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Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora.
It's Thursday, February 13, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1738.
This is no agenda.
Predicting sports ball scores for 17 years and
broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas
Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where there's now
a Kennedy in a Republican administration.
What?
I'm John C.
DeVora.
It's crackpot and buzzkill.
In the morning.
That's right, breaking news at this hour.
All right, the president's pick for Director of
Health and Human Services, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., has officially just been confirmed.
The final tally was 52 to 48.
It fell pretty much down party lines as
expected.
Yeah, it was not expected.
There was a lot of consternation.
People were like, I don't know.
I don't know.
Big Pharma won't let him in.
Well, Big Pharma, something happened.
They screwed the pooch.
The only one, of course, who voted against
him is voted against every Trump appointee is
Mitch McConnell, the turtle.
Why do you think he voted against all
of the nominees?
What?
He's a jerk.
He always has been.
Yeah, I guess.
What else could it be?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Not much of a Republican.
I guess they don't have.
Kentucky should have voted him out.
And he's got brain freeze.
He's got something wrong with him.
I'll say.
Brain damage.
It's like there's a brain freeze moment of
him almost every single day.
Can you dig up the three clips that
I asked you for the other day?
Sure.
The Kennedy clips.
And this is the thing.
I'm going to write this up as one
of the columns I do.
Yeah.
Because I want it.
He's okay.
He got in.
Big talker, you know, is going to do
this.
He's going to do that.
Everybody's jacked up about it.
I mean, people who care about health.
Yeah.
And the big farm and all the issues
that we have in this country.
And so he made some promises.
Yeah.
I want to start with the first one.
I think.
Yes.
And I want to just mention that we
documented this some time ago.
I am now going to.
I think we should hold them accountable and
make sure that these promises are noted.
Yes.
Promises made.
Promises kept.
The first one, pharma advertising.
I'm not intimidated by the agencies.
I know how they work.
And I know how to change them.
Most of those changes you do not need
Congress for.
The president, President Trump could have done it,
had the power to do it himself.
And President Biden has the power to do
it himself.
And I'll give you an example.
With a stroke of the pen, you can
change back the rule that allows pharmaceutical advertisers
to do direct to consumer ads on television.
That's one of the big problems.
That's why one of the reasons we have
this entrenched agency capture, not only of Congress,
because they control the airwaves.
They control the evening news.
Seventy five percent of the revenues for those
evening news shows are, you know, Anderson Cooper
is coming from Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.
And those companies are dictating content on those
shows and they dictate the official narratives.
And they're able then to exercise huge control
over Congress.
So Congress is terrified of them.
But with a stroke of the pen, you
can say this is not good for the
health of our country, which it isn't.
We spend three times more than any other
country for pharmaceutical drugs because of all this
advertising.
Stroke of the pen.
And I should mention something I was thinking
about, which is that these, you know, how
they make a big deal.
Don't you can't give medical advice.
You can't do this because it's like, you
know.
Yes.
I don't know if it's illegal or I
don't know what the deal is, but you
can't be like a podcaster saying and then
when you do that, you shouldn't be.
You can't give medical advice.
With the stock market, for example, you can't.
No, you should.
I think it's you shouldn't.
I don't know if you can't.
I think that I don't know.
I think there's some rule or law or
some some code violation if you do it.
But these advertisers, that's all they do.
I would say in this administration, you can
do pretty much whatever you want.
You say what you want.
You can have your kid picking his nose
on TV and rubbing it on the on
the Resolute desk.
I mean, you can do anything you want
these days.
Great.
What a time to be alive.
Did you not see that?
I didn't see the nose picking, but that
is a surprise.
You rubbed it on the desk.
Oh, that kid.
X.
Oh, is that the X kid?
That's X.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
So that's what Kennedy.
Okay.
That has to go.
And I agree with that because that will
change the media landscape completely.
Oh, it would bankrupt him.
What will they do?
Well, I think a lot will know that.
What would they do?
They'll have to actually do their job and
get real advertisers.
They have to do it the old fashioned
way.
Yeah.
Back to just sitting there taking orders over
the phone.
Back to beer, boobs and bikinis.
Come on, people.
Okay.
So that's one.
That's one.
Let's go with clip two.
Open the databases.
Another thing that I can do is I
can open up all the databases right now.
All the databases that you can actually check
the efficacy and the safety of vaccines like
the vaccine safety database.
It's that, you know, it's the topic.
It's all the vaccine records and the medical
claims for 10 million Americans from the top
10 HMOs.
Oh, you can look in there and overnight
you can say, oh, this vaccine is associated
with diabetes.
This one's associated with peanut allergies.
This one's associated with ASD, neurological ticks or
whatever.
That database, CDC keeps it in a lockbox
like Fort Knox and make sure no scientist
is allowed in there.
Well, I'll open up that database on day
one.
Yeah.
This is my favorite because I get to
find out why I have neurological ticks and
I can sue somebody over it.
It might be a little late.
What's it called?
Statute of limitations.
You may have a statute of limitations issue.
It's also in Holland.
I think you got the shot that gave
you the Tourette's.
Uh, no, I think it was seven.
I think it's just before we left.
Actually, I may be in luck.
I can sue him anyway.
I'll sue him anyway.
That's going to be a tough one.
I mean, it does.
I have robbed the constitutional lawyer on my
side.
I'm not worried.
Good luck.
It'll make it won't cost me anything.
Well, there's that.
Yeah.
And so there's so he's going to open
the database on day one.
That means today.
I don't think, you know, OK, well, maybe
not today, but as soon as he gets
his office cleared out or clarity in.
OK, now here's the last one.
And, you know, I'll also I'll bring all
the medical journals, the New England Journal of
Medicine, the Lancet, JAMA into the Justice Department.
As soon as I point an AG and
I'll say to them, you guys are part
of a racketeering syndicate.
You're collaborating with these pharmaceutical industry.
The lie to the American public about the
efficacy and safety of these products and you're
causing enormous harm.
And we are going to sue you both
civilly for damages.
And we're going to sue you criminally unless
you come up with a plan right now
as to how you're going to stop doing
that.
So I have like I have a hundred
things that I'm going to do immediately.
Under a hundred things, that's 97 more to
go.
I can't wait.
So he's got a hundred things.
I'm sure there's a number of issues in
there, including, I think, the liability thing that's
got to go.
Well, the you mean the vaccine shield law?
Yeah, the vaccine shield law.
So you can make a crap.
You could basically put dog shit in a
vaccine.
And we did have a similar situation.
If you remember the swine flu episode episode
episodic era where people were lined up for
the swine flu shot and one of the
providers of the swine flu shot was putting
live viruses in the shot.
Oh, yeah.
What could possibly go wrong?
You know, we'll see.
But that's what you know, if he's going
to come in there as a big talker,
we'll see how.
Well, I mean, so far, everybody's coming through
with what they've said.
So let's see if Kennedy's one of them.
So the last one is Kash Patel, I
guess.
And he just got through the committee.
So they're going to take it to the
vote.
I don't know if it's today or not.
And I think it's yeah, well, it could
be today, tomorrow, maybe.
But yeah, they got Tulsi through.
Tulsi was the one I think that we
who knew.
I'm stunned that Tulsi made it.
There's something going on.
Someone's got leverage.
Someone's got leverage, man.
Someone's got leverage pictures, videos.
I don't know.
It's pretty.
This is actually a very tough time for
us because everybody's got clips and you've got
the Senate and the House and everyone's going
crazy.
And it's like, that's not all that interesting
anymore.
We have to kind of find the nuggets
and the real good stuff.
I got some Tulsi stuff we can play.
Yeah, let's play some Tulsi stuff.
Well, here's just the NTD confirmation.
And I have the Tulsi-Gabbert analysis.
No, yeah, that's what you call it.
OK, here it is.
Trump is continuing his plans to take control
of the Gaza Strip to rebuild.
Now he's trying to get nearby countries to
temporarily host Palestinians.
Later this month, Egypt will hold an emergency
Arab summit to further discuss the new proposal.
Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Wisecup, NTD
News.
The Senate voted this morning to.
Gee, you could have clipped that off.
What happened there?
I admit, I don't know why it was
that, sorry.
What happened there?
Very unprofessional.
Yeah, I agree.
OK, here we go.
The Senate voted this morning to confirm Tulsi
-Gabbert as the Director of National Intelligence.
This after Democrats ran out the clock debating
the nomination.
Ms. Gabbert is a patriot.
She's someone who's motivated by service.
And she's been serving her country and community
since she was 21 years old when she
was elected to the Hawaii state legislature.
And after her first session in the Hawaii
legislature, she enlisted in the Army National Guard.
But there are certain times you have to
buck and stand up and say, No, this
is just a very bad choice for America.
And the nomination of Ms. Gabbert is simply
one of those.
I plead with my colleagues.
I know it's the last minute to think
twice, to vote no, as we all will
vote.
Despite Democratic opposition and after 30 hours of
debate, with 52 votes in favor and 48
against, Gabbert was confirmed.
Former Senate leader Mitch McConnell voted against the
confirmation.
He was the only Republican defector.
Gabbert, a former Democratic congresswoman and veteran, is
Trump's 14th nominee to be confirmed since January
20th.
What I like about Ms. Gabbert is she's
got fashion sense.
She has cool outfits that work on TV
and photos.
You know what I mean?
Everybody that Trump has got in there, for
the most part, Has fashion sense.
They have a certain pizzazz.
Flair.
Pizzazz.
A flair.
Flair.
Pizzazz.
Yeah, that's all we really want in this
movie.
We just want to have the people look
good.
He's got a clue.
Yeah, finally.
It's like casting.
It used to be show businesses or politics
is show business for ugly people.
And now it's like, no, it's just show
business.
Well, we have to make an exception with
Kash Patel, the cross-eyed guy.
Yeah, but he is a sharp dresser.
He is a sharp dresser and he's sharp
on his feet.
And he has a lot of broadcasting style.
Well, that's from the All In podcast.
Oh, wait, that's a different guy.
That's Chamath.
I'm sorry.
Wrong guy.
The other guy.
By the way, that guy, he's got some
analysis.
That's pretty good.
That's Chamal guy.
I think it's Chamath.
I don't know how to pronounce his first
or last name.
It's all right.
Everyone will get mad at me when you
make mistakes.
It's all good.
Got that.
Okay, before we play the Tulsa Gabbard analysis,
you have to discuss that.
I don't.
I have nothing to discuss other than I
look at my X timeline.
I was going to do Rogan.
You got blamed for something I said.
I'm going to Rogan yesterday and I get
up in the morning like, whenever I read
Zionist boomer piece of crap, I'm like, okay,
I'm just not going to read today.
I'm just going to keep on moving.
And that's the most offensive thing.
How dare you call me a boomer?
That's so wrong.
You are a boomer, technically.
That's all I got to say about it.
You're the end of the boomers.
End of the line boomer.
I am not interested in a pod battle
a la Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Get a grip, people.
Move on.
Move on.
Yes, we do have to discuss our fabulous
Super Bowl selection again.
Well, you want to do it now or
after the...
I got to play the Gabbard stuff first.
All right, Gabbard.
Changing the topic.
Analysis one.
Analysis one.
Here we go.
Joining us now to discuss the confirmation of
Gabbard and the U.S. intelligence community is
Nicholas Eftimiadis, retired senior intelligence officer and author
of Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics.
Nick, thank you so much for joining us.
Good to see you again.
Now, first, Gabbard has worn a lot of
hats, a military veteran, a former congresswoman, and
even a former presidential candidate.
What do you think she'll bring to her
new role as the nation's top intelligence director?
Well, there are a lot of things that
each candidate would bring to the role.
In her case, I mean, certainly, first and
foremost, is trust of the president.
And in that role, you couldn't have a
more critical factor than that, than having the
president's trust.
So she has that.
Secondly, she is rather committed, and you can
hear this in her testimony, towards a protection
of civil rights and privacy rights within the
United States.
So she is going to ensure that that
intelligence community follows the rules and behaves in
a way appropriate for U.S. intelligence.
And lastly, I would say that she understands
some of the strategic threats that present us
today, China and Russia in particular.
And she knows that these are going to
be issues that are going to be, first
and foremost, priorities for the intelligence community.
Who is this guy?
Some ex-spook.
Okay.
He's very amenable to her.
And I think the point he made there
was that she's a loyalist.
Oh, yes.
Well, obviously.
I don't know why people are shocked by
that, because that's what you want.
But he didn't use the L word.
I'm a little disappointed.
No, he didn't, which I think was a
plus.
That means he's not a Democrat.
Democrats use that word.
Okay.
On television, for sure.
All right, number two, here we go.
I want to get to the foreign threats.
But first, on your second point, Senator Lisa
Murkowski, who was initially holding out, said she
decided to support Gabbard due to her promise
to narrow the scope of the intel community
to ensure the safety and civil liberties of
Americans.
What actions do you see Gabbard taking to
follow through on that?
Well, that's going to be interesting.
I think the first, I know she wants
to hit the ground running.
But I think in the first couple of
months, she's going to have to understand the
playing field a little more.
I think we're going to be looking at
a new inspector general.
I think we're going to be looking at
reviews of operations.
I think we're going to be looking at,
in some cases, if appropriate, the cleaning of
house.
So I think she's going to get her
hands on the bureaucracy first.
And as she does that, I think she's
going to put in specific measures relative to
oversight of intelligence operations, oversight of targeting, maintenance
of records, and all the other things that
potentially an intelligence agency can do to be
weaponized or to just be a threat to
the U.S. population.
Now, wouldn't she be involved in the decision
based upon intelligence if we should bomb Gaza
on Saturday at 12 noon?
Wouldn't that be the first thing she's involved
in?
Well, it would have to be by definition
since she's there.
Uh, I don't think we're going to bomb
Gaza to smithereens, but I think the Israelis
might.
Yeah, we give them a bunch of bombs.
There you go.
That was not a laugh.
Like, by the way, that was not a
laugh.
Like, haha, bomb Gaza people.
That's not it.
But, um, yeah, you Zionist shill.
Now critics are pointing to Gabbard's past, such
as past comments sympathetic to Edward Snowden and
past past public support for Russia.
Now, given her confirmation was mostly along party
lines, do you think there's legitimate concerns over
some of these issues?
I think everybody's past changes the minute they
get selected for for a nomination.
I don't think there are issues.
Look, she's going to do what the president
wants.
I mean, that much has been very clear.
Virtually every candidate that's come up for nomination
that they're going to execute the will of
the presidency.
And so, you know, there are a lot
of public.
There are a lot of personal opinions that
go on.
And this doesn't mean that that they're going
to be influencing or in any way her
performance in that role.
So, no, I don't see those as an
issue at all.
Really.
Every candidate has come to the table with
some some quote that was thrown at them
four years ago or five years ago.
And, you know, the circumstances were different.
The context was different.
The knowledge base on that person's part was
different.
So I don't see that as a real
issue to her functioning.
Now, to one of your earlier points, how
do you see Gabbard and the agency more
broadly tackling the threats of Chinese espionage and
intelligence operations on U.S. soil?
Well, that's going to be an extraordinary challenge.
I mean, as a system, as a government,
we're not built for that, really.
We you know, the political warfare that China
executes, we're not built to to work against
the the cyber attacks that China has done.
Absolutely relentless in volume and levels of penetration.
We're not built to handle.
So a little bit of restructuring is going
to be in order.
We're going to have to use and she's
going to have to use a whole of
government approach, you know, with other agencies in
order to be able to respond to that
and to protect the United States.
I mean, just clearly, we're at this point
outclassed.
This guy is testing my patience.
Whose side is he on?
He's on NTD.
They go, China's the best.
Oh, we can't.
Well, they outclass us everywhere.
Really?
That's what he's claiming.
Well, I mean, they have built a F
-35.
How did they do that?
Well, anything would fly better than our current
F-35.
All I see is these things pancaking into
the ground.
We suckered them into building an F-35.
Perhaps that's what it is.
The thing in there is the Snowden thing
was always kind of interesting because she skirted
that very well because they kept hounding her,
the Democrats.
And she wouldn't say, yes, he's a traitor
because she doesn't think he's a traitor.
She thinks him as a whistleblower because he
exposed illegal activities on the part of the
intelligence community.
Do you think Snowden will want to come
home now?
Or is he good now?
I think Snowden's always wanted to come home.
Well, he could come home, get a hero's
welcome, ticker tape parade.
I don't think he's going to.
It's still sketchy.
I don't know how they're going to get
him back.
He still may be working for the CIA
for all we really know.
This could have been an op gone bad.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, I mean, it could be an op
gone bad and they're stuck with this guy
who's stuck in Russia.
As long as once he gets his glasses
fixed and he gets that that nose pad
on, then we'll know the op is over.
That's been that way for too long.
Yes, those phony glasses he wears.
All right.
Your last gabber clip.
To your point, the latest report from research
group MITRE says that the intel community is
not well positioned to tackle the full spectrum
of threats from the Chinese regime.
What actions do you think the new DNI
has to take to address this issue?
Or, you know, what suggestions would you have
for them?
Well, you know, it takes time.
We have a lot of what they call
one book wonders.
I mean, you know, the intelligence community is
getting smarter, but there's not a lot of
depth of experience.
We had thousands of people who were trained
as Soviet area experts during the course of
the Cold War.
So that's going to take a little time.
Building expertise is one.
Number two is working cross coordination, I mean,
between agencies.
You know, they have to work together because,
you know, China strikes on so many different
fronts.
And number three, and I can't say this
with enough emphasis, that we've got to get
a national strategy, not just in the intelligence
community, but throughout commerce and U.S. trade
rep and security and exchange commission and the
intelligence community and the defense department.
I mean, all these have to be interlinked
into one national strategy to be able to
contend with China's, you know, China's assertiveness across
multiple fronts.
Now, on the issue of trust, do you
see the likes of Gabbard and now John
Ratcliffe with the CIA helping to increase the
public's trust in the intel community, given the,
say, 51 so-called spies who lied over
the Hunter Biden laptop or reports of weaponization
in the agency?
Yeah, well, that's going to be interesting.
I think the public trust will increase over
time, but it is going to be difficult.
I mean, their job is going to be
immensely difficult because trust, once lost, takes a
very long time to build back.
So, I mean, that's in people's person-to
-person relationships and certainly within, you know, with
the government and the citizenry.
So I think they can make gains, but
I think it's going to take time and
they need to be at it and keep
pushing at it.
The release of documents that they're doing is
going to be a first step.
They're going to be a few painful months
ahead as documents are released.
But after that time, we should begin a
healing process.
I can't wait for the healing process.
Well, that brings us to the clip of
the release of the documents by, was it
Luna, I think, that came up with the
comments?
There's the Ana Luna files they're setting up.
Besides the fact that they're going to release
all these documents, there's a new congressional subcommittee
that's going to look into all of them
even more in more depth.
And this was Ana Luna who's going to
head it up with the bikini model.
Together with the White House, our intelligence allies,
the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice,
we'll be conducting investigations into the following.
The assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin
Luther King, unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as
UAPs, unidentified submerged objects, also known as USOs,
the Epstein client list, the origins of COVID
-19, and the 9-11 files.
This task force will be a beacon of
bipartisanship.
On the Republican side, Representatives Burchett, Boebert, Burleson,
Crane, Gill, and Mace will be joining me.
Ana Luna, huh?
Boebert, Mace.
All the mean girls are going to be
on this thing.
Yeah, well, you know, this morning we got
this report.
The FBI has discovered new stuff.
The FBI says it has uncovered 2,400
new records related to President John F.
Kennedy's assassination.
Officials say the documents contain about 14,000
pages worth of material that a disclosure board
was supposed to review but never saw.
The FBI has added the documents to its
declassification process.
It comes after President Donald Trump issued an
executive order last month to declassify the JFK,
RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination files.
Now, the video they showed was like old
newspaper clippings, and I don't know exactly what
2,400 records they've found.
It didn't look like much.
I think they have another 10.
That was just some footage.
Another 10 days or so until it's time
to release the files.
We're all very excited.
This will be, you know, Trump's running out
of executive order.
So it's about 10 days worth of more
executive orders to get his attention to screw
up the media.
Let's just roll this out.
That'll keep people busy.
I want to talk about the Super Bowl
for a second.
I have two relevant clips, funny enough.
First of all, it's amazing that the Eagles
won considering there's something wrong in the water
after the mayor.
Now we have this city official.
And finally, we want folks to sign up
for our city's Ready Philadelphia public information and
alert system.
In fact, we have a special way to
do that.
You can text Ready Eagles.
That's one word, no spaces.
And that's R-E-A-D-Y-E
-A-G-L-S.
What is wrong with these dumb Philadelphians?
I don't know.
Here's the views take on the Super Bowl,
in particular, the halftime.
You know, I don't do sports.
You know, I don't do football.
So I wasn't watching the game.
I wasn't watching.
But yeah, but this is her analysis.
I wasn't watching.
But I'm going to give you an analysis.
Of course.
I think today Donald Trump is going to
sign an executive order banning black people from
halftime.
Because you remember last week we were talking
about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump
by removing the term and racism from the
end zone.
Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump.
When I saw Samuel L.
Jackson dressed as a black Uncle Sam, who
then had like an entire formation of all
black people making a U.S. flag.
Listen, this much I know, all the black
people on my feed were like, oh, this
is blackity black black.
And all the racists would somehow get in.
Man, were they hopping mad.
So if the racists are mad, I am
happy as a clam.
We have a huge, huge celebration of New
Orleans and you can't celebrate New Orleans without
celebrating black culture.
Yeah.
Welcome to Black History Month, y'all.
You know, one of the panelists on the
Gutfeld show pointed out, Tyrus, I think the
black guy, he says that Samuel L.
Jackson wasn't dressed as a black Uncle Sam.
He was dressed as Uncle Sam.
Thank you.
Very good point.
Exactly.
They don't get that because they are the
racists.
These people are the racists.
She's the worst.
So what do you think of the halftime,
which is the thing we all have to
talk about?
What do you think about the halftime?
Well, I watched a little bit of it.
I skipped around the whole game because after
the first quarter, you can tell the game
was going to be boring.
But I thought it was pretty well produced.
And I couldn't understand a word he was
singing half of it.
I knew something about the song, but I
thought the thing was pretty spectacular.
What they should have done is like all
these Christian artists, they should have a big
screen and the words up on the screen.
No, I'm not kidding.
It's really good.
I mean, or have it in lower third.
It's not a bad idea.
You know, it was poorly miked, but the
dancing was really spectacular.
Oh, the dancing was great.
Those kids with the dancing.
But the whole thing was I thought it
was a good show.
I personally, of course, this is the only
football game I watch once a year.
I like the game.
I thought it was exciting.
You thought it was exciting?
Yeah.
Well, I don't watch football.
And really, after the game, I sat next
to Tina.
I said, how do people watch one of
these every week?
That's tiring.
No, that no, the Super Bowl is a
little different than a typical football game.
So is it longer for some reason?
It actually is.
I think I think they stretch it a
little bit because I mean, the quarters are
the same length, but I think they stretch
it.
I think the halftime is stretched by minutes.
Maybe I could be wrong.
But no, it's just the intensity of the
game is a little different.
And it's overanalyzed.
It's just slightly different.
The weekly games are and most smart viewers
speed watch them.
You record them, you know, you record to
about the third quarter and you start watching
the game, you catch up at the end.
And so you get to watch the end
live, which you don't have to watch commercials,
which brings me well, it brings me to
an important email I received about speed watching
and speed listening.
This is where you go.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I remember that ad.
I'm sorry that the email.
So speed watching.
I'm just going to equate that to speed
listening to your podcast, which I have claimed
forever is bad for your health.
Yeah, well, speed watching isn't watching at high
speed.
Well, then I'll leave that email for later.
I'll do what speed watching is, is you
turn the game on.
You have it recorded about a half hour
to an hour, but you watch the game,
it gets the commercials.
Boom, you skip ahead back to the game.
OK, the commercials I watched on YouTube TV.
Did I just not get any good commercials?
There were no good commercials.
They were all and some of them were
sickening.
The flying eyebrows and the flying mustaches.
What does that all about?
And then also the tongue, this guy's tongue
that comes out of his mouth.
It was gross.
That was creepy.
That was a creepy one.
But Kanye apparently had some Nazi closing ads,
which were only I think people have moved
to local ads more than national spots, except
for the Pfizer.
You know, we're going to beat cancer, which
is just kind of a whole thing was
kind of gross, sick.
They're sick, like from the people who gave
you cancer.
You know, we're going to save you from
it.
I don't know.
Anyway, we called it you called it much
more accurately than I did.
I had a point spread, which was completely
off.
But we both said it was the Eagles.
And were the Eagles the favorite to win
or no?
No, there were underdogs.
So people must have made money and they're
donating to the show today.
I haven't seen any evidence of this.
Okay.
So just remember, we call these things more
right than wrong, I think.
And we do it from a political basis.
We don't call it based on the although
Philadelphia did have a better team than it
showed.
Although your guy, Sequon, man, they had him
covered.
He couldn't do anything.
They basically lost the game because of that
tactic, that strategy.
The tactic was to stop this one guy,
Sequon Barkley, the running back from Philadelphia.
And they spent all their efforts on that.
And in the process, they lost the game
hugely.
Because that's all they could do is stop
that one guy.
They did stop him.
They think he only gained 45 yards or
so.
Or maybe 70 yards and 40 passing.
And he was not MVP.
No, and I was.
Yeah, he didn't make MVP.
I like Hertz.
I like Hertz.
He was good.
He was good.
Yeah, he is good.
He's actually decent.
And he can run too.
And I felt kind of bad.
I felt bad for Mahomes, you know.
And someone should tell him to stop chewing
on that mouth guard.
That's just irritating after a while.
It's like, stop it.
It's funny.
Stephen Curry, the basketball player, does the same
thing.
There's a bunch of these nervous superstars that's
chewing on the mouth guard.
Do you think it was rigged, possibly?
I mean, I saw worm burners from Mahomes.
Like, how does he do that?
Just throwing it to the ground.
I can do that.
Put me in the Super Bowl, coach.
There was a, the reason I suspect there
may have been something up is that early
before the game started, there was, they shot
some side camera shots of the different players.
And Mahomes had a look on his face,
like an unhappy look that was not.
Some game in the news.
You're not winning this game.
Yeah, he, it's just, as soon as I
saw it, I said, oh, oh, okay.
Well, I, you know.
Well, maybe the whole thing, maybe the whole
thing was just rigged so that Taylor Swift
can write another album when she breaks up.
On the, on the cast, on the, on
the television, they didn't show Taylor.
Because she said she wanted to be.
One time, only one time.
I only saw her.
I never saw her even once, except on
the, on YouTube videos.
Well, the YouTube videos, you sit and sit
next to her Satanist friend, which that's what
lost the game for him, as we predicted.
Like, you can't bring Satan into the game.
And they were booing her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's move on.
That was a good rap.
Yeah, I have nothing.
Hey, we did it again, John.
Good work.
We called it again.
One of the things we do.
That's one of the things we do.
On to, uh, uh, Magaza.
Well, President Trump is not backing down on
his plans to simply take over Gaza during
his meeting yesterday with the King of Jordan,
King Abdullah.
The president said the U.S. is simply
going to take ownership.
There is nothing to buy.
It's Gaza.
It's a, it's a war-torn area.
We're going to take it.
We're going to hold it.
We're going to cherish it.
And Mr. President, take it under what authority?
It is sovereignty.
Under the U.S. authority.
Trump's plan, which would require the forced relocation
of 2 million Palestinians, is not being well
-received by the Palestinians themselves.
I say to Trump that we will die
in our country.
We are not prepared to abandon our country.
Palestine is for Palestinians.
We do not belong to any other country.
I urge you, President Trump, leave us alone
and let us live.
Let us rebuild Gaza.
We can make it better and more beautiful.
Than it used to be.
Palestine is for Palestinians.
This is well known.
Palestine was here before Trump.
And it will be here after Trump.
No one has the right to divide Palestine
or Gaza or the West Bank.
And this is, this is really the interesting
point.
Because if you heard the president speak there,
he said, you know, there's nothing to own.
There's nothing, there's really nothing to buy.
Because who owns Gaza?
That's really the point of contention.
I actually got a clip here from Judge
Knapp.
Judge Knapp.
And Judge Napolitano, who, his, what's his podcast?
Judging Freedom.
It's a podcaster now.
Yeah, Judging Freedom.
Here's Trump on Air Force One on Sunday,
either going to or coming home from the
Super Bowl on buying and owning Gaza.
Chris, cut number one.
Steve Whitkoff said that process would take 10
to 15 years.
Does your commitment to rebuilding Gaza extend beyond
your time in office?
I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza.
As far as us rebuilding it, we may
give it to other states in the Middle
East to build sections of it.
Other people may do it through our auspices.
But we're committed to owning it, taking it
and making sure that Hamas doesn't move back.
There's nothing to move back into.
The place is a demolition site.
By what authority could he possibly own it?
None.
Owning it implies the sale.
Who would sell it to him?
At one point, he said Israel would sell
it to us.
Israel doesn't own it.
Israel can't conquer it.
Israel can't defeat Hamas.
Hague says American troops will never be there.
I don't know if these people have even
thought this stuff through.
Well, so that's that's an interesting question, because
I know that the strip was until the
Six Day War was controlled by Egypt.
Then, of course, Israel captured it.
I don't know if you own it, if
you captured it.
And, you know, Israel, they control the airspace.
I mean, who does anyone?
It's not a country.
Palestine is not a country, although kind of
half recognized by United Nations, kind of like
a, yeah, we'll give you a resolution.
So that is kind of the question.
If you're going to buy it, which I
doubt is going to happen.
I even doubt that we're going to do
anything.
I think it's still I think it still
will be either Jordan or Egypt and they're
going to do something.
Just doesn't seem like like I think the
whole thing is bullshit.
I think Trump is just saying this stuff.
This is a version of the blurt.
It's a matter of him getting people all
riled up.
Napolitano is clueless about anything.
Trump, I mean, Napolitano is a podcaster largely
because he didn't understand Trump the first time
around.
Wait a minute.
We're still podcasters ourselves.
Yeah, I know.
But we started off as a podcaster.
We had when you're at the bottom, you
don't get kicked out of Fox and a
10 million dollar a year deal when you're
at the bottom to become podcaster hitting the
skids when you're laying on the floor.
There's not far to fall.
You're right.
There's there's there's a big difference between hitting
the skids and, you know.
Well, here is I think this is the
France 24 short report.
As far as I'm concerned, if all of
the hostages are returned by Saturday at 12
o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.
I would say cancel it and all bets
are off and let hell break out.
I'd say they ought to be returned by
12 o'clock on Saturday.
And if they're not returned, all of them,
not in drips and drabs, not two and
one and three and four and two.
That's true.
Saturday at 12 o'clock.
And after that, I would say all hell
is going to break out.
Here's Aaron Burnett.
Before you continue, why do you think he
said, I think it's an appropriate time?
I have that same.
I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you think?
High noon is from the movie.
Well, that's what I said earlier.
High noon.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's from the movie.
Trump's, you know, over the age of this
movie was very influential on this.
Yes.
Boomer, Boomer, Boomer, Boomer, Boomer stuff.
Not landing with everybody.
No, but that's I'm telling you, that's exactly
why he said it's an appropriate time.
There's no other reason to say could have
said 1215.
I mean, but high noon.
And is that central Gaza time?
Or is it?
It has to be Gaza time, obviously.
Here's Aaron Burnett on CNN.
Do you just hear President Trump there?
He said parcel land in Jordan, where the
Palestinians from Gaza will go live.
Is that the case?
Well, good evening.
And thanks for having me.
This is a Jordan's foreign minister.
I did have a very good discussion with
the with the with the with the president.
Obviously, those the pressure took place before the
expanded meeting where the ideas were discussed.
President President Trump presented his ideas.
I believe he's driven by, as you said,
humanitarian concern for Gaza.
He believes that Gaza cannot rebuild without Gazans
leaving their land.
His Majesty was very clear that we have
a plan through which we'll be able to
rebuild Gaza without Gazans leaving their land.
And this is a very key position for
Jordan.
Beyond that, I think we had a very
good discussion.
His Majesty made it very clear where we
stand in terms of we can put up
a plan that would rebuild Gaza without moving
Gazans out of Gaza.
OK, so very clear on your plan.
Rebuild Gaza without moving Gazans out.
And, you know, I don't I don't want
to put words in your mouth.
But just to be clear, parcel of land
in Jordan does not fit with that.
It sounded like you were very clear that
Trump said that before the meeting with King
Abdullah.
OK, so that's so Jordan seems to be
willing to do something.
I think it was this clip about a
clip where Trump said he didn't think any
hostages were still alive.
I think it's this one from NBC this
morning.
Oh, my God, it's a Brit.
It must be true.
This morning, President Trump.
Why is he yelling at me?
This morning, President Trump in a standoff with
Hamas saying he wants to cancel the ceasefire
deal if they don't release all this clip.
Why does NBC have this guy working?
He's shouting at us and with a British
accent.
What is the point of this?
Is this professional?
It's if it's British, then it's truthful.
We all know that.
What's the point of him shouting?
It's like the old that old.
I don't know.
Rich and famous guy.
Oh, Robin Leach.
Robin Leach shouting.
He's got a beautiful multimillion dollar yacht with
champagne wishes and caviar dreams saying he wants
to cancel the ceasefire deal if they don't
release all hostages by Saturday.
As far as I'm concerned, if all of
the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12
o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.
I would say cancel it and all bets
are off and let hell break out.
The carefully negotiated ceasefire inching closer to collapse.
And this morning, Israel says its military is
on the highest level of alert after Hamas
said it would indefinitely delay releases, claiming Israel
isn't meeting its obligations.
And three hostages were freed last weekend in
emaciated condition.
Now the president's renewed threats that all hell
will break loose.
If they're not returned, all of them, not
in drips and drabs, not two and one
and three and four and two.
This weekend, President Trump doubling down on his
call for Palestinians to leave Gaza.
Would the Palestinians have the right to return?
No, they wouldn't, because they're going to have
much better housing.
And ahead of a meeting today with the
king of Jordan, threatening to potentially withhold funding
for Jordan and Egypt if they don't cooperate
by taking millions of refugees.
Both countries are clear that's a destabilizing prospect.
They would not accept potentially another impasse at
a critical moment.
Yes, I don't know where I had thought
I had a clip where he said he
didn't think the hostages were even alive anymore.
Um, but I know here's I do have
King Abdullah.
Uh, wait, no, I have the Egyptian president.
He also had a little sit down for
Egypt.
Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza
is a nonstarter.
And in a sign of its anger, Egyptian
security sources said President Sisi would not go
to Washington for talks if the agenda included
Trump's vision in Cairo.
The mood is one of defiance.
He wants to displace the Palestinians from their
homes and ignite war in the region.
This man has come to destroy the region.
The entire Arab world must come together as
one, and we must not allow anyone to
strong arm us.
The U.S. president, though, has doubled down
on his suggestion.
Double down?
Everyone's talking about doubling down.
Placement of Gazans to both Egypt and Jordan.
I'm talking about starting to build.
And I think I could make a deal
with Jordan.
I think I could make a deal with
Egypt.
You know, we give them billions and billions
of dollars a year.
Last year, the U.S. allocated $1.3
billion in military aid to Egypt, which, alongside
Israel, has consistently been one of the biggest
recipients of U.S. military aid since the
U.S. brokered peace treaty between Egypt and
Israel more than four decades ago.
President Sisi has repeatedly said Egypt would never
facilitate the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, aside
from being an injustice to the Palestinians and
an economic burden for Egypt, which narrowly averted
a full-blown crisis last year.
Sisi views Islamist groups like Hamas as a
serious threat to his country's own security.
The Egyptian foreign minister traveled to Washington on
Sunday, where Reuters reports it was made apparent
in a meeting with the U.S. Secretary
of State that the displacement plan would be
on the table if Sisi visited.
Yeah, I don't know.
We'll see.
I'm convinced that this is all bluff to,
like, bluster.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do that under my own
authority.
We're going to take over the place and
build the Riviera.
And you just freak these guys out and
say, no, no, no, we're going to do
it.
We'll do it.
We'll do it.
We'll do it and get them both in
gear.
In fact, most of them.
That's what it sounds like to me, too.
No, because they don't want the Palestinians in
their countries under any circumstances because they're troublemakers.
It's a known fact.
And so they're not going to have any...
Okay, well, we'll do it.
We'll do it.
We'll do it.
Let us do it.
Let us do it.
You know, you know, save your money and
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And the next thing you know, they'll be
doing it instead of sitting on their hands,
which is what they're doing now.
Now, it sounds like Jordan is definitely amenable
to doing something.
They're both going to have to...
Them and probably a few other operations are
going to have to do something.
Saudis, maybe.
Saudi, Saudi money.
Saudi money.
Yeah, maybe.
Could be.
Somebody.
But the Trump's not going to...
We're not going to buy or take over
Palestine.
It's bullcrap.
What would it be worth?
Well, if you made it into the Riviera
of this, it would be worth a lot.
Put it into our sovereign wealth fund.
And Trump did say early on, he says,
and don't worry about it.
It's not going to cost us anything.
If you notice, he said that in the
early going when he first came, when he
first blurted this idea out.
Yeah, well, the wall was not going to
be paid for Mexico.
How's that work?
The wall was going to be paid for
by Mexico, too.
So yeah, well, and the check is coming
for him.
He just didn't say when they were going
to pay for it.
All right, I want to stick with that
because it's kind of funny when you have
the Brits are the British media is going
crazy.
They don't know what to do with this
Trumpness, particularly Doge.
And it's great.
This is LBC.
So this is the, you know, the the
radio London was London Broadcast Corporation.
I guess the LBC LBC.
What is it called?
Anyway, they also have video.
You know, everyone has to have video of
them in their studio.
And here's how it starts off.
They're soggy, dissolve and last only a couple
of minutes.
Donald Trump has launched straw wars on paper
straws.
I know he sees Henry Reilly finding out
if people want to make plastic straws great
again.
I like straw wars.
I think I think that no one in
America did that, that I could tell straw
wars is good.
But they have to say it's a good
pun.
And it works.
And it's kind of surprises me that you
mentioned that nobody on our side or us
notorious for good puns and headlines didn't come
up with straw wars.
It should have been us.
This show and then they have Star Wars
theme in the background and make it even
more.
Yes.
All right.
So it should have been us.
Yeah, we get into the meat of it.
On occasions, they break, they explode.
It's a ridiculous situation.
Not talking about condoms.
They're fortunate enough instead talking about plastic straws.
The president work that the 47 presidents of
the United States has to conduct has got
to do flanked by Elon Musk, making it
clear what he thought about plastic straws.
The most powerful office drawer on the face
of the earth.
Let's catch up now with Simon.
You're being so diminutive about our most powerful
office on earth.
Straws are a big deal.
Everybody hates the straws.
They can't.
I you know, when I lived in the
UK five years, I found them to have
incredible humor.
You know, the Brits?
Yes.
Oh, it's particularly they have an understated style
of humor that is outstanding.
Yeah, I agree.
But now they're now they're getting all serious.
Oh, this is ridiculous.
Can you believe it, Jeeves?
He's talking about straws.
It's crazy.
The most powerful straws on the face of
the earth.
Let's catch up now with Simon Marks, LBC's
Washington correspondent.
Of course, Simon, even by Trump standards, this
was quite something to watch.
Yes, it's just worth picking up Lewis on
the fact that they always seem terribly obsessed
with explosive devices.
The condoms that were allegedly going to Hamas.
Hamas.
Hey, it's condoms and Hamas, OK?
Start with the condoms and Hamas.
Explosive devices.
The condoms that were allegedly going to Hamas.
Condoms.
President Trump said a few weeks, a couple
of weeks ago, he had stopped from being
sent to Hamas.
Nonetheless, at the time, he inexplicably claimed that
Hamas had somehow got their hands on them
and were using them to make bombs.
I don't quite know how you do that.
Now we discover that paper straws are potentially.
I guess this guy's never done water balloons
either.
Explosive devices.
I mean, I think what we witnessed.
Oh, do you hear what he said?
Oh, no, straws are explosive devices.
I don't think that was the point.
I don't quite know how you do that.
Now we discover that paper straws are potentially
explosive devices.
I mean, I think what we witnessed yesterday
was, frankly, the country going full Ruritania.
I mean, if you've ever watched the Marx
Brothers.
No relation.
Groucho Marx in duck soup acting as the
president of Freedonia.
I mean, at least that's satirical.
What we saw in the Oval Office.
Hold on a second.
I knew that would get you.
What a callback.
The 1930s movies.
Duck soup.
How many people that even listen to the
BBC or even our show?
LBC.
LBC.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, LBC.
How many people listen that, you know, can
relate to the duck soup movie?
Unless you're a Marx Brothers fan.
And that's a very small number at this
time in history.
Give me a break.
I mean, at least that's satirical.
What we saw in the Oval Office yesterday
was simply the most astonishing tableau anybody that
has ever covered modern American politics has witnessed
and underscored the fact that Elon Musk now
is acting essentially as the de facto prime
minister in a country that doesn't have a
prime minister and in a country that doesn't
have anything like prime minister's question time where
the prime minister would be held accountable by
parliament.
They don't have any PMQ, no prime minister,
no Elon question time.
Although I think we kind of had exactly
that in the Oval Office.
With his kid roaming around.
With a kid on his shoulders and putting
his boogers on the desk.
All right, here's the here's the last bit
here.
He is absolutely unrestrained by Donald Trump.
And we should explain that the reason why
the ostensible reason why Elon Musk was in
that room yesterday was because one of the
executive orders that Donald Trump was signing was
to empower Mr. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency,
which, of course, is not a real government
department, to pursue, as the executive order puts
it, large scale workforce reductions.
Hold on a second.
When you have an executive order creating the
Department of Government Efficiency, you literally have an
agency.
He says it does not exist.
This executive order breathed into life.
It created the department.
It created it.
Yes, just like USAID was created by executive
order.
By Kennedy.
Yes, the federal government.
They're talking about for every four civil servants
that resign or are fired.
They're only going to replace them with one.
And that one person has to be an
absolute died in the will make America great
again.
Loyalist.
So this executive order say that substantially.
I just wanted the word loyalist.
I like you have to be a loyalist.
It says it right there on line 13,
a submarker to the director of Doge must
be a loyalist loyalist.
So this executive order substantially expands Elon Musk's
capacity to oversee hiring at federal agencies.
Mr. Musk made a whole slew of absolutely
unsubstantiated claims about the Ford that he says
he is uncovering throughout the federal government.
Donald Trump said that the total amount of
fraud within the federal government may even top
$1 trillion by the time Mr. Musk is
finished.
They talked together about kickbacks that they claimed
figures that the US Agency for International Development
had received as a result of dispersing the
now I think it's fair to say former
humanitarian development assistance organizations budget.
I mean, the elephant in the room was
the fact that when Donald Trump was president
first time around, every thought.
OK, what do you think they're going to
counter with as fraud on behalf of Trump
one to counter the USAID fraud?
What do you think the Brits will come
up with here?
Do they come up with by the way,
this whole thing is a ridiculous report.
Oh, yeah, but I needed entertainment after the
after the.
What is wrong with these people?
What do you think it could be that
they're going to say?
It's so ridiculous.
It's got to be Ivanka's deal with China's
label.
President first time around, every foreign delegation that
arrived in Washington, D.C., dutifully booked into
the Trump Hotel in the center of Washington,
D.C. Dutifully.
Now, since they since they are taking us
back to the times of Boomer, allow me
to take you back, Boomer.
During the Clinton-Gore presidency, we didn't have
Doge, we had Rigo.
Do you remember Rigo?
Oh, no.
R-I-G-O?
No, it rings a bell, but I don't
remember it.
I think it's been discussed recently.
Report tells us how to cut waste, cut
red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rules,
change the personnel rules, and create a government
that works better and costs less.
The reinventing government or Rigo report aims to
save 108 billion dollars over five years through
eliminating scores of wasteful programs and regulations.
Among the 800 recommendations, eliminating 12 percent of
the federal workforce, merging some government agencies like
the FBI, the DEA, and the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, closing hundreds of government
offices outside Washington.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Yeah, it wasn't a problem then.
And it wasn't a problem then, and the
Brits weren't bitching about it.
It did nothing.
It also did nothing back then that I
can recall.
No, it did nothing.
In fact, they were trying to get rid
of that cave that they keep complaining about
now.
The cave is great.
The cave is great, and they were trying
to get rid of the cave, and I
guess Obama tried to get rid of the
cave, and everyone's trying to get rid of
the cave.
Here's a doozy on the cave.
Good morning.
The effort to make the government more efficient
has fallen down a mineshaft 230 feet below
Boyers, Pennsylvania in Butler County, where millions of
manila envelopes represent the painstakingly slow federal retirement
process.
This is it.
It looks like a place to write out
a nuclear explosion, but it's really where 700
federal workers very slowly process retirement papers by
hand.
The Washington Post described it in 2014 as
a sinkhole of bureaucracy.
So far, President Trump is pleased with efforts
to make things more efficient, and he says
he's not worried about potential conflicts of interest
for Musk.
You know what it's called, the mine, the
mineshaft, the cave?
It's called Iron Mountain.
Yeah, Iron Mountain.
It's very famous.
A lot of stuff at Iron Mountain.
Not just that.
If they're going into Iron Mountain, I want
to come along.
There's also a lot of servers down there.
Oh, yeah.
Which is ironic, considering that they have the
paper operations on one side, there's server operations
on another.
If I recall, I think there was an
internet service provider who was down there, too,
back in the day.
Maybe Red Dog or Red Bus or...
I recall there was some...
Red Bus.
Yeah, I think Red Bus was, I think...
Maybe, I don't know.
Yeah, I think they had an ISP.
Or maybe it was a backup company.
Yeah, we got everything.
We back it up in Iron Mountain.
I think I might have actually told a
client that at one point during Think New
Ideas.
Yeah, we do off-site backups.
We take them off to Iron Mountain.
Oh, wow.
Oh, where do I sign the contract?
Meanwhile...
Well, it's a huge facility.
Yeah, it's very big.
Meanwhile, back on MSNBC, Rachel Manno back earning
her keep, although she didn't get a raise,
but she's really doing what she's supposed to
do.
Let's really dive into that Doge thing.
Let's really, really figure out what's going, because
that's why I'm here for the first 100
days.
Every single day, I'll be on the air
to bring you the news about the horrible
Doge.
We're starting to see an upsurge in protests
targeting Tesla dealerships, Tesla charging stations, just as
sort of the corporate representation of Elon Musk
since he owns Tesla.
We talked last week about a seemingly impromptu
protest.
Tesla charging stations in the bitter cold up
in Waterville, Maine.
Now, look, they're starting to happen all over.
At a Tesla dealership showroom thing in Manhattan.
A showroom thing.
It's from a big crowd turned out there
with very good signage.
Stop Musk's coup.
Elon Musk is not my president.
This is a coup.
Take away the keys from Elon.
Don't buy swastikas.
I like that.
I like swastikas.
Swastikas is good.
Also, look in California, in San Luis Obispo,
at a Tesla dealership there.
More of the same.
Stop the coup.
Stop Musk.
Save our democracy.
Follow the rule of law.
This is a pretty good one.
Bad Doge.
Why do we say Doge, right?
Like, why are we playing along with the
joke and their framing of it?
There's just as much of a case that
we should be calling it Dog E.
Instead of Doge.
I don't know.
That's a pretty compelling case.
Bad Doge.
25 million a year.
How much does he get for this?
25 million a year.
But the Tesla, the Tesla hate is a
real thing.
And it's not good if you own a
Tesla in Portland, Oregon.
The video shows the vandal covering his face
riding something on the hood of a car.
That happened in broad daylight.
I mean, he was brazen.
And Tim Tease says the culprit targeted his
Tesla, parked in his Northwest Portland driveway on
a quiet neighborhood street.
During Super Bowl Sunday, while I was up
watching the game, my son and I were
watching the football game.
I showed you the video.
They spray painted my car.
When Tease went to investigate, he discovered the
word Nazi written in red.
And he thinks there's a connection to Tesla
CEO Elon Musk, who's now serving President Trump.
I get that people are upset about Elon.
I'm upset about Elon.
You know, I bought the car before her.
You know, Elon went crazy.
Hence the bumper sticker.
A sticker that'll have to wait since after
cleaning his Tesla is now in storage.
I'm thinking about selling the Tesla, although I
really like the car.
This vandalism reported to Portland police follows other
incidents, including a suspected arson at a Salem
Tesla dealership last month.
Yeah, they all have these stickers.
I bought the I bought my car before
Elon went crazy.
Oh, what a bunch of weenies.
I'm in California.
I've seen no evidence of this.
This is being played up.
Of course, as a kind of well, there's
me.
Well, no, they're instructing people to do this.
That's yeah, that's that's what I mean.
I should have said exactly that.
That's what they're doing.
They're instructing.
Media is complicit in the vandalism.
No doubt about it.
Let's go to other favorite news channel CNN.
Anderson Cooper is losing it.
Is was it strange to see it?
It was surreal.
But I got to tell you, I know
what you're not showing here.
Musk gave seven specific examples off the top
of his head of where the corruption and
fraud were.
I know you don't you didn't play the
clips.
He was talking about a contractor that had
a three month contract.
He was paid for 20 years.
He was talking about welfare benefits that were
being paid to someone that was technically 150
years old.
He was talking about line items that had
no justification.
Like he doesn't present any actual evidence.
Well, he's standing there in the Oval Office.
Do you expect him to come in with
10,000 pages?
And I have to be clear to complain
about this administration about transparency.
When this president takes open questions on a
daily basis, yet Joe Biden didn't show up
for press conferences six months is insane.
Well, these guys are being extremely transparent.
They don't have to sit there and take
the questions, but they do.
That's all on the website.
It's all out there.
Okay.
Now, loud listen to Cooper really lose it.
We'll show where some of the details that
have come out like the, you know, $59
million spent on luxury hotels.
It's actually not the thing about the FEMA
money that was used for migrants.
That was, yeah, FEMA money for migrants.
That's okay.
Now.
No, I'm not saying it.
I'm not saying it's okay.
Don't put words.
So would you stop that?
Would you stop that process?
Don't be a dick.
The portray on what I'm saying is the.
What kind of interviewer says don't be a
dick?
Unbelievable.
Well, Cooper, I know you hit more on
that clip because.
Yeah.
Is it 14 seconds?
I haven't thought about.
I want to hear the don't be a
dick again.
Don't be a dick.
The portray on what I'm saying is the
portrayal by him is just not factually accurate.
He's talking about luxury hotels there.
You can.
I'm not.
I'm not as big.
Look, I wasn't.
I saw what FEMA does.
I think the issue too, is these are
congressionally appropriate funds.
Blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
Yes.
Do you have a thought on Cooper?
Yeah.
He goes on about this.
Okay.
So they FEMA picked up the Roosevelt Hotel
and they're putting all these people in there,
including supposedly Lake and Riley's killer.
No, I didn't hear that one.
And Trent Aragway is in the Roosevelt Hotel.
And you know what?
They're eating the dogs in there.
And so they have these and they say
this is.
And so the comment, the people doing the
commentating.
I mean, not Cooper, but the guy being
the interview.
The interviewee.
That's what I meant.
Says a luxury hotel.
The Roosevelt Hotel is not a luxury.
It's a dump.
I stayed there 10 years ago and was
nothing but people drunk in the hallways.
We'd smoke everywhere.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That's the term.
Exactly.
So Cooper, besides the amount of money being
overspent on these hotel rooms, which is was
ridiculous.
I guess they're paying hundreds of dollars a
night in FEMA money going to the hotel.
Cooper's point was it's a lie because it's
not a luxury hotel.
It's a lie because it's not a luxury
hotel.
We know it's not.
And that was his real point he was
trying to make.
And it was just falling apart.
But this is pathetic.
Oh, and the mainstream media is not covering
any of the stuff they're uncovering.
That Doge is uncovered and they have documentation
for fighting it.
They're just fighting it.
They're fighting it.
Yeah.
Tooth and nail.
Oh, it's it's crazy.
This is actually here.
Then we have the House panel, the House
oversight panel, which was a total waste of
time to watch.
Here's a short report about it.
You have serious desire to engage in democracy
and transparency.
We welcome you to the oversight committee.
Come and testify in front of the American
people under oath because we want to know
what you're up to.
Elon Musk's increasing access to federal information has
sparked lawsuits from several labor unions.
Recent court filings revealed that one of Musk's
employees was mistakenly given the ability to modify
sensitive government payment systems.
Well, Virginia Senator Mark Warner touched on the
concerns about Doge's access to sensitive information on
GMA3 today.
He noted that much of the agency staff,
who he called the Doge bros, are young
tech professionals with little to no government experience,
raising security risks in an increasingly hostile global
climate.
Problem with this kind of irresponsibility is people
will die because we have seen when our
agents get compromised.
The adversaries are not squeamish about taking them
out.
In a recent letter to the White House
chief of staff, Warner and several other Senate
intelligence members demanded details on how Doge staff
is being vetted and what's being done to
protect Americans from misuse of information.
It's they're like a flopping fish on the
ground.
You just need the Chinese guy with the
club.
And the yeah, exactly.
The star of the show, though, is without
a doubt, Miss Leavitt, who has I would
I don't know about you, but I would
recommend a little a little less on the
lipstick.
Have you have you taken a look recently?
It's just a tad too much.
They.
She comes on the various Fox shows, and
depending on which show she's on, they have
different make.
Most I'm talking about in the in the
briefing room.
Yeah, in the briefing room.
It doesn't bother me as much.
It doesn't bother me.
OK, I'm just from a television standpoint.
Maybe she's protesting Trump because you're supposed to
wear red lipstick if you're protesting Trump.
It's not red.
No, but it's a little too shiny.
It's just it's just my personal opinion.
But she'll get feedback on it.
Here she is with our boy waters.
So Obama knew about the retirement cave, spent
millions to try to computerize America's workforce.
Retirement paperwork failed.
Does President Trump promise we're going to shut
this cave down?
Yes, he does.
And that's why Elon Musk and President Trump
brought it to the American people's attention in
the Oval Office yesterday.
And as they did that, Jesse, I was
watching the faces of the mainstream media reporters
who were in the Oval Office, and there
was sheer silence because it appeared that many
of them who are supposed to be writing
the truth about our federal bureaucracy had no
idea that the federal retirement system is being
processed deep into the ground and is not
computerized.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and they are
revealing the rot of this city every single
day.
Treat the federal government as a business.
Small business owners across the country have to
look at their money in and their money
out every single day.
Bureaucrats have never done that.
And that's the other irony in the mainstream
media saying that there's no transparency.
I mean, before it was Elon Musk and
President Trump doing this and being highly scrutinized
for it.
It was just unnamed bureaucrats in the city
that nobody knew just writing checks.
Then and finally, we're actually looking at the
books and what they are revealing is truly
appalling.
But I guess not surprising when you look
at the way that Washington has been run
for decades.
Again, the American people voted for this monumental
change, and that's exactly what they're getting.
So this is she's good.
The only thing wrong with this is on
Fox.
She should be on CNN.
She should be on MSNBC doing this rap.
I guess they're not inviting her.
They're not inviting her.
She is what you just said is the
reason.
Yeah, because she's good.
She's really good.
She's sharp.
She's fast.
She doesn't use a big binder.
Compare it to Kareem Jean-Pierre Abdul-Jabbar.
Oh, there's not even you have to compare
it to some of the more classic press
secretaries that are very competent.
She's well, she's she's better than Psaki.
She's better than I think she's better than
Kayleigh McEnany.
She's much better than Kayleigh.
I have to say the head and shoulders.
I think Dana Perino is she's probably better,
but they're close.
I think if you go back to Huckabee
was not as good.
Now, John Spicer, that guy was terrible.
And how about the Mooch Scaramucci?
Yeah, well, he was never a press secretary.
He was just a kind of a communications
guy.
Profile raising is what he was doing.
And then we have people, I guess, getting
a little bit nervous.
Now, I'm going to take this with a
big grain of salt because it's coming from
Lady G.
Lindy Hop Graham.
Samantha Powers has been just texting me morning,
noon and night.
Samantha, look in the mirror.
The reason USAID is going to cease to
exist as it did before is because it
should.
I can't go home and say this is
soft power.
Operas, whatever agenda you got needs to be
focused on making America safer and prosperous by
working with people.
So USAID is a victim of their own
excesses.
I have a feeling someone said, Lindsey, you
better get vocal about this stuff because we've
got the dirt on you.
And they must.
Him and McCain, Ukraine.
There's questions about those two.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm sure there's something that's going to come
out.
It's not going to be pleasant.
But he's handy to have around.
I bet he's fun at parties.
He's he's he seemed he has a funny
style that allows people that seems trustworthy when
it's not.
Let's play this clip.
This is the Doge committee clip.
I'm not sure what it is.
Doge in TV.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was selected by Speaker
of the House Mike Johnson to chair the
newly created subcommittee on delivering on government efficiency.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia,
highlighted the delivering on government.
So the committee is called Doge as well.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah, we created subcommittee on delivering on government
efficiency.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia,
highlighted the bipartisan nature and mission of this
subcommittee.
This is not a Democrat problem.
This is not a Republican problem.
This is an American problem.
Over the next decade, total interest payments are
projected to be 13.8 trillion dollars.
House Democrats charged House Republicans with being complicit
in what they called the hacking of the
U.S. federal payment system by Elon Musk.
Congressman, is there anything right now that the
subcommittee might be working on where Democrats want
to pitch in and also cut in these
savings?
Well, we'd love to talk about efficiency.
I mean, I think I mean, everyone is
interested in government efficiency.
This is not government efficiency.
This is actually just cutting programs, cutting benefits.
There are actually ways of saving resources and
saving money.
One of those ways is not to give
billionaires a huge tax cut.
Nice try, buddy.
Now, I have two clips that are interesting
to me because this is not being covered
at all by the mainstream.
They've almost avoided it assiduously.
And these are the two these are two
clips I got from NTD and there's information
in here that it's like, oh, well, that's
interesting.
How come no one's talking about this?
This is the Greenland stuff, which is still
in play.
Here's Greenland's government getting serious about buying Greenland.
At a Senate hearing this morning, experts told
lawmakers there's a lot at stake in the
Arctic.
Here's the story.
The United States acquiring Greenland.
Serious discussion is underway for the United States
to buy Greenland.
At a Senate hearing Wednesday, lawmakers and experts
discussed what's at stake.
Russia and China are both increasing their military
presence in the Arctic.
They want to be able to control the
sea lanes, block freedom of navigation of our
commercial and shipping and our military.
Senator Maria Cantwell says that Arctic ice is
melting, which may create vital new shipping lanes
that could decrease transit times by over two
weeks.
She said it's vital for the U.S.
to have a strong presence in those waters,
as well as a strong presence at Greenland's
resources.
Greenland sits atop vast reserves of rare earth
elements, materials critical for everything from technology to
national defense.
Senator Ted Cruz says controlling those minerals would
reduce the world's dependence on China, which has
a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals.
But experts say it's not just about economic
security, but also physical security.
Geographically speaking, Greenland and the U.S. are
relatively close, about a four hour flight.
Foreign vessels have repeatedly arrived in Greenlandic waters
without proper authorization or in violation of NATO
protocols.
Yeah, there's some reporting, but they're all too
obsessed with Elon.
Elon!
Yeah, well, this is a good distraction because
they're keeping, but they're missing this story.
And now the second clip becomes very interesting.
You've never heard of any of this.
In one instance, a Russian submarine actually showed
up.
Arctic expert Alexander Gray says Denmark, which owns
Greenland, has failed to keep Greenland secure and
the U.S. may need to step in.
Other reasons Greenland is important, a potential source
of significant hydropower.
Good views near the poles for satellites, which
need ground stations in the Arctic.
Undersea infrastructure like telecommunications cables and pipelines.
Gray also says the U.S. doesn't have
to buy Greenland, which it's tried to do
four times already.
Instead, America could offer an international agreement called
a compact of free association.
Sovereignty by Greenland would be maintained.
At the same time, the United States would
have a defense obligation and defense access.
Compacts of free association first appeared during the
decolonization period of the 20th century.
The U.S. already has a compact of
free association with the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and
Palau.
Oh, that's interesting.
The compact of free association.
The COFA.
That would be a deal you could do.
And that's probably what's where we're really heading.
We're not going to buy it.
Yeah, but that could happen.
And that would be the solution to the
problem.
And not one mainstream media operation is even
discussing this.
They've just come.
You're right.
All they talk about is Elon.
Well, I do have an ABC report which
highlights.
The American humor, which is luckily back.
Oh, man, I really miss just stupid humor,
little bits of trolling.
It's it's just it makes you feel good
to be an American.
What at first seemed like a joke was
now serious enough for the Senate Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee on Wednesday to hold a
hearing entitled Greenland's geostrategic importance to U.S.
interests.
Greenland has never been some remote island.
It holds immense strategic and economic importance.
Currently, Greenland is a self-ruling autonomous territory
within the Kingdom of Denmark.
President Trump mused about acquiring Greenland during his
first term in office, but he has recently
ratcheted up his rhetoric about the idea, calling
it an absolute necessity.
Witnesses said Greenland, with its proximity to the
Arctic Ocean and its abundant rare minerals, is
critical to U.S. interests.
Greenland has long been a focal point for
U.S. strategists looking to safeguard the periphery
of our hemisphere.
But Wisconsin Senator Gary Peters said Trump's assertion
that the U.S. needs to own Greenland
to defend American national security is wrong.
So I'm disappointed that today we have to
address another ill-advised Trump administration move against
an ally.
On Tuesday, Georgia Republican House member Earl Buddy
Carter submitted a bill, H.R. 1161.
It would authorize the president to enter into
negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it
Red, White, and Blue Land.
Red, White, and Blue Land.
And then the Danes, although I doubt this
was actually Denmark.
You saw the Denmarkification.com website?
No.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, the domain name is protected.
You can't get the who is information, you
know, pussies.
Didn't...
Yeah, that anonymizer thing is bad.
Yeah, there's no aboot page.
Okay.
It has sunshine, Silicon Valley, and an abundant
supply of avocados.
These are some of the reasons cited in
a satirical Danish petition for wanting to buy
California from the United States.
It's a tongue-in-cheek response to U
.S. President Donald Trump's repeated wish to buy
Greenland from Denmark, a proposition rejected by officials
in Copenhagen and Greenland.
By Wednesday, some 200,000 people had signed
the petition, which, along with renaming Disneyland to
Hans Christian Andersen Land, pledges to bring bike
lanes to Beverly Hills and organic schmarble to
every street corner.
It adds rule of law, universal health care,
and fact-based politics might apply.
But why should Donald Trump give up the
Sunshine State, it asks?
He's called it the most ruined state in
the union and has feuded with its leaders
for years, the website reads.
We're pretty sure he'd be willing to part
with it for the right price.
It echoes comments Trump made about Greenland on
his first day in office.
Greenland is a wonderful place.
We need it for international security, and I'm
sure that Denmark will come along.
Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland
in 2019.
The autonomous territory lies on the shortest route
from North America to Europe, making it strategically
important.
It's also home to a large American space
facility.
Blah, blah, blah, whatever.
It was kind of cute.
You know, I doubt the Danes have that
kind of humor, so I'm sure it was
someone else.
Isn't Denmark the one that has the brown
cheese?
I think it's the brown cheese.
What about the brown cheese?
I think Denmark has brown cheese.
Just hit me all of a sudden that
we've had a conversation about the brown cheese
from Denmark.
I don't remember this.
Yeah, yeah.
And someone sent me some.
And it didn't keep very well in the
fridge, if I recall.
But it was tasty.
It was kind of, you know, a little
pungent.
Then, of course, the other serious bit of
negotiation that's going on between Russia and Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have
had a lengthy and highly productive phone call
with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Posting on the social media platform Truth Social,
Trump says they discussed negotiations to end the
war in Ukraine and added that he's already
appointed several officials to lead the talks.
The Ukrainian government has revealed Trump also spoke
to President Zelensky on the phone after his
call with Putin.
The conversation is reported to have lasted an
hour, but no further details have been disclosed.
And then, according to France 24, looks like
the land retracement is in play.
Pressure from the U.S. has forced the
hand of the Ukrainian president to make a
turnaround on his previous position not to give
up any territory to Russia.
Vladimir Zelensky has now said he is ready
to swap land in negotiation with the Kremlin
to try and put an end to the
three-year war.
We're going to talk more about this with
our international affairs editor, Catherine Gorgiostani, who joins
me on the set.
Catherine, what more can you tell us about
this proposal and how the Kremlin has responded?
Well, you put it really well.
It's a huge turnaround for Zelensky.
Just think that a few months ago, right
before the U.S. election, Zelensky had said
that Ukraine was not willing to make any
territorial concessions regardless of the U.S. election
result.
And now you have Donald Trump in power.
Since then, Zelensky started talking about temporarily maybe
ceding some territory to Russia in exchange for
joining NATO.
And now, finally, openly, he says, we are
willing to talk about a land swap.
He's talking about something very specific.
He says that he's willing to give Russia
back the land, the Russian land that Ukraine
controls right now in the Kursk region, which
is pretty small compared to what Russia controls
out of Ukrainian land.
But when he was asked what land would
he get in return, he said he didn't
know.
And he didn't know what the Russians would
be willing to cede in exchange for the
Kursk region.
So this is an interesting balancing act that's
taking place with the military industrial complex, with
NATO, with our own industrial base in the
United States.
And right now, everybody's over in Munich for
the big security conference.
And Pete Hegseth, our new secretary of defense,
with the crazy Nazi tattoos, that guy, he's
wearing a suit.
I can't believe it.
And he is holding high level talks.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied
that the U.S. is betraying Ukraine.
Following comments that Ukraine should not join NATO
and that it's up to Europe to protect
itself and Ukraine from Russian aggression.
Ahead of a meeting with NATO allies in
Brussels on Thursday, he reiterated his call that
Ukraine should prepare for a negotiated peace settlement
and abandon hope to gain back all its
territory from Russia.
There is no betrayal there.
There is a recognition that the whole world
and the United States is invested and interested
in peace, a negotiated peace.
As President Trump has said, stopping the killing.
And so that will require both sides recognizing
things they don't want to.
In response to the announcement from the Trump
administration, NATO chief Mark Rutte urged the group
to significantly wrap up their own defense spending.
Come on, we have to ramp up defense
spending because we know.
Actually, I'm going to play different clips.
So they, so Rutte, Mark Rutte had a
nice talk with Pete Hegseth.
Yes, he's the guy who came to the
party with.
And we also talked to the other defense
ministers.
And remember that Rutte is working for America.
We've forgotten this, but he's working for America.
Clearly a lot happened yesterday in the meeting,
but also in the media.
And no doubt that will be debated today.
Over the coming days and weeks.
But there's also a clear convergence emerging.
We all want peace in Ukraine rather sooner
than later.
We all want Ukraine to be in the
best possible position.
Wait a minute.
I need you to buy something first.
When those talks start.
Because you know, we have to be very
afraid because Russia and other threats are coming.
To make sure that they can be concluded
successfully.
And as also Pete Hegseth said yesterday, the
new American Secretary of Defense.
It is crucial that whatever comes out of
those talks, it is durable.
It is enduring.
No Minsk 3.
No Minsk 3.
We cannot have that again.
We cannot have Putin again.
Trying to capture a square kilometer, a square
mile of Ukraine in the future.
Thanks for translating the miles.
Then of course we also discussed today spending.
We have to spend more.
Yes, I love this guy.
We have to spend more in American stuff.
Yes, we need the stuff for Russia.
Then of course we also discussed today spending.
We have to spend more.
Not only because the US expects that.
Because they expect Europe to take its and
pay its fair share.
But also we have to spend more because
we know the threat.
Coming from Russia and from other adversaries is
increasing.
What other adversaries?
And that will be debated today.
And here I think there is a clear
expectation from the side of the US.
But also a clear commitment yesterday.
That this alliance is here to stay for
the generations to come.
This guy is great.
He's our top sales guy.
He's doing a good job.
It's just the idea that solves the problem
with industrial competence.
I have two clips.
I have 45 seconds left of him.
Of Rutte.
Yes, Rutte.
And we will discuss today the Zenz industrial
base.
How to produce more.
We are not producing enough.
And this is a collective problem we have
from the US up to and including Turkey.
And including the whole of the European Union,
Norway, UK.
We have fantastic defense industries.
But we are not producing enough.
Well, listen, it's not enough.
Because you know, we are much worse off
than Russia.
We are producing in three months an ammunition.
No, I would say Russia is producing in
three months an ammunition.
What the whole of the alliance is producing
in a year.
And this is simply not sustainable.
We have to ramp up the defense industry
production.
So these issues will be on the table
today in the ministers of defense meeting.
And then afterwards also in the lunch we
will have with Minister Umerov of Ukraine.
Where we discuss the relations between NATO and
Ukraine.
So thank you very much.
Maybe a few questions.
Yes, no, I didn't answer any questions.
So I think that they're kind of trying
to time this.
We need some commitments.
We need some orders.
Yes.
So Russia can make as much ammunition in
a month that they can in a year.
Or whatever the comment was.
I thought Russia was getting all their stuff
from North Korea.
They can't do anything.
Oh, please.
What did that change?
That was just another hoax.
North Korea just threw bodies at it.
Here, have some dudes.
I have the two clips called Ukraine is
toast.
And I think it summarizes as well as
anything.
This is, unfortunately, I spelled Ukraine with a
J.
And toast with A's.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in Brussels today
saying Ukraine should not join the NATO alliance.
He's the first official of the new Trump
administration to visit the NATO headquarters.
And today's international correspondent Ariane Pazdar has more
on his trip.
The bloodshed must stop.
And this war must end.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S.
wants to end the fighting in Ukraine.
This is NTD, I guess.
Yeah, I love this guy because his accent
is just fabulous.
This is the guy that took the place
of...
Who is it?
The guy who always sounded to you with
the bad voice that was on ABC or
I think, you know, like he was taking
a dump.
Oh, oh, Jeff Begay's?
Jeff Begay.
In opening remarks at a meeting of the
Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Defense Secretary suggests
Ukraine will have to take some losses in
order to close a peace deal with Russia.
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous
Ukraine.
But we must start by recognizing that returning
to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic
objective.
Not going to happen, people.
He says the goal of returning to pre
-2014 borders in Ukraine was, quote, illusionary.
Hegseth also talked about Ukraine's NATO ambitions.
The United States does not believe that NATO
membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of
a negotiated settlement.
Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by
capable European and non-European troops.
He added that peacekeepers in Ukraine should be
deployed only as a non-NATO mission.
The Defense Secretary also made clear that no
U.S. troops would go to Ukraine.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Secretary
met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
Oh, interesting.
I stopped it there because what?
Yeah.
Why?
Oh, it's about SWIFT.
It's about the money.
But why would he, what's got to do
with Zelensky?
I don't know.
Zelensky's not cut out of SWIFT.
The Treasury Secretary went there to say, hey,
look, look at our numbers here.
This is costing us money.
We want this money back.
Yeah.
We want it back in the form of
your rare earths.
Rare earths.
We want it back in the form of
you giving Kargil and these other guys a
bunch of your land.
Yeah, yeah.
We're getting our money back from this fiasco.
And so they brought the Treasury Secretary.
Why did the Treasury Secretary do the meeting
with Zelensky?
He brought the receipts.
So these two clips, the second clip finishes.
But this is what's going to happen.
No NATO.
You lose the Donbass.
You lose the territory.
You lose Donbass.
There's no NATO and you lose Crimea for
sure.
Stop with that already.
And then shut it down.
That's what's happening.
Like it or not.
Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Secretary
met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
This is my first official trip abroad.
And it should be a strong signal that
the war is a top priority for the
Trump administration.
President Trump says he wants Ukraine to use
its rare earth minerals as a guarantee it
will pay back the money the U.S.
has sent.
This way, the U.S. might also continue
sending military aid.
Zelensky on Wednesday told reporters that the U
.S. had presented a first draft of an
agreement.
We believe that it provides the further guarantees
for the Ukraine people of American assistance.
The document is scheduled to be presented at
the Munich Security Conference later this week.
Huh.
Yeah, you're right.
I hear, by the way, from sources that
Zelensky is starting to, I guess, trying to
put sanctions against Poroshenko because there's going to
be an election soon.
There has to be because they have no...
I mean, Zelensky can't really even officially negotiate
on Ukraine's behalf because he's not president.
So they have...
Dictator.
Yes, they have to have elections.
And according to sources, law enforcement agencies are
already taking steps to investigate Poroshenko, Klitschko, and
Tymoshenko because, you know, he doesn't want one
of those guys to become president.
He doesn't want anyone to step up and
be a competitor.
Klitschko is on his side.
No, I think that ended a long time
ago.
Klitschko's got strip clubs.
He's got like some side hustle going.
He got moved out.
Strip clubs?
Did he strip clubs in Ukraine, huh?
Who'd have thunk it?
Never saw that one coming.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Yes, this is over.
This bullcrap is over.
Yeah.
Now, there was a little bit of a
scare in Munich at the security conference.
And what's the lady who just left MSNBC?
What's her name?
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah.
Andrea Mitchell.
Oh, right.
Yeah, she just had her big send-off.
And thanks for 8,000 years on MSNBC.
You did so great.
But she's now a special reporter at the
Munich conference in Germany.
Breaking news overseas.
The top star news at this hour.
A suspected terror attack in Germany.
A car slammed into a crowd in Munich,
which is the site of a global security
conference right now.
At least 28 people were injured.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell is in Munich with the
very latest.
Andrea, good morning.
Good morning, Savannah.
The 28 people taken to hospital.
The suspect was driving this white Mini Cooper
behind me and drove into a crowd of
people who were here.
They were not related to the security conference.
They were protesters, union public workers protesting for
higher wages.
So that was not related to any protest
against the security conference.
As these top leaders were arriving, the vice
president on his way over here from Paris,
where he had been, and other leaders, the
secretary of state coming here.
The suspect is an Afghan man.
He's 24 years old.
They say here, according to authorities, he was
seeking asylum here in Germany.
We don't know fully the motive, but he
is certainly under arrest and communicating with them.
He was known to police here for past
violations on drug and other criminal charges, but
nothing related to terrorism.
So that's the situation.
Security obviously tight as all of these leaders
are gathering for a major summit.
The main focus, of course, is Ukraine and
the initiatives by President Trump.
Everything that is now happening regarding Ukraine, Zelensky,
President Zelensky also heading here, the conference starting
tomorrow.
The very odd choice of vehicle to mow
people down, a Mini Cooper.
I thought that was kind of overlooked in
the reporting.
And the reason when I saw this coming,
I'm like, oh, man, because I wanted to
play this clip, this really strange looking young
woman with a little bit cross-eyed, very
odd makeup.
And because I couldn't find a report in
English of these files that have been uncovered
in Germany that claim that they're, you know,
so right now, AFD, the Alternative for Deutschland,
we have, I think, maybe a little bit
over a week before the elections.
These guys look like they've got a lot
of momentum behind them.
We already saw the LGBTQIA protests with hundreds
of thousands of dudes with wigs and eyeshadow
trying to, yeah, I mean, trying to protest
what's going on, which is obviously still a,
you know, a last little hurrah from USAID
funding into whatever dance party they had afterwards.
Yeah, obviously.
And but there is apparently, and with involvement
from the FBI, a false flag attack planned.
We are the target of a massive conspiracy.
The German government and intelligence agency are orchestrating
a huge false flag campaign, which is going
to associate the AFD with a real group
of terrorists.
But it goes beyond that because even the
American FBI is involved among multiple international intelligence
agencies.
The deep state is writing the script and
the media is going to blow it up
in the headlines and on TV with bold
photos that completely distort reality.
How do I know this?
Because a whistleblower leaked the confidential case files
to the alternative media outlet AufEins, where they
just exposed the full extent of this brutal
scheme.
And this is putting their own existence at
a very high risk.
The supposed terrorists are the Saxon separatists who
were recently arrested in a bloody confrontation with
the police where one of the suspects got
shot.
However, it's important to note that the Saxon
separatists themselves did not result to any violence.
So what are the charges against them?
The supposed terrorists are nothing but a group
of far right men whose beliefs are outside
of the spectrum of what is deemed acceptable.
The Saxon separatists.
Saxon separatists.
Yeah, sounds like a heavy metal band.
Who's that that was giving that?
Who's that was talking?
That's what I said.
That's that weird girl that, you know, she's
like on Twitter on X with the kind
of cross eyed strange makeup.
Oh, I think I've seen her.
Yeah.
Yes.
Right.
Her.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
That one.
No, I've seen her.
She's a, I think she's a blonde.
She's got a kind of a round head.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's the one.
Yeah.
And she's a, yeah, she's got some good
reports.
So I hope they don't do that.
Maybe that that'll be thwarted now because there's
no more money coming in.
You know, do just stop the payments.
Hey, guys.
We can't do this up.
We didn't get a check.
It has to end.
You know, the AFD can get somewhere with
you.
I like this woman, Alice, Alice, I guess.
Alice Vidal.
Is that her name?
Yeah.
She's the head of the thing.
Of the oh, oh, you mean the.
The AFD woman.
The libertarian lesbian.
Is she conservative?
No, it wasn't a conserved.
We discussed this.
Yeah, she's a conservative.
I don't know.
She's a lesbian.
Yes, she is.
Yes.
The AFD woman is a lesbian.
I'm pretty sure.
Let me see.
AFD.
What?
Here, let's ask Chachi BT.
Is the AFD woman a lesbian?
Question mark.
Let's see what comes out.
Yes.
Alice Vidal, co-chairman of the far right
alternative.
How far can they be with a lesbian
running?
Is it openly a lesbian?
Well, she's very talented.
I like her.
Yeah, and she's tall.
She's very tall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's why you're extreme, right?
Because, you know, right?
Lesbian.
I don't know.
I don't know how any of this works.
It's all beyond me.
It's all beyond me.
Then we have shakeups in New York City,
which has been interesting to watch, particularly with
the mayor.
You might as well play the Bondi stuff.
Okay.
Is it from NTD?
I have two clips.
I have the short and the long, but
I think the long form Bondi.
You might as well skip the short one.
Yeah.
Is it from NTD?
I don't know if it is.
I don't think it is.
You're killing me.
I need different voices.
NTD is...
All right, here we go.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday that
the Justice Department is suing New York over
its so-called sanctuary city laws, which prevents
law enforcement from arresting illegal immigrants.
Bondi says that the DOJ filed the suit
against the state of New York, Governor Kathy
Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, and State DMV
Commissioner Mark Schroeder.
Bondi criticized New York's green light laws, saying
that they prevent law enforcement from accessing an
individual's immigration status.
New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens
over American citizens.
It stops.
It stops today.
Millions of illegal aliens with violent records have
flooded into our communities, bringing violence and deadly
drugs with them.
The DOJ filed a similar lawsuit last week
against the state of Illinois for such sanctuary
city laws.
And in announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday, Bondi
was joined by the mother of Kayla Hamilton,
a 20-year-old who was raped and
killed by an illegal immigrant, an MS-13
gang member from El Salvador.
And he had a criminal record in 2020
in El Salvador for illicit gang activity.
He came over as an unoccupied alien child,
saying that he was afraid of gang activity
in his country.
Health and Human Services called him a nice
boy, and he showed age-appropriate behavior.
That fell so wrong when he murdered my
daughter.
Last week, Bondi ordered the DOJ to pause
all funds to sanctuary cities.
Now, it's not clear how long the pause
is.
But in the meantime, the DOJ is reviewing
any contracts in those cities that may break
the law.
Federal law prohibits state and local governments from
blocking immigration officers from accessing individual citizenship status.
But several sanctuary cities have policies that restrict
local authorities from cooperating with federal immigration officers.
And Bondi ordered the DOJ to investigate such
incidents.
Yeah, another lawsuit she's started.
Late today, new Attorney General Pam Bondi revealing
a new lawsuit against New York State and
its Attorney General Letitia James.
The Attorney General accusing New York of resisting
federal efforts to enforce the nation's immigration laws.
Now, can they do that?
Can they...I mean, I guess you can sue
anybody for anything, but is...
Yes.
They had that one guy, I can't remember
his name, he's always on Fox, who's the
professor at Georgetown, the legal guy.
And he says they can and they can't.
It depends on the loopholes and some of
the provisions of the locals.
And he thinks they had...it's gonna be...it's not
as cut and dry as you might imagine.
But O'Reilly was on Cuomo and he
claims that, he says, no matter what you
think about these lawsuits, there's no doubt in
his mind.
And I think he might be right that
this is Trump getting back at Letitia James.
Oh, for sure.
And a little FU with the mayor.
Now to New York, where federal prosecutors have
been ordered to drop the government's corruption case
against Mayor Eric Adams.
He had been facing five charges, among them
bribery and fraud.
A Justice Department memo says now that the
case was interfering, however, with Adams' ability to
help with President Trump's immigration crackdown.
CBS News legal contributor Caroline Polisi is here
for more on this.
Caroline, thank you very much for joining us.
The Justice Department was at pains to point
out that they're not dropping this based on
the merits or a review of the evidence.
They're not saying he's innocent.
So what are they saying here?
Right.
The memo really is shocking in...
Really, it's brazen.
It's dripping with politics, right?
As you noted, they are explicitly saying...
This is CBS News, by the way.
It's dripping with politics.
...not looking at the merits of this case.
And the reasons that they're giving for this
order to drop the case are, one, that
it's distracting Mayor Adams from really getting in
line with President Trump's immigration...
Why the laughter?
...policies. You know, New York has traditionally been
a sanctuary city.
Back it up and play that laugh tale
again.
I missed it.
Well, because they all think Trump is crazy.
...are, one, that it's distracting Mayor Adams from
really getting in line with President Trump's immigration
policies.
You know, New York has traditionally been a
sanctuary city.
But Mayor Adams has recently really been getting
behind the federal push with ICE agents, cooperating
even with ICE agents in the immigration space.
They've also really...
Again, another laugh tale.
Is she high?
She's high.
She's high.
...federal push...
Now, she sounds like she's stoned.
She's stoned.
Listen to this.
...getting behind the federal push with ICE agents,
cooperating even with ICE agents in the immigration
space.
They've also really, in this memo, pointed to
President Trump's, you know, this idea of the
weaponization of the Justice Department.
And Adams was very vocal, saying, feeling he
was persecuted in this prosecution because he publicly
spoke out against the Biden administration's immigration policies.
There's been a bit of a bromance, if
you will, between Adams and Trump, remembering at
a last minute invite to the inauguration.
So this has likely been in the works.
But I will note, you know, the memo
is saying that it should be dismissed without
prejudice and that the acting head of the
Southern District of New York can relook at
the charges after the mayoral race in November.
Again!
Wow.
That was rough.
So it's basically, it's a trial.
It's a trial.
Oh, listen.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So they've discovered that this is a political
move.
No, really?
Oh, OK, CBS.
Race in November.
Oh, my gosh.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,
wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,
wow, wow, wow.
It's a trial run.
So basically, they're saying, we're going to see
how you do with getting in line with
the Trump policies and then maybe we'll see
after the election what we're gonna do.
I'll tell you one thing the New Yorkers
they don't care they don't like him they
think he's just no good they're so disappointed
in Adams you know because he's all he
did was go to the clubs hang out
with his posse.
Well he was like he promised the world
when he ran the first time because he's
an ex-police he's gonna clean up the
city he's gonna do this gonna do Jack
do any of it no well he was
hampered by the lawsuit over him getting an
upgrade where was he got a airline upgrade
that came later though they came much after
they started hating him and then the bulldog
Tom got an upgrade hey you put you
in first class okay Tom Holman the bulldog
was on Hannity talking about all of this
immigration stuff and tonight a very disturbing trend
is taking hold as President Trump is implementing
his mass deportation policy.
I should have said about everything happening in
the immigration space.
Looks like every time ICE is preparing to
launch a large-scale enforcement operation in a
liberal city information about that rate is leaked.
Here with more is Trump administration Bordasar Tom
Holman.
Tom where are these leaks coming from?
Well look we think it's coming from inside
and we know the first leak of Aurora
is under current investigation we think we identify
that person under investigation right now the the
California leak a secretary known she's correct on
some of the information we're receiving tends to
lead toward the FBI but I talked to
the Deputy Attorney General all this weekend they've
opened up a criminal investigation and they have
promised that not only this person lose their
job and lose your pension they won't go
to jail they won't criminally prosecute so we're
all over it we got the DHS IG
investigating the first one I have pretty good
idea what happened can't share a lot cuz
under investigation but the IG's open up a
criminal investigation the second we're sending a strong
message it's just not you know giving the
bad guys a heads up so they can
escape apprehension you're arresting and you know given
you know Venezuela gang a heads up so
we can't arrest them you're putting officers lives
at risk it's only a matter of time
if we walk into a place where there's
gonna be a bad guy doesn't care he's
gonna be sitting and wait for the officers
show up and ambush him this is not
a game so DHS and DOJ are connected
at hip to hold these people responsible in
a criminal fashion bro yeah I had that
same clip I have the that is this
this is gonna happen they're going to arrest
an FBI guy yep for leaking to a
criminal that they were gonna get busted yeah
and he made it clear as an FBI
guy yeah so this once that happens there
there's not gonna be that's gonna take that's
gonna be a big deal is that that
opens the door for cash Patel to go
in there you can't have that no here's
a second part of this the people in
this country that don't belong here but among
them are known murderers and rapists and terrorists
and cartel members and gang members and donors
this is this is not an easy lift
to begin with and you've expressed confidence that
you'll find them all and the question is
how quickly do you think we can find
them all well sanctuary cities know they're putting
up every roadblock possible no rather than arresting
the bad guy in a county jail takes
one agent arrest a bad guy when they
gets arrested and put in a county jail
we gotta send a whole team to neighborhood
so it's gonna be it's very difficult sanctuary
cities but we're gonna keep coming what are
we doing about sanctuary cities I'm gonna double
the manpower in those sanctuary cities sanctuary cities
and we can't get him in their homes
or get in a place of employment we're
gonna have large scale of worksite enforcement operation
so we're going to send more resources we're
not going to stop we're going to keep
coming we're gonna keep coming more we're going
to increase the targeting in those cities we're
going to give full steam ahead on sanctuary
cities sanctuary cities that we come in the
priority why because why action they're protecting public
safety threats and national security threats so we're
going to double the manpower we're going to
double operations we're going to double targeting we're
coming full bore and they're not going to
stop us I'm taking this seriously I don't
sleep well at night because I'm afraid of
the people are walking the streets here every
day because sanctuary cities to protect them sanctuary
cities are sanctuary for criminals bottom line so
we're going to do everything we can to
find them no guy regardless of what it
takes we got a strong president the White
House has given us all the authority we
need we're coming America this guy's the guy
he's like what a character I almost do
his voice it's got a kind of a
muffled battery mumbles a lot yeah but he
means business Danielle Sassoon Daniel Sassoon acting u
.s. attorney just resigned after the Justice Department
directed her to drop the Eric Adams case
I'm outraged I'm resigning well good yeah yeah
it's a lot so much is happening it
just can't keep up can't keep the clips
I didn't get to because there was just
a long series of clips was the Worcester
Massachusetts clips of the all the blue haired
freaks and everybody in between you know Joe
showed that I was at Rogan yesterday that's
why I didn't do I couldn't do the
newsletter couldn't check the newsletter and Joe showed
it to me during the show it's like
oh yeah man because it's a sanctuary city
for transsexuals yeah you know someone sent me
we've talked about the thing is is that
these people were making they were screaming and
yelling and then they're nuts they're completely nuts
and the and the City Council knuckled under
yeah yeah they approved it I don't know
if Joe knew that but yeah I knew
that but it was I felt just sad
I mean I looked at how these people
had makeup and the guy you know woman
who was dressed as a guy and had
glitter to instead of a beard I mean
this is this is mental illness I had
to suggest this I have to suggest two
things that so people can think about these
is it possible that the blue hair dye
causes brain damage that's one thought number one
yeah possible that's possible that looks toxic to
me I'm with you I'm with you former
chemist yes the second thing is acupuncture is
real we know it's real mm-hmm is
it possible that when you stick a pin
through your septum or an or a nostril
a little nostril ring that you're poking into
one of the pathways of a an acupuncture
pathway that affects the way you think you
know I'm gonna get that I'm gonna get
the emails again from guys like hey man
I'm a big burly guy and I have
piercings and I love no agenda and you're
just messing with me because it's not true
man people have done this all throughout history
yeah and all of them have they take
on certain personality characteristics so someone sent me
an interesting article which is from years ago
you know we've been talking about trans Maoism
which is what we think this is there's
a new term which is an old term
because it comes from an old article bio
Leninism which I really like yeah it's a
nice term but what does it mean so
regular Leninism was what Lenin did in the
1800s he raised all the lower classes as
a support base in 1800s Russia's the lower
classes had no prospects for a happy future
until Lenin promised them a happy future so
once Lenin gained power these people became his
staunchest supporters why because they had the most
they had the most to lose Lenin elevated
them if Lenin failed or lost power their
only hopes for prosperity will be gone forever
bio Leninism is the same idea except with
identity instead of class imagine a stereotypical trans
not implying that all trans people are freaks
actually said freaks in any healthy society these
people would be suppressed before they could bring
our kids to drag queen story hour bio
Leninism is where a leader intentionally pursues these
people as a support base and elevates them
to positions of status power and prestige why
because this is such an affront to the
natural order of a health healthy society that
it permanently links those people's prosperity with your
own I think there's something there I like
the term bio Lenin that's that's fascinating yeah
now is it a better term than trans
Maoism well it's at least it's another potential
show title I mean might as well might
as well go that's all that counts and
with that I'd like to thank you for
your courage in the morning to you the
man who put the C in the compact
of free association say hello to my friend
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John we
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they are listening live and it's appreciated because
you get them providing feedback and like I
didn't know that that that Danielle that lady
had resigned but they tell me that you
know the other thing there's something else is
I find this unfortunate so Horowitz and I
had to pre-record the DHM plug show
why is that well because I had to
go to the Microsoft party 50th anniversary party
you this is why people do not skip
the donation segment because you're gonna tell us
about the party after you tell us about
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oh you guys what happened I said went
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she wouldn't download and she will not listen
to a podcast unless it's like the lady
with the podcast business she doesn't listen to
our show unless she listens live oh interesting
she'll say stuff like oh yeah I was
listening and then somebody called I had got
on a phone call so I didn't hear
the rest of it mm-hmm she won't
it means I so I'm thinking that she's
not the only one in the world that
does this that only listens live and won't
really listen like a podcast is supposed to
be listened to which is a podcast well
people like listening live and of course we
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this is and it's also healthier for you
because I'm gonna get back to that note
and then we'll come back to the Microsoft
party I've always said that it is a
bad idea to speed listen to podcasts because
I mean the only health reason I noticed
and heard from it and got confirmation from
is that when you're listening to podcasts at
1.5 or double speed then when your
wife or your kids you know they talk
to you you're irritated by him hurry up
and just get it out what do you
want to say come on come on come
on already kid what do you want how
was school so so it's not it's not
healthy it's not not good for your home
life and I gotta know you probably right
oh I'm sure I'm right because I've got
confirmation but I got a new piece of
confirmation from air John this nickname I guess
just want to tell you that I had
circular hair loss at my neck oh yes
this is a good note there was a
big hole in my beard you do not
want a big hole in your beard everybody
said to me it must be stress then
I remember that episode where you said that
listening at 1.5 X is really bad
I was doing that because some douche on
another podcast suggested it as I'm notoriously dozens
of episodes behind I thought I could catch
up so I stopped listening at speed went
back to normal listening and after a couple
months my beard grew back I'm convinced speed
listening was the reason can't thank you guys
enough hope to make another donation soon how
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me see I'm trying to think of commercial
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no agenda in real time so you had
to go to the Microsoft party was a
50th anniversary of all of Microsoft of the
company yeah it's been around for 50 years
yeah believe it or not Wow so they
had three events they had what where there's
one in San Francisco one in different times
and one in New York and one up
north and it was a dud it was
unbelievable a dud when I was a ray
I by the way I didn't make recontact
with the Lib Joe's he did I think
we're gonna be back on track with them
more bedding more bedding more bedding what did
they say what did the Lib did were
they both the Lib Joe's you saw both
of them yeah they were both there would
they say hey you're still alive what'd they
say no no you look good yeah they
said were you wearing your MAGA hat at
the no I wasn't talking politics oh wow
okay and so I know it's all about
stories but the thing with the event itself
was in this place called Shaq 15 it
was a it's a I chose the J's
and I was describing it to her I
said this is so depressing operation the Shaq
15 you go in there it's just a
huge room after room after room of people
with just these opened like family style dining
tables everywhere and people in laptops just working
so that's a live work live that's a
workspace something or other I don't know like
we work I guess work we work was
kind of like this yeah and I said
well no it was a private club says
yeah they're all private you have to join
these things and I and I said it's
the most depressing thing I've ever seen there's
all these people I said why don't they
just work at home I mentioned one of
the guys no because they want to get
out of the house and so they sit
there by themselves they're not mingling there's nobody
just night it's not like a social club
it seems hmm it's just depressing to see
all these kids oh you know they're all
in the 20s on laptops all just the
hundreds of them literally hundreds of them were
they scattered were they at the party no
no the party was in one of the
separate rooms and there were room after room
after room there's all these special rooms and
so this used to be I believe the
World Trade Center Club which was a big
operation at one time and so they would
do we're in a separate room and it
was there was no banners and it was
no there's not a woman at the cake
was there cake no there was no woman
giving out champagne there should have been a
champagne girl right at the front here's champagne
was there a chocolate fountain no how about
some of those shrimp deals they had an
hors d'oeuvre guy coming around with the
worst tasting crab things I could man I
could I couldn't even get through it no
one no shrimp deals no shrimp piles of
shrimp there's no caviar nothing bar caviar oh
my no caviar they had a bar and
then they had just it was no signage
was there a freak-off afterwards there wasn't
it was the worst and then they would
did thing that was really disappointing was there
was no go bag no nothing they didn't
they had a couple of buttons you there's
a couple buttons that were the souvenir buttons
that were useless and then they had there
was no t-shirt or 50th anniversary anything
it was the it was on it was
like they were ashamed of being a company
Wow was Bill G there no nobody was
there said the bunch of PR people Wow
then it and the show out was the
show up did the turnout was mediocre maybe
45 people that could have been hundreds 45
wait a 50th anniversary of Microsoft with 45
was there was there a dude in a
giant Zune costume there was nothing it was
the it was unbelievably lame it was the
most lame thing it just wasn't for remeeting
the the Lib Joe's it would have been
wouldn't even be worth my time there's a
woman there from political for some unknown reason
I gave her a little grief and she
got mad at me what did you what
did you say that's all you guys are
in trouble I said pointed at her you
didn't know what you guys are in trouble
political pro is different man BBB anyway there
but there was a little guy there wasn't
even mixing that was any good it was
only people that knew each other it was
terrible was there a guy in a clippy
outfit was there I mean they could have
done so much fun stuff bar there was
that they knew it would you know what
it's one of those things they knew it
was gonna be a dud from the get
go I'm nobody that's where they let it
be a dud now who invited you the
PR company yeah no the PR no it
was all internal so it's a PR guy
to look with the one of our one
of the PR me guys from my little
timer and I did meet some guy who
came up to me at the end I
was trying to leave he says oh you
know that you'd be introduced himself so I
because of you I became a writer Baba
buddy went on I kind of I was
trying to get out of there so I
think I blew him off but I told
him day listen to the podcast he's I
listen to the podcast and I now I
felt bad about it so if the guys
listening to the podcast he should email me
because I call him out call him out
I don't have his name I forget you
know getting out of there so I don't
remember he was one of those irritating people
you're on your way uh-huh yeah that's
great hey man yeah that was yes well
that's that part's accurate you got that right
is it possible that there was a real
party and you got invited to the to
the fake one or something you'd think so
but it but the fact that that John
Markov was at this party who is a
the Lib Joe who it was a Lib
Joe who is who went to the to
the hangouts in the Hood Canal and there
were other couple of hot shots there that
were at the high end in the case
no to that theory now so this so
this story was just a dog it was
a howler Wow that is very just and
then it was the end it was in
this this depressing Shaq 15th the operation which
according to J was oh yes where they
are I'm thinking to whom who is into
this is the this is what entrepreneurs you
can this is terrible hmm there's these live
-work things I was talking to Joe about
DC about being at the inauguration and actually
I talked to his security guys before before
Joe showed up yeah they said DC was
a lunatic mess there was no one knew
how to get anywhere all the streets were
shut off you know they're all these high
everyone there everyone in DC had donated at
least a million dollars to a campaign and
yeah and Joe said it was horrible I'd
be saying invited to the inauguration I never
met he'd be standing there but it cost
money yeah well of course Joe went because
he got the president yeah Joe should get
in for free yeah but the I'll just
be standing there and people would jump in
and start taking selfies and you know and
they all had kind of a like it
was very transactional like oh you know everyone
felt like they had the right to just
jump in and butt in on a conversation
as he said it was really not fun
and then I asked him when I said
how far are you from Hillary Clinton he's
about about three rows said did you smell
sulfur he didn't smell so he said he
smelled a lot of the joke yeah he
got the joke and I asked him I
said straight up was it was it Biden
or daddy-long-legs he said I was
pretty sure it was the real Biden because
he knew all about daddy-long-legs so
but yeah he said he said it was
a mess yeah it doesn't surprise you but
this is a maybe people can't do events
anymore I have no idea but this thing
was a joke and it was it was
kind of an embarrassment I thought but they
felt pretty good about it I guess and
there but what irked me the most was
the lack of the go-bag I mean
come on yeah they Bill Gates just came
out with a new book that could have
been in there I could have been in
there a coupon could have been in there
there's a lot of stuff that could be
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go in you know when you go into
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be a big event you usually go to
the desk and they check you in mm
-hmm and then you and there's a pile
of name cards yeah yeah you look around
oh so and so it's the only you
see these other people's names yeah you know
you all I can wait wait for them
to get here and you just see you
do it you do everybody does look over
the name is what you do look around
that oh look at that guy oh oh
Ryan Reynolds Reynolds all blanks here's a pen
write your name on there what they didn't
even have a printer they didn't have a
printer to print people's names can you believe
that here and and the problem was there's
a lot of Z's and Millennials there they
can't even write so you could look the
name tags it's just some scribble you can't
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was the reason they ate these mummies and
the reason that I guess it's still kind
of state remains today the reason that they
eat these black people is because they want
to embody that progression they wanted to to
advance progress their civilization and during the Victorian
era they figured what better way to progress
than to eat the dead people who have
been mummified in a progressive I'm sorry I'm
trying to make sense of this but that's
literally their logic not to mention it wasn't
just oh they're going to eat them they
turn these mummies into medicine known as mummier
now the use of these mummified this mummier
began in the 12th century and ended in
the 18th century it's also believed that this
is actually where England and like Europe inherited
the and I say inherited loosely inherited the
idea that there was an afterlife because the
afterlife was is very much real especially when
it came to ancient Egypt they honored their
ancestors they did a veneration people like the
the priestesses and things that walked this ground
they were like embodiments of what is beyond
like beyond what we see right and in
the Victorian era they kind of struggled with
that they didn't really know so long story
short they ate us because they wanted what
we had you know my friend my friend
you I think you forget how many people
listen to the best podcast in the universe
this woman clearly has figured out that the
best way to get on our podcast is
by spewing some utter nutso nonsense and and
making sure that you get it so you
can play these clips of her you don't
think she's right all I know is if
we crash in the Andes I would eat
you in a heartbeat well no I do
not think she's right okay one more I
know I get one more clip oh you're
gonna hurt me with another one well now
this is a talk clip this is talk
mm-hmm since you're the one and I
have to now agree because the season of
reveal wait a minute hold on you have
to I have to say something there were
I think 12 submissions for the season of
reveal I mean it was it was unbelievable
how many people sent in jingles for the
season of reveal and I'll play two of
them and then I have I have the
whole bunch in I put it into a
mix here's the first and
then Jeff Smith who we haven't heard from
in a while he also came in and
he gave it a little extra little Jeff
Smith slant ending in a minor chord very
nice very nice okay excellent this is so
good people sent in some dynamite stuff I
really appreciate it okay so this is a
should I just go into the clip and
I think this is what the season of
reveals all about people are gonna call me
delusional and I simply do not care if
you think in the same America where the
Eagles who have denounced Maya have a quarterback
with an all-women predominantly black management team
won the Super Bowl Beyonce one album of
the year in country black woman dominated the
Grammys this year you think Trump is president
of the United States in 2025 you are
the delusional one and people want to say
the people who say Kamala one are delusional
I denounce that madam VP is my president
and I am not saying this because I'm
a strong Democrat I am an abolitionist through
and through but I do think she truthfully
and honestly won the election and in due
time that'll all be revealed I got that
and I stand by that go birds go
black woman go black people this has been
a wondrous black history month thus far minus
the into personal conflict let me tell you
that role much will be in revealed in
due time yes season of reveal it will
be revealed out there that Kamala will win
the election somehow somehow something's gonna be revealed
so that will be revealed all will be
revealed okay thanks for that here is some
big news Joe brought this up to me
yesterday there it's it appears that people who
have been on ozempic for a prolonged period
of time are going blind well yes they're
waking up and they got cloudy eyes and
then they just go blind and it doesn't
seem to be reversible now who knows who
knows what's true or not but I think
there's seven or eight cases so far I
think it's worth keeping our people up to
speed on because this you know this is
not good it's not good it just doesn't
sound like a great product CBS but you
know this is obviously is before RFK jr.
was confirmed to the Health and Human Services
still trying to get everyone to get some
vaccines and if not well you're in danger
your kids may be in danger is not
good health officials in western Texas are trying
to contain a measles outbreak all among mostly
school-aged children officials have confirmed at least
15 cases it's the latest outbreak of a
disease which has been virtually eliminated in the
United States and it comes as vaccination rates
are declining CBS's Manny Bohorquez takes an in
-depth look at the impact of the under
vaccinated now forgive me if I'm wrong but
15 people that's basically two Brady bunches and
and this is a news story yeah it's
not that many no we have a population
330 or so million but oh it's in
Texas and you know who's in Texas anti
-vaxxers Tampa area mom to know I'm sorry
we're in Tampa now Florida Florida same same
different area mom Tiffany Vargas says her eight
-year-old daughter who she asked not be
identified has not received childhood vaccines so no
measles no chicken pox no polio and why
is that well I started doing research and
I saw that a lot of doctors were
just having a really hard time answering the
questions that I had her questions go beyond
long-established safety studies to whether there's enough
transparency from the medical community on possible side
effects her research she says includes reading vaccine
warning labels and looking into their ingredients we're
not anti vaccines we just want our questions
answered in Florida parents like Vargas can opt
out of vaccinating their children using a religious
exemption which is one reason Vargas moved her
family out of New York we were threatened
to have CPS called on us so I
saw that this was going to be an
issue that I wouldn't be able to exercise
my right as a parent to choose what
would be best for my child Wow calling
CPS child protective services it's amazing well there's
more to this story the vaccination rate for
Florida kindergartners has fallen to eighty eight point
one percent the lowest in decades nationwide at
least ten states have also seen some vaccination
rates fall 90% is not anywhere near
good enough that coverage will allow for the
spread of vaccine-preventable diseases dr.
Jeffrey Goldhagen is a pediatrician and professor at
the University of Florida what does it mean
if these rates continue to go down but
means increased numbers of children infected it means
epidemics of measles we are at great risk
for the reemergence of polio in this country
already some Florida schools have seen measles outbreaks
like at this elementary school in Broward County
last year it's last year related to vaccines
it's exhausting related to other issues that parents
come into the office having read the internet
and having formed their opinions this story there's
one more short clip it's just is that
they're shameless this is the measles while the
vast majority of medical organizations say childhood vaccines
are safe and effective it's not enough for
parents like Tiffany Vargas so is it safe
to say that you're more concerned about possible
side effects from a vaccine than you are
her possibly getting measles or polio or something
like that 100% she's as convinced in
her approach as most doctors are about theirs
brother polio meanwhile get vaccinated against measles what
what's the okay so I got 80%
of the kids in my kindergarten class 88
a of 88 which is quite a few
and they all get vaccinated and 12%
don't get vaccinated and my kids got vaccinated
so what am I worried about yeah yeah
if they're safe and effective that's the big
question but meanwhile people need some flu shots
tracking a surge of flu cases new data
shows at least 24 million people have been
sickened by the flu this year 13,000
of those cases have turned deadly the rate
is the highest level in 15 years health
experts say that the best line of defense
is to get your flu vaccine however rates
of vaccinations have been very low this season
and we still have several weeks to go
before the peak of the flu season 13
,000 dead if you just said kovat instead
of flu you could have started another pandemic
13,000 they blew it yeah and actually
flu is a flu deaths are outpacing kovat
deaths we're joined now by dr.
John LaPook dr.
you are a practicing doctor how much flu
are you seeing day-to-day John I'm
seeing a ton of it and some of
my patients are really really sick two strains
this time yeah and we know what they
are there's h3n2 and h1n1 the good news
is those two strains are in fact covered
in this year's vaccine what we don't know
is have they changed have they mutated remember
during kovat you know the variants the mutations
well viruses when they divide they mutate so
how well matched is the current vaccine to
what's actually out there right now on top
of that this year only about 40 percent
of adults have taken the vaccine that compares
to about the same number as last year
but it's a full 10 percentage points less
than the season before the pandemic is that
why we're seeing so many flu cases yeah
it could be and you know this year
we're now seeing the first time since the
pandemic deaths from flu are more than deaths
from kovat and in about 22 states that's
the case and in some states like california
deaths from flu are about twice the death
rate from kovat is this just a reminder
flu is always with us and sometimes it
can be quite bad yeah it can be
quite bad and it goes up and down
in fact the cdc says that every year
anywhere from 9 million to 40 million americans
get infected and 6,000 to 50,000
people die that's a ton of variation this
year so far 24 million infections 13,000
deaths and these are preliminary statistics but you
can still get the vaccination still enough time
flu season can go to may as as
late as may and it takes about two
weeks for it to kick in we're all
gonna die yep eventually and then the final
big pharma news is about anthony fauci it
seems like the pardon that joe biden gave
him may not protect him the man once
referred to as america's doctor now a target
of 17 state attorneys general all republicans using
a gop-led congressional report released last year
as the basis for an investigation into his
response to the coronavirus pandemic in a letter
citing his attempting to discredit the lab leak
hypothesis and mismanagement or negligence while serving in
leadership at the national institutes of health they
shut down schools they shut down businesses and
there are concerns by many of us from
dr fauci's testimony in congress that he said
things that we know weren't true south carolina
attorney general alan wilson is leading the effort
which he calls necessary as a result of
president joe biden's preemptive pardon of dr fauci
we're telling congress don't stop looking for the
truth so we are not prohibited from going
forward with state actions regardless of what joe
biden did in the final moments of his
presidency additionally elon musk's department of government efficiency
posted as part of millions of dollars in
canceled contracts through health and human services a
168 thousand dollar contract for an anthony fauci
exhibit at the nih museum would also be
cut do you think this hold holds water
they can really drag him in front of
the states i'm sure they can twist it
around that maybe it may be a waste
of their time but yeah ah poor tony
it may be that they get that whole
that there's a lot of discussion going on
in the courts now about these preemptive pardons
you can't pardon there may be they may
conclude i think the supreme court might do
this conclude that you can't be pardoned for
something you didn't you unless it was a
crime you committed yeah and you have to
accept it too don't you i mean you
have to say yes i accept my pardon
yeah i that's yeah i heard that too
that's what shift is waffling about oh that
guy yeah waterboarding that'll be fun well i
got another tiktok clip really yeah okay i
mean and this is the uh more delusional
you don't love your neighbors this is delusional
kate's brexie people are gonna call me delusional
no wait a minute stop it stop the
clip stop the clip you have something in
your mouth what's that in your mouth a
lozenge oh uh-huh um that's funny you're
like a nut what yeah no we can't
play this clip we can't play this clip
i believe it's the same as the other
clip it's always the exact same time it's
just i think i just redid it and
named it different so forget it you got
lucky wow okay then i'll play a clip
just for you because it's your boy banyan
got some breaking news right now steve bannon
has pleaded guilty to defrauding and new yorkers
but he will not be serving any prison
time we've learned that is part of a
plea deal bannon said that he did defraud
people who donated to we build the wall
and online oh yeah during president trump's this
has been by the way this has been
dragging on for years yeah so he finally
pleaded guilty to it or are they just
twisting the story to make it sound no
i think maybe he did because they probably
said hey look we got to get this
out of the off the books we won't
do anything to you just you know just
plead and we're out of here all right
uh during president trump's first term we understand
the fundraiser promised 100 of their donations would
fund a ball wall along the southern border
you remember that campaign promise from president trump's
first term but mr bannon directed it elsewhere
the funds this is bannon's second criminal conviction
after he served prison time for contempt of
congress banging is on the outs man he's
really he's not a part of any of
the fun he i bet he wasn't at
the inaugural parties what did he do what
did he and besides that he said elon
will be gone be gone by uh but
before the inauguration yeah yeah well maybe he
combed his hair and by the way i
i hope the president does say something to
elon about the kid i mean that's just
it's like it was distracting the make the
i think the kid mouthed something to the
president like shut your effing mouth it's it's
not i thought he told him to get
out well whatever it was like just control
your kid elon you know or have a
nanny there or something why is he doing
that is that to prove that he's a
good dad or what do you just that's
it's bothersome well he's been dragging the same
kid around all over the place i know
but why what is the point it's kind
of unbecoming what's a good i i agree
with you it's unbecoming this has to end
i mean you know we're going to complain
about prop he's making the kid a prop
kid he's a prop kid yeah that's not
cool and whose kid is it who who
did he have this kid with who knows
he can't keep track himself where's mom everybody
there is no mom all right and then
i got a super cut of the latest
big balls the big ball guy got picked
by this uh i guess we have a
guy by the way one of our producers
works with big balls oh yeah i guess
on the neural link thing oh oh i
didn't i didn't get i didn't get that
note i did was i have to go
dig the note of it it was very
interesting but i guess he's also consulting for
the state this big balls kid must be
really smart that's that 19 year old muskade
who goes by the online nickname big balls
now has a role inside the state department
a senior advisor within the state department at
19 we begin tonight with musk and big
balls a 19 year old with the online
handle big balls in the one case of
the big balls kid who has used uh
the unfortunate nickname uh big balls online take
a deep breath for just a moment and
ponder big balls god uh we're not even
that crass i mean we play it's unbelievable
these people yeah well anyway go big balls
what i say i'm happy i'm happy they're
doing this or did it i still think
they did it they've got it all it's
all done it's all taken care of it's
a great time to be a podcaster i
should have tomorrow of jc over i'm going
to ask him about your thesis which i
still think is something we have to keep
in the back of our minds that they
that they're that the uh musk group the
doge people stole the entire database well not
so treasury disbursements and they're going over it
yeah they've had it at mar-a-lago
in the basement next to the top secret
files film at 11.
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i'll start all hell is gonna break out
nah it's no good it's no good that's
a horrible miking of the president by the
way what could possibly go wrong no no
and we have this one who's a good
dog against doge nah it's rachel i don't
like her how about yeah okay yeah that
one and then my final candidate oh my
god there's so much there that one that's
a good one it's not bad it's not
bad i only have one because i thought
this was such a winner that it would
just it's either gonna win or not okay
here we go the best show ever ever
how can i compete against these this is
because you're you're taking them from audiobooks oh
my god there's so much there you're taking
them from audiobooks the best show ever ever
what audiobook is that from that's not an
audiobook that's an old one that i submitted
some time back and it came back and
it won yeah wow unbelievable also unbelievable it's
time for john's tip of the day everybody
loves to go to tip of the day
dot net why am i yelling sometimes well
why am i yelling at everybody i don't
understand okay so this is a tip that
this has been mentioned on the show before
but i'm going to make it an official
tip because it's so much fun to play
with uh it's particularly fun with some of
the terms and things that come around especially
use the gender ideology gender studies you the
words like that this is the google books
and the ngram viewer i think you've haven't
you done this one before no not as
a tip oh it's just something i think
10 years ago i mentioned on the show
and i do use it a lot to
see what the hell's going on like when
did this when did this come about and
you do the ngram viewer it's ngram the
letter ngram okay uh and you can look
it up it's google ngram viewer and why
would i do this sorry why would i
do this ngram viewer why would i what
does this do for me it shows you
when a popular term came into being and
actually showed up in books and started being
used so if you look into things like
gender studies for example use that as a
as the words you want to check out
you'll see that this phrase never existed until
about 1980 huh hold on a second or
you can look up something say like there's
some term going around you keep hearing it
uh like rsv for example or any of
these things that i'm always bitching and moaning
about to the fact that well this is
that i never i never heard that when
i was a kid wow that sort of
thing you can check and you find out
that you never heard about it when you
were a kid because it didn't exist so
i find this to be a very useful
tool tool for analysis but it's also fun
like if you look at the word like
a gay you know see how it's used
over time i mean it's just it's a
fascinating tool that people should can play with
it only goes up to 2022 or oh
no yeah but it's just it's to look
for origins not end points wait i can
go oh yeah but i i want to
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