. He was the best you know where I'm going with this where I'm going with this is whoever brought waltz That didn't want Josh

Could have been the reason why this story became public Two three days later because Josh was the leading guy to be the VP of Kamala and this was one way to just say, hey listen you better step out of the way. If you do we won't make the story public and he stepped out and then nobody heard anything. Well no because the story could have come out anyway. Look I think that she didn't pick him because he had a couple of negatives. One, he's better than she is. Okay? He's better on his feet. He's a better messenger. The other thing is, he's a Jew. And he's a Jew who was aggressively pro-Israel during a time that the far left part of the Democratic

Party was decidedly against it. And now, as a basic cell proposition, you are offering America a black woman and a Jewish guy. And those are not minority groups that have absolutely killed it in the electoral process nationwide. And I think it was too much for Democrats to swallow, and I think it made Harris's people nervous, so they didn't pick him.

I thought it would have been a special moment of a first like Indian and Jewish, you know, I don't know about black, I thought she's Indian. It was a Jamaican Indian. She's not African American. Yeah so Jamaican. Yeah, Adam, are you trying to say something or? No, I just, I mean other than this Goldberg Greenberg It seems like it's like a Jew on Jew crime situation that happened in 2011 But what what exactly is Josh Shapiro's involvement in this? He was the DA. He's the DA Yeah, so my question is this how does this fall on him? 15 years later What is it because the office made a determination that it was something that it doesn't look like it was so why would you do something like that?

Why would you change it from? Okay? It's homicide. We all know and now it's a fact. It wasn't a homicide It doesn't take a genius. What what type of power does it take? It doesn't this come down to the judge being like What are we talking about here guys? No, we're getting too technical. It's did Shapiro help a couple boyhood friends and their wealthy influential father who have been supporting him? Did he as DA allow it to flip to suicide or his fingerprints on pushing or his thumb on the scale pushing that? That's what it was, Adam.

It's that's it. Not about the judge. It's like, did Shapiro help this out? I only want to go, how are you getting the wealthy thing? They donate 250 bucks No, but he knows he knows no no you look at the position of him It's not what he gave you look at the position of the father in the community and the people that are there around him It's like hey your boyhood friends. This is now a family of some repute here. You know we need a hand Sounds like Josh bro has some explaining to do yeah

And that last cuz I know Pat you want to move and guess what nobody's looking for the killer like with OJ you know, we need a hand. So it sounds like Josh Bro has some explaining to do. And last, because I know Pat you want to move, and guess what? Nobody's looking for the killer, like with OJ. Where's the killer? Where? Is anybody looking for the person that freaking killed this poor girl? No! I mean, you know what OJ would always say is like, what hurts his heart the most is that the killer is still out there.

Yeah, yeah. Killer is still out there. OJ! It just sits, it sits, it doesn't look good. I like that, your question was awesome. The best, yeah, I mean, to me, it's who's behind it, because one, isolate. If that's the case, he's the DA.

Not good. Damn, okay. Yeah. But the other side, everybody has been hanging on to this for a while, waiting for his day that he's gonna run, and someone had a file saying the day he runs, this is gonna be public. Trust me, he's not gonna be the one.

You don't have to worry about Josh, and that file came out. Yes. But wouldn't they put that out before he runs for governor though? Yeah. I don't think that this is his big problem, but the Democrats misplated.

I'm not saying that it would have made a difference in the outcome. This was a grievance election. He's a capable guy. And they own the status quo, but he is a capable. He's a capable guy Let's go to by the way, whether you agree or disagree with Chris you can always maniac them. Okay, Rob put them in that right there Many of the next I got Yes, and I like how they believe they can punish me with their reviews And you said many of them next to what they are, you know coming to disagree about something that they

either perceive I would support or They want to see whether or not I support something that they obviously don't like and they're often very engaging That's why I get back to them so fast. And I do like that in the, it's only a handful of occasions where I knew I was given this person an answer that they did not want to hear. And I knew they were going to ding me with the review. And sometimes I'll answer them back, be like,

you ding me with the review, you punk. Raise your prices, raise your prices. Now let's go through it. It's okay. FCC launched probes into Soros back radio station that revealed live locations of undercover ICE agents. FCC Chairman Brandon Carr pointed about President Trump launching an investigation into the San Francisco-based radio section 8 backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros after

broadcast a live location of undercover immigration and customs enforcement agents conducting deportation operations San Jose the FCC enforcement bureau sent a letter of inquiry to KCBS questioning whether it violated the FCC license agreement to serve the public interest noting the ICE agents were in the area with violating gang activity the 20th January 26th edition of case is this it Rob? So this is actually the audio from KCBS where they issue the warning about the ICE raids. Okay, go for it. The chance is in just a moment.

First though, I'm Brett Burkhardt and here's what's happening. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Council Member Peter Ortiz confirmed today that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are currently carrying out an operation on the east side of town. The Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which is a community defense projecting system for immigrant communities against deportation threats, it first reported the activity on

its platforms. That was the mayor of San Jose. Tom, thoughts on the story. Yeah, so there's a couple things going on here. The first is, should a radio station be saying, hey, this story? Yeah, so there's a couple things going on here. The first is, should a radio station be saying, hey, you on 3rd Street where there is a crack house, you got the cops coming up the alley right now. Do you really want that to put the authorities in danger so that they don't have the surprise on their side? Instead you have, you know,

a criminal element or people that don't want to be caught on their side instead you have you know a criminal element or people that don't want to be caught pre-reacting you do you want that and obviously the FCC no but the greater thing is this this is all part of is this now a tactic that's being used because September 26 of last year everybody got very upset like not everybody half of Congress got upset because the FCC fast-tracked George Soros buying 200 or so radio stations that were assimilated under a group says Odyssey A U D A C Y Odyssey I think like if you say it that way and he went and bought it. Well not that he bought it that's not unusual you know billionaires buy Time magazine billionaires buy the Washington Post and then they put their their thumbprint

and their influence on coverage that happens all the time but this was fast-tracked in September ahead of the election and so people are saying hey is Soros getting a unfair advantage here to fast-track this because the people that were currently at the FCC were giving him the ability to get this so he could put his influence on the coverage and now people talk about well you know he was he was supporting BLM and he was supporting DA's that were catch and release is his radio stations now are they out there telling people where law enforcement are going to be to interfere with with law enforcement's

job and potentially even put law enforcement at risk. And that's the story and that's what's going on. It certainly looks like it. You don't want a radio station to tell the criminals, hey, here they come because they could prepare themselves and take action against the law enforcement guys. Shitty move, sabotage plain and simple. It's not journalism. It's aiding and abetting, just like if it's true, the governor of Jersey.

But these guys are out there enforcing the law and instead of supporting them, you have a major radio station putting a target on their back. And the real thing is, Chris Chris how long are we as Americans Gonna let this one freaking guy George Soros You keep hearing this freaking guy and it's always negative and this guy goes around with impunity and his son Is it gonna be taking the religious if you want to talk about the face of evil Rob just show that face I'm not judging or being like when you think of an evil guy I'm not judging or being like when you think of an evil guy

If you're what but evil devil watching but no judgment if you're watching a movie and that face showed up that face Would you think he was a good guy? What do you mean the guy on the left right there looks great the guy the guy on the left that guy in the light And it's or he looks like that depends if he's paying my bills, I think he looks just fine. Yeah, but he's been fueling chaos for years. He funds riots, he installs radical DAs. George Soros? Stop it, he's a beacon of amazingness. Yeah, and now he's doing this.

And the fact that people talk shit about Elon Musk, who gives us X, like, Elon Musk is enemy number one to the left. Musk is the enemy, but he gave us free speech and now he's cleaning up the government. Musk did not give you free speech. He bought it for us. Natural rights gave you free speech. What do you mean natural?

And the Constitution codified them. You know what I mean. He is pushing what he likes on a platform that he bought, which is his prerogative. Soros is a little bit of a boogeyman. There are a lot of people with a lot of money that inject their will on our politics. Now, today we call them oligarchs. It's not new. It's why I did what I did at the political conventions. The people with the money push the agendas. It is very rare

that you hear any Republican or any Democrat come out with policies that wind up hurting them. Even their fair share shit that they say on the left never winds up manifesting itself in any real reason. You could not like what Soros funds, that's fine. Correlation is in causation with this radio thing. I don't think it was rammed in at the end so Odyssey could be like a big player in the election. I think that this was a bad move. I think it's likely illegal for them to do what they're doing on the radio station and it's certainly a bad look for the radio station, KCBS, in that market.

But there are a lot of guys who put their money in it. We've never seen anybody do what Elon's doing. That's why I think he's gotta be careful to make sure he does everything in a way that's beyond reproach. And he doesn't make it easy for people to take down his efficiency efforts. But telling people where the authorities are is a really stupid thing to do.

Really stupid. Why is that? What do you mean? Because the cops are here. This is where they are. Because you're hindering prosecution. You are obstructing justice. It's like, for example, you reading, let's just say three guys are being accused of rape or something in Miami

realtors yeah and you're reading the text and then while you're reading it's not do this and then somebody on the podcast says you're probably going to get it but the point is like that's what that is that's where it kind of stops let's just cut this thing I just want to make sure that you got the point. You get it, then we get it. Are those your boys? No, you've done no. You've done not. Vacation. You've done so much, Adam. Why not have a subpoena vacation?

Tom, let's just stick to the Mambo number five, buddy. All right, let's go to the next story here. Mambo number five. I have no idea what that is. Let me see what the schedule is. Give me one second to see what I got after this. Cause I got two stories I'd like to go. Pa pa pa pa pa, da da da da da.

What is that? Let me see what it goes. Okay, Rob, can you text Matteo to text me to tell me what my 1130 is? Let's go through the story. I love the story. And I think it's important for us to go through it. And then we'll do a Super Bowl to wrap

it up with. Army recruitment hits major milestones, but it may not be enough. Okay, so remember a couple years ago where parents would manic me and they would say, why should I let my kids join the military? I mean, why would you do that? Because I'm afraid of sending my kids to the military. It's, why would you do that? Because I'm afraid of sending my kids to the military. It's not the same military that you join. Well, Army recruitment hits major milestone, but it may not be enough. Defense Secretary Pete Hexett announced that the Army achieved its best

recruiting numbers in 15 years with 55,000 recruits in fiscal 2024. But Daniel Driscoll, Trump's nominee of Army secretary, warned that it's not enough. By the way, that's under Biden if they're saying 2024. It's not enough. Driscoll, a former Army cavalry scout platoon leader, testified at his confirmation hearing that we have the fewest number of active soldiers that we've had since World War II. Even as conflict is erupting around the world, we need to fix that.

The Army recruitment efforts have improved thanks to initiatives like the Future Soldier Proprietary Course, launched in 2022, which provides academic and fitness training to lower performing recruits. Despite these gains, only 23% of young adults meet the military's physical, mental, and moral standards for enlistment with disqualifications ranging from drug use and criminal records to gang affiliation. In 2022, Army fell 15,000 recruits short from its 60,000 goal, recruiting just over 50,000 in 2023, below its target of 65,000.

Vinny, thoughts on this story? VINNY VARGAS-MARTINEZ-MARTINEZ I don't know, Pap. I just think the sentiment just of people in the military has been low for a long time. The standards have dropped. And again, we keep going back to that LGBTQ. I've, I saw multiple stories of people that were joining just to get the transition surgery. And then once you leave the military, you get connect Yes, you're saying they're joining the military choice 1000% meant men that wanted to transition at them. They joined for like a four-year contract They come in they get the surgery then they're like, you know

I have problems and they leave and guess what happens they're connected because you need the therapy need the thing For a long time so anything with numbers going up for our service Yeah, you said to help you and the VA said yeah Guess what? Yeah and forget about all the spending that we spend and all the crazy stuff. As a veteran, if you guys want to talk about, because, Matt, I deal with the VA all the time. It is the most depressing thing when I walk into a VA to see the level of freaking care that we're getting. So I think, you know, I'm hoping that the numbers go up. I get messages on the neck all the time of actual people like hey listen I want to join what

should I do we have another we have a value-tainer here that's I think boyfriend a sister's boyfriend oh Daniel Daniel's here Daniel's a sister's boyfriend is joining the Air Force I gave him all the I'm gonna give him all the pros and cons and everything like that but I'm just happy that the numbers are freaking finally going up well the question is why they're going up, what the enticement is. I would like to see Doge take on the military industrial complex.

And this is the first time we've had a Republican environment where they're open to it. Usually the Pentagon has been sacrosanct for them. You can take the high end estimate with trans people in the military is somewhere between 2000 and 15000, depending on whose number you want. You have over two million people. I don't think that's the issue. But the idea of what are you doing with your defense department and what are you funding and why are you funding it? I can't think of an

agency that needs it more than that one does. It's hard to find special operators these days, which is really the majority of our presence and what we're doing, who don't believe that you're about 20 years past due when we needed to completely shift what our military does. So now, why are you starting somewhere else? Well, I think you want some early wins and you want where it's manageable and there's gonna be less pushback. Can you imagine if President Trump, let's not see Elon Musk because he's too easy to push back again, you know, the guy hasn't even been vetted let alone have that kind of authority, but if Trump says I want to go

line by line in the Defense Department and DoD Pentagon all of it and I really want to cut things and I'm not just talking about $300 toilets. I think that there would be a lot of Republican pushback and The question is well then establishment Republican pushback or Republican pushback. Um, you know members of Congress whose constituencies eat from that trough heavily and you know who else is gonna come into play? The oligarchs. The real ones. The guys who get the real big contracts which are defense contractors and they're gonna come in and say no and that's a really interesting fight. I don't have a problem with that. I know but you but we're also not having to do it you know what I mean that's a lot of money a lot of power.

It's a second term it's a second term and if there's a guy that has enough of a brass to be able to pull that off as this guy there's a guy that if you had now don't get me wrong there's a part of Trump that you know where we're investing our money into the military is what I care about what is it going to yes how new is it how strong is it Are we ready to fight future wars to prevent them or previous wars? Are we tech savvy enough to prevent a cyber attack or any of power grid, like they're talking about

putting an iron dome, what are we doing that's futuristic to protect future attacks? I'm interested in funds going into that. Stuff that we did in the past to just give a contract to someone, I'm not interested. It's where we're farthest behind and we live this all the time. We have real easy hacking access. People take down our companies, our platforms, all the time. And it is the most ignored thing. I mean just think about it if guys went to a Railway station they went to Amtrak. Yeah, and they took over Penn Station. It would be a national story for three days It would be a huge thing and everybody would have to die, right?

They take it offline on a regular basis China takes our power grid offline in different areas on a regular basis. And we never even talk about it. And then the only pushback, well, we do the same stuff to them. Well, I don't care what we do to anybody else in this context.

So it's a real conversation to have. I don't know that it gets had. I think you start with USAID for a reason. It's easy pickings, it's low fruit. This would be a real fight Well, I have immense respect for the people that serve in the military I didn't you get Pat was in the army Vinny was in the Air Force There's so many people I've met through being at value attainment that have served in the military Marines Matt Sepala

The list goes on I'd never served I played college football, but I've so much profound respect You served. You served. I served in the locker room. It was great. Me and Arnold Palmer. It was great. But is there more an important yet detached branch of the country that gets overlooked

than the military? I think less than a half a percent of Americans active serve in the military, right? And then 7% overall have served in their lifetime. World War Two, Vietnam, the Desert Storm, the list goes on. So you know, my grandfather served in World War Two, he would tell me stories about literally fighting the Nazis. But it was, it was an honor to do that. And now it's so detached from American lifestyle, you have like very few people you know, do that and now it's so detached from American lifestyle You like very few people, you know serve all it's the depends depends which part of the country

I ain't no senator's son that song when they wrote it in the 60s is applicable songs today You know who was a Creedence Clearwater? Tom that is correct. We don't mean it's called Fortunate Son. I ain't no Fortunate Son. So I think that this has always been an us and them situation. I think if you talk to the men and women in the military they'd be the first ones who would want to see the agencies that control their existence reviewed. And again, but it's a really hard fight and you got to think. Right now and again this is not a criticism

Okay, you would be foolish to begin an administration taking on fights. You may not win. That's silly Build up some momentum get some cache that you can get things done smart. When you interview Trump That's his choice. I think he has made a mistake ignoring News Nation I don't care if he does an interview with me or not But ignoring an outfit that over samples to independents who are the fastest growing part of the elector It doesn't make any sense. Got it. Okay, so we'll see he's not a guy that'll back down but neither am I maybe oh Maybe that's right. It's not getting done. It's not a threat at all. Now. That was it. That was a threat I would pull his chair out

All done that's the approach I'd give him I'd give him the shake hug You know when I first met him he used to not shake hands and I totally get it man You you're around as many people as he is, you know, everybody you'd be sick all the time You could you shake in everybody's hand? But just now I you know, he'd get the shake hug, you know, somebody gives you that kind of opportunity. You should pull that chair out. You should show him respect. Also I'm just that way. I get told that every once in a while when people see us or so like I'm hugging and saying hello to you. They'll be like, Oh, wow, you really like that guy.

Yeah, I'm like, well, that that's what I do. And I like somebody. Well, you and Vinny wrestle half the time you see each other you got a fun though Like he would absolutely dislocate my knee 18 seconds Strong and supple is what I was let's do this last story so Fox News says Bret Baer will interview President Trump during the Super Bowl Games pregame show but at the same time the NFL is doing a few different things. Yeah, it's kind of weird. They're removing the end Racism phrase from the end zone. Okay for Super Bowl for the next Super Bowl that's coming up and

Is this her by the way, Dear Rabi? Yes. Okay, go for it. Dear Rabi. Just as millions of fans tune into the Super Bowl, they will not see this, the end racism slogan and the back of the end zone. Instead, one end zone will say, choose love, and the other says, it takes all of us.

The League explains that the change is about capturing the moment of time in the country and nodding to the turbulent past few weeks of fires, plane crashes, and tragedy. They don't mention though the VIP who is going to be attending the big game. That is Donald Trump. Trump has made erasing every trace of DEI initiatives a focal point of his first few weeks in office. Yet you have a job at CNN. Yeah. Making a lot of money for yourself. Yeah. and Super Bowl ticket prices have plummeted 58% in a week.

They've, with 50 yard line seats dropping from $56,000 to $23,000. That is on freak. And the cheapest tickets on Game Town fall from 64 to 4,600. Prices on StubHub now range from 30, you can buy a ticket at $3,300 are you kidding me from 3,300 to 21,000 while vivid seeds 31 you can get a ticket for

$3,100 to $21,000 game time prediction tickets will hit their lowest on February 5th and February 9 game day with a slight price increase Expected you think Wow, I mean I have my own opinions. I think the NFL fans are not happy with the Chiefs and the same folks from two years ago being there. And I think they're not happy about the fact that some of the referees, the calls, are pretty bit suspect. Pro-KC? Yeah.

Did you see the, because you know they're all at the Super Bowl. Where's the Super Bowl being held this year? New Orleans. They're all in New Orleans sitting around. Did you see what some reporter or somebody asking questions that went up to Travis Kelsey and said, Rob, I just slacked it to you. He asked him, let me just play. I don't even want to, I don't want to give it away and listen to he, Kelsey is not happy about this. Rob, go ahead, put the volume up. Travis, Travis, Travis, Travis, what do you love more, Taylor Swift or Phantom 15 yard roughing the passer penalties or playoffs?

That's a good question. Anybody else? Anybody else? He doesn't want to hear it. Phantom 15, I mean, listen, it's undeniable that the Chiefs are favorite. But my thing is because Taylor Swift is anti-Trump, but the, what's the name of the family?

Mahomes' family, him, his wife, they're all. You see what he said in the interview yesterday? No, because they asked us, what? Yeah, Mahomes yesterday was asked about, he openly talked about his faith. Yeah? Yeah, openly. Which was, is this it?

Is this where he tells us about playing in front of President Trump or? Play this clip? Is this one playing in front of President Trump? Let's hear what he says. Yeah, I mean, it's always cool to be able to play in front of a sitting president, someone that is at the top position in our country.

And so I didn't see that clip, but obviously it's cool to hear that he's seen me play football and respects the game that I play. Respects the game that I play. Gotta love it. It's good. And he's in a rough position, by the way. But your thoughts on who's going to be winning? Let's do predictions and we'll wrap up.

Okay, we got predictions. Here we go. And with score. Actually, we got predictions. Here we go. Um, and what score actually give the prediction and your score. Wow. Rob, write it down somewhere so we can kind of a. So let's see. Um, I really have not analyzed this the way I usually do. Stop it.

You have like a report. You had a PowerPoint or this morning. You're showing it to us. No, I mean the way I would normally go into into it but I think this is going to be a high scoring game because both these defenses have shown over the course of the playoffs that they're on the field I think more than they really forecasted or wanted to be. And so they haven't been just shutting people off the field and neither one of the offenses are these long grinders

And I think that the Phillies got a lot of balance. So I'm like 3128 Kansas City because I just think that you know, you can't get away from those game-winning drives where Patrick Mahomes has had just unprecedented success and you know that's that's what I think. By the way, you seem nervous I don't know why you seem nervous. It's just a basic prediction. So I'll go that. People aren't going to want to hear me say 3P and everything you know by the way the Rice Sports Management Department is down there helping out the Super Bowl this weekend.

Oh, no way! Yes, they are. Is she going? Yeah, she's not going to the game, but there's a whole bunch of events that go up. I love it. Tom, Vinny, where are you at? That's kind of fun. That same reporter does something with Patrick Mahone's I'll Have Him Play It After This.

Listen, and I've been saying this for a long time and our viewers know this. I'm that guy. They've invested way too much time and money in the Travis Kelce, Pfizer, Taylor Swift following. She's brought hundreds, how much money do you think Taylor Swift, being a football fan, going up there, has no idea what's going on, has brought to the NFL? Do you see anything that isn't a conspiracy? No, that's, I would never say that word. That's not it I know you wouldn't because it would be self-owning

Nobody's saying the c-word. Yes, but here's my question. You think that relationship is weird Did you see the the allegedly leaked stuff from their PR people saying this is what we're supposed to break It was the lowest form of intelligence. Would you call it skepticism is the what lowest form of intelligence not my Vinny though No, I love Vinny. Yeah, No, no listen, but he's not exactly I mean look guys. I think he sees some things. Oh, yeah, like like what CNN talks about fake Russian collusion. Anyway, listen Let's talk about something serious right now. I think there is no way Kansas City loses just like last year remember Adam they were winning all the way to the end Can't see the way money the score is gonna be

27 24 Kansas City and my other prediction is that Travis Kelsey takes nine boosters at the 50 yard Kansas City wins. The score is going to be 27-24 Kansas City. And my other prediction is that Travis Kelsey takes nine boosters at the 50 yard line because he's promoting Slyzer. 27-24 Kansas City. You got 27-24 KC. 27-24 KC. So we're both field goal guys. You're 31-28.

I have no idea. I'm a Bills fan. I do not think that the refs are why the Bills lost the game. You're a Bills fan. Yeah. I think that the refs are why the Bills lost the game. You're a Bills fan. I feel horrible for you. You know how to spell Bills. They won against Baltimore. You know how they spell Bills these days? B-I-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-S. Listen, losses after losses. Look, I am also a Jets fan, so the Bills are like high cotton for me. But I'll tell you what they w they won against the Ravens because a tight end dropped a pass. They lost against the chiefs because a tight end dropped the pass. So that's football. I have never seen in the modern era, a running

back dominate the way Saquon Barkley does it. Supposedly you're not able to run in the NFL anymore. And I mean, what this guy is doing is amazing. I am not impressed by the Chiefs run defense. I think Jalen Hurts is good. I believe the Eagles are gonna win. I don't know the score. I'm not good enough, but I do not believe that they're gonna lose because of Pfizer and Taylor Swift.

Okay. Well, you can't deny the calls that people have been talking about. that they're gonna lose because of Pfizer and Taylor Swift. Okay, well you can't deny the calls that people have been talking about. Can we play this one? There are bad calls all the time. But they go towards the Chiefs a lot of the times. A lot. They used to say the same thing about Jordan. And Brady, but go ahead, let me see this one. This is actually funny one too. He actually plays it good.

Patrick, Patrick, for your whole career you have had so many great people But go ahead let me see this one. He actually plays it good For your whole career you have had so many great people help you win. So who is your favorite rap? He's cold though don't you want this reporter to get punched in the face Is there one that you give a Christmas card to every year possibly? Look, look. I'm not going to remember. I'm not going to remember. I'm going to remember so much. He makes me try to figure it out.

Yeah. What do you like if he just got up and did what Jim Everett did? Yeah. Jim Rome. Jim Rome. Oh, Chris Everett. Say it again. Can you not say that anymore?

There's no denying this guy's greatness. I mean, if you're gonna beat them you can't just it can't come down to the final play because they're gonna get perceived every single close call whatever. I don't know that they're gonna get every close call. Look I should be saying this what you guys are saying because the Bills lost right but I'm just saying if you get to a game where you're down to the end and you're given this team another a last drive then you're down to the end and you're given this team another last drive and you're asking to lose. That's true. You know, when so that there's no, there is no doubt. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I keep rooting against these guys. You know, I always root for

Tom Brady and it worked out well for me. And I always root against Patrick my homes and it doesn't work out well for me. Seven minutes left. Make your pick. This guy goes on a whole rant. And I'm not three seconds in old man. So I think for the first time that they're actually going to not pull it off in the end. And if I'm going to quote the Philadelphia mayor, let's go Eagles. E G S I think they're going to win 27 26 by one point. Who Philadelphia Philly. Yeah, say Kwon Barkley So what happens if Philadelphia wins 50 to 10 if Philadelphia wins 50 to 10 Does Vinnie come on here with me next week and say see they had to make it so obvious because

Of course, because of the $500 bucks need. No, no, no. That's exactly. We're going to make him eat his words. PBD, do you want to give your prediction, sir? I think there's never been a three-peat in the history of football. I'd like to see a three-peat. I'm a history guy. I want to see a three-peat so the next guy can beat it.

I will tell you, the most exciting quarterback I've ever seen play is this guy. He's so exciting. He's falling on the ground, throws the ball. The stuff that he does, I've never seen before. There's something very special about this guy. Very special about this guy. But I will say what he said about Saquon Barkley. It's not supposed to happen.

No, it's not supposed to happen. 2,000 yards, coach didn't let him play game 17. He was kind of upset. He had a shot at breaking a record. I'm going to go 35-28 sheaves. Wow. I think it's history. And by the way, I actually do think the NFL wants the three-peat.

Thank you! I think the NFL wants the three-peat but I think there's also part there this is one of those things where the villains that become the villains everybody wants to see them lose. Of course. Everybody wants to see them lose. And just the fact that- I'm not rooting for the chiefs. I'm telling you it's history making. Let's go chiefs. C, E, F. By the way, this is like all of them do it like in college, Baylor, Baylor, B-A-R-E, Esco, Bears. It happens. I'm just happy though that end racism, which is the most unattainable goal,

as much as we want it, you're not gonna stop some guy in Mississippi stop being racism. That's like saying stop ugliness, you can't. So the fact that they finally took that stupid ass thing out of there. Vinny, who's love? Who's love? Gang, have a great weekend. And to all the people that disagree with Chris, go manic the guy

and tell him how much you disagree with them. Go Bill. Shoot him a manic and tell him. E-L-L-G. Rob, pull up this QR code at the end for those that want to go to download the app. I mean, if by the time Rob gets it, it's going to be tomorrow. How long do you take? Come on Rob. get it already Rob.

I know you do, there you go, there's the QR code. Take care everybody, God bless, bye bye bye bye.