The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Art Of The Deal, Dems Storm ICE & Fake Biden Job Numbers

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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two hours from now or sometime today, let's say. And again, they thought he was dead just a short while ago. His parents are so happy. They're so happy. So it's, as you know, Edan's the only American citizen

is captured and held hostage by Hamas since October 7th, 2023, and he's coming home to his parents, which is really great news. I mean, to me, it's big news. Big news, indeed. There's a lot of stuff happening today.

The way that we were going to start the program, I mean, we have ideas in mind as to how we're going to start the program, but there's a lot of stuff happening, whether it is the trade deal with China, whether it is the India, Pakistan, the negotiated, and, you know, ceasefire. A lot of stuff underway. And then, of course, you have the executive orders. You have the executive order as it relates to medicines and price controls, which have to have a big discussion about that. A lot of stuff to hit this very busy Monday morning. Welcome to the program, Dana Lash, with you. And we're at the top of this first hour. And I mean, where to even start. You also have this hostage, this American hostage, the last American hostage, who is now being released. And I guess

on his way, going to end up in Tel Aviv, where his mother's apparently waiting for him. And then he's going to be coming back to New Jersey. So lots of things to discuss. It was a very, very busy weekend. And one of the big things that I want to take away from this is that, and let me go back to the, particularly the trade agreement with China. All we, heard for, what, two weeks? And we ourselves were kind of wondering, but we don't want to, we don't trust China with anything. Because repeatedly it was said over and over again that, oh, well, China's not talking to the Trump administration. And the Trump administration was saying, yes, we're, we're actively talking to China right now. And leftists were even questioning it.

And now they are. I think the trade deal with China is a very good thing. So there's some good news. There's some stuff that I'm a little about and ever more pressure on Congress to act with the executive orders. So where to start? I think we start what you heard the president talking about just a moment ago, the hostage release, which is, I mean, when you still think of how long people, I mean, this guy has been held is unbelievable. And I'm wondering what Hamas wants out of this. it's I mean it's very good news that Eden Alexander is going to be freed and maybe maybe and again I'm speculating maybe Hamas decided that it was going to cut a deal with the United States so that it could make it so that it seemed like it was you know amenable right like they can negotiate they can make deals or maybe they were trying to get one over on Netanyahu and make it look like well look like well look look, Trump can get hostage released, but Netanyahu can't. There's a couple of different ways to look at this.

And this is, I'm so glad that we have Stephen Yates on today. You know, he joins us every Monday. He worked in the first Trump administration on foreign policy. And everybody so far had cooperated. Israel said that they made zero concessions for this to happen. And I, it, I know they reduced the size and scope of, their operations in Gaza, but they said they have not, you know, they didn't compromise on anything. I don't, the United States apparently didn't compromise on anything. So what, what is

Hamas's, what is their motivation behind this? Because it's kind of uncharacteristic. And by kind of, I mean entirely, right? Entirely uncharacteristic from Hamas. So what are they getting out of this? For what? Isn't that a horrible? A hostage is released and we have to go, okay, for what, why? Why are they releasing him? What are they getting out of this? Hamas doesn't do anything without having, trying to get some kind of advantage, something. And I'm kind of wondering if it's not the optic of making it seem, making Netanyahu seem incompetent in regards to negotiating hostage releases compared to Trump, because that would be a big win for them over him. So it's, it's interesting to see. And we're going to talk, like I said, to Stephen Yates a little bit about

this later. The big, I think the other big thing of good news is the trade deal with China. So what, so rolling it back, what was it, 119 points? So we're taking it back to, I think it was what, a 20% for the tariffs. China's taking theirs back. We're rolling ours back. It's a very good deal for us. It's actually only, I'm pulling up my notes here, it's only like 10 points above the status quo previously as to what it was. And we're keeping a percentage in place because of fentanyl. So that's why there's that residual percentage in place against them because of fentanyl. So that makes sense.

It's a big, big, big win for the United States on this. And, I mean, the markets responded as well. This is, what do we want? 11 or 12. I mean, we've got, Scott, we've got Secretary of a cent. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do 11 because he's talking about this 90-day pause. This is the Treasury Secretary on this just a little bit ago.

Listen. And what we have is a 90-day pause on the reciprocal tariffs, both sides de-escalated by 115%. So we are both at 10 on the. the reciprocal tariffs, the fentanyl-related tariffs, which President Trump put on in February are still on. And over the next 90 days, we have a mechanism to meet with the Chinese trade delegation. Again, we will be discussing tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers, currency, and there's subsidies of labor and capital, and how we can. open up China to American businesses and rebalance what is our most imbalanced, unbalanced trading

relationship. And the markets responded. They went gangbusters. They did. I think what futures were up over a thousand points this morning. They said that it was better expected, better than expected. This is per C&BC. And I also saw Wall Street Journal. They were saying that they were even expecting more near-term relief for investors with CNBC. saying it was a major breakthrough. Now, I meant to say 30, it's the 20% on Chinese, it's the 20% duties in Chinese imports related to fentanyl that's in place. The 10%, 125 to 10%, and that's the reciprocal tariff.

So with the 20 and the 10, it's a 30% that remains on China, the 10% reciprocal, and then you have the 20% for the fentanyl. And every market insider, and apparently when you hear the administration talk, I don't think it's going to stop there. I think that this is, it's not the end goal. I think it's still progress towards China actually responding and getting involved and reducing, if not ending, the fentanyl coming into the United States. We shall see on that. But that's, that it's incredibly significant.

So the, they were talking after all, came because we were, I mean, we were here not all last week. Oh, they're not really talking. Or China says they're not really talking. They were. They were completely. having this back and forth. So this is incredible. I mean, it's good. I mean, you had stocks everywhere go Asia, Europe, everybody. I mean, it's Europe's stock index gained a percent. Germany's, I think, had a high for the past year. I think Hong Kong was like plus three percent. So huge, huge news.

And a great thing to start the week with, really. A great thing to start the week with, indeed. So this is all incredibly significant. And like I said, yeah, China was talking to them this entire time. So that is going to be a major relief for a lot of businesses. And a lot of people I think were being, because I saw some of the discussion. I think there are some folks who don't own business or never have been in manufacturing that don't quite get it. And they were kind of harsh on some of. I read a couple of op-eds like last week.

And they were kind of harsh towards some of these businesses. And I know you've seen it as well. with manufacturing and with these small businesses, it is very, very difficult because of China's dominance to decouple from them almost entirely. I mean, it's a tough thing to do because they've been allowed to basically, not a monopoly, but have such a sizable footprint that it almost suggests a monopoly. But they've been allowed, I mean, that's been allowed for forever. and domestic prices here, our policies here haven't helped with offshoreing of manufacturing, et cetera, et cetera. So it's, it was very difficult. I know we have some friends, actually, their businesses, they try to do everything here in the U.S. There are certain things that they,

that no one else makes except for China or like Vietnam. And it was, I mean, one of them was considering they were, if it, if there wasn't any progress, they were probably going to go out of business. And so now this is huge news because now, 100, what do you go from 145 to 30? And it's only 10 above what the status quo was. It's only 10% above status quo. So that's, that's incredibly workable, incredibly workable. So now we'll see if that 20% works towards reducing the fentanyl flow. So huge, huge news, a lot of stuff happening this morning. Now, in addition to that, because we're not even, goodness, the plane. We'll talk about this a little bit more in depth coming up. I know you heard back about, I know you guys have heard the story about the plane from Qatar, right?

So let's rewind just a little bit. Air Force One, which can't correct me if I'm wrong on this. I thought they said it was like 40 years old. Yeah, it's in need of an upgrade. So Old Jet and that poses a number of different issues because you can only retrofit things and you can only upgrade and modernize certain things for so long. And it needs to go. I mean, I think that that's Democrat Republican.

and I think it's pretty safe to say that it needs to be updated. Now, remember, during Trump's first term, this was something that he had actually put an order in on that everybody agreed on. But then I think it was Boeing that it was already over budget and it was late, like over budget by some millions and already a couple of years behind schedule. And so he was, I think it was in January. He was at the Palm Beach International Airport, checking out a potential plane to use in the meantime, and now the story from Cutter comes up.

Now, I think it's a bad idea to take anything from Qatar, number one. Number two, well, reasons being A for optics, C of 1A, optics, 1B, I mean, it just optics. None of it looks good. And these are also people that fund Hezbollah. They help with Hezbollah. They help with Hamas. I mean, Qatar's where Hamas chiefs live. I mean, they have a very cozy little relationship.

with him. I just think that's problematic on a number of different levels. But number two, and maybe perhaps this is most important, do you trust that? I mean, do you trust the president of the United States flying around on a Qatari jet, a jet that's being supplied by a country that I would best describe as a frenemy, not an ally? Do you trust that? I mean, what if there's like a remote detonation or some kind of device on the plane? I don't trust that. I don't want to gamble anything like that. I got a million objections to it. So we're going to discuss this coming up. We have headlines on the way. Also on deck for you. Democrats, they're tripling down on, I'm not even kidding you, like, felonious criminal illegal aliens. We've got this. We've got, we've got some culture. We've got all

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It created a phenomenon that they never saw before. The booster separated as planned, but four minutes later, it was reported that it exploded in midair. And then Starship itself detonated about 93 miles above the Earth. shortly after. Now, the second explosion was so intense that it ripped through the ionosphere, the electrically charged layer of the atmosphere that plays a role in radio communication and satellite signals. That's never, that's never happened before with a rocket explosion, that it caused such a catastrophic event like that. Now, they said scientists observed the gaping hole remained open for about 30 to 40 minutes before the ionosphere naturally stitched itself

back together. And that's fascinating. So yeah, that never happened before. So that was something very interesting that they got to view. A 4.1 magnitude earthquake was reported in Tennessee felt all the way in the Metro Atlanta area. That is unusual. That's not the New Madrid fault, right? That's not that fault line, is it? Maybe. So they said it was just after 9 a.m. It was confirmed that it happened. the epicenter Greenback, Texas, and that's about 126 miles north of Atlanta. And they said everybody, like, in and around that area from everywhere, was feeling it. And, yeah, 4.1, and it felt all the way in Atlanta. So that was, that's wild.

The rental boom is collapsing. And there's a little panic. Owners are rushing to sell at deep discounts. They're rushing to sell their rental properties. A number of people buying second homes, plus. to its lowest level since it happened. They said sky high mortgage rates, maintenance costs, and return to office push. That's fueling all of this, which makes, that makes sense.

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The Dana Show podcast, your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. My message to the mayor is he said he didn't want to protest yesterday. Then what about the several times during the week he showed up? So that's what people don't know. He and his staff were out there this week. We've had to send people out there to break up protesters there. The mayor in those protests brought a bulldozer last week. Not only this time, but other times protesting. We've heard intelligence that they're going to continue to protest. Wow. The stunt that they pulled, this is crazy, the stuff that these Democrats pulled in Newark.

Welcome back, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this first hour. So if you miss that, so what ended up happening is that a bunch of Democrats stormed an ice facility. And the Department of Homeland Security was threatening the arrests of these House Democrats. who were at this New Jersey ice facility. They had stormed it. There's all kinds of body camera footage of it. It's the Delaney Hall Detention Center.

And on Friday, they stormed the gates of it. This is a secure facility that's located in Newark. And they were advocating for these detainees that, DHS and Juan's showing you some of the B-roll. This is like, that's what's happening there. Newark, New Jersey. That's a congressperson, just shoving people through. That's assault. Sorry.

But the DHS assistant secretary, Trisha McLaughlin, said that the people who are held here are murderers, they are terrorists, they are child rapists, and MS-13 gang members. That was her direct quote. So a bunch of members of Congress, Democrats, chased a bus that was full of detainees who were entering the security gate. Then they stormed the gate and they broke into the facility. I was told Kane, this is an insurrection. This is an insurrection. And DHS said it was, you had Monica McIver, who's a congressional woman. She's the heavyset broad with the white and red shoving into people. She's from New Jersey. She said that she was manhandled, but I did not see anyone manhandling her.

I saw her using her immense weight to just blast through security. And it showed them, she was pushing and elbowing officials. And DHS said, they posted on X, they said, you should meet who they're fighting for. You should meet the people that are held here. So for instance, they have a man, Chinchia Cabero, who is in custody. And he is a known active member of MS-13. It's been confirmed. Moran is wanted in Brazil for homicide.

He has an Interpol red notice. He is in custody without bond. I mean, these are like the several, this guy, Saravia Santa Maria of El Salvador. He is a verified MS-13 gang member, and he also has the tats with the little MS-13 symbols on it. They also have Adonis Stavez. He is from Dominican Republic. he has multiple felony convictions of drug distribution, including fentany, uh, drug trafficking, resisting arrest, possessing, illegally possessing weapons.

Uh, Maximo Nunez, a 58 year old Dominican Republic, uh, again, like drug trafficking, uh, assault with a deadly weapon, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, these are the people that, uh, they have another individual who was, uh, child rapist, an MS-13, that's held. in this facility. Another one who raped a woman. I mean, there's, you get the idea, right? Do I mean, I can sit here and go on for the rest of the segment, but you get the idea. Those are the people that are held here. And Democrats decided that they, they wanted to advocate for these people. And I mean, it's really shocking that they keep deciding that they're going to champion known

criminals over innocent Americans. Now, this, I mean, there's, there's tons of these. I mean, these guys are from all over. So those are the people that are held here. And this is the, this is the facility that Democrats decided to storm. And they have body camera footage of members of Congress actually physically assaulting ICE officers. One of the members of Congress, Democrat member of Congress, quote, full body slammed a female ICE officer on video. Oh my gosh. And they have all of the video evidence of this. They posted some of it, some of what Juan showed you, showing total chaos. And they said that three members of Congress specifically, this was on Thursday. They had Rob Menendez, La Monica McIver, and Bonnie Coleman. They visited Thursday. And then I guess they had the storming on Friday. I don't know. I've never seen anything like this. I've never seen. congressional members storm a facility for like a jail for criminals and then try to free the criminals and assault the authorities that were there to protect the citizenry against these dangerous

criminals inside. This is insane. It's I mean, I think that I don't know how you can have these people in Congress. Now, I know that their voters determine whether or not they recall, but I think every one of them. If you're on video body slamming authorities like this because they're, they are housing rapists, child rapists and murderers and female and rapers of women and people who beat women and people who kill cops in this facility, then yeah, if you're, that's criminal trespass. That's assault. I mean, there's, I think that they, they need to be charged. you have people who didn't even go in the Capitol on January 6th who were arrested. And there were some people who went in the Capitol on January 6th because they saw security

agents, they saw security opening the doors and ushering people in and they didn't know. And they walked in and they walked into Statuary Hall and they just kind of looked around and left. They were arrested in charge. Some of them were detained for months. So are these people who actually went in to cause an insurrection. I guess they thought that this was the modern day Bastille and they were going to storm it. They need to have the full weight of the law thrown down on them. This is insane. Now, the Newark mayor was saying that, I mean, he was in defense of them. That's the thing. He was you had him. He brought a bulldozer to the last week. They said they brought a bulldozer to the

facility. And I, I, I. I just, you can't tell me that these voters are in support of this. Their mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested and he was vowing to shut down this facility. He was going to shut down this facility because I guess he wanted all of these criminals to be able to run around on the streets with everybody. I don't know. He's a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey as well. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's like so much more.

audio sound by 17. This was him. He was saying that, oh, he was arrested. They treated me with dignity, but it was humiliating. That's the least of your problems. Listen to the stooge. Well, I mean, I just want to first say that the guys from Homeland Security were very respectful. They treated me with dignity. And I appreciate that. You know, while I spent my last few hours in the holding area inside of the, I believe it's a detention facility that they have here in the city. of Newark, you know, that Homeland Security has. So, you know, it wasn't unbearable, but it was definitely, you know, a humiliating experience and uncomfortable for me overall, but, you know,

in the end, those guys did the best that they could to If it was humiliating for him, imagine what it was like for his voters that are watching their mayor make a fool of himself for child rapists. I'm not exaggerating when I'm talking about the people who are in there. I'm not, I'm not

just like singling out one or two criminals that are here illegally, which is bad enough. No, there are a lot of them in there that have been, yes, that's what's even more insane about this. It's not like there's, oh, just some people who entered illegally, which is still a crime, so technically they're still criminals. And then they were just angels after they got in and there's one bad guy in there. And so we're just going to use this one bad. No, they're literally all of these are some of the most dangerous and violent repeat offending. criminal illegal aliens that are in this facility. And these are the people that this guy and these

other Democrats are going out there championing. This is insane. It brings a damn bulldozer to it. And they brought up, they said that the detention center turned away fire inspector. So see, he was trying to use all these different agencies to get in there. He was trying to act like, no, no, no, no, we got to have a fire inspection. Oh, no, no, now we have to have city officials examine the site. Oh, you guys are turning away. local inspectors. So they brought a bulldozer. Oh, you're, you're turning away these local inspectors, et cetera. The group that's operating it signed a $1 billion $1 billion 15-year lease with the federal government for Delaney Hall. And they're like, yeah, everything is legit. They're just trying to get in there

and cause problems. That's crazy. And, you know, I mean, really, because now it's a federal immigration processing center, it's created tons of, I love THS because that. You know, you're Yeah, well, we created a bunch of unionized jobs, annual salaries, $105,000 starting point. It's going to contribute $50 million to the local Newark community. And those are just, I know for the Democrats who like to talk about being pro worker, but then they proudly get behind every policy that offshore's jobs in manufacturing. Yeah, those are all union jobs there. Just saying, just saying.

I mean, this is wild. Absolutely wild. These are who, these are the people that they keep wanting to celebrate. And what the hell is the matter with them? What does it matter with these people? This is like the stupidest stuff I've ever seen. They are continually shooting themselves in the foot. I mean, just the optics alone are horrendous.

These people, they act like there's some sort of freedom fighters. They're not freedom fighters. These people aren't heroes. These Democrats are criminals too for doing this. This is anti-enforcement obstruction. Now, they were doing it in Colorado, right? I mean, you've had stuff like this in Colorado

and you've had stuff like this in Seattle for different kind of different reasons. But good heavens. Yeah, they brought a bulldozer. It's not the killdozer either. It was a baby bulldozer. These people make me want to make a killdozer, though. I'm just saying they were trying to block access

the city of New York. So the mayor brought in, I don't know if you guys, Bill Malugian has this. It was very ineffective. They brought in this tiny little bulldozer And they try to put it in the middle of the entrance to the parking lot And it's not even big enough to do that.

Kane the size of that bulldozer is that the only bulldozer this guy could get Here the mayor of Newark and you can't get any better bulldozer like a bigger one than this come on Right You would think the mayor would have some connections It's almost like cars can go around it to enter into the facility Wow That's what he did That was the mayor that you just heard that we played that audio sound bite of.

I mean, and they were given multiple warnings to leave their property or be arrested. And you can protest. That's fine. But you can't break into the facility and then start body slamming agents. Yeah, that's what you can't do. Now, one of the things that the left has thrown up is they're mad because they sent these people who wanted you to wear masks for how long, they're mad that ICE agents

were wearing facial coverings in the video. Now, why would they be wearing that? Let's go back here to the story from February of this year. Anti-ice activists disrupt LA operations and they docks to the agents. They posted photos, names,

addresses, and phone numbers of all of the agents in English and Spanish. Huh. So maybe that's why ICE agents now are covering their faces because they have this kind of stuff that they're dealing with. This is unbelievable. So I was told this was an insurrection.

Are we going to have a commission to investigate this? Where's the censuring? Where's Mike Johnson on this? By the way, why haven't you heard more about this? Why is it that you don't know every aspect of the story? Where in the hell of the Republicans at exploiting every bit of this? Where is the worthless RNC exploiting every bit of this? These people, where are the people?

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Get the lowdown on the latest news with a side of laughs. Whenever you want, subscribe to the Dana Show podcast on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. He could be impactful as a moral and ethical voice on that issue that we're dealing with when so many people are being mass deported or fear it. Well, I certainly hope so. And from his comments previous to being elected, the Pope, he has made clear what his values and his view of all of that is.

So she's saying that Nancy Pelosi right there, saying that she hopes that Pope Leo will speak against deportations. Now do abortion. Where do you fall on that, Nancy? Just curious. Now do the trans stuff. do trainees let's see where he falls on that go ahead go ahead and play that game i just that's so dumb stop i mean you have to follow laws and everyone's equal under the law and before it so no the pope doesn't make policy in the united states in dc and the pope does not have any impact on that

does not does not get to tell us what to do with our own sovereignty with our laws with border etc there's a legal way to come in and the idea that you're going to try to prostitute out religion as a way to justify the reckless and dangerous disregard of existing laws that help keep Americans safe and people who immigrate here legally safe is assonine. I mean, stop it. That's just stop all that stuff. It's assonine. No, they've been trying to milkshake duck the new pope who, you know, is for gun control.

He's a lefty moderate. I mean, you're not going to get a conservative pope because didn't Francis, like, pick a lot of the popes? or a lot of, sorry, a lot of the Cardinals that were choosing his successor, from what I understand, like most of them, you're going to get someone who's still in that leftist mole. But they were going after, apparently his brother is a big conservative, or at least a right-leaning dude. I don't know if he's a conservative, but he's apparently had some things to say about, like Joe Biden. And he has these, he called Nancy Pelosi a drunk. Well, I can't even say what he called her. I like the Pope's brother, though.

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were what they are, and for no reason whatsoever, they had to be born by America alone. Not anymore. They don't. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, top of the second hour. That's POTUS, who is announcing that he has an EO, pharmaceutical and drug companies, this soundbite that you heard here, he was saying, you know, they research and development costs are what they are. He's like, not anymore. But we have this reduction in the cost of prescription medication. I'm kind of, I don't know how I feel about it. And the reason I don't know how I feel about it is because I feel like a lot of this problem

began with Obamacare. I mean, a huge part of the reason why we have this issue is because of Obamacare. And I do think that we, you know, essentially with these other countries, we were subsidizing their R&D. I get that. But at the same time, remember with Obamacare, which Republicans always said that they were going to repeal, they promise us they were going to do it, they never did it. The excise taxes on all of that stuff contributed so much to the, the increase in the price of drugs. It's crazy. And I feel like not enough people really get into that. I mean, you had the excise taxes, you have the, you had the pharmaceutical tax, you had the,

even the medicinal device tax. You guys remember that? I mean, everyone was warning like, okay, what, what is this, what is this going to mean? I mean, you're, I mean, there were, all of this contributed to, we were still paying for R&D for everybody else, but here domestically. I mean, we had like what, I think that there was a, there was an Iowa State University study back in 2018 that found that the excise taxes from Obamacare were reducing research and development. The spending on that by about $34 million per company. Now, in 2013, it was $34 million per company. That was adjusted to about $40 million in 2023. And that was a huge cut.

There were like 80% of these companies that were surveyed. They'd said that they, you know, as a result, they were delaying or canceling some R&D projects. And then, of course, you had like the excise taxes on devices, like one of the corporations, the Stryker Corporation, which is a huge medical device, a major device manufacturer, they were estimating that the taxes cost them about $100 million in 2013, adjust that to $118 for the latest available data for 23. So that's a reduction in innovation for those devices. that contributed to a major loss of jobs.

We had over 29,000 jobs between 2013 and 2015, particularly specifically in that industry, that included research and development staff, all of that, that completely directly impacted the capacity for innovation. I mean, think about it. You have less of a budget for R&D domestically. That means you, what if you need something like an advanced stent

or diagnostic tools? All of that is impacted by this. It actually impedes medical progress. That's what Obamacare did. Those are all the taxes in Obamacare. We talked about this. I talked about that so much back in 2010, 2009, 2009, 2010, when all of that was being debated. And then right even after it was signed, we saw effects of this immediately.

And the Democrat defense of it, remember their defense of it? I remember Nancy Pelosi going on CNN, the state of the union on Sunday mornings, saying that, well, the Congressional Research Service was saying that, you know, the impact of these taxes is actually minimal, which was a lie, because the Congressional Research Service only tabulates the exact information that you get it. It's like how you feed AI, right? You can feed AI certain prompts, and AI is going to give you a result based on what you prompt it with. The same thing with this. They're going to only tabulate exactly what you give it, no matter how misleading. So they were using that as a way to deflect the legitimate criticism. that all of these taxes that were incorporated into Obamacare were going to drive up the cost of prescription drugs. They were going to stifle medical innovation. They were going to stifle research and development. I mean, you were going to see less diagnostic tools. You were going to see less innovations with devices. I mean, it's insane. It is absolutely insane. And why nothing has been done, I don't know. So my point with this, I don't know if this is like an in run around Congress because

they're not doing anything. And I'm getting angrier and angrier as the weeks go on about this. But the real issue was caused by this bill. And, well, there was an issue that preexisted, and then it was confounded further by this bill. And the gutting of these budgets, it's, all of the options that could have been done in Republicans had a handful, they had like five different alternative health care bills during that time. So for the people who are arguing that they had no other substitute, that's a lie. These people have no idea what they're talking about, ignore them because they clearly didn't pay attention or actually follow the news. They had five, they had five alternative options, Republicans did. Two of them actually were

pretty decent. The others were better than what Democrats were proposing. Two of them actually included being able to have insurance companies compete, purchasing insurance across state lines on having it not married to your employer so that you could have portable insurance and have it wherever you went and you just didn't have to get it through your employer. Republicans, they didn't really, I don't think they really wanted it because they didn't fight for it. I've seen them fight for big ticket spending items for special interest stuff harder than they fought, you know, for that. So they promised they ran can you remember all of every single one of these fools ran on a campaign promise of repealing Obamacare, which included all of the

taxation that helped drive all of this up, but they haven't done it. And it's not on deck right now either. It wasn't done last, it wasn't done the last eight years and hasn't been done now. And I'm getting really aggravated at their inability to act, but I also think too. And again, you can like what someone's doing and still have some reservations about a couple of different things. You can like what someone's doing and still have a couple of criticisms because we are not British so we don't, you know, we're not communist so we don't have hive mind. part of being a boardroom negotiator and part of being a good leader is being able to get these people in Congress to do what you need done for the voters. So you don't have to rely on executive order after executive order after executive order after executive order is being able to use your skill set as a negotiator and you need and make the art of the deal with these people in Congress.

And so far that's not happening because all of this stuff, the best way I heard it described is that these executive orders are a sure. sugar high. And then, God forbid, if Democrats get into office in 2028, every bit of this is gone. And you are not only, you're not even right back where you were. We're not even right back where we were originally. We will be in a worse off position. And that is a very, very real thing. So as it pertains, you know, to the medicines in that, you know, I would love to see cost reduction. but anything but a full on overhaul is a band-aid over it. And it's not going to be permanent relief. And there is a potential that it could be worse later.

And Republicans, I don't know, for the past 20 years, and maybe it was under Bush because Bush used a lot of, I mean, he made the appeal to big government, right? If voters couldn't get it done, well, then let's just have government do what voters won't, not what voters can't do, but what voters want. Not what Republicans can't do, but what Republicans want. We'll just have big government do it. And I think in the past 20 years, a lot of Republicans became very okay with having government do things for them.

Let's have government do what the market should do. Let's have government do what we could actually do by stimulating the market with good legislation or repealing bad legislation. And that's the issue. And it's so I'm, I get nervous about this stuff. I get nervous about government involved in price controls. It's a huge, it's a huge issue. it's it you're you have to have something from Congress more on this but I will say you know the excise taxes under Obamacare I mean they were heinous and it was all what they what

kits me is they they all said oh well all of these taxes are going to are going to pay for the expanded coverage by making it more expensive and by reducing your options and driving up the cost of medication you're going to make it more do you see how stupid it was these people never heard of math before. They clearly never understood cause and effect. I mean, there are clear, measurable, disastrous impacts that Obamacare had on the very thing that right now the administration is trying to figure out how to remedy. It's a big deal.

Can we play a, this is funny, audio sunbite three, this is a funny soundbite three. This is a funny soundbite just from this morning. POTUS talking about a friend of his, listen. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a business man, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said, President, he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president. So that's nice respect. But she's a rough guy, smart guy. very successful, very rich.

I wouldn't even know how we would know this, because he's got comments. President, could I ask you a question? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working. He said, he said, I just paid $88.

And in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on? I love it. He's like, they've taken the, what did he say? the fat shot drug. He goes, it's not working. That's actually hysterical. That is actually hysterical.

I mean, it's, I, there's, it's, the whole idea. I'm not actually surprised that we're even getting any kind of innovations with stuff in the United States because of all this.

Oh, oh, this, let's see, what we did for, because I want to come back to this. Do I have time? Or should I hold on the The white bag of Or the bag of white powder? Yeah, we should get a couple minutes for that.

Okay. So just you guys know, Emmanuel Macron, Kier-Starmor, they were caught on video On their return from Kiev And they were in the Ukraine Or in Ukraine And they had a bag of white powder on the table.

McCrone quickly pockets it. Another guy hides the spoon. And apparently, So I guess Zelensky is what a big booger sugar enthusiast. I mean, what, I'm, I don't know. We're going to talk about this because this is like, someone says, oh, it's, it's a Kleenex. Someone says the resolution of the picture says it's a Kleenex. Is it?

I don't know. It's kind of hard to see. How many spoons do you use with Kleenex? Well, I don't know. We're going to talk about this here coming up as we move, our partners at all. bring you the program, the people who up bring you the program, Home Title Lock is one such company. Now, your home is your most valuable asset. So when's the last time that you checked on your home's title? You know, the legal proof that you own your own house. The issue is that in today's

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So a supercomputer reveals the exact date that Elon Musk's doomsday prediction will come true. It's not a prediction. It's just fact. Like, everybody knows at some point Earth is going to be destroyed by the sun because very, very gradually, the planets are adjusting and be getting closer and closer to the sun. That's just something that your vehicle emissions don't contribute to. That's just the state of the way things. work in the universe. But researchers from NASA and Toho University in Japan, they've used supercomputers and mathematical models to forecast what that would look like. And so they suggest

that life on Earth will become impossible by the year. I don't know. It's a very long time into the future. We're looking at like a million years into the future, over a million years into the future before that happens. And it's not because the sun grows hotter and brighter, it's that we get closer to it is the issue. And then you'll have gradually reduced oxygen levels. So I had a smart teacher when I was in junior high that didn't buy into all this BS and actually just told us the facts about it. You know, in actual education, it's pretty amazing how that works. Let's see here.

Oh, bear with me because Safari is a horrible browser and I just lost everything again. It is. How many times do we have this happen? I want to find the people who made Safari and I just want to beat them to death. you know, figuratively speaking, of course. Let's see here. We also, by the way, they were released hostage. The American hostage is officially back in Israel.

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because doing it before bed, you're not going to get, you're not going to reap as much benefits and it's actually worse for you. A Swedish security chief has resigned over sensitive photos on Grindr. Don't show the sensitive photos. I immediately saw Juan going down to that link. I'm like, no, Juan, no. No, we can't do it. I mean, I'm not surprised. Maybe it's because they're Swedish. I just wasn't. And the guy looks like he's, you know, I mean, see, I don't know. I mean, see, I don't know. I mean, he's just, I'm not a fan of his face. Anyway, we have a lot more on the way. We get Stephen Yates, who's going to be on this second hour. We've got a lot to hit him up about, stick with us.

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Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. In addition, yesterday, we achieved a total reset with China. after productive talks in Geneva. Both sides now agree to reduce the tariffs imposed after April 2nd to 10% for 90 days as negotiators continue in the largest structural issues. And I want to tell you that a couple of things. First of all, that doesn't include the tariffs that are already on, that are our tariffs,

and it doesn't include tariffs on cars, steel, aluminum, things such as that. or tariffs that may be imposed on pharmaceuticals because we want to bring the pharmaceutical businesses back to the United States, and they're already starting to come back now based on tariffs. We need antibiotics, more production of that in the United States. Too few actually do it. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.

That is, POTUS just had a marathon of oppressor this morning. It was a little over an hour, and he was announcing as well more details about this trade agreement. with China. And we talked a little bit about that in the first hour just to give you some of the publicly available details. So it's like what, 10 points above status quo, what it was. 30% in place still, 20 as punitively for fentanyl and then 10 retaliatory. So a lot better than 145. And already markets were responding. I am so hesitant to say, like, I I like the markets reacting, but is it successful for us?

So let's ask our very good friends, Stephen Yates. You know him. He's on the show regularly. He's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He's a foreign policy experts specifically on China, having worked in not one but two presidential administrations. And he knows where all the bodies are buried. And I actually may not be joking.

And he joins us now via video. So good to see you, my friend. And I'm just. I'm not a cynic, and it's not that I doubt the administration's ability to get something done. I just doubt, you know, China in all of this. Is this, would you classify this? Just I know we're in the early stages of it as a successful result so far. Well, I would put it in this way.

President Trump is attempting an historic reset with trade, with all of our partners around the world generally. but with a specific priority placed on rebalancing with China. I support that. I think it's very, very important. I think that's a long-term initiative. It's not a one-and-done kind of thing. And if that's the measure of these talks, I don't think that's what they were shooting for,

swallowing the elephant in one bite. But some of the overly exuberant ways of talking about it could lead people to believe that's what happened. All we have at the moment is an agreement to start a process. And there was a reset in the sense that there was the phase one trade agreement in Trump 1.0 that the Chinese interlocutors made clear to Secretary of Bessent that they ignored during the Biden years. And apparently, team Biden didn't really oppress them at all. So the Chinese didn't see a reason to uphold it.

So we sort of reset the talks to the baseline where they were left off at the end of Trump 1.0, plus the fentanyl tariffs, plus this 10%. That's sort of mathematically where we are, but it's kind of an odd thing for the president to start out with a very specific number of 10%. And then to say, but it doesn't count this and it doesn't count that, it's already too complicated foreign Americans understand other than they should know. This is going to take a long time. China is not known for quick, decisive, transparent, measurable action. We're likely to see delays, frustration, maybe even obfuscation. All those would be really good reality checks to add to the celebration.

support the idea of trying. I support the idea of opening the talks. I just don't like the idea of trying to say that concluding a joint statement that we're going to talk actually changed anything. Yeah, that's a very good point. And I'm, it amazed me when I was reading the Treasury Secretary, and you alluded to this, when they said that, you know, after POTUS left his office after the first term, the Biden administration just chose just not to enforce the agreement. And then the Chinese delegation, quote, basically told us that once Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. It, that was it just, I don't know how that wasn't just top of mind for the Biden administration because I mean, I don't know why they would have opposed that in any way. It's

beneficial for the United States at least. And it would have been a, it would have been a nice little victory point for them. And they just chose not to do it. Well, in a way, even though I don't have a lot of respect for the source coming from the Chinese side. which is known to say influence more than to inform from time to time. However, it might be one of the more honest expressions of what dealing with the Biden administration was. A lot of Americans now are famously publishing books trying to revise the narrative they tried to sell for four years. But it could be that our adversaries and competitors saw this more clearly from the get-go. and we're lucky that the Chinese didn't take as bold an action after that assessment as, say, like the Russians did, after taking that temperature and then going with a full-scale invasion against a neighbor.

So in a way, it might be a little dose of honesty from an unlikely source. Yeah, and I saw as well that China was pulling the story up, that China is set to apparently unleash their own economic stimulus package. We've talked about their economy before. I don't even know what that would look like with the CCP. That is just more government involvement. What does it even look like? And I don't even think that would assist them in this regard. Well, there's a lot of layers to what reality is in China economically.

In some ways, this is one of the biggest lies about China is this whole notion of one China, because there is no one narrative for reality inside of China. There are hundreds of millions of people whose lives don't reflect what we, see in the news, in movies, tech, or whatever else, they've been permanently left behind. Then there's parts of China that are very aggressive and militant, and then there's others that seem kind of entrepreneurial, and it's all mixed up under one giant poo bear known as Xi Jinping. And so we deal with what we have with these guys, but they definitely have banking problems, property market problems, labor shortage problems.

I was talking with an expert from inside China today who was saying that they had something in the order of magnitude of like 50,000 to 100,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs just in one part of China. And so they have significant structural challenges that this agreement isn't designed to address and won't. Yeah. We're talking with our friends Stephen Yates at Yatescom's on X

about this issue. you. Last question on this, and I got a couple of other things I'd like to ask you, does this do anything to help tensions, perhaps, between China and the United States? Because I know a lot of the rhetoric was really ratcheting up every time it went up a couple of percentage points, the tariffs. Does this, does this assist with that at all? And does it mean, do you think it would ever, the Chinese could ever be prevailed upon to do actually anything about fentanyl? Or can they withstand this, you the 20% extra punitive tariff that's on them as a result of it? Well, they can withstand that for a good while, I think.

But I think what they were hearing in Geneva was at least a little bit of a confession that this has affected China more than has been reported. And so whether that results in real policy change, it's hard to sort of internalize, but these authoritarian regimes can stomach a lot more pay. than the kind of purveyors of hysteria that tend to be in our media. So I think that this move sort of calms a lot of the irrational nerves on Wall Street. It wouldn't be my first target for trying to soothe things. I put Main Street way ahead of that.

But it's not for nothing to try to calm some of these purveyors of hysteria down. It also puts a little bit of juice on our allies and friends to hurry up and go ahead and conclude your agreements. We're at the beginning and sort of framing things with China. You don't want to wait for that to get too far down the road before you lock in an advantageous deal of your own. And that actually helps us in the long run share that benefit with allies. Yeah. Speaking of some of the allies here, you and I've talked quite a bit about India, India-Pakistan tensions. This ceasefire, the latest negotiations that they had, this was, you know, towards the end of the week. Talk to us a little bit about what is this could this I don't I don't think

that it could threaten to destabilize any kind of favor that we have built up in the Middle East, particularly with the Abraham Accords. But what does this, how is this going to affect U.S. not just interest, but how is this going to affect what we've been trying to do in the Middle East with regards to, you know, Iran and and Hezbollah and Hamas, et cetera, now that we have Indian Pakistan. I'm, I'm, I'm, fully, I fully believe that India can handle it themselves. It seems like another one of those instances where it's like stay out of their way and let them deal with what they need to deal with. Well, you're not wrong to have a little bit of an inkling that what happens in South Asia

doesn't stay in South Asia. There are a lot of Indians and Pakistanis who work and reside long term in the broader Middle East. A lot of these countries that are transforming their economies there are doing so on a workforce that comes from South Asia. And sometimes those agitations don't just stay bottled up in India-Pakistan. And it's never a small thing when two nuclear powers start exchanging missiles, explosions, or other kinds of conflict. There's also the challenge of proliferation, that as these things continue to spiral,

that things could get sent to other regions of the world that are destabilizing. So it's not good, but I would say that we have a lot of good capital with Prime Minister Modi. Pakistan has always had governance challenges, but I would put this right back at the feet of Xi Jinping and Beijing. Pakistan is a client state of China in the national security since they wouldn't have nuclear weapons, but for North Korea and Chinese leakage to them. And China very much helps a lot of these conflicts get fueled, whether it's Russia against Ukraine, Iran's proxies against Israel, and of course, Pakistan challenging India. So go back to the source in some ways.

Celebrate your trade negotiations for a moment, but never lose sight of where the origin of this chaos really is. You brought up something incredibly interesting because over the last, what was it, 20 years, It was reported that we gave $32 billion to Pakistan, $15 billion of it was military aid, and then Pakistan gets pretty much all of its military equipment from China. So we're just basically giving billions of dollars to China. Well, it's the old diplomatic memo of we're minting our own currency and trying to buy peace and stability. But when you're dealing with a lot of these unstable areas, it just, you know, money goes. And the challenge doesn't ever really seem to move the nation.

needle. And so I think that's part of this big reset. If we can rationalize some of these supply chains, rationalize manufacturing in a way that is away from China and away from unreliable partners, it helps our other partners and allies have greater independent capability to balance, contain, and deal with these things. That's the idea. That's the goal. I support that moonshot. I hope it lands. Yeah. Last quick question for you, our good friend, Stephen Yeats. The plane for from the Qataris. I know it would be a temporary loaner. I just am not down for the President of the United States flying on any aircraft that is in possession of an entity that finance the deaths of

Americans, not for it at all. I mean, I think that this would worry you. Well, so just number one, I don't want there to be a gift from the government of Cutter. But at the same time, I color me extremely jaded that these news stories have a reality life longer than three or four days. I mean, if it turns out that what this is is a Boeing aircraft and Boeing screwed up on trying to manufacture the new Air Force One. But here's a Boeing aircraft where they screwed up delivering it in final form to Qatar. And it's a matter of something that hasn't even really gone anywhere. And it's coming back. And, you know, Air Force One is whatever the president is on.

But in terms of security and infrastructure, any vessel is going to get stripped to a skeleton and replaced with everything. So I'm not actually materially concerned on security on this because there is no such thing as giving a luxury jet to the president and have it function as Air Force One. But it's just kind of one of those weird things. Is it in the possession of the royal family of Cutter and are they giving it as a gift? Or is this a plane that never really made it somewhere? I just am not ready to bite on the bait that went out there first yet. But, you know, I would concede it doesn't look good, smell good or sound good. Yeah.

And it's also crazy that I think what, the plane that they commissioned to replace the 40-year-old Air Force One, and I get it. You know, you need to redo it. But he, like, ordered that back in 2018. and it's not even going to be ready until 2029. Didn't they turn it around for Reagan in like five years? Well, that part is just thoroughly disgusting to me. And if this story does anything else, then just make people sort of choke on the idea

that the president of the United States, whatever you think of the individual in the office, should have the most modern, comfortable, and safe aircraft possible, ever known to mankind. Full stop. I don't care who it is. And we should make it.

And we should do it on time. And if we can't do that, we're sort of a kangaroo country again. That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, it's abysmal. We shouldn't be in that position. Stephen Yates at Yates Coms, always appreciate your insight, my friend. It's invaluable. Thank you so much.

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as traitors. So Al Gore, he's alive still. Who knew? Who knew? He kind of reminds me of Al Gore reminds me of the Britain's Prince Andrew. In a way. Not just because of the jowls, but just the overall vibe. Welcome back to the program. Dan Alash at the utop of this third hour. So Al, I don't know why he, Al Gore was not a prolific fundraiser. And I don't even know why he's out there, even, like, why they even have him speaking at all.

but there he is. And he's his soundbite there that you just heard, he's essentially arguing that Trump, when he looks at Trump, he sees parallels to early Nazi Germany. And I just think that people need to stop going back to the Nazi well, just because they don't like somebody's policies or they don't like their politics. It doesn't mean that they're a Nazi. But it does mean that he's a giant pervert who once apparently asked a masseuse to release his inner chakra winky winky that's so gross oh can you imagine i can't stand all gore i he's i think he's just one of the dumbest people he was a tobacco farmer wouldn't his family tobacco farmers for that's like where his money came from anyway so i'm not a fan uh and his wife i will forever dislike tipper gore because she was the

reason that they started putting explicit lyrics labels on albums and why so many people had a hard time going and purchasing music. And I worked at a record store for a while when I was in school. And that was really fun to, you know, after all of that. That was like, I was in elementary school when that all happened, when that originally happened. Remember, she was like the ultimate Karen. She was the woman who went out there and was like, oh, this music. I just don't like the gores at all, any of them. I'm not a fan of any of them. I don't even know why. I don't even know why. he's out. I mean, Bill Clinton doesn't even give as many remarks as Al Gore does. I don't know. I guess he's got, I guess he's got to pay for those massages somehow. Anyway, that's so gross. I made myself sick.

I actually could just vomit all over this mic. That's so horrible. He's so gross. So a few things still to come that we have to touch on. Can we hit, we have some, well, it's not really a red state rhinoism story, but it is a rhino story. I have some red state rhinoism. But one little story that I want to touch on. And there are a few folks that have been, there's a story up at Ameland about this. So you guys heard about the Hearing Protection Act, right? So the Hearing Protection Act was legislation that is supposed to stop classifying suppressors as NFA National Firearms Act items, right? And apparently a congressman out of Tennessee named David Custle, K-U-S-T-O-F-F is pushing not to have the suppressors removed as an NFA item.

He just wants the tax stamp lowered. He just wants a $5 tax stamp. So he doesn't want to remove suppressors from the NFA. He just wants it to be a $5 tax stamp instead. And that actually could kill all of this because I don't know why they have, why suppressors are so regulated and the people, the lawmakers who talk about them, they sound like the stupidest people in the world when they talk about these suppressors. It's a little assenheim, but I have no idea why this guy is trying to fight having them removed off of that. Like if you,

over in Europe, you can't hunt without them. You're considered completely gauche and horrible. And a fud, if you're a fud, you're, that's what you're considered. If you're, you're, that's what you're considered if you go over there and you hunt without them. And so here it's called HPA, the Hearing Protection Act. It's still in the House Ways and Means Committee and the person holding it up is David Kostov. So the tax stamp is 200 currently. So he would just lower it to $5 and not remove them from the NFA, which was established in 1934. And it would not remove all of the other stuff either. It doesn't, I don't even know why they're trying to water this down. It doesn't make any sense.

And there's a lot of lobbying that's being done with regards for this. With regards to this. So I don't know. I, it just, I'm not, I'm not quite sure why they're trying to fight this so bad. But to even, it doesn't remove them, the language from it doesn't remove it from the NFA entirely and you still have a $5 tax team. So, I mean, how is that? Oh, so you're paying, what, $195 less?

That's supposed to completely make the abridgment of your freedoms, okay? I don't know. There's a lot of stuff that's happening. And the red state rhinoism or the rhinoism in particular, it's not just, I mean, there's some, it's not, they're not just coming from blue states or purple states either. I mean, this is a Tennessee representative. of. And if you're pushing to not take this odd, to not have the NFA, you know, not apply to this entirely, then what's, what is the purpose? You're just going to, you think that that's going to be

enough for people? Oh, well, I'm so glad I don't have to ask the government for permission. I'll just, just pay $100. I'll just pay $5 instead of $200. That's a good, that's a good trade. It's not a good trade at all. And I don't know what his, I don't know what this guy's motivation is for doing this, trying to water this down. I mean, this will be the closest that they ever get to it ever. So if it doesn't, if it doesn't work, I mean, I just don't see it happening in our lifetime. I really don't at this point. So lowering the fee instead of totally removing it from the NFA is assonite. That's an anti, that's a gun grabber position. So that's something that we're going to, we're going to keep an eye on. And I will have a piece coming out over at my substack chapter

and verse, which you should subscribe to if you don't already. I will have something. over there for you on that so you can watch that as well. Also, did you guys notice something about Mother's Day? This past weekend, that it was called Mother's Day. And I did not hear anything about birthing persons. Where did that go? Hmm. It's almost like the people pushing it realized after the fact that it was bad and maybe they shouldn't do it and it made a lot of women angry, right? Because that was a big thing just literally the last Mother's Day they were still pushing this. Remember how you had the World Health Organization and all of these other entities and they were saying, oh, it's, you know, birthing person's day and they were using that language and now it's gone. It's like the pen,

it's like the earth is healing. The pendulum is swinging back. That was something that I noticed, that it's just they didn't, I didn't see that mentioned at all. I didn't realize it until like late yesterday evening. I was like, wait a minute. we're not inundated with all of the stuff about birthing persons. So it's interesting. So that quickly, I think they finally sort of realized it. I really do think the push for all of that is kind of dead.

I really do. I mean, at least I hope it stays that way. It seems like it is. A few other things to touch on. I needed to get to this from earlier. This was a piece that Town Hall had. The Labor Department admits hundreds of thousands of Biden jobs were fake.

We knew that a lot of them were. but they they had said, and this came out this morning, that the Biden administration claimed that they added 400,000 jobs between July through September of last year. But again, new data that was released just this past week shows that none of them ever existed. This is the second time this has happened. None of them existed. And we've seen under the previous administration, they kept saying, oh, no, no, no, no, we're creating jobs. And they had these estimates that were, as we've noted, very quietly in the days that followed, revised down. So they said that these jobs particularly, because you have BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that comes out with these reports every month.

And they look at the estimate of the number of non-farm payrolls. They look at the revisions for the last couple of months. And they said under the previous administration, these were all like super abnormal, right? And the monthly job reports, they were compiled from a survey of over 600,000 businesses, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, long story short, yeah, they were made. Yeah, they were, we knew that. We knew that these jobs were fake. We knew that.

And again, second time that this is happening. Remember last year, the middle of last year, when they kept saying that they added all these new jobs. and instead of adding 800,000 jobs, we actually shed like about 200,000 of them. They just made up tons of stuff. How, I mean, it makes you wonder how real was anything under the Biden administration because they spent $2 billion trying to gaslight you. They spent $2 trying to gaslight you about stuff with the effort at misinformation.

Remember the Ministry of Misinformation and all of this. It's now we're seeing that this is extended far beyond that. There was nothing organic or real at all in the last administration. None of them. We also had a couple of things as well. We were talking about the Democrats and the riots, the storming of that Newark Center. There's a story related that I wanted to make sure that I got as well. which I was reliable. I was told we were all told that that was that kind of behavior is insurrectiony.

But apparently, I don't know. I guess it's different because it's D Democrat. Also different D Democrat. Remember the Spiveolin story. So this was maybe like six months ago. We were talking about the relationship that the Kelly's. And you know Mark Kelly. He's a senator for, well, he's a former astronaut now senator. He had this relation to a company that was essentially a spy balloon company that was funded by China. Well, now this latest headline, former astronaut Mark Kelly, started the spy balloon company that's funded by China. More information is coming out about it. The reason why he came up because during the last, I guess when Harris was picking her VP, they were thinking about incorporating Mark Kelly under this. Remember?

Now they've had all of this documentation come out proving beyond any questionable doubt that he was involved at this level. I still feel like they're trying to make this guy a thing, Mark Kelly out of Arizona. Or am I being too, am I? Because he keeps coming up. His name keeps coming up and they keep going to him for like fundraisers and different things like that. And that's why I really feel like this needs to be kept on the table because as, you know, one of the things that the Democrat Party is doing is I think they're trying to establish who their bench is going to be, at least going forward so they have some, they can stake a claim on fundraising, et cetera, et cetera. This needs to all, I think we need

to mention this story at least once a week that it's beyond any shadow of a doubt that this dude like was in business with the CCP with a literal spy balloon company, the senator. And he's been trying to kind of reinvent himself as a moderate as well. I almost get the sense that they're trying to, maybe he's on a short list for like a Newsom VP when he runs in 2028. The Wall Street Journal broke this story all the way back in 2021. Back in 2024, Fox had a report on it as well. And now they have like PDFs of certain documentation floating around on social media, etc. I just, I think if you're in business with the CCP, I just don't think that you should be disqualified from holding any elected office in the United States. Why are you in business with a

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So three teenagers kidnapped, allegedly, kidnapped a wealthy man at gunpoint, drove into a remote Arizona desert and stole $4 million of his cryptocurrency fortune and a sinister plot. Austin Fletcher, Baleigh, Ashraf, both 16. They're from Pascoe County, Florida. they teamed up with a third unidentified teenager who's remained anonymous. They had their hearing Friday just this last Friday. The third teenager is no longer in the States. They don't know where he is.

But yeah, they're going to face charges as adults. And it includes robbery, kidnapping, and extortion. Because see, it's only extortion if the government doesn't do it. Now, if they were IRS agents, that would be totally okay. Just saying, just going to let them. Maybe they have a future at the IRS. It sounds like they're getting a really bright start. at it, Kane. You know, really, really they are. Let's see. I don't even know where this town is.

This is in New York. Coho's near Albany. Okay. A resident reportedly had to restrain a chainsaw wielding man in a clown mask. The guy was arrested because police got calls about two dudes fighting in the street. And apparently one of the men was walking down the street wearing a clown mask, brandishing a chainsaw. And when a neighbor goes, what are you doing? He came towards the resident menacingly with the chainsaw. And then the resident restrained him until the police arrived.

Yeah, it seems like he had ill intent. Just going to just jump out of it. It seemed like he had, yeah, he had some ill intent. There wasn't a kid's birthday party. going to? No, no, it wasn't. An Idaho bar is hosting hetero awesome fest during Pride Month. It's in Idaho.

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2018, he was in his first term. That's when he had ordered apparently two planes from Boeing. That was about $3.9 billion. because the planes that we have, the pair of them, are 35 years old, actually over 35 years old. Now, I don't understand how this happens. These planes were supposed to be completed and delivered, I think, what, 2021 and 2024? Apparently, they are so far behind that maybe 2029 is when they're done. And they're over budget already.

in order to continue building them Boeing wanted several billion dollars more this was after they had already agreed to the 3.9 billion price tag that had been negotiated back in 2018 and this was all because you know Qatar had suggested they would allow use of one of their planes temporarily

and I don't agree with some of the remarks that some folks have had. Well, taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for it. So let's use the Katari plane. And I just think regardless, I like what Yates said when he was on with this last hour, that they'd strip it all down anyway. But still, the optics are bad. The issue is why is it taking Boeing so long?

So back when the current planes were first commissioned, that was like what, under Reagan, right? and that was in, I think it was 85. I think that was in 1985 when it was first commissioned because the first test flight, it's a Boeing VC 25A. Yeah, it was commissioned in 85. The aircraft itself was built in 1986. It was first flown in 1987. By the way, when you Google something, actually I pulled this up because I Google this morning,

it gives you a little AI summary. I don't know if I like that because I want to double check it, so I did. All of this, by the way, is taken from a couple of things. This is, well, Boeing. It's the Boeing thing. And then it's also History Link and a couple of other Britannica, a couple of other things. But it was, they built it. So a year after it was commissioned, they built it.

They did the first test flight in early 1987. And then it was actually like delivered in 1990. So that was five years. Reagan had ordered these planes to replace the 707s that they had. Now, this was a 747 that Trump commissioned in 2018. So I've got some questions here. And I, why does it take, why is it taking them this long? Why is it taking them this long to do this?

I mean, this is assonine. Reagan announced the Air Force intent to purchase two new wide-body jets to replace the aging VC-137s, Boeing 707s. 86, Boeing was awarded the contract to build the 747s. 1988, the first one of the new 747s, which is now the current Air Force one, that's when it first flew, was in 87. 1990, the first of the two new ones, it was the VC-25A that was delivered and deployed, and then the older aircraft, were retired between 1998 and 2001. I actually have been aboard the ones

that Reagan retired. At the Reagan Library out in Simi Valley, I was actually, I took a tour of that jet. And yeah, when you look at that jet and you look at me being only a, I am a plane person and so much as Katie Perry is an astronaut,

yeah, there are some obvious differences that non-versed people can see, right? but, and I'm not just talking about the decor, I mean, like with the equipment and some of the operations, et cetera. But, I mean, they're huge. They're really wild to tour. But five years. Five years. Why is it taking, why is now Boeing saying it could be 10 years before they have this thing done?

Maybe 10 years. At the earliest, again, he commissioned this in 2018. At the earliest. 2029. That's 11 years. And now it may take longer? What in the world? By that time, it's going to be outmoded.

Why is it? Canna, what are you saying? Why is it taking that long? I was just, I just thought it was, I was curious because it's weird considering that, you know, we've been to the moon. Yeah. But now they're saying we can't go to the moon with even more advanced technology than we had back then. And it's almost like this. like okay in the 80s we were building planes at five years for you know air force one right now it's

tet but we have better technology nowadays so why does what is happening why is this the only industry it seems like moving backwards that is the million dollar question is it not the million dollar question that is a good point why is that i i mean i this whole thing i'm just it's shocking it's incredibly shocking that it takes this long. And so now you kind of, that's, you know, the reason why, you know, we're in this, this situation and we've got the Qataris. And I think that that's like, that, to me, isn't that kind of a bigger story? I mean, that Boeing was supposed to have these planes done and, I think, delivered by last year. And now they're so behind schedule. They said that it was supplier engineering and manufacturing issues.

And you had L3 Harris that is over, they were commissioned by the government to overhaul this thing apparently that was formally used by Cutter's government as like an interim temporary thing. They've been a contractor to Boeing before. They've worked on communication systems, et cetera. They've actually worked on some stuff for the replacement ones for Air Force One, too. I guess they're competing to be a big supplier for the Pentagon. It's a company that's growing really quickly.

They are obviously a lot smaller comparably to Boeing. I think they have like a third of their revenue. But I'm just shocked that this is taking as long as it is. And this is one of the things. Like with our military, they've had these issues too with them. And these sorts of these like manufacturing delays. And by the time they get stuff, it's like entirely outmoded. And I'm just, I don't know.

They, so they said that I think this was around the elections in November. There was a Boeing representative that signaled to federal officials that the manufacturer that Boeing, and this, I think this was over at Wall Street Journal. So Wall Street Journal has this story. They were saying that one, someone said that maybe 2029 at the earliest, but other Boeing representatives, when they were talking to federal officials, they were saying that it would be around 2035 when they would be able to do it. And they said that they have been struggling with, and this is again, per Wall Street Journal, the plane's complicated wiring, says this piece,

complicated wiring and structural issues, including some related to holes for doors, cut into the lower lobes of the aircraft. I just feel like that is a problem that should have been easily solved, I think. What in the world is? What is this nonsense? What is this is crazy? So that's the struggle. That's the struggle boss? Is this?

They're working with some of the wire. I'm just curious as to how this is different than any of the other ones. Now, there's a, this is, and CNN, but the air, our Air Force and CNN had this piece where they talked about their stealth fighter, the Frankenjet. that they stitched together. So they had two F-35s that were wrecked and in accidents. And they're now on duty in combat ready. These two jets crashed in the span of three years.

And the U.S. Air Force turned around and rebuilt them. And now they're back in action. Okay. So what is the holdup? What am I missing here? I am stunned. Now Lorraine goes, to be fair,

Boeing is the company having problems that door plugs falling out of the aircraft in the air? Oh, yeah. Kind of a big deal. Now, do you think, and I've heard this floated before, is the Qataris plane threat

just a way to put pressure on Boeing? Do you think that that could be part of it? Do you mean the Trump administration? I mean, it could be part of it. I mean, we've had now at least three years with Boeing tragically in the news, whether it be, you know, for failures of their equipment or the whistleblower who just got un-in-lawed. I mean, I'm just curious, how is it that the Air Force, per this piece, can take and stitch together a Frankenjet from two crashed F-35s, like just a little over two years and they have them not, and they put them back, they deploy them again. but Boeing can't go in to existing jets and deal with like wiring and whatever modifications are required. Yeah, that's why I don't believe it.

We know things have improved since the 80s in regards to manufacturing and everything else. So I don't, I don't buy it. I think it's becoming a question of do you trust Boeing? And Boeing, this is like an all-American, it's like an all-American company. When you think of American companies, that's one of the ones that I think always comes up with people. And I don't like iconic American things being viewed so horribly. But in this instance, I mean, it's deserved. What the hell is happening there?

What the hell's happening with that plastic white bag of powder? That McCronehead. Can we play this video? So it's, now Lorraine says this, the two. tissue. Cane goes, what's in the tissue? Cane is unconvinced. Yeah, at first I thought it was a baggy because it looks like when you see it, it has like a base to it. So this is the video. Juan's getting ready to go. It's a John's France press. They're in this tiny little room. And there it is. At the head of the table, you'll see it right next to that glass.

It's right there by the glass. There's a spoon, too, that gets grabbed up by the taller guy. And then you have Macron, you have Kirstarmer. and So it's still sitting there All of a sudden McCrone sees it Oh boom boom I don't think it's cocaine

I don't know I don't think it's that There are different photos That have been published That it looks like it is a tissue I just can't imagine And the other photos that I've seen I'm like okay yeah

I can see what it is now Kane's like what's in the tissue But if it's not my tissue I'm not touching it Well isn't that where McCrone was sitting Was it? I don't know But all I know is I'm not stuffing a weird, not knowing where it came from tissue.

Tissue in my pocket. Because clearly they had water that they were drinking and they were sitting there. I am not one to defend any of these stooges, but I'm just saying. And Juan, didn't you take a screenshot of it and a little zoom in on the whole thing you think? Because the video's a little blurry, but, okay, I'll concede it's a tissue, right? Because I originally thought it was a bag of white powder. It's like a napkin or a tissue is what it is. Yeah.

But there's something in that damn tissue. And then Mers is the other guy. He hides the spoon. And the joke is supposed to be that Zelensky is a known cocaine enthusiast. And that, no, nobody explained anything. I don't know. They were on a train. They were in Ukraine. And this was just a couple of days ago. So, and he takes it. I don't think, I just don't think that. Is it coincidence that cocaine rhymes with train? I think that if they were, if that's what it was, I don't think that they would have involved. invited cameras with anything still left on the table. Right. I mean, they might be idiots, but they're not like that stupid. I mean, you know, at least those two. I was willing to believe the drama, though.

You're just kind of ruining it for me, actually. Oh, believe me. I want to believe every conspiracy theory that I hear about them. I want to believe that his, that McCron's wife is a man and that's a wig and I want to believe all these things. But, you know, I just, I don't have, I just, sometimes I just get tired and I'm like, I don't have enough energy. Like, it's hot.

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400-something acre residential development that was going to be Islamic centered. And I think they were going to have like a mosque and I don't know what type of schools or whatever they were supposed to have. But no other details about it. But that's apparently what there were, I think there were questions about, well, what the left always focuses on, like inclusion, et cetera, things of that. nature. So and and also financing and making sure that it was all economically above board, which that kind of, it's sort of suggesting that it wasn't. I don't know. We'll look into it a little bit more tomorrow. In the meantime, today's stupidity came. And Juan, this is cut 24. It's Al, release my chakra gore.

Sickening to even say it out loud. But this is what he says in cut 24. Listen to this. end quote the trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality they say ukraine attack russia instead of the other way around it's not what they say and expect us to believe it at home they attack heroes who have defended our nation in war and against cyber attacks as traitors okay essentially he's trying to draw the parallel between early Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, which is something the Democrats do at DOSium. Based on what? Yeah, exactly.

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