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I'll bet you that camel milk yogurt is
good.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, February 16, 2025.
This is your award-winning give-on-Asian
-media assassination episode 1739.
This is no agenda.
Under the Golden Doom!
And broadcasting live from the heart of Texas
Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Simicon Valley where it turns
out San Francisco is sinking.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Oh, really now?
You're telling me the mudflats are...
The whole city's going down.
Where did this come to light?
It's all over the news.
Look up, just go Google, San Francisco is
sinking.
And you'll find all these stories all of
a sudden.
Well, now if you look out the window,
do you see any evidence of this?
Whoa!
Holy moly, look at that thing sink.
It was not like a ship going down
0.4 inches a year.
Parts of San Francisco, oh, not just San
Francisco, and Los Angeles are sinking into the
sea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what people have been wanting forever.
Oh, here it is.
Okay, so meaning, there's a second part to
the story, meaning sea level rise will be
even worse.
By the way, this story is, this is
the way the story's been going.
If something's sinking, it doesn't mean something else
is going up.
It doesn't.
All the stories say, in fact, this was
even in Epoch Times.
San Francisco is sinking, so the sea level's
going to rise somehow.
Due to climate change.
Yeah.
There you go.
A study led by NASA and NOAA has
found that California is sinking in some areas.
It's only some areas.
Well, San Francisco's one of them.
I love to have the AI-generated art,
you know, with the Golden Gate Bridge slowly
sinking.
But, I mean, seriously, what is it?
Oh, it's 0.4 inches per year in
sinking.
Yeah.
Are you in a sinking hot spot?
I'm on a solid rock on the East
Bay.
It's not even close to sinking.
Okay, well, I mean— That's why I can
look and see the mudflats.
They haven't changed either.
I'm just, I'm going to, I've stopped saying
you should leave.
You know, you're going to be— I'm in
a solid zone here.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You're going to be with a snorkel.
If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd leave.
You'd be doing the show with a snorkel.
If you lived in Massachusetts, I've been to
Massachusetts.
You don't want to live there.
That's what I said.
And no offense, but, dude, a lot of
rainbow flags in Massachusetts.
It's out of control.
It is a bit out of control, yeah.
So, I just wanted to give everybody a
little overview of the mainstream media from the
past week.
It's 30 seconds.
New warnings of a constitutional crisis just weeks
into Trump's second term.
And the stage is set for a constitutional
crisis.
Could this signal the start of a constitutional
crisis?
Legal experts say our country could be headed
toward a constitutional crisis.
They're calling this a constitutional crisis.
This is a constitutional crisis.
I am unapologetic in suggesting we are in
a constitutional crisis right now.
Are we already in a constitutional crisis?
Those two words, right?
Constitutional crisis.
So, when people hear us say about four
more years and we just say we're basically
in our final four years, I want you
to understand this is the reason.
This was today, 2025.
This is 2020.
Warnings of an impending constitutional crisis ripped through
the nation's capital.
There are experts who are saying this is
a constitutional crisis.
We are at a dangerous time in our
history.
A constitutional crisis that probably is the most
severe moment since the Civil War.
This is 2019.
We're now like one subway stop from a
real constitutional crisis.
We are in, in effect, a constitutional crisis.
Constitutional crisis.
We're hearing it over and over again.
Nancy Pelosi's already said that Donald Trump is
unfit for office.
She said that he belongs in prison.
She says that we're in a constitutional crisis.
If that's not enough to begin an impeachment
inquiry, then what on earth is?
Here's 2018.
A constitutional crisis, possibly.
The constitutional crisis alarm bells are ringing.
But is anybody listening?
And 2017.
Might be on the path to a constitutional
crisis.
We will ask two experts about whether or
not this is a constitutional crisis.
We've never faced quite the constitutional crisis that
we do right now.
They are fomenting a constitutional crisis.
Are we staring down the barrel of a
constitutional crisis?
This is an existential constitutional crisis.
People, get a new script.
We're bored already.
These people.
This is it.
It's like, oh, okay.
They can't seem to come up with any
new.
I mean, if they would just get to
do a real job instead of just coming
up with this.
And this is the whole mainstream media.
The whole thing is corrupted.
Well, not just me.
It's hopeless.
Not just mainstream media, but it's leaking through
to podcasts.
Yes, it does.
Well, everything.
Yes.
Because some podcasts are nothing more than a
wannabe extension of the mainstream media.
I present you Jon Stewart in conversation with
Jen Psaki.
But the overwhelming majority has been.
We are sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis.
Again, taking the bait.
By the way, I realize why Jon Stewart's
podcast sucks so bad.
And this is actually a funny bit without
him actually knowing it.
Jon Stewart is great at delivering scripted lines.
I mean, he does them so smooth.
He's just perfect at it.
He is a pro.
He's an incredible pro.
But when he just has to add lib,
he can't do it.
He doesn't.
It doesn't come out right.
It's all wrong.
And listen to this.
The larger thing and not defending the efficiency
or value of the programs.
I would take it just one step farther.
And I worked at the State Department.
I think USAID is a tremendous institution.
I don't think it should be a front
and center top messaging argument.
Should people in Congress defend and use every
lever of their power to prevent the Trump
administration from gutting it?
Yes, because they play a pivotal role around
the world, cracking down on corruption, defending a
free press, a million things.
But I guess when it comes to how
the Democrats are communicating with the public, the
things that the Trump administration are doing that
they should be talking about more, in my
view, are getting access to people's personnel information,
their social security data.
Anybody who's applied for a government job, that's
millions of people.
Halting programs, which a judge this week said
they haven't actually put back in place all
of the funding halts, halting of the funding
that they said they had.
Government's not popular, as you all know.
Congress is not popular.
Why would that be?
I don't know.
Institution's not popular.
True.
So if you're trying to reach people who
are like, government, Washington, then talk about how
this program that's being cut off is helping
your kids have early childhood education.
It's helping you get Medicaid access.
It's helping you farmers have subsidies.
Wait for it.
But that seems obvious, Jen.
Yes, it is.
But they're not doing it.
I wish I knew the answer to that
question.
That is the most painful sigh I have
ever heard.
Self-realization all of a sudden.
Because it's no good.
Why is it so hard for them to
just say, yeah, it's probably no good?
They can't.
They can't.
And by the way, just not to change
the subject, but my Clean Tech, Clean Feed,
you're right, the fonts have all changed now.
I got last on the list, I guess.
It's kind of an odd font.
It's a little more bold, don't you think?
It's a Helvetica style font.
It's a European style.
Yeah.
They're from the UK.
Yeah, I'd say the big news, the big
news, the big, big, big, big, big, big
news, everything's happening in Munich.
It's all in Munich.
Oh, yes, I have a whole series of
Munich clips.
Are they from NTD?
I think they're, no, they're from PBS.
Oh, well, good, because the NTD stuff is
just a little harsh sometimes.
Yeah, I got the four clips and then
some anal clips.
Everyone has to understand that John titles his
clips and he puts in there, Munich overview
and then overview anal, which I think stands
for analysis.
Analysis, yeah.
What else would it mean?
Well, you could just put in analysis.
It's kind of jarring.
It's too long.
I got to keep the, you know, because
I've got to, the way that when I
print it out, I have the time over
one side.
It's just the way your mind works.
Everyone knows.
Everyone agrees it's okay.
I'd like an overview because there's so much
going on.
What is happening?
Are we going to war?
Is NATO involved?
I mean, what's happening?
I think this is a pretty good overview.
Today in Munich, Vice President J.D. Vance
met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and with
German political leaders, including the head of the
far right AFD party.
Oh, they forgot to say extreme right.
Oh, boy.
That latter meeting came after Vance spoke at
the Munich security conference.
It's usually focused on Western adversaries.
Vance instead critiqued America's European allies.
Nick Schifrin is in Munich again for us
tonight.
In front of a mostly European audience anxious
for reassurance, today Vice President Vance delivered a
scolding.
What I worry about is the threat from
within.
The retreat of Europe from some of its
most fundamental values.
World leaders were hoping for clarity on the
administration's plans for Ukraine.
Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing
parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met
this afternoon and who's been endorsed by Elon
Musk.
That's kind of disingenuous.
What he really said was, people don't like
your immigration.
It wasn't just sitting there endorsing.
He also complained about free speech.
Yes, but here the PBS is saying, he
endorsed far right parties.
No, I'm just saying, yeah, this is slanted.
Of course it's slanted.
Of course, of course.
Including Germany's AFD.
Let's go back here.
Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing
parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met
this afternoon and who's been endorsed by Elon
Musk.
If American democracy can survive 10 years of
Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a
few months of Elon Musk.
It's too bad he flubbed that line because
it was a good one.
Yeah, he knew it was good.
This happens to me.
It happens to you.
Yes.
Oh, all the time.
You know it's a good line.
You know if you deliver it properly, it's
going to come home.
And then you blow it.
You see this all the time.
So he knew it was a good line.
Yeah, and it fell so flat.
He choked.
Ah, no.
If American democracy can survive 10 years of
Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a
few months of Elon Musk.
By the way, just on Greta Thunberg, it's
interesting how everyone's complaining about the teenage Doge
team, but yet hundreds of billions of climate
change dollars were all based on the 15
-year-old Greta Thunberg.
Uneducated, who didn't even go to school because
she was protesting all the time.
Just saying.
What no democracy, American, German, or European, will
survive is telling millions of voters that their
thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for
relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being
considered.
Yeah, that's right.
That is a very implicit endorsement of the
far right.
They're missing it because Europe is now saying
extreme right.
They've changed that narrative.
Extreme.
They're freaked.
Right.
Of course they're freaked.
Rightly so.
Onward, next.
Vance portrayed Europe as silencing critical and conservative
voices, including by recently throwing out Romanian elections
over Russian misinformation.
If you're running in fear of your own
voters, there is nothing America can do for
you.
But in a new Wall Street Journal interview,
Vance embraced Europe's position on Ukraine, that the
West could increase sanctions on Moscow and even
deploy U.S. troops inside Ukraine to reach
peace.
Good afternoon, everybody.
And hours later, Vance met with Ukraine's delegation
in a meeting that a senior Ukrainian official
described to PBS NewsHour as, quote, very good.
We want to achieve a durable, lasting peace,
not the kind of peace that's going to
have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple
years down the road.
European leaders tell PBS NewsHour they're confused by
what they consider mixed U.S. messages on
Ukraine, including those repeated today by Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth during a visit to Poland.
The reality that returning to 2014 borders as
part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely.
The reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine
is unlikely.
The reality of Ukraine membership in NATO as
a part of a negotiated settlement, unlikely.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
I think this was careless, and I think
it was a mistake.
In my view, it would have been much
better to talk about Ukraine's possible NATO membership
and possible territorial changes at the negotiating table
first, and then with Ukraine present, and not
with them already having Putin's price hanging over
them.
And European leaders continue to doubt that peace
with Putin is possible.
Peace with Putin is possible.
President Putin says he's willing to meet.
But on what terms?
I had good conversation with President Trump.
We had some phone calls, and he had
phone call with Putin, and he said to
me, I think that he, Putin, that he
wants to solve the war.
I said to him that he's a liar.
It's amazing.
First of all, this Zelensky man, it's like
he's got a different story every 10 minutes.
And when did this NATO membership come back?
Everyone knows that's a non-starter.
I have no idea why they keep pushing
it.
That's the whole problem.
It is the problem.
Yeah, and Vance was very clear.
I mean, I'm sure you have the clip,
Vance.
Vance said it was more clear.
Yeah, like, no, the solution does not lie
with Ukraine having NATO membership.
That's it.
And that was the problem since 2014.
The whole thing started with the expansion of
NATO.
That's it.
And they're just, do you think that they're
sniffing their own farts?
They really believe that this is possible?
I have no idea what they're thinking, because
they're not going to get, you know, unless
they kick the United States out of NATO,
we can just veto it.
You know, the thing about NATO, you can't
get in unless everybody says yes.
Yeah, right, right.
So you can say whatever you want.
We're the boss of them.
There was an alternative that, just to get
off this track for just one second, there
was an alternative clip of Zelensky.
This is the talk Zelensky clip.
Oh, yes, good.
I asked President Trump, Mr. President, why did
you talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin before
talking to me?
That doesn't sound like AI at all.
I'm so convinced.
Talking to me, and President Trump said he
wanted to talk to the tallest one first,
and then the shortest.
I was not happy about this.
Then I told him that I want to
create a European army, and then he asked
me if it was an army of short
little midgets like me, and I did not
like that either.
All right, since you went down that track,
I have to play a couple clips before
we get back to the overview, because this
is, I think, what it's really all about,
and we should probably look at your anal
clips based upon this.
This is the true, the real Zelensky, or
this 10-minute Zelensky about the European army.
The Ukrainian president, though, characteristically blunt.
Decades of the old relationship between Europe and
America are ending.
From now on, things will be different, and
Europe needs to adjust to that.
I really believe that time has come.
The armed forces of Europe must be created.
The armed forces of Europe must be created.
Now, we have talked about this since the
beginning of the show.
I was in Europe and then later in
the UK when the Lisbon Treaty was signed.
We all remember how that went.
Ireland, you voted wrong.
Do over.
Vote again.
And in the...
And so I think Holland did the same
thing, if I'm not mistaken.
They voted the wrong way first.
Was it Holland or France?
I think it was one of the two.
It was mainly Ireland.
Besides, the point is that these countries, if
they didn't vote right...
Yeah, then they re-voted.
They kept making them do it over and
over until they finally came...
That's how democracy works.
Do you not understand democracy?
And there were three main promises for this
Lisbon Treaty, which was the so-called constitution
of the European Union.
One was, no more passports.
It's great.
Everybody can walk to the borders.
You don't need to show your papers anymore.
And if someone, you know, comes in illegally
from another country, they can walk into your
country too.
It's great.
That second part, they didn't actually promise, but
it was implied.
The second promise, you'll all have the same
money.
It's fantastic.
No more Gilder.
No more Deutschmark.
No more francs.
No, you'll have the euro.
It's great.
Overnight, 100% inflation.
Coffee went from two Gilders to, you know,
to four Gilders in euros.
And the third was, we'll never have...
That was a good bit, by the way.
But it's true.
I know.
In Italy, it really got hit hard.
Oh, it got really bad.
People couldn't afford their espresso in the morning.
And the third promise was, we'll never have
a European army.
No, no, no.
Well, there's actually, there was another one, which
was, we'll never have European central finance.
No, we'll never do that.
That's encroaching very quickly.
And basically, the European central bank already makes
it a fact.
But we'll never have a European army.
And I think that what is happening now,
and I have a Redux clip from 2015.
So that's 10 years ago.
And we've been following this, and there are
a couple other clips, but this is the
best one.
I think what is happening now is the
military industrial complex, that's American weapons manufacturers in
general.
Germany has a little bit.
Sweden makes some planes.
They're not unimportant.
But really, you know, if you want things
that go boom and that comes from us.
Wow, sound effects on the show.
Thank you.
The NATO thing is kind of a non
-starter because, you know, it's like these guys,
they don't want to pay.
You know, we've got our guy, definitely our
guy, Mark Rutte over there saying, look, you
must have 5%.
Otherwise, if you do a European army, it
will be 8% or possibly 10%
or more.
When they heard that, which is, I think,
a total setup, they're like, yeah, yeah, let's
goad those guys into it.
And this has been on deck with people
who have been paid off by big military
contractors for over a decade.
This is Nigel Farage when he was still
a member of European Parliament.
And this is right after the 2014 coup
that Victoria Nuland, John Brennan, Lindsey Graham, John
McCain, all these suckers, they all orchestrated this.
And there was a big setup to ultimately
either result in more money being spent by
the EU into NATO armaments or just get
them to start their own army.
That's fine with us too, as long as
we get more money.
I've been wondering why David Cameron has been
slashing our armed forces, won't commit to 2%.
He's happy for us not to be able
to defend our islands.
I think Mr Juncker's given us the answer.
We're going to do it at an EU
level.
We're going to have a European army.
Now, when I raised this last year with
the Deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg,
he said it was a dangerous fantasy to
even talk about an EU army.
I hope every Liberal Democrat voter has heard
Mr Behofstadt today, the leader of the European
Liberals, crying out for militarisation at an EU
level.
Of course, the truth is it's already happening.
We already have a European defence agency.
We already have EU battlegroups on active service
all over the world.
We already have an EU navy active against
the Somali pirates.
And who can forget Eurocorps here in Strasbourg
last year virtually goose-stepping that ghastly flag
round the courtyard outside.
And of course the Lisbon Treaty, Article 28,
provides for all of this.
Tony Blair was right.
He said the European Union is not a
project about peace, it's a project about power.
And I think Mr Juncker is trying to
seize on an opportunity.
We ourselves in the European Union provoked the
conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine.
We poked the Russian bear with a stick
and unsurprisingly, Putin reacted.
But this now is to be used as
an opportunity to build a European army.
And when?
Then, you know, they get into a big
fight.
You know, for Hofstadts, interrupts.
But Nigel Farage saw it.
This is 10 years ago.
This was the whole point.
This was the whole setup.
And then you had poor Mark Rutte.
Now I understand why they chose him.
He was set up to fail.
This guy, this wishy-washy former prime minister,
never married, unclear about any relationships, used to
be in Unilever's human resource department with the
other ladies.
You know, he's just a wishy-washy, smooshy
guy with a funny accent I like to
mimic.
His whole job was to fail at getting
them to pour more money into NATO.
And now all he sees is people are
complaining now.
What is this now?
And here's what NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
had to say at the conference on Saturday
about Europe's task now.
To my European friends, I would say get
into the debate, not by complaining that you
might yes or not be at the table,
but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas.
Ramp up the spending, make sure that the
training and the weapons supplies continue, but also
come up with concrete ideas what, for example,
security guarantees could look like.
And I must say, since one day of
complaining what I've now been seeing on the
European side of NATO is indeed that people
are now getting into the concrete planning phase
of what could that be.
Stop complaining, you're all complaining.
Why are you complaining all the time?
They're going to go for it.
They're going to go for it.
This guy was set up to fail.
Hey Mark, go ahead boy, why don't you
go try to up it from 2%
to 5%.
Good luck.
They already knew it.
This was the whole plan.
And now Trump is like, yeah, this is
great.
You know what, screw you guys.
Why don't you go do something yourself.
Take care of it.
NATO is done, I think.
I think it's over.
Because it makes no sense to have a
European and EU army and NATO.
It's what we call duplication of efforts.
Yeah, redundancy.
Redundancy, yes.
So let them come up with 3, 4,
500 billion euros a year.
Hello Europe.
It's going to be fun.
I wish I could get my daughter out.
This is Europe.
The fact that we've had this era of
peace for 70 years or more.
It's a fluke.
If you know world history, it's a total
fluke.
There were things like the 100 years wars.
Good times, I remember.
And they're constantly attacking Russia for one reason
or another.
And Russia knows this and they're freaked out
about it.
That's why they're so adamant.
They're not idiots.
We're very cloistered in the United States when
it comes to world history.
So we think everything is the way it
is today.
It's the way it always was.
And to be fair, after World War II
which the Russians really defeated the Nazis.
Yeah, the Russians won the war.
As usual, we came in, we stormed the
beach.
I mean, it's not to be discounted.
No, not the Normandy thing.
Eisenhower was a good guy.
That was the real deal.
We flew the flag and we liberated.
We did liberate.
We were like, hey, you're free.
Not downplaying that at all.
But the Russians, they lost millions of people
because they're a military society.
This is what they do.
And then we had the whole Bretton Woods
thing and who jumped out?
The Russians.
They went, nah, we're not going to be
your little son over here.
We want to control Europe.
And that is true.
They have definitely wanted to control Europe.
I think that dream may be gone by
now and they just want to be a
part of the system.
But when the EU really drove this decision
to kick Russia off of SWIFT, that's an
act of war.
They also got kicked out of the G8.
Oh, that was a good one.
That was probably like, I hated those meetings
anyway.
Who cares about that?
I don't want to go there.
But optic-wise, it was not nice.
Who's the aggressor?
Who's the aggressor?
And then the whole Nord Stream debacle.
You want overview three?
Overview, yeah.
We're on three, I believe.
Zelensky added today that Ukraine would need real
security guarantees in order to make any ceasefire
durable.
He said that the U.S. needed to
be part of those security guarantees, but today
a State Department spokesman said, quote, we expect
European partners to take the lead in establishing
a durable security framework and look forward to
their proposals.
So, Nick, tell us about the mood in
the room during Vice President Vance's speech and
also what you're hearing from attendees tonight.
Well, President Trump this afternoon called Vance's speech,
quote, brilliant, but the speech landed like a
lead balloon in the room because, again, Europeans
have been dealing with mixed messages on Ukraine
all week from the Trump administration, and they're
hoping that the Trump administration treats them, treats
Ukraine as partners in trying to pursue peace
rather than going above Europe and Ukraine's head
and speaking directly to Moscow.
That said, though, Amna, two senior European officials
told me tonight that actually the speech was
better than it could have been, that they
preferred a scolding over a negative speech about
Ukraine or even a speech in which the
U.S. was announcing some kind of troop
withdrawal from Europe.
But it's not just Europeans who are worried
about Ukraine's policy.
Apparently, today the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman,
Roger Wicker, who's here today, called Hegseth's speech
in Brussels a, quote, rookie mistake, the kind
of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and
Carlson is a, quote, fool.
That's what Wicker said.
Wow.
These reports bring in Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson.
Who's next?
Candace Owens?
Are they going to talk about her on
PBS?
Now that you mention it, I'm sure that
I was in the edit room writing, oh,
we left her out.
Damn it.
Easy target.
And Megyn Kelly.
And Bongino.
Code Bongino.
Throw it in there.
What a misser, people.
It wouldn't surprise me if we start to
hear some talk of, well, maybe we should
just close some of those bases in Germany.
Trump talked about that in his first term.
He did.
He went on about, what are we doing
with all these bases all over the place?
It's costing us money.
What's it doing?
Some ill will is being derived from it.
Well, this is an interesting way to, so
we have a $200 billion trade deficit with
the EU, which, interestingly, I heard the numbers,
the way it works with the EU, they
have a $200 billion surplus from China and
I mean, a deficit with China, a $200
billion surplus with the US, so they kind
of stay the same.
Whereas the US has a $300 billion deficit
with China, so we have a $500 billion,
at least $500 billion deficit between the EU
and China.
So we could change that by, all right,
you know, good.
Buy the stuff from us then.
Set up your own army.
That would be at least $200 billion, maybe
more.
Well, when they set up their own army,
they're going to buy our product for a
while.
They have to.
I mean, everything's standardized on our stuff.
For a while.
Yeah, for a while, and then you can
do what you have to do to get
back to a normal economy.
It's not just built on militarism.
What's a European gun?
What's the brand name of a European gun?
Ruger?
No.
Ruger for sure.
Czechoslovakian?
Yeah.
There's probably a few.
Let's go to clip four.
Glock.
Oh, Glock.
That's a good point.
Ukraine's defenders continue to say Russia is not
serious about peace, and they have a case
in point today that a Russian drone hit
a radiation shield that protects the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant.
Now, earlier today, I talked about all of
this.
Ukraine, as well as Vance's speech with Europe's
top diplomat, Kayakos.
That doesn't sound fishy at all.
Yeah, I'm sure that was a...
That's bogus.
Well, the radiation shield is literally the dome
they put over...
Yeah, and the drone falls on it.
And that thing is pretty...
It's built to last.
The whole point of it was like, lock
it down, close it up, so a drone
drops into it?
Okay.
Radiation shield.
All right.
Sounds very scary.
Radiation shield.
We move to the analysis.
Okay.
Kayakos, thanks very much.
Welcome back to the NewsHour.
Appreciate it.
Last week, European officials came to Washington and
were reassured, I'm told, by senior Trump administration
officials about Ukraine.
Earlier this week, you and other senior European
officials met with Vice President Vance in Paris,
and I'm told were reassured about the administration's
focus on Ukraine.
But this week, we also heard from the
Defense Secretary, Pete Hexeth, questioning whether Ukraine could
ever get back occupied territory, and essentially taking
NATO off the table.
What's the impact of the mixed messages from
the United States?
No more parties.
Well, the new administration is starting, and, of
course, we are building up our relationship with
the new administration as well.
I mean, I've had good calls with Marco
Rubio as well, who was also very issuing
on Ukraine.
So, of course, we have to figure out
the messages, what is right.
But this conference is a good place.
We have a lot of meetings with the
representatives to understand what are the ideas really
of the United States regarding Ukraine.
But can Europe actually make plans for Ukraine?
Can you and the United States work on
a strategy for Ukraine when you're getting these
mixed messages?
Well, we have the strategy in place.
I mean, for us, it's very clear.
It is to put the pressure on Russia
to really stop this war.
When President Trump says that, I just want
the killing to stop, it's easy.
If Putin would stop bombing Ukraine.
This night, we heard that they were bombing
the nuclear station.
So, clearly Putin doesn't want peace.
I like how Chernobyl has become the nuclear
station.
Isn't that thing completely defunct and down and
shut?
It's the nuclear station.
This woman is the second to Ursula.
She's the foreign secretary of the EU.
She's just another blowhard, unelected DEI hire.
Unelected spokes-hole.
She says that, I just want the killing
to stop.
It's easy.
If Putin would stop bombing Ukraine.
This night, we heard that they were bombing
the nuclear station.
So, clearly, Putin doesn't want peace.
So, the pressure, the political, economical pressure should
be on him so that he realizes that
he can't win and realizes it's a mistake
to be there.
But President Trump also said this yesterday in
the Oval Office.
Yes, I do believe Putin wants peace.
I trust him.
What's your response to his statement?
Well, maybe he doesn't know Putin as well
as we do.
So, well, Putin is not really keeping his
promises.
If you think about we have had such
quick fixes, deals like Minsk 1, Minsk 2.
Oh!
What?
Putin broke Minsk 1 and 2?
Is that what she's claiming?
That's what she's claiming.
Wow!
Forget the Boris Johnson episode and the fact
that the war would have been over if
these agreements were put into play, and they
weren't.
Thanks to Zelensky, largely.
Putin has specifically said, why don't we just
hold to the Minsk Accord?
And who is this lady?
Where is she from?
Is she from Germany?
She's from, originally, I'd have to look it
up.
Well, maybe.
She's one of those.
One of those places.
She could be anywhere.
But she's just a typical EU spokesperson or
representative or a phony unelected official that runs
the thing.
The EU is just a mess.
It's ridiculous.
A technocrat.
That's right.
That's the word.
She's a technocrat.
Here we go.
The previous diplomacy between Russia and the Ukraine.
The previous ceasefire agreements that were only necessary
for Putin and Russia to get their act
together more and attack in a bigger scale.
So I think the history proves that.
And that's why they only understand the language
of strength.
And we have to be really strong and
firm that you can't win here.
Because if the United States is worried about
China, if we can't get Russia right, we
can't get China right either.
Because they are carefully watching how this goes.
One of the possibilities when it comes to
a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, if we were
to get to that, would be for European
troops to deploy inside Ukraine.
In your conversations with European leaders, are they
willing to consider that even if, as Hekseth
said this week, that the United States wouldn't
protect them under Article 5?
They're always like, this is a constant theme.
Well, if you give in to Putin, everyone
else is watching and, oh, now they're weak.
Now we'll come and grab something.
It's a domino theory.
Yes, exactly.
We lived through the domino theory in the
60s and 70s, and that was bull crap.
Which is the very reason why no one
else wanted to go in the armed forces,
because they all figured out we were fighting
stupid wars in Vietnam and Korea.
And then no one wanted to be a
part of it until, oh, the 9-11s.
Get the towel heads everybody, because that was
real.
Well, that was the spirit.
It's like, hey, the towel heads did this.
It turns out, maybe not.
Let's go into Iraq anyway.
Who cares?
Let's go in there.
I think we're on 7.
We have to understand that there's no peace.
In order to have peacekeeping troops, you need
to have peace.
But again, Putin doesn't want peace, and that
is a big problem that we need to
address right now.
And, of course, if there is peace, then
we need to discuss what are the security
guarantees.
Yesterday we heard the Defense Secretary of Ukraine
saying that, you know, the U.S. gave
us promises in the Budapest Memorandum.
Give up your nuclear weapons, and we will
defend you when Russia attacks.
And where are you now?
So, he was really very vocal in saying
that, you know, you have not kept the
promises you have gave us.
So, right now, if we talk about security
guarantees, then they really need to be credible.
What are the security guarantees that would really
deter Russia from attacking again?
She's the Secretary of the Interior?
What is her title again?
I think she's the Foreign Minister.
Oh, Foreign Minister.
I think.
I had to go back.
She's the henchwoman of the Queen, Queen Ursula.
The joke in that, by the way, in
that little commentary was the promise is not
kept.
We always have to remember that was James
Baker.
That's the real promise, yes.
And the promises that were made when the
Soviet Union collapsed and it became Russia and
the other countries all got independence, became independent,
including Ukraine, from Russia, and then we promised
that we weren't going to move NATO one
inch eastward and ever since then, that's all
we did.
And that was a promise that Putin called
us out on and didn't do anything about
for a long time until this latest thing
with Ukraine, and that was the end.
That was the straw that broke the camel's
back, and it's his fault.
Okay.
You and von der Leyen, the president of
the European Commission, have both said publicly in
the last couple of days that any kind
of tariffs would essentially create conflict between the
United States and Europe that is unnecessary.
Do you think the United States imposing tariffs
on Europe would prevent Europe from working with
the United States on Ukraine?
No, we have different cooperation points, so it's
clear that there are no winners in trade
wars.
The consumers are the biggest losers, because the
prices rise due to this.
So I hope that these things are settled
between the United States and Europe, okay?
If there is trade imbalance, then of course
we can see what we can do about
this, but starting a trade war, I don't
think it's a good thing, because who is
laughing on the side is China.
Okay.
The tariffs are not a trade war.
No.
A trade war is a little more extreme
than a couple of tariffs on some goods
and services.
It's a balance of payments.
It's an equalization of trade, it seems to
me.
But okay.
Yeah, let's call it a...
Everything has to be a war, by the
way.
Everything has got to be a war.
It's the way the Europeans think.
Is that clip eight?
We always have to remember that World War
I was...
And it starts with...
This is why the Ukraine thing is so
dangerous, because World War I started with a
lunatic assassinating the Archduke Ferdinand.
It was some maniac.
It had nothing to do with anything, and
it just...
It escalated.
It escalated to a full-blown world war,
and it was being fought all over, literally
all over the world.
South America and Middle East, every place got
involved, including us.
I mean, they can learn from us.
When we're angry at our neighbors, we just
fight it out on the ice.
We just do a hockey game, we beat
each other up, and we're like, yeah, yeah,
yeah!
We beat you anyway!
Three to one!
You can't even skate!
That's how you do it.
You don't go into the trenches and kill
a million people.
You saw a hockey game, finally.
Of course!
No, I saw clips.
Believe me, I did not see a hockey
game.
Hockey's great.
I went to one hockey game in my
life when I was in school in West
Virginia.
Edie, her name was Edie, Edie took Mudman
and me to Pennsylvania, drove like six hours
to go to a Flyers game, and I'm
at the game, I'm like, I don't even
see the puck!
I have no idea what I'm looking at!
No, it was not for me.
I guess not.
But there was no fighting.
I liked the fighting.
And the gloves are off!
That's the best.
You went to a hockey game back in
the day, and there was no fighting?
I might have even been against New Jersey,
which you'd expect.
I don't recall any fighting.
You'd remember it if you saw it.
There was no fighting.
These guys, yeah.
But that ultimately is how you get some
aggression out.
Just go beat each other on the ice.
That's what soccer's supposed to do.
They don't have fighting in soccer, that's the
problem.
You know what, this is a good point.
Soccer would score big in America, even with
limited commercials, if there was fighting.
I think you might be on to something.
We need to swerve it.
I don't like soccer, I think it's boring,
but I would maybe watch it if I
was super...
But these guys are kind of wimpy, these
guys.
They're all with their feet, you know, prancing
around, kicking the ball.
More head kicks.
I'm sorry, I kicked you in the head.
What can I say?
You're bonus anal.
Okay, here we go.
And finally, we've been talking about this, most
of the security conferences focused on this, but
the Vice President, J.D. Vance, gave a
speech today in which he said that the
greatest threat that Europe faces is from within,
and he said, quote, there is no security
if you're afraid of the voices, the opinions,
and the conscience that guide your own people.
If you're running in fear from your own
voters, there's nothing America can do for you.
Is Europe afraid of the voices, opinions, and
conscience of its own people?
Well, freedom of opinion, freedom of press is
one of the fundamental values that the European
Union stands for, and as you see, we
have a lot of...
You don't have freedom of speech, you have
freedom of opinion.
You can have an opinion as long as
you keep it to yourself, and don't post
about it.
Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one
of the fundamental...
You see that?
Freedom of opinion.
This is the problem right here, Europe.
Yes, you have freedom of opinion.
That right is secured for you.
You can have your opinion as long as...
Just shut up about it.
Yes.
Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one
of the fundamental values that the European Union
stands for, and as you see, we have
a lot of elections going on all the
time, a lot of very different groups.
Do over!
Very vocal, and I don't really agree with
that criticism, and I think, you know, of
course we deal with our domestic problems on
our own, but we need to cooperate on
the big international worries that we have, and
this is for example the war in Ukraine.
Oh, man.
Well, you know what?
This whole thing escalated, and Vance got a
new speech when Zelensky did this.
Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky says he's directed his
ministers not to sign off on a proposed
agreement to give the United States access to
Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
He said the document was too focused on
U.S. interests and didn't include security guarantees
for Ukraine that would deter future Russian aggression.
There are not very concrete things about security
guarantees in this document, and for me it's
very important the connection between some kind of
security guarantees and some kind of investment.
Ukraine has vast reserves of critical minerals that
are used in aerospace, defense, and nuclear industries.
The Trump administration has indicated it is interested
in accessing them to reduce dependence on China.
I don't know why Euronews is up talking
all of a sudden.
In China, defense...
And by the way, the ludicrous logic here
is that we get the minerals and we
would have to provide security because we want
to protect the minerals.
The minerals, of course!
Someone told us...
They don't want to give us that.
Ukraine is a corrupt operation.
It always has been.
And nothing's changed.
All that's changed is there's a bunch of
money.
And the idea behind the minerals was to
pay us back for all the freebies they
got and distribute it around the world for
all we know.
This is ridiculous.
And for all the decades I grew up
and lived in Europe, we loved Ukraine.
That's where you could do nasty.
You want some crazy drugs?
Ukraine.
You want the Ukraine girls?
Ukraine.
You want a hitman?
Ukraine.
You want to go party crazy?
Ukraine.
Everyone loved Ukraine.
It was all good.
There's no reason for this.
And I'm being a little flippant, but it
fit in well.
You're not being that flippant.
It's the truth.
It's the truth.
The whole...
Yes, the unspoken part of it is exactly
what you said.
By the way, just going back to soccer
for a moment, here's your problem.
When someone's hurt on the field, it's always
fake.
Oh, my knee.
There's a lot of flopping, it's called.
Yeah, flopping.
If someone was really hurt, the leg is
like bent.
You see that in real sports.
We're just trying to Americanize football to make
it successful.
I'd like to go to MSNBC to get
some fantastic analysis from our mainstream here in
the United States.
Fundamentally, the goal is, as President Trump outlined
it, we want the war to come to
a close.
We want the killing to stop.
But we want to achieve a durable, lasting
peace, not the kind of peace that's going
to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a
couple years down the road.
At this table, we want the American people
to understand what's being said and what it
really means for them.
When they hear the Vice President speak this
way, and there's another sound that we can
use that crystallizes that moment, what should people
understand it means for them potentially down the
road?
Not only is it isolation, but it's going
to actually hurt you in your pocketbook at
home.
When it comes to the United States now
looking like it only cares about itself, which
it doesn't.
I get it, feeling that we're overextending.
I remember when I was growing up, this
idea of we should not be the policemen
of the world.
I get that part, but working alongside people,
helping people with common values helps American values
continue.
So what we're really seeing is an entire
reframing by J.D. Vance and Trump of
what America actually stands for.
This idea that an America that stands up
for democratic values, an America that stands up
for pluralism, and it's now turning to an
America that stands up for colonialism, land grabs,
real estate deals.
None of that benefits somebody sitting at home
right now.
That only benefits the people who are making
the real estate deals.
Lady, we just bought a plot of land
for you in the Donbass.
Congratulations.
Now this is the best part.
By the way, that guy that was there
is Michael Steele.
The former Republican.
Former head of the RNC.
Jerk.
This continues and gets better.
I want to take a listen to the
other sound we have of J.D. Vance
talking about the threat from within, and then
we'll talk about it on the other side.
The threat from within, like immigration.
The threat that I worry the most about
vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's
not China, it's not any other external actor.
And what I worry about is the threat
from within.
The retreat of Europe from some of its
most fundamental values, values shared with the United
States of America.
One of the things that strikes me about
the first piece of sound we played and
then that piece of sound is that it
sounds innocuous enough.
Now we know what the values are, right?
We know what they are.
They cut it off, but now, so this
is a very this is a psychological operation
on their viewing audience.
All 15,000 of them.
It's like, oh well, it's our values, our
shared values, and now they're going to tell
you what those values are.
One of the things that strikes me about
the first...
Let Vance tell you, because he does.
Because it's psychological warfare.
It's propaganda.
One of the things that strikes me about
the first piece of sound we played and
then that piece of sound is that it
sounds...
It's a piece of sound.
What was that?
It was a piece of sound.
P.O.S. Innocuous enough.
If you do not dig into the details
and if you're not looking at it, which
values, which shared values are we talking about?
So let me pull up this from the
Washington Post, which is that Vance met with
the leader of a far right German party.
So not what he said.
Something the Washington Post wrote.
Exported the MAGA message.
When they say shared values, which values, pray
tell?
I wish I was exaggerating when I say
Nazi values.
Nazi values.
That's it.
That's what Vance says.
What?
Nazi values.
Yes, of course.
Thank you, MSNBC.
I wish I was exaggerating when I say
Nazi values.
Right?
I mean, this is the far far right
party in Germany, which understands what this kind
of extremism can lead to.
Far far right.
They are not in power right now.
And for JD Vance to say the will
of the people, apparently the will of the
people is great when Trump wins in the
United States.
But he refused to meet with the elected
leader of Germany.
The German Chancellor.
And instead goes and meets with this far
right extremist party out of power, saying they're
the will of the people.
So what he's really presenting for the United
States internally and overseas is that the will
of the people is white, Christian, male, and
willing to fight for that identity.
Let's just take a quick break.
Let's take a quick break and listen to
boots on the ground, Frank from Germany.
Frank.
And he sent us a note and said,
Adam John, if you ever need any information
from Germany, I'm here for you.
For instance, Alice Vidal.
She is the leader of the far far
right, also known as extreme right Nazi values
AFD party.
She is not only a lesbian, but she's
married to a brown girl or refugee.
I didn't know that.
Cherry on top.
Anyway, the whole point is that this bull
crap doesn't make logical.
It's bull crap.
And they are headed.
AFD is headed for their strongest results ever
in the elections because the Germans, I feel
bad for them.
You got to get some pirate radio going
or something.
Do some podcasts.
Where are the German podcasts?
I'm sure they're around.
Well, you have your contact right there.
Ask him.
I wonder if they're allowed to even...
Yeah, good point.
I wonder if they're even allowed to express
their opinion.
You're only allowed to have it.
I do have three relatively short BBC clips
about the Munich conference.
You want to hear those?
Sure.
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part of that.
Well later in the day the Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky met the US Vice President at
the Munich conference.
Mr Zelensky said they'd had a good conversation
and that it would not be their last.
He said they needed to prepare a plan
on how to stop President Putin and finish
the war with Russia and that President Trump
was key to making that happen.
I hope and we count that really President
Trump will help us and I really count
on him.
He is the President and the United States
is the biggest denator during the war.
I mean comparable with other countries.
As I said Europe also but it's Europe
totally continent.
Yes.
United States gave a lot.
That's why I count on him.
People voted and we really think I see
yes that he is strong man and if
he will choose our side and if he
will not be in the middle I think
he will pressure and he will push Putin
to stop the war.
He can do it.
This is he's backtracking on everything that's been
discussed.
It is baffling.
The head of the European Commission is Ursula
von der Leyen.
This is my favorite.
Here's Queen Ursula.
President Putin says he's willing to meet.
But on what terms.
It is up to him to demonstrate that
his interest is not to prolong this war.
It is up to him to show that
he has given up his ambition to destroy
Ukraine.
And let me be very clear what I
know she's four foot nine and acting like
she's a giant.
She's got nothing but but throws this stuff
out there.
It's baffling.
His ambition to destroy Ukraine.
And let me be very clear.
A failed Ukraine would weaken Europe but it
would also weaken the United States.
Because what we have seen is the authoritarians
of this world are carefully watching whether there's
any impunity.
What?
This is their latest pitch.
The other woman had it too which is
oh they're watching the Chinese in particular.
They're watching to see if we blow it.
Yeah exactly.
If we blow it with this deal then
China is going to take over the world.
The authoritarians of this world are carefully watching
whether there's any impunity if you invade your
neighbor and violate international borders or whether there
are real deterrence.
Yeah they're going to go for their own
army.
They're crazy.
Macron is having a big meeting tomorrow.
Emergency meeting everybody.
Pierre is ready for your hair.
Come on to Paris everybody.
We're going to have an emergency meeting.
Trump is not going to help us.
All we wanted was simple.
Give us some rare earth minerals.
You send some money our way.
It was easy.
Now someone got in the middle and I
think it's the military-industrial complex.
They've wanted this all along.
They knew NATO was not working.
They needed a new way.
And I think President Trump is keen to
that.
Like okay fine.
We don't even need tariffs.
Just buy 200 billion dollars a year worth
of our stuff.
I think it's obvious.
Well this is not so far this is
not going well for that war.
And then we didn't even bring up the
Middle East thing.
I mean Trump made a big fuss about
high noon yesterday.
And he says what I don't want to
see is these three people released and two
people released.
By the way I've been doing a ratio
thing with the number of people that they
release and the number of people the Israelis
release.
One to a hundred I think.
It started at one to fifty.
There was fifty Palestinians are worth one Jewish
hostage.
Then it went one to sixty.
Now it's one to about 110.
110 people per released hostage.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah high noon came and went.
And now President Trump is at...
Don't talk about it.
He's at Daytona 500.
Yeah that's better.
He's got the beast on the...
He's going to get some cheers.
Did you see it?
He was on the track and then he's
talking on the radio from the beast as
he's going.
Oh no I did not notice this.
The pace car.
It was great.
Yeah America.
So the beast was the pace car?
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah it was fantastic.
Did that give it a good workout?
Well while we're on that topic, you know,
President Trump keeps talking about his plan.
We're going to own Magaza and all this
stuff.
And it was pointed out to me that
this plan has been around probably since 2019.
The plan is written up.
It's published.
It's well known.
And of course it's Bibi Netanyahu's godson.
You know remember Jared Kushner had to sleep
on the couch.
He'd Google it.
Yep.
Google it.
The spy for Israel.
The spy for Israel.
He went on Lex Friedman's show a year
ago after October 7th and he explained the
plan and the reason for the plan.
This was something I took on.
I was working on the political framework between
the Israelis and the Palestinians and trying to
understand what were the issues.
And the issues were not very many.
It basically was you had a land dispute.
Yes you had to figure out where do
you put borders.
Ultimately you had a security paradigm which I
was much more favorable to Israel's perspective on.
And obviously the events of the past 48
hours have fully justified that that that that
bias.
And then in addition to that you had
to deal with the religious sites.
But I felt operationally that wasn't actually as
complicated as people made it because you wanted
to just leave it open for everybody.
Then I went through and I felt that
the Palestinian leadership was fairly disincentivized to make
a deal because there was just this paradigm
where for the billions of dollars coming in
from the international community.
And I think that they feared that if
they made a deal they would lose their
relevancy internationally and the money would stop flowing
into the country.
So what I tried to do is to
say you know my my approach when I
would get into a hard problem say how
do I understand all the different escape hatches.
How do I try to eliminate them and
then build a golden bridge that becomes a
bridge.
The only but also the most desirable pathway
for the decision makers to walk through.
So he so that makes sense.
Hamas didn't want to give up millions of
dollars and payments that came in that would
lose their relevancy.
It's probably a fair assessment.
Then I don't know about the escape hatches
but OK.
Here's the business plan and the players in
the plan.
So we developed a business plan for Gaza
the West Bank.
We threw in some some improvements for Jordan
and Egypt as well.
I was based it off of the vision
2030 that they did in Saudi Arabia which
I thought was a visionary document.
I went back through this process and I
studied basically every economic project in the post
World War II period.
So we looked at what they did in
South Korea why it was successful with some
strong industrial planning.
We looked at Japan we looked at Singapore
how we looked at Poland why it was
successful.
We spent a lot of time on the
Ukraine plan for the country and why it
wasn't successful.
And that was mostly because of governance and
corruption which actually resembles a lot of what's
gone wrong with the Palestinians where there's no
property rights there's no rule of law.
And what we did is we built a
plan to show you know it's not that
that hard right in the sense that between
the West Bank and Gaza you had five
million people.
And and we put together a plan I
think it is about 27 billion dollars.
We got together a conference I had the
head of AT&T we had Steve Schwartzman
from Blackstone came gracious of them with all
the leading Arabic businessmen the leading builders leading
developers and the general consensus of that of
that of that of that conference was that
this is very doable.
You know we think that for Gaza in
particular it would cost maybe maybe seven to
eight billion dollars to rebuild the entire place.
We felt we could reduce the poverty rate
in half we can create over a million
jobs there.
The only thing that people said was holding
it back wasn't Israel.
What was holding it back was governance and
people wouldn't have confidence investing there with with
the rule that Hamas was was perpetuating.
So this sounds to me like a lot
of the setup for the plan that the
president is talking about literally mentioning Jordan and
Egypt.
And the plan was advanced.
This plan has been going all along.
I encourage people actually to look at the
plan.
It was very thoughtful 181 pages.
We went project by project.
Each project has costed out.
It's a real plan that could be implemented
but you need the right governance and all
of the different Arabic countries are willing to
fund it.
The international community is willing to fund it
because they've just been throwing so much money
at the Palestinians for years.
That's never been outcomes based.
There are conditions based.
It's just been you know entitlement money.
And unfortunately it hasn't really achieved any outcomes
that have been successful.
So it's a great business plan.
It just shows to rebuilding Gaza.
You know could be easy.
But like I said you know the problem
that's held the Palestinian people back and that's
made their lives terrible in Gaza has not
been Israel.
It's really been Hamas's leadership or lack of
leadership and their desire to focus on trying
to kill Israelis and start war with Israel
over improving the lives of the Palestinian people.
I mean Hamas has been running it now
for 16 years and they don't have a
lot to show for it.
And you know our posture with them was
basically a very simple deal.
And if you think about what's the end
state in Gaza it's actually not that complicated.
It's you know there's no territorial disputes right.
The border is the border.
There's no religious issues there as well.
You know you're not dealing with Jerusalem.
You're basically just dealing with the fact that
you know Israel wants to make sure that
there's no threat from Gaza.
So it's a demilitarization or some kind of
security guarantee from a credible source where Israel
doesn't feel like Gaza can be used to
stage attacks into Israel or to fire rockets
into Israel.
But Hamas has not shown desire for that
or a capability for that.
And I don't think there's enough trust to
allow them to do that which is why
you know under the current circumstances if you
do want to have peace there Hamas has
to be either eliminated or severely degraded in
terms of their military military capabilities.
Yeah.
Check mark check mark.
This was this is over a year ago.
This is exactly what has happened.
The plan has been underway for a long
time.
This is why the president seems so confident.
And I'm pretty sure Jordan and Egypt are
ready.
I don't see it.
What do you see then.
I see the same mess that's always been
historically and I don't see it changing at
all.
The I mean let's look at the track
record.
I think he's right about the fact that
you had bad governance for X number of
years but it's also during that period of
bad governance which we have in California.
You have a period of brainwashing the public
to make them think that this is great
what they're doing and they're all full of
shit these people and the Palestinians are troublemakers
because of it because of the the brainwashing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can find the textbooks and all the
rest about how the Jews are terrible and
all the rest of it.
And if that's doesn't just disappear overnight just
because you put some new people in the
same thing like in California or in these
schools where you know they promote gender studies
or gender ideology as kids come home if
the parents are in with it because they're
dumb right but they're lousy parents they're all
but they buy into it too.
But they haven't blown up the leadership.
That's the difference.
The Hamas leadership is gone.
That's the difference.
If you blew up Gavin Newsom not not
saying you should you know and got rid
of these city councils and all the corruption.
Yeah it was just it would just reform.
Man it would reform it would it's going
to reform in Palestine too.
It's just like an octopus tentacle just grows
on again.
Kind of.
But if you have a population that's all
into it that thinks that everything is hunky
-dory and they refuse to do this they
refuse to do that.
No.
This is bullcrap.
This is going nowhere.
Well I think this is the plan they're
trying to implement.
Well they can try all they want.
Good luck with that.
I think it's just a waste of time
and money but you know it's idealistic.
I mean yes they're you know they think
that everyone thinks like an American.
This is not the way it is.
It's just like but he did make a
good point about the corruption the bad governance
of Ukraine and Hamas.
Yeah.
And the Ukraine is the same way.
And California.
Put them all in the same boat.
And California or Massachusetts.
You're the Ukraine of America.
That's getting there.
Let's stick with the military industrial complex and
a little bit with Israel.
The Iron Dome.
We heard President Trump promise the Iron Dome
is coming.
Although is it going to be called the
Iron Dome?
Here is our Secretary of Defense with the
money honey.
We need to update our nuclear triad on
land in sea and on air.
But that also includes the Iron Dome.
Iron Dome or Golden Dome whatever you want
to call it.
Golden Dome.
We have embraced the executive order of President
Trump.
We're going to ensure it's included in reconciliation
money in the FY 26.
All our budgets going forward to invest in
the ability.
Maria get this novel idea to defend our
homeland.
That's why we're focusing on our southern border
and the invasion there at 100 percent operational
control.
And then our skies.
So Golden Dome.
Iron Dome.
Maria.
Money honey.
Bartiromo dives in deeper.
Joining me now is U.S. Israel Education
Association Senior Policy Advisor.
Okay.
I love this.
This is the U.S. Israel the Israel
America Israel Education Association.
Advisor.
Yes.
This is the funding arm for AIPAC.
And this is what I've consistently said because
I followed the money.
You can look at the 990s.
You can see that it's Raytheon and Boeing
who put money into the education fund non
-profit.
And the education fund funds AIPAC not for
Israel to control everybody but for the military
industrial complex to control everybody in which they
do.
No doubt about it.
We have we still have producers out there
who listen to the show and think that
you're a Zionist for even suggesting.
Excuse me.
We are dominating the situation in the way
things go.
Yes.
Boomer Zionist.
Okay.
I mean.
Oh you're a boomers.
I didn't.
Boomer Zionist piece of crap.
That's what it is.
Yeah.
Well yes.
That's what one guy called you.
So.
So why is this guy telling us about
the Golden Dome?
Because he's part of the military industrial complex.
And we're going to build this thing and
it's interesting.
And it's not going to do anything.
Well listen.
Joining me now is U.S. Israel Education
Association Senior Policy Advisor and rocket scientist Aryeh
Satcher.
And he's a rocket scientist.
Not unimportant.
President Trump told me he's probably going to
call it something else something like the Golden
Sphere or Golden Dome.
I think golden balls will be the Golden
Sphere the Golden Dome.
We have we have to come up with
a better name than that.
He's probably going to call it something else
something like the Golden Sphere or Golden Dome.
Tell me how this works and a little
about the Iron Dome that is used right
now in Israel sir.
So let me tell you at the outset
it doesn't work.
The golden condom the golden egg.
I mean we've got they've got to do
something.
They've got to start marketing this properly.
Now let's listen to what it is.
So let me tell you at the outset
the president is using the term Iron Dome
as a as a metaphor.
Iron Dome met a previous slide that defends
small areas city sized areas against threats that
are launched from about 40 miles away.
So it's perfect for defending Israel from Gaza
Lebanon.
It is not something that the United States
needs very much.
United States has a small number of batteries
of Iron Dome and that defends deployed forces.
But to defend the U.S. homeland as
the president wants to do you need something
completely different.
You're defending against rockets not launched from Canada
or Mexico or that I know of.
You're defending against rockets that launch from North
Korea from China from Russia.
Potentially.
And you need something far more complex than
Iron Dome to shoot it down.
What the president is looking at is something
that probably would be called space based intercept.
You bring up a whole bunch of interceptors
into outer space and the whole intercept will
take place outer space.
So if you want to call it Iron
Dome or you want to call it Fred
doesn't make a difference.
It's not Iron Dome.
But the chances of it succeeding are excellent.
The U.S. has a tremendous amount of
engineers and gumption.
Space Force.
Yeah baby.
Let's call it the Orange Dome.
There you go.
That's better.
There's going to be space.
Isn't there some treaty we're not supposed to
weaponize space.
I mean it's not like we haven't already
done that.
The Chinese haven't already done that.
But that should get I think there is
a treaty that gets us should get some
pushback.
The whole thing is that this is just
a fiasco.
No I think that's what nuclear deterrence is
all about.
Yeah OK.
You can bomb us but then we're going
to just wipe out your entire.
No no no no.
We zap your your hypersonic missiles with.
Sure we do.
With the golden with our golden stream.
I knew you.
I was wondering how long it would take
for you to go.
It took me at least six minutes.
Come on.
Give me give me some credit.
Well you know and Elon's going to build
it.
This I mean I was I was alive
when Reagan was like yeah we're going to
put in our Star Wars.
Whatever happened to that.
Didn't work.
It didn't.
Well they couldn't get.
They couldn't.
This stuff works.
I mean if you have a multiple reentry
product that's like you send up an ICBM
and it breaks into 100 little pieces and
100 little bombs and just go scattering around
every which way.
It's pretty hard.
You can stop one or two.
And then we have the upcoming drone warfare
which comes under the radar.
And that mean that's going to be I
think going to be the future of a
lot of these battles.
These drones flying around.
Yeah.
This is a mess.
They got to establish a peaceful world.
Yes.
Well you do that through strength.
The war.
Yeah exactly.
Let's talk a little bit about this situation
with Eric Adams.
Yeah.
Can you do you in these clips or
can you tell me exactly what the charges
were on him because as far as I
can recall a couple of Turkish Airlines upgrades
because they said I want you to introduce
me to somebody and I'm upgrading you to
from business is a little bit of that.
That's all involves Turkey.
And also then there's a charge that they
were getting to which they didn't get to
which was him lying to the FBI about
what was going on.
The whole thing was you know the Justice
Department dropped it.
But the way this is a presentation on
PBS again.
OK.
And this is a pack of lies.
This I've traced this down.
I believe there's a beef going on between
the Federalist Society.
No.
And the Trump administration and a new guy
because there's a there's a change of leadership
at the Federalist Society and there's this guy
who's taking over called Leonard Leo.
Can you tell me about the Federalist Society.
The Federalist Society is a super conservative operation
that's involved with the judicial picks.
The Gorsuch Amy Comey Barrett and Kavanaugh were
all chosen by the Federalist Society when Trump's
first when he was first in office almost
every judge that he appointed was pre-picked
by the Federalist Society.
Can I ask you a question.
So when I think Federalist Society I think
of the Federalist Party and the Anti-Federalist
Party when we were getting the Constitution together
and there was no beef.
It's not the same thing.
No it's just a group of super super
conservatives that believe in a very very conservative
no no leeway whatsoever type of operation and
they and they're mostly concentrating on the judicial
and they have people planted all over the
place and I believe this is a power
play.
Because when Trump put in Pam Bondi without
consulting these guys.
Oh that's the issue.
These guys really think they're the tail wagging
the dog and they're especially this new guy
Leonard Leo.
You should just look him up on Wikipedia.
He's an egomaniac who spends a lot of
money at his seams and he is a
throwing his way.
He's one of these guys who he thinks
he's the president kind of you know where
you're the guy behind the scenes.
If anybody remembers old California politics from the
before I was born but in the 30s
and 40s this guy Arthur Samish.
Okay so he supported not only John Roberts,
Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney
Barrett but also Clarence Thomas.
Yes these guys really think they run the
place.
Because they kind of do when it comes
to the judicial to this point but they
weren't consulted on Bondi.
There may be some some and Bondi's got
some issues that irk these guys and so
I think this was the whole Eric Adams
thing the way it was handled because we
go through these clips I'll tell you my
complaints about each one of these clips.
The PBS guys are having nothing but fun
over this because the person who started this
and I believe the Federalist Society is behind
the mass resignation.
Oh yeah that sounds right.
Yeah when you have a mass resignation somebody
is orchestrating it this doesn't I've been in
enough operations to know this because I've done
it myself.
Have you ever mass resigned?
I put together one it's a story I'm
not going to discuss.
You're a troublemaker you.
I am a troublemaker and so this Danielle
Sassoon is like oh she was the acting
top prosecutor U.S. attorney la la la
la la and nobody mentions in any of
these reports any of them you can look
and look and look you won't find it
the fact is she was in office as
acting for three whole weeks.
Three whole weeks.
Yes yeah yeah exactly.
So she shows up next thing you know
she quits in a huff over the Eric
Adams things that we'll go through these clips
and I can complain more but let's start
with the Eric Adams fiasco clip one.
A wave of resignations is shaking up the
U.S. Justice Department after the Trump administration
gave orders to drop the corruption case against
New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
So far at least seven officials have quit
and Adams is facing increasingly loud calls to
step down.
The exodus began yesterday with one of New
York's top federal prosecutors and it's already being
dubbed the Thursday afternoon massacre recalling the famous
Saturday night massacre during the Watergate scandal.
William Brangham begins our coverage.
Okay hold on.
Sassoon a member of the deeply conservative Federalist
Society is a rising star in legal circles.
In her resignation letter Sassoon name-checked her
former mentor Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Okay yes all right you you've picked up
on something important here this is good.
She's she's in her credentials are impeccable and
the guy who's the other guy that I
think was important on this is this guy
Hagen Scotton.
Hagen Scotton who's one of the guys who
was leading the investigation of Eric Adams.
Right.
And the two of them she has one
child and one on the way family woman
married and this Scotton guy's got three kids
and that you just don't up and quit
a job like this with a big family
like that unless you get you get guarantees.
So it goes don't worry about it you
can quit but you you you're gonna land
on your feet when in fact if you
quit the way these two did and the
other five it's like no you're never gonna
get work again in this town is the
way it should go but no they've been
set up this whole thing is a scam
and it's and it's being put and the
media loves it because you have these people
are impeccable this this this Scott this Hagen
character this guy's double bronze star rattles up
the ass you know he's a these are
super conservatives that are you can say well
look these super conservatives they quit on the
Trump administration because it's corrupt Trump's corrupt and
so is it was Pam Bondi but let's
finish these clips throughout this entire ordeal which
today New York City Mayor Eric Adams was
playing defense I had to endure for something
I didn't do I didn't do anything wrong
including a PR blitz on Fox News all
the while the U.S. Department of Justice
is in upheaval over the fate of the
corruption case it brought against the mayor yesterday
six DOJ officials resigned after refusing an order
from the department in Washington to dismiss the
case acting U.S. attorney for the Southern
District of New York Danielle Sassoon a Republican
who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia started the exodus oh she started
the exodus okay yeah she was the initiator
working there three weeks not taking orders from
her boss so I just started the job
I'm working there three weeks my boss says
you got to drop this case I have
reasons or we have reasons or we don't
think it's a good case or it doesn't
it doesn't make any difference why because you're
working there three weeks you're on probation and
you oh I'm not gonna listen to you
I quit and so then by the way
I expect you to say that one day
on this show to me I think it's
gonna happen not working for you I quit
and so uh and the media just slaps
it up because this is like a kind
of a crack in the armor here soap
opera it's a soap opera they love it
yeah and it's bullcrap and it and this
and the logic of it makes no sense
this is total insubordination that was orchestrated by
somebody and I suspect a federalist society but
on to clip two three three oh that
was that was two yeah yeah this is
okay well then clip three kind of summarizes
an interesting thought writing to Trump's new attorney
general Pam Bondi Sassoon accused Mayor Adams and
officials in the DOJ of what amounted to
a quid pro quo oh yeah that Adams
would aid Trump's immigration enforcement if the DOJ
dropped his case Sassoon excoriated that alleged offer
writing quote it is a breathtaking and dangerous
precedent to reward Adams opportunistic and shifting commitments
on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal
of a criminal indictment now was she the
one that said that Adams lawyer had said
that in the meeting I don't know who
said that but I just want to back
into this the concept that the justice department
there's a couple of things the justice department
for one thing did a deal with somebody
gee that's never happened in the history of
the justice system in the United States no
one's ever done a deal with somebody to
get them to cooperate from one way or
another that's never happened before so this is
a big shocker and then they keep then
they keep bringing up this prosecutor prosecutorial misconduct
that's bullcrap because prosecutorial misconduct always has to
do with screwing over some guy not letting
him go free so this whole thing is
orchestrated and it's phony and the PBS doesn't
dig into it nobody mentions that this girl
this chick Sassoon chick was there for three
whole weeks and she's standing up against the
the DOJ and Pam Bondi give me a
break Sassoon chick how old is she let
me see she's young yeah she does seem
but she did some big she's done some
big big she was the uh she's a
millennial Sam Bankman Freed uh prosecutor the Sam
Bankman Freed and she also did um she
did something else no slouch no I'm not
saying that she's not a slouch but she's
something's corrupt about the whole thing yeah the
what else does she do she's done some
racketeering cases uh sex trafficking students you did
it for three weeks you do what you're
told you'd think especially in this sort of
situation I mean it's come on this happens
all the time and so even if there
was a pretty good pro quo which they
keep talking about they can't prove but they
keep saying they say there was this guy
is going to help Trump clean up New
York and make everything better and this is
a bad idea bad bad idea supply you
want to hear the NPR clips on this
or do you want to you have one
more Eric Adams clip I see you play
the last one yesterday Mayor Adams met with
Trump's border czar Tom Homan and sat beside
him on Fox News this morning as he
denied Sassoon's claims that's quid pro quo that's
a crime that it took her three she
took it took her three weeks to report
in front of her a criminal action come
on this is silly but then Homan implied
that if Adams didn't help with immigration in
his office up his butt saying where the
hell is agreement we came to acting U
.S. Deputy Attorney General and former Trump lawyer
Emil Bovee who ordered the dismissal rejected the
assertion that there was any quid pro quo
in a response to Sassoon he wrote that
she quote lost sight of her oath and
should not quote interpret the constitution in a
manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically
elected president Adams had pleaded not guilty last
year to federal charges of accepting bribes and
illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals now a
flurry of Democrats are calling on Adams to
step down and calling on New York Governor
Democrat Kathy Hochul to remove him from office
which she'd have the authority to do for
DOJ officials the so-called Thursday Afternoon Massacre
continued today Hagan Scotton the line prosecutor who
handled the Adams case quit with a defiant
message to Bovee refusing his motion to dismiss
the case Scotton wrote I expect you will
eventually find someone who is enough of a
fool or enough of a coward to file
your motion but it was never going to
be me reportedly Bovee was able to find
a DOJ lawyer willing to sign the motion
this afternoon this is a this is a
good a good sequence you had here because
exactly what you talk about and and of
course this the focus of Sassoon is only
that you know she was she's so awesome
and she really led the charge and this
is you know no one agrees because it's
Trump and politicization he's going after his political
enemy blah blah blah that's what's sticking it's
really sticking and this interview or this appearance
he did on Fox with Holman uh has
just got everybody in a tizzy as of
course we must once again resort to MSNBC
and the superstar Joy Reid but we begin
tonight with Donald Trump's take on law and
order as we now live in a country
where the rule of law comes second to
whatever Trump wants as of today's seven top
federal prosecutors and officials including the acting U
.S. attorney for the southern district of New
York Daniel Sassoon saying that she witnessed Adams
attorney indicate that Adams would only be able
to help push Trump's immigration enforcement policies if
the charges against him were dropped and before
I continue the clip so apparently this happened
three weeks ago when she just got there
is when this horrible quid pro quo quo
quo quid pro quo quid pro quo was
suggested she held on to it this morning
Adams responded of course on Fox of course
because that's the president's network think about that
think about that think about my attorney Alex
Spiro wanted to one of the top uh
uh trial attorneys in the country imagine him
going inside saying that the only way uh
Mayor Adams is going to assist in immigration
which I was calling for for since 2022
is if you drop the charges that's quid
pro quo that's a crime that took her
three she took it took her three weeks
to report in front of her a criminal
action come on this is silly yeah that
was okay this is silly but you know
when you say it on Fox it's not
true well first I should note that Adams
attorney Alex Spiro who you just heard him
mention also represents none other than who who
can you guess who who you'll never guess
Jeffrey Epstein no close close I'll give you
one more guess uh Weinstein oh man so
close no Trump's co-president Elon Musk I
like the co-president Epstein would have been
better interesting right Epstein would have been interesting
right you know is interesting right interesting right
and second it is hard not to find
it ridiculous when Adams is seen sitting next
to Trump's borders are Tom Homan right there
on Fox who just minutes later all but
confirms the quid pro quo with a threat
to Adams on live TV if he doesn't
come through I'll be back in New York
City and we won't be sitting on the
couch I'll be in his office up his
butt saying where the hell is the agreement
we came to up his butt nice Tom
Brokaw is rolling over in his grave he's
dead he that's what I said he's rolling
over in his grave yeah you can't believe
that news now I can't believe that you're
using the term up his butt and of
course everyone's quick to jump in because hey
there's going to be a spot there's going
to be a spot let's jump in let's
bring in some familiar faces very familiar to
me as a former New Yorker here this
morning Curtis Sliwa has officially filed paperwork to
run for New York City Mayor Sliwa I
have to say Curtis Sliwa was such a
badass back in the late 80s and the
90s in New York the guardian angels it
was the people protecting the people and he's
still walking around with that silly beret on
his head the beret the red beret the
beret the beret is like dude we get
it Sliwa is of course the founder of
the guardian angels and was a republican nominee
for mayor in 2021 ultimately losing that election
to Mayor Adams in a campaign post Sliwa
has said he will prioritize public safety and
quality of life issues in the meantime former
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has been mulling
a run for mayor as well Cuomo has
not made things official but he did post
a campaign style video on social media yesterday
it's frightening out there on the streets but
we have been through this before as New
Yorkers we've seen the ups we've seen the
downs and we know how to make this
city work and make this state safe for
everyone and that's exactly what we're going to
do this was from a valentine's day event
at the johnson houses community center yesterday which
was hosted by assembly member eddie gibbs Cuomo
quid pro cuomo not looking good he looks
frail his voice is frail the old man
the governor yes very very thin looking kind
of gauntish no it's not good it's not
good the um let me see are we
i think we're done with that right we
have nothing else i think we covered it
so interesting little piece of video i caught
we've been talking about just staying in new
york here with the the 59 million dollars
that was being spent on the roosevelt hotel
for i guess where is it is that
does this does the no agenda style guide
allow us to say illegal aliens again i
think i think that's back right we can
say that now no i think we could
always say it yeah well that's you can
have your opinions but you know got to
be careful about what you say in the
uk and this was on gb news of
course camelot castle a camelot castle famous hotel
that goes back to the time you know
supposedly that's where king arthur had his round
table of knights and you know it's in
a village and it's a it's a castle
and they got rooms in the king arthur
was out in the out in the western
part of the country over in uh whatever
that area is the western part the camelot
castle associated with king arthur well it's just
named camelot uh no but i'm reading from
the london okay okay listen it's a cast
that is bullcrap that that's please continue that's
the marketing story okay it's the marketing story
the proprietor of camelot castle explained what the
british government wanted to do with him regarding
illegal aliens in great britain you refused a
request from the home office to house migrants
what did they offer you and why did
you turn it down well it was a
considerable amount of money beverly it was probably
double what we would normally make on on
a good year because they offered full occupancy
on a rolling contract for a year so
how does that work somebody literally just picks
up the phone to you or do they
send you a letter they sent us a
letter first right and to be honest with
you i thought it was a joke and
because of the amount of money they were
offering well i just couldn't believe that the
government wanted to put you know illegal migrants
up in four poster beds yeah uh at
camelot castle i mean it was absolutely remarkable
it would have destroyed the village because one
of the things they said is to lay
off all the staff um and all but
two because they do meals on wheels you
clean the rooms once a week you're probably
a big employer in the village well a
major employer in the village and and locally
and of course those jobs in a village
like tintagel they they wouldn't be replaced no
so um but also they would have the
place up with about 300 people and um
you know you then have those people wandering
around the village i don't know whether they
whether they intended to contain them or whether
they would be allowed out and about i
know in other areas certainly hotels in new
key have had some serious problems because there
were a few hotels that did take the
migrants there presumably people who stay at your
hotel then spend their money in the village
well of course they do they do spend
their money there and it would have it
would have destroyed the local economy um you
know it's hard to say how many hundreds
of thousands of pounds our guests spend in
the village but certainly a fair amount um
but it's also the the cultural degradation that
goes along with this new york um what
is it uh we got memos from people
who had weddings scheduled was it pennsylvania it's
all over the place the netherlands some sort
of a conspiracy that's the thing it's like
it does seem like this was a coordinated
move to destroy the world basically bring it
all down bring all societies as particularly in
heartland just bring it down bring it all
down yeah who needs that aggravation no but
a lot a lot of people took the
deal of course a lot of people took
the deal when the offer twice as much
as you normally get which is what the
guy implied well we know the dutch uh
remember that family van der volk they took
the deal and then the family got into
a big fight over it and you know
the blew the family apart because half of
them didn't want to do it and the
other one was like look at the money
and he was taking money for just presenting
the deal to the family i think so
it's it's insanity insanity and why why because
oh i learned something you know this uh
this uh this new style we've picked up
of someone saying why because it hasn't yet
it hasn't asking themselves questions it's called hypophora
hypophora hypophora figure speech in which the speaker
poses a question then answers the question um
and it is uh really a a psychological
trick and what's the trick accomplished i'm looking
besides annoy you and me that is the
main reason they're doing it of course um
to annoy you and me the rhetorical effectiveness
lies in allowing the speaker to answer questions
the listener may have so it's if you
have this question we're going to give you
we're going to confirm your question and then
give you the answer in a different direction
hype hype hypophora is used as a transitional
device to take the discussion in a new
direction a device to catch attention since a
reader or listener's curiosity is stimulated by hearing
a question and to suggest the answer that
the reader or listener may not have thought
of um so it's a it's a good
control it's a control it's i mean i
guess i like it neurolinguistic programming i guess
now i like it more than before now
we have to really pay attention who's doing
it because their people are just directing the
conversation in the direction they want there's no
so in other words there's no conversation no
and why because then why and why because
they they want to control your mind that's
why there you go um i'm gonna do
it i have one clip of uh bio
leninism which is also known as trans maoism
as president trump has now signed executive orders
that the government funds may not be used
for gender operations which is also known as
gender affirming care for children under 19 which
means it really only means that medicare can't
pay for it um if you if you
want to do it you know you want
to pay for it yourself and that's that's
another thing so they're protesting this outside the
lori's children's hospital i think in chicago hundreds
of people protested outside not only one only
one was trans who was protesting everybody there
does not look trans at all and the
people who are speaking on camera not trans
except for one but that's a male to
female trans which i don't think there was
much operating done that perhaps uh breast enhancements
over the hospital's decision to pause gender affirming
surgeries for patients under the age of 19
legislators have no business to be stepping into
medical decisions the hospital says it will continue
to provide some services for transgender youth we
can receive gender-affirming hormones and uh puberty
blockers but um if they're willing to take
away top surgery which is such a pivotal
part um of people's transitions and people's um
i just love top surgery you mean a
double mastectomy double mastectomy it's now just known
as top surgery lives then what's next the
decision came shortly after president trump signed an
executive order stopping federal support for gender transitions
a federal judge temporarily blocked trump's executive order
on thursday demonstrators say the move can cause
serious harm to transgender people as we know
here it comes now you always want to
throw this in because as we know why
because as we know to transgender people as
we know many uh trans youth who can't
get access to health care um commit suicide
unfortunately uh it's so tired it's so tired
the evidence is not conclusive on that at
all but that's that's the psychological trick we've
played over and over again if we don't
give trans children health care note the term
health care they will kill themselves demonstrators say
the move can cause serious harm to transgender
people as we know many uh trans youth
who can't get access to health care um
commit suicide unfortunately at the rally we heard
from transgender advocates i'm the product of a
transition before the age of 19 years old
and i just don't know if this uh
this man dressed and looking very feminine has
had bottom surgery i was supported i had
access to care and because of that i'm
standing here today whole healthy thriving parents with
children who are patients at the hospital all
healthy and thriving they're choosing to live their
true selves because not doing so hurts them
more than anything the bullies can do what
do we do many in the crowd fear
the changes this hospital made are just the
beginning laurie's is a leader in this space
so if they back down other smaller companies
and smaller organizations will follow in a statement
laurie children's hospital called the decision difficult and
said they're monitoring further developments on this issue
you know in 1990 i did a documentary
of thailand and we did a whole bunch
of crazy things you know drank cobra blood
stayed with the hill tribe uh up near
the the burmese border snake alley in taiwan
i i thought it was you know they
killed they first they make the cobra angry
and then they milk them and then they
slit them open yeah it was disgusting very
disgusting and you know we went to see
i was bad went to see the long
necks which turned out to be a tourist
trap but we also in bangkok we went
to a lady boy show and i remember
interviewing the lady boys and i recall saying
so why do you want to be a
woman yeah i was in 1990 i was
how old was i like 30 30 something
not even yeah 30 um and they got
mad at me they said no no we're
not women we're lady boys they literally would
get mad if you thought that they wanted
to be women they said we're just lady
boys this is this is what we want
to be and i i that would solve
a lot of problems well that's not gonna
happen no it's not gonna happen i have
two but i just wanted to say something
on the dei front because i i have
breaking news it's breaking news my buddy my
buddy the former hollywood executive you know who
i'm talking about yeah i know exactly who
you're talking about is suing disney good and
uh so i i can now tell you
who his name is because it's in print
uh rob robert steffens rob steffens who served
as cfo and then president of marvel from
2015 to 2023 filed a complaint tuesday that
a disney executive informed him that he would
not be promoted to president of disney consumer
products because of his age and race stephens
stephens claimed that then marvel ceo isaac perlmutter
also known as ike told him in february
2022 that word came from then disney ceo
bob chapek that he would not receive the
promotion because the company couldn't award the job
to quote another old white guy the job
perfect this is a lawsuit they just have
to settle this won't even go to court
the job was then given to a woman
of quote ambiguous ethnicity per the complaint one
more one more um one more paragraph stephens
alleged he was also denied the promotion for
objecting to other incidents of racial discrimination that
he witnessed at the house of the mouse
in the past the former marvel executive claimed
that disney was engaged in quote an official
effort to promote vice presidents based on their
race and a memorandum so that he has
he has the receipts that would have referred
to employees with the racial signifier by park
disney's actions were willful wanton malicious intentional oppressive
and despicable and were done in willful and
conscious disregard of the rights welfare and safety
of mr stephens i'm thinking he's gonna he's
gonna be starting his own entertainment company soon
so that could be but i think he
should donate to the show oh yeah no
big time because we've been a huge supporter
of him without ever naming him so back
to the gender issues which i guess are
somewhat related yeah related let's go to there's
a new gender no yeah no it's unbelievable
there were 75 out of 70 it is
the policy of this administration there are two
genders well here's the new one this is
the gender season did you know however there
is a gender identity that is linked to
the seasons this is called gender season gender
identity i've only just learned about it's a
micro identity it's not an identity that i
have ever heard discussed before it's a new
one for me and a season is an
individual who explores the gender identity in relation
to a season or all the seasons so
this might be somebody whose gender expression and
identity is linked to one season so for
example winter or this might be somebody whose
gender identity and expression changes depending on the
season this is completely in line with what
i've been saying for a year it's the
gender season of reveal everybody this gender season
that's why people are named autumn and summer
and winter and fall okay well so there's
there's that and then we have the this
is a new movement that i got early
here this is the trans prepper oh this
is good with concentration camps looming in the
united states here's what queer people are doing
yes i said concentration camps you can f***
off maga oh we are getting a go
bag ready we are getting all of our
documents ready so driver's license birth certificate social
security card passport now if you have to
revert your passport and your documents to previously
said um gender identities that you were born
with do so i'm allowed to do so
with my driver's license that says x on
it in the state that i'm in i'm
going monday to revert that to my gender
assigned at birth so the next step we're
going to have a go bag with shoes
clothes for seven days dehydrated food think astronaut
food for seven days we're going to have
a thousand dollars cash or bitcoin paid credit
card on hand some ether and this is
just for the emergency this isn't for permanency
this is for a week of getting by
off the grid we're going to have anything
ready for the pets that we're taking with
us so put some cat litter in in
your trunk put some cat food or dog
food in your trunk um make sure there's
a leash there make sure you have everything
ready for everything that you're taking with you
some lattes make sure your medic medication is
available and in extra stock so stock up
on it ask your doctor for a three
month supply at one time um keep your
gas tank full have all of this stuff
available and ready to go in a moment's
notice for every single person in your family
you do not need a passport to get
into canada or mexico you just need your
documents but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have
a passport ready to go have a beautiful
day and stay safe my transgender family wow
trans survivalist movement that is that is that's
interesting yeah i think that they should all
go to berkeley that's uh we all meet
with our go bags in berkeley we meet
with our go bags in berkeley and have
you found more of these these videos of
the trends i'll start bringing them up as
they come this is yeah there's been a
few this is but so what uh concentration
camps are they referring to he just says
google it mega well i'm mega let me
google that's what he said trans concentration camps
okay let's see i'm googling it as per
instructed the well they had them during the
nazi era apparently well same thing this is
the nazi area hello yes um hmm i
do i cannot google anything and current of
said concentration camps well you're not doing it
right i'm not googling right so i got
a couple of clips about doge okay i
just want to say i feel bad for
these people i mean it's horrible that our
our fellow citizens are have been so psyoped
into this insanity and i wish there was
something i could do for them you're doing
what you can i am i'm doing what
but it's not enough obviously and they don't
you know they won't listen at some point
at some point when you go over the
cliff you're in free fall there's not really
any way there's no superman coming to stop
you from hitting the bottom yeah well in
your opinion having a decade on me is
there anything like this that has happened in
the past with any group that felt so
marginalized that they were prepping and fleeing for
fear of their government the regular preppers well
yeah they've been around forever so this is
just an offshoot i don't see the difference
really okay so i'm gonna start with this
clip this is uh brooks yeah because brooks
and k part were on yakking about everything
and so uh i just took this little
snippet from brooks and then i have to
the guy i feel bad about him he's
delusional and and this this little lecture he
gives here is uh is i just about
a guy missing the point i guess i'm
not sure how you can come to this
conclusion but here we go what i object
to is donald trump was elected mostly by
working-class people who have real problems they
have health disparities with the rest of us
they have educational disparities they workplace their they
live in communities that have where the social
capital is low is this does brooks have
a tiktok account is that where he's doing
this this is not on on pbs yes
this is on pbs is he on zoom
what what is this no it's just the
way it's i know he's he's a remote
oh yeah he's remote okay donald trump was
elected by those people you'd think he'd care
enough about them to do something on behalf
of the people who elected them instead he's
going after you know usaid he's going after
any place he thinks there might be liberal
people with college degrees uh and so what
we're seeing is not populism what we're seeing
is a sort of ivy league right-wing
nihilism uh and to me that is so
disorienting and so shocking and so appalling that
you can't even serve the legitimate needs of
the people who put you in power they're
totally off the board this last month we
need something to happen we need some kind
of win that you know like stopping a
war or something that can just put everybody
on a different track i don't know if
i can handle another four more years of
this well the thing that bothers me is
that he doesn't understand that what doge is
doing is exactly what these voters wanted yes
and and and showing the corruption and waste
of their taxpayer money yes is exactly helping
them i don't know what he's talking about
i do have two more clips i want
to play the doge report there's a woman
who comes on every day on twitter and
this is often released by musk uh who
does the doge report and here's the one
she just did on the health care industry
which is worth listening to because i i
may be bringing these in more often then
i have the bonus clip i want to
play the doge report health care edition so
just found that the u.s health care
corporation spent 95 percent of their income to
share shareholder payouts yeah not on more research
not on staffing issues not on infrastructure but
shareholder payouts that totaled about 2.6 trillion
dollars over the last 20 years fun fact
the u.s taxpayers pay about 70 percent
of those fees also just breaking that wasn't
enough to breaking make it too fit to
be tied 2.7 trillion again 2.7
trillion dollars has been improperly paid out in
medicare and medicaid to people outside of our
country i hope you heard me i didn't
say million i didn't say billion i said
2.7 trillion dollars of taxpayer money has
been improperly paid in medicare and medicaid to
people outside of the united states thank god
for doge for exposing this for showing you
how they are robbing us blind like wasting
our money and lining their pockets more to
come i'm going to tag on to this
and yes i'd like you to keep i'd
saw that but i think it's your beat
now as you definitely uh keep tabs on
her reports breaking she should do a little
better job breaking just breaking right now she's
just the kind of an amateur doing good
work but when it comes to the voter
base who wanted all this and the medical
industrial complex for lack of a better term
rfk jr's acceptance speech when he was sworn
in with the president there addressed exactly this
president trump has promised to restore the american
dream in this country a healthy person has
a thousand dreams a sick person only has
one 60 of our population has only one
dream that they get better president trump has
promised that he's going to restore america's strength
but we can't be a strong nation if
we have a weak citizenry if people are
sick 60 of our our people are sick
77 as president trump mentioned if our children
cannot qualify for military service and we need
a man on a white horse now we
need somebody who is willing to come in
and has the spine and the guts and
the strength to challenge orthodoxies to stand in
the way of vested interests and to break
institutions that have turned against our democracy president
trump again and again that he is that
hero yeah sucking up a little bit but
i love the i love the the basic
premise healthy people have a thousand dreams sick
people have one that's so that's so right
it's spot on well here before we get
to the the last clip which is the
one that the bonus clip i i have
a rfk clip too which is this is
one of these clips where it's like you
know i'd like to see this if he
can do it this was on one of
the turning point meetings my initial inclination would
be to use the justice department and the
moral authority of the office but also you
know the justice department i should immediately call
in the beginning investigation of the medical boards
and the the the collusion between the pharmaceutical
industry and the medical boards that are de
-licensing these physicians who actually try to heal
patients and try to treat them they the
justice department will also call in the medical
journals that are corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry
and explain to them that they're all going
to be subject to criminal and civil rico
actions if they don't show us a way
that they're going to stop revoking studies and
refusing to publish studies that that challenge pharmaceutical
the mercantile interests of pharmaceutical companies we're going
to change the way business is done at
nih now he does leave him this is
new now he's like but i'm going to
leave him and out if they show that
they can change their ways yes he gave
yes but this is going to be rough
because they're going to push back on this
so i so here's the bonus clip this
was sent by our our grand duke out
of san jose into me this morning and
so i thought it would be good because
it talks about kind of the the the
underpinnings of doge yes this is quite quite
interesting yeah this is good of course i
have yes democrats are doing everything they can
to challenge doge and they're trying to take
it out but here's why it's going to
be nearly impossible for them in 2014 obama
created the united states digital service it was
a government it task force meant to fix
the obamacare disaster website it had full access
to federal systems but nobody paid much attention
to it now fast forward to 2025 trump
rebrands it as the united states doge service
same acronym same funding but a completely different
mission find the receipts legally doge is untouchable
trump invoked five u.s code 3161 which
lets him create temporary hiring authorities now doge
teams are inside every federal agency each team
has a lawyer an hr rep a young
tech genius an investigator and they all report
to doge not the agency they are embedded
in then trump invoked 44 us code chapter
35 a law governing federal it oversight since
usds was already an it oversight body doge
now has access to every federal database you
can't defund it because it's not a new
program it's just a rebrand you can't sue
for overreach because trump used existing laws and
if any agency fails to comply they are
violating presidential authority oh and guess what elon
musk was given security authorizations and top secret
classified access he now has oversight of every
major federal system so democrats the deep state
they can't shut it down without rewriting multiple
federal laws man that last but first of
all yes and there's even all this video
of president obama and then vice president um
biden you know boasting about this boasting about
how great this was going to be and
we're going to take care of it and
we're going to solve everything but it's that
last bit that has people so spun up
even you know you know who was who
was out there hammering on me amazing polly
what did amazing polly have to say well
so this is what i i knew this
already but this time was when you go
on rogan you're not on rogan you're not
done when you walk out the studio no
no that's when it all starts then people
make clips out of the studio yeah people
make clips and just that there's a lot
of stuff going on and i there's and
there's a lot you know just because of
the things i discussed there were a lot
of big accounts that tweeted these clips so
bill ackman um he was tweeting about what
because i basically laid out the of the
stablecoin uh system uh i talked about um
what's his face uh james o'keefe so
o'keefe tweets out a piece you know
there was so we got a lot of
leverage out of it but when i can
when someone sends me a note in email
about the the rogan show i know immediately
if they listened to it or if they
watched it the people who watched it then
people have lost the ability to listen it's
yeah well we've proven that on this show
i mean but when we take our clips
and the two of us both of us
do the same thing we hear stuff that
we wouldn't have heard if we watched it
just gets so incredibly bad when it's video
and particularly you know a clip might not
have a little bit of this is the
thing i've trained myself and you know you
have to go and find the original listen
to the context of the clip then so
rogan says what do you think of shit
coins i'm like there's only one it's bitcoin
and that's it and everything else is no
good and and i said you know bitcoin
is it's there's a whole bunch of benefits
to it but i said the way it
seems to be going and then i went
into my whole spiel about stablecoin how it's
being put on top of treasuries and and
so my my basic premise was no i'm
i'm good with bitcoin but amazing poly and
oh and i also said you know a
lot i i said the same thing i
said on this show a lot of people
are pretty spun up thinking the pay paypal
mafia they're going to encapsulate us in this
control grid and we're all going to be
forced cancer mrna shots and i said you
know i said joe these people have been
on your show they seem pretty nice but
a lot of people don't trust them and
so what i actually was saying was the
opposite of what amazing poly like oh yeah
you're over these guys oh yeah they were
on his show so they must be good
and and i'm like did you actually listen
to what i said and no these people
have lost the ability and this is why
we are the best podcast in the universe
is because we don't have video you kind
of have to listen to the show and
no one shares audio clips let's be honest
about it no they don't no why are
you going to share not you can see
a waveform bouncing around no that's what people
want on their on their tick tock and
on youtube and on twitter and everywhere i
got to share a video got to share
a video unless the video has big captions
right on top of the video then people
kind of understand what you're saying but at
that point why are you even watching the
video you're reading the text yeah you are
so i don't know it's so you got
grief oh yeah i mean there's a lot
of people who like the thing you can
tell the people who listen to it but
it was just surprising to me that people
who we respect amazing poly no yeah i've
always thought she did good work no no
no no all i did was lay out
what what is happening and what the strategy
is with the u.s dollar and now
all of a sudden i'm pro control grid
so your money is controlled like no i
actually said here's the and i said you
know you can send a billion dollars on
bitcoin to someone else in the world in
10 minutes nobody can stop it and then
she her response to that is oh yeah
i'm for the little man you're only for
the billionaires i said it's an example you
can send ten dollars that's crazy it's crazy
people are obviously she got under your skin
with her interpretation of what you had to
say no i'm just sad i'm sad that
people are so spun up they're ready to
pounce the minute they even hear something that
fits with their their thinking or bias or
whatever you want to call it they just
and so we have this contradicts their thinking
yeah well but the thing is i wasn't
contradicting her thinking she didn't even know but
it's perceived yeah perceived well no not even
perceived just confirming that the minute i bring
up what might happen or what you know
what a strategy is then it's like i'm
all for it i'm just saying that people
are losing their minds they're losing their minds
news to you there's gambling going well i
didn't expect people like amazing poly to lose
their mind you know or you know or
you know other people who hear something we
say and like you know that guy's been
anti-war and uh and austrian economics has
said that's what we are we're anti-war
you couldn't be more pro-austrian economics if
you're pro-bitcoin to be honest about it
but the whole the whole world has gone
crazy it's a little tiring it's a little
time it's gone nuts it's gone nuts it's
exactly what's happening they're going nuts and so
people who listen to the show take their
time listen while you're washing the dishes walking
the dog driving in your car which i
think is going to increase now everybody has
to go back to work and you don't
have time to be watching videos all day
long crowded highways this is why the no
agenda show is good for you because it
calms you down because you get a little
bit of insight into what is actually being
said and not all this breaking breaking breaking
oh my god you're on fire alert yeah
alert and with that i want to thank
you for your courage say in the morning
to you the man who put the c
in the quid pro quo mo say hello
to my friend on the other end the
one the only mr john c in the
morning to all ships and sea boots on
the ground feet in the air subs in
the water in the dames and the knights
out there in the morning to the trolls
in the troll room who don't think i'm
as smart as i think i am let's
see did i did i did i even
get a count i don't think i got
a count the is it broken i don't
think it worked let me try again let
me see there we go oh yeah oh
wow 26 oh wow oh wow 26 ruby
2607 good yeah that's good uh that's very
good actually isn't that very good no that's
well 24 is normal okay so we're it's
uh it's above average it's good it's above
average everybody it's very good we had at
one time sometime back we had yeah yeah
well this is a an odd weekend it's
funny you know it's a holiday you and
i don't even think about it anymore i
mean i i didn't know it was i
have to be reminded i mean i didn't
even know it was president's day weekend until
we had some friends come over last night
we went out to dinner and like what
is it's busy in town what is this
craziness there's people parked everywhere and and i
just seen the newsletter i'm like oh it's
president's day weekend and it's kind of valentine's
day weekend and for us it's just normal
you know i'm prepping up until five o
'clock because we're going out to dinner it's
like normal business for us and i would
like to say regarding the newsletter alert alert
alert breaking breaking for those of you who
use uh apple of iphones ios um the
you know they've done they've redone their mail
uh apple mail client you would know about
this i wouldn't know about it but i
learned it from tina uh very similar to
gmail now they automatically separate your email into
promotions well so they've got four tabs at
the top so if you haven't seen your
newsletter it may be in a different tab
now and i don't know i should also
mention that you brought that apple up apple
pay works with stripe google wallet works with
stripe oh really and so does bitcoin bitcoin
works with stripe it looks if you look
at the at this go to the page
the uh no agenda donations.com and you
that's a that takes you to the stripe
page and you'll see the little bitcoin marker
there i haven't seen anyone get anything through
using it but let me see people keep
complaining about oh you should do this you
should do that you should do this you
should do that so we do it nothing
happens i'm looking for the little bit i
don't see the bitcoin thing this little bitcoin
thing there there's no bitcoin thing there's i
see an amex i see uh do i
have to click on donate would that be
it let me click on donate i'm clicking
on donut uh donuts i'm clicking on don't
crypto you can donate crypto yeah you have
to click on donate to get the anything
and then you can click on crypto and
if you had if you were doing this
on an iphone a little apple iphone ipay
thing would crop up but it probably didn't
because you were on your computer yes of
course same with the google wallet oh sexy
so it's now it's even easier to support
you know agenda show is that what you're
saying yeah well that it's technically easier but
it's going to be harder for the penny
pinchers out there that don't you know that
like to listen won't support the show yeah
they'll talk a big game never gonna support
the show talk a big game oh you
know i'd do it if you did this
okay but i was about to donate but
then you know you said uh you know
you played a jared kushner clip so you're
clearly a boomer zionist piece of crap i
can't donate now i don't always agree with
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art from pickle surprise and pickle surprise won
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didn't pick valentine's day art because john has
no love in his life at all apparently
and was like oh no i don't i
don't know if we should pick valentine's day
art why are we supporting that uh that
commercial crap that's what i said why are
we supporting this commercial crap we normally support
a national holidays i do say that's true
yeah but there was nothing other better than
this piece i mean the piece was it
wasn't as elaborate as some of the other
valentine's day pieces which were really kind of
busy but interesting yeah with the simplicity and
the the the execution piece itself yeah it
was well done yeah and that was now
i have to say i used a piece
did you use the brown cheese we we
both considered using the brown cheese heart which
by the way turns out brown cheese comes
from norway not from denmark sorry for misgendering
your cheese everybody i use the like a
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hey did you hear about the new non
-addictive painkiller the fda approved right before rfk
jr came in no but i'm sure it's
addictive it's funny you say that dronavix was
just approved by the fda it's an alternative
to opioids because makers say it's not addictive
family doctor nita bajor is joining us now
she's from oakview medical i just want to
mention this doctor is decked out brand new
lab coat fresh fresh out of the out
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here in greenville thanks for joining us today
thank you for having me by the way
wasn't it greenville didn't we hear from someone
that greenville is where they test all these
like new food and new medications remember that
they call that but there are places around
the country where that i think it was
greenville yeah dora is joining us now she's
from oakview medical associates here in greenville thanks
for joining us today thank you for having
me how does it work so it's brand
new it inhibits the um receptor for there's
a specific receptor in the pain pathway that
it inhibits and thereby lowers the pain signal
for the patient so it's used mainly for
acute pain would you say it's just as
effective as an ibuprofen or like how does
it compare to other pain medication i think
in the studies they compared it to um
placebo and a hydrocodone acetaminophen which is kind
of one of the traditional pain medications and
they found that it was more efficacious and
pretty good in relieving acute pain more efficacious
than placebo okay okay so it works i
mean i think that's what people really want
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so okay so it works i mean i
think that's what people really want to know
right are there any side effects um as
with others i mean i think the concern
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going to also cause um addictive or dependence
potential and that let's see as uh the
clinicians start using it more and more we
need uh real life data what um to
help us with that but um supposed to
be pretty well tolerated we'll just see how
it pans out what wait a minute so
wait a minute the fda has approved this
but we how many people did you test
yeah i think i read it up on
the studies and it said it was tested
on a couple hundred people but again you
really need it to be given to millions
of people oh yeah just give it to
everybody we'll find out later yeah lab rats
that's what you are people lab rats see
what any side effects because you know we
have patients with many multiple uh chronic conditions
and so uh when we introduce a medication
we're always monitoring and educating our patients so
safety comes first safety comes first by testing
it on you it comes first all right
well we look forward to seeing how effective
it is and having another option besides opioids
absolutely i think hopefully we're excited about it
so all right thank you dr major we're
excited about it this rfk jr stop this
immediately that is not okay that is not
okay um i have a couple of uh
truth wanna come wants to come out uh
very short clips uh we start with um
the mayor of philadelphia you'll recall she is
well known for her yeah she's she's just
yeah she can't talk she can't catch your
break nothing is possible when we work
together nothing is possible and then we have
uh congress uh congresswoman iana presley we are
all willing to work with anyone who's serious
about doing the work of censoring the american
people and advancing progress okay censoring the american
people and advancing progress yeah that makes sense
it's amazing these people just say what they
really mean what did what did she even
intend to say what what word did she
mean instead of censoring yeah you know i
heard that clip's a week old and i
almost had it for the show but i
and i was trying to decode it too
and i couldn't come up with anything i
have no idea what she might have been
thinking censoring the american people um i i
can't it doesn't i don't know i'm the
same reaction you have yeah somebody out in
the somebody in the troll room should know
should be able to it just takes it
just takes a breakthrough in thinking to get
them no they're just trying to say they
just said she's a they're playing she's an
npc they've got no other explanation for she
wasn't supposed to that could be she wasn't
supposed to speak um new details on the
unfortunate crash between the black hawk hell black
hawk helicopter and the uh regional jet um
although this report kind of made me mad
the way they characterized it um and i
also don't know if this is actually what
happened or this is the the full reason
for but there are there are two reasons
that we're hearing now one is i didn't
want to get any of this but since
you brought it up i i after you
play the clip i do have a question
uh just kind of a uh rhetorical question
all right good all you can ask the
questions and the pilot will answer this particular
flight was a check ride for the pilot
flying the black hawk generally a check ride
is a practical exam that a pilot must
pass to be qualified to perform specific air
crew or mission duties the army does three
types of check rides by the way you'll
hear the term cvr that is cockpit voice
recorder instrument annual and night vision goggles the
helicopter crew was likely wearing night vision goggles
throughout the flight the ntsb says the helicopter
pilots had an altitude discrepancy and weren't aware
of how high they were this video shows
the helicopter crashing into the passenger jet around
8 45 january 29th the american airlines flight
from wichita kansas was cleared for landing after
a last minute but routine runway change audio
from air traffic control reveals the military pilot
acknowledged he saw the jet approaching the runway
today investigators revealing a potential technical glitch 17
seconds before impact a radio transmission from the
tower was audible on both cvrs directing the
black hawk to pass behind the crj the
portion of the transmission that stated pass behind
the may not have been received by the
black hawk crew transmission was stepped on by
a point eight second mic key from the
black hawk and ntsb investigators say the preliminary
report could take up to 30 days but
the full report could take up to a
year before it's released so the only thing
before you ask your question the only thing
that really makes me mad is it was
not a glitch um when you key up
the mic then you don't hear anything but
yourself speaking so they may have keyed up
and stepped on the transmission but that's not
a glitch that's just unfortunate and at 0
.8 second that's like someone just clicked on
and then heard probably heard that there was
a message coming in and then let go
right away the appropriate response would have been
say again but that didn't happen your question
a couple of things um why are these
communication systems half duplex what specific in this
day and age what specific reason are they
half duplex because if they were full duplex
it wouldn't matter we keyed up or not
well it's uh it's legacy there's also a
separate issue a distance is another so the
i believe the military um uses amplitude modulation
and everyone else uses uh frequency modulation am
fm they also use different bands uh which
by itself is a problem because they don't
the aircraft don't hear each other but they
both hear what the tower says because the
power the tower broadcasts on both frequencies um
it's legacy it's pure legacy um and full
duplex would require digital i think i don't
think you can no wouldn't well you you'd
be sending and receiving you'd be sending in
on one frequency you don't have to be
it could be offsets there's offsets it's like
going to a repeater there's lots of ways
of doing it but it's beside but the
question is legacy is not an excuse for
this kind of technology repeat half duplex are
you kidding me hold on a second repeaters
aren't uh aren't if you're talking on a
repeater you're you're not you're not able to
have someone else speak at the same time
okay well let's just ignore that what i
said there the point is that there's no
reason in the world you can't have full
duplex communication in this day and age i
think there is i i don't think it's
very what i can talk on the phone
is full duplex an old-fashioned telephone with
a carbon microphone yeah well if you want
to have a very long string attached to
your aircraft that would work i can do
it with a wireless phone if i'm on
a wireless phone or if i'm on a
cell phone i can hear you talking and
i'm well i'm talking how's that different i
don't know why you're defending this uh i
i'm defending it because i don't think it's
technically feasible if everybody i mean that when
you have a duplex phone call you have
a full-time connection so you can't have
everybody having a full-time connection i it
technically i don't think it's that feasible john
i really don't i mean i understand i'd
like to hear from somebody out there as
a radio expert even though you're a general
yes i think it is feasible and i
don't understand why they have this this whole
idea that the thing clicked on for a
second when when did you have a ham
radio conversation was full duplex that wasn't digital
never i've had plenty of conversations on a
telephone yes but i'm not hearing anybody else's
phone they're all separate they're all in separate
channels they're all doing it using the cell
system i don't see how this can't be
done with airplanes one call at a time
you can't have 20 calls open with everybody
at the same time how many transmitters do
you want if so if the tower is
transmitting i think it should go to it
does go to everybody if they're if they're
not keyed up well you're now the new
faa administrator because you're asking for something which
i don't think is technically feasible in the
setting of aviation i would like to hear
from others it just doesn't make sense to
me that we're this is the technology that's
so old it's ludicrous and you yourself defended
it as legacy which indicates is old it's
functional the legacy part is really the am
am versus fm for distance upgrade i just
don't i mean all right well we have
plenty of smart people who can tell us
how it would be possible i don't think
it's possible in a multi-station setting you
can have a full duplex with one person
but you can't have a full duplex with
10 planes i just don't see how that
then you're all no i don't see that
working what is your other question that uh
that what i well the other question was
it seems to me that the whole thing
is because of the bad altimeter yes i
don't like to emphasize that who is the
manufacturer no no no no that's that's that's
not how it works the when you are
flying in airspace um the tower oh actually
there's a you can tune to the atis
so there's a special frequency you can listen
to the the current uh weather conditions at
the airfield and they will give you a
altitude pressure number standard is 29.9 um
and so if the if the pressure is
higher or lower then you'll have maybe it'll
be uh 30.1 or 30.2 and
that and that's the only way you can
determine your altitude from my understanding they both
they had two different uh altitude indications which
means they both either didn't listen to the
uh to the current setting or the current
uh broadcast of the current barometric uh pressure
was wrong but that doesn't make a lot
of sense for the it's it's a big
cock up is what it is and here's
another one why are we having military training
exercises in what in and around the most
busy airport in the world well that i
can't answer i i don't think it's a
good idea either other than that they were
flying a continuity of government mission which would
be which would require this and then there's
also the night vision goggles which i think
reduces your field of view from like 75
with your peripheral vision to 40 but you
know we may never know that's what they
said we won't know for another year at
least and then we'll all have forgotten about
it as it usually goes and we may
never actually get the full details because the
military doesn't like to talk about it so
africa news you gotta do this once in
a while what's africa news african leaders are
meeting in ethiopia this weekend for their annual
summit with conflicts in the democratic republic of
congo and sudan topping the agenda heavy fighting
continues in both countries in the drc rebels
have seized another strategic city in the east
emmanuel agunza reports from nairobi african leaders arrived
in addis ababa ethiopia as rwanda backed m23
rebels have seized bukavu the second largest city
in eastern democratic republic of congo amid heavy
fighting with the congolese army in sudan the
national army continues to gain ground against the
paramilitary rapid support forces with both sides refusing
peace talks u.n secretary general antonio guterres
who is at the african union summit has
urged leaders to propose solutions to conflicts that
have displaced millions several side meetings will discuss
u.s president trump's freeze on foreign aid
which has severely impacted american funded programs for
health water and agriculture across for npr news
i'm emanuele gunza in nairobi okay i have
a real problem with npr i mean they
have no no problem whatsoever using a british
guy you're talking like this for something that's
going on in america about our own news
but then the minute it's about africa they
have to bring an african guy in and
it's you barely understand it just isn't compelling
to listen to it's bad african news ban
bad african news that's what it's being called
from now on i don't understand why they
do it i just don't understand it's so
wrong it's wrong it's very wrong i have
one more tick tock i can play this
is a woman who looks like a pig
she got the red hair and she's got
just a right i hate to be insulting
a little but she does look like a
pig and uh sorry then she well she
now she's gonna and she's hates mega if
you're out here celebrating elon musk and his
um supposed finding fraud which he's not um
i better not see you at a national
park this summer i better not see you
at uh any federal preserve or national monument
or national park if you wear one of
those red hats get out get out you
know what they say the outdoors are for
everyone it's not for you babe it's not
for you if you are a mega fan
the outdoors are not for you and national
parks are not for you why because they
just fired all she did it hypophora you
mean i can't believe you can catch yeah
not for you if you are a mega
fan the outdoors are not for you and
national parks are not for you why because
they just fired all probationary workers from the
u.s forest service um good luck getting
any bathrooms clean this summer good luck having
rangers for programs good luck doing anything for
our national parks because you just decided that
that was fraud and that wasn't needed even
though things like us8 are one percent of
the budget because you don't know how to
do research and you're so busy sucking up
to billionaires and watching our federal lands be
opened up for oil drilling and for exploration
when they should be protected you think that
they're gonna do anything to protect the environment
they absolutely are not because you are so
far up a billionaire that you have no
idea what's going on so here's the thing
if i see your camper or your ginormous
truck at a campground this summer at a
national park campground bestie i might be confronting
you i hope i don't see your red
hat anywhere on the trails because you don't
deserve it the outdoors aren't for you stay
inside what is the point of these threats
what's wrong with these people well and by
the way what is that called again when
you say why what there's a phrase you
use hypophora hypo hypo hypo fora with a
ph hypo fora hypo fora why because that's
the name i think it's a good show
title is the reason why yes it's a
very reasonable show title well on the just
on the doge front um and i don't
know this is true we have a lot
of producers in the virginia and uh maryland
and dc area i keep seeing these uh
real estate app maps that are being posted
with every home is for sale and all
these new listings is that true is my
question then is that uh exceptional for all
of these homes to be for sale suddenly
i would like to know from our and
are any of you guys selling your home
that would be another question the second thing
is i thought this was quite interesting i
know you saw it as well about the
150 year old social security recipient which can
mean several things it could be someone who's
receiving on behalf and there's a lot of
a lot of different things that could be
but i like this one the most and
i think i got this on x i'm
a coder experienced coders no cobalt no no
no coders with experience in cobalt no cobalt
all right you're being a little a little
douchey here yeah you might as well throw
fortran in while you're at it yeah young
coders don't okay young coders you know people
it's a legacy code when the musk when
the musk claims social security is paying thousands
of 150 year olds i think someone should
let him know that in cobalt if a
date is missing the program defaults to 1875
which is apparently when these cobalt programmers were
born so if you have 2025 minus 1875
it's 150 lol you idiots um interesting we
have a lot of cobalt people who listen
to the show i'd love to hear about
that and of course i don't think any
social security date field should be empty to
start with if your birth year is not
in there that doesn't make sense to me
either but actually the social security number will
trace back to your birthday how do you
how do you figure that every number is
recorded and the birth date is you to
get your social security card you have to
put your birth date down and it's oh
yeah it's encoded in the number but how
yeah there's a linkage but can you pretty
sure can you decode your birth date from
the social security number i've always believed you
could but i don't know that you can
that's interesting what's your social security number hey
won't you blow me and by the way
this this thing about oh they got this
all your social i could find your social
security number out if i really wanted to
it's out there all right you find my
social security number okay i of course will
confirm it with you if correct okay i'll
dig around i mean you already know where
i live you got a map my home
with a picture you know and that's all
i'll do thanks to you thanks to you
i have gotten some nice gifts i'll i'll
be i'll admit you got some gifts yeah
i didn't get sorry i got your uh
your home address off the internet but here's
a gift so now every package every box
that comes if it doesn't say amazon on
it i let phoebe sniff it first and
then i poke it with a stick i'm
not gonna open anything that you send to
me i gotta get some kid in the
neighborhood to open my packages hey kid yeah
it's five bucks um this is the funniest
doge thing i've heard of it's up in
your neck of the woods get a load
of this san francisco city officials are confirming
three guys claiming to be from the department
of government efficiency or doge tried to enter
their offices today and get info they were
dressed in doge shirts wore the red mega
hats according to the sheriff's office they went
into these offices at city hall around noon
today and demanded employees turn over digital information
the employees refused called the sheriff's office but
these men left before deputies got there the
sheriff's office doesn't think these people were actually
representatives from doge president trump created doge when
he took office in january and he has
put elon musk in charge of that yeah
i think it's great i like the idea
that's pretty pretty clever i now in a
different report i heard they had elon mask
elon musk masks on which is you know
would kind of be a giveaway i think
but i like i would say even the
mega hat i mean can we get like
a doge badge maybe that's something is there
a doge badge well it's not the way
they're doing it but okay they're not busting
in like that they already they're in there
they're already working there i'm from the doge
i'm here to check your records i have
two clips from npr that i've been sitting
on for a while because i have a
complaint oh they're they must be warm this
is the polar bear de-icing uh story
that showed up uh first i heard it
on on uh ntd like a month ago
and then it showed up on npr a
couple weeks ago polar bears spend their days
jumping from ice into water so if they
get all wet why doesn't their fur freeze
npr science correspondent jonathan lambert reports on a
new study in the journal science advances nanophysicist
botel holst got interested in studying polar bear
fur while watching a german quiz show in
that quiz show i learned that polar bears
are invisible in infrared cameras that essentially means
that they're so well insulated that their fur
takes on the temperature of their frigid surroundings
that's the case on land and when they
jump into icy water to hunt because i
had been working with anti-icing i just
suddenly was very puzzled because i was thinking
well how do they manage that when they
get into the water they go out again
why do they not get covered in ice
meaning they stay cold but their fur is
largely free of ice holst who's at the
university of bergen in norway initially thought that
the structure of the fur itself might have
some kind of de-icing properties so her
team used a high-powered microscope and zoomed
in on some fur but we couldn't see
anything special about the polar bear hairs they
just look normal but as she and her
colleagues were handling the fur they noticed that
it was really greasy and when they washed
the fur with soap wet it and froze
it it got icy and so we realized
that this was down to polar bear hair
grease effectively molecular analysis of the hair grease
revealed that it was chock full of certain
compounds which are resistant to ice and the
fur lacked a compound called squalene which is
found in other marine mammals squalene it turns
out has properties that make ice stick to
it well this is riveting i'm glad you
sat on this here's my question these polar
bears have been around forever and we're just
discovering in 2025 that they have some sort
of goop that goes into the fur and
makes it so that doesn't freeze and has
de-icing properties it take it took the
year 2025 to figure this out and meanwhile
we can predict climate change are you kidding
me i'm with you on that but that
of course is it kind of ruins the
whole climate change climate change uh polar bear
deal well that too because you know it's
oh the poor polar bear he's standing on
a on a rock of ice oh he
has to swim i just found this an
insulting piece even though you thought it was
boring i really got worked up about it
because of this 2025 we're now discovering that
polar bear grease it's got some de-icing
properties and it took us this long to
figure this out and we've been around polar
bears for a long time unbelievable to me
objection i never said it was boring but
the second part wraps it up but it's
not important we can say that this is
what makes polar bear hair grease so efficient
in fact the team found that the squalene
free fur grease performed about as well as
certain kinds of pfas chemicals that have been
used in ski waxes holst hopes that her
research could eventually lead to things like greener
ski waxes lubricants and even new de-icing
fluid for airplanes all inspired by greasy polar
bear fur this is great this is perfect
we need to kill more polar bears to
de-ice our aircraft i'm all in you
don't have to kill the polar bears the
chemical structures that's what they uncovered and they
could just make the stuff from at a
refinery squalene is that same as squalene squalene
free squalene free oh squalene free oh you
know what i'm i'm outraged with you as
well i think it's crazy how come we
have we been afraid of polar bears by
the way pretty dangerous you know they're not
also they're not as cute as they look
no they're nasty creatures but we do shoot
them once in a while and you can
get the fur and you could do whatever
you want with it but it just seems
to me ridiculous that in the year 2025
they finally discover that polar bears fur doesn't
freeze up like a mustache does on some
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this is the moment in the show we
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see you have uh three three why don't
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john's tip of the day and sometimes adam
created by dana bernetti okay this time i'll
talk a little bit about glassware glassware nice
glassware so i think people should have the
proper glassware when they serve alcoholic beverages i'm
happy to hear this because i could not
agree more uh i think we do not
have good glassware here in the the curry
compound so i'm very interested in this particular
tip i could probably do a whole number
of these but i'm going to do this
one in particular because this is a this
is a good one to make it really
look like you know what you're doing now
i will say that i understand that you're
seeing a burgundy glass a bordeaux glass all
these different varieties of sautern glass they're all
slightly different you can have different glasses uh
the old-fashioned brandy snifter for example is
passe for the last 20 years and if
you pull one of those out you're a
rube let's start with that so you either
want a cognac glass or something but in
this case we're going to discuss the the
uh glenn karn scotch whiskey glass which is
the glass you everyone should have a set
of these oh i have this one i
think i have this one you have a
glenn karn glass i think so it's a
tiny glass not that tiny well and it
has kind of like a bulb and then
up at the top well here look it
up just look up glenn karn but if
you want to go to glenn karn whiskey
glass dot com to find one of the
vendors glenn karn is spelled g l e
n c a i r n yes this
is the one i have i have one
yes i have a set you have a
set i have two well they're designed for
it came with the bottle i believe it
came with the bottle whoo win i've got
this you have to do a glass for
the next three shows this is a great
i can do a lot of glass i
think this is the glenn karn glass is
a is the scotch whiskey glass yes period
yes uh but you can serve bourbon and
all these other things but you're you're kind
of violating the rules this is really a
scotch glass but it's a classy looking glass
it it does it's not it's kind of
stemless it's got kind of a foot yeah
it has no stems just it's like a
tulip with a foot yes and this is
an excellent glass and for scotch drinkers i
would recommend this uh get a set of
these uh six they have them everywhere everyone
sells them amazon has them you can go
to this website i just cited and they're
here and there they can get pretty fancy
but just the regular one is the one
you want i feel so bad now because
and tina's gonna be i don't know she's
listening because i think there's some there's some
dudes and they have they have bourbon i
know it's not scotch whiskey but they have
bourbon inch that has been aged in a
sherry cask and i can't get their name
and they may be in texas actually and
they sent me the bourbon can't be in
texas they sent me their bourbon and a
set of these glasses and they sent these
glasses these scotch glasses with their bourbon yep
yep yep is it okay for bourbon too
well it's not really but it's it's not
it's not a bad idea it's it's not
a bad idea supply it's just that it's
a good bad idea supply i'm happy that
i have the right glasses i can't wait
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and sometimes adam created by dana bernetti wow
excellent tip john this is this is very
important i can't wait for the red wine
glass then we have the white wine glass
then with the champagne glass i'd say this
is your beat for the next three shows
well i could do a lot of stuff
on glasses but uh i can do two
i think you could you could do a
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agenda until then adios mofos a hooey hooey
and such like jack palance in the movie
shame throwing a pistol at the sheepherders feet
pick it up i don't want to pick
it up if all of the hostages are
returned 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
return all of them return all of them
if they're not returned all of them not
in drips and drabs not two and one
and three and four and two you all
saw him he had a gun so there's
now a kennedy in the republican administration never
had a doubt never a doubt robert f
kennedy jr has officially just been confirmed big
talker is gonna do this he's gonna do
that everybody's jacked up about it a hundred
things that i'm gonna do and i'll say
them you guys are part of the racket
shit and so he made some promises people
who care about health yeah and so he
made some promises we should hold them accountable
and make sure that these promises are noted
never that's
the 97 more to go i can't wait
this is we should hold them accountable and
make sure that these promises are noted it's
gonna do this is gonna do that everybody's
jacked up about it and so he made
some promises the 97 more to go i
can't wait doge
elon musk america now represents a serious threat
to democracy across the world especially for western
part what
kind of i
have a thought about i want to hear
the don't be indignant yes i said concentration
camps you can one
of those ways is not to give billionaires
a huge tax cut us these
boys are damn good