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Cynthia, who else was it? Coral. Oh, Stevie B. Isn't it Stevie B? Who knows? Like, they have to know. Some of y'all have to know Stevie B. I saw a video of Stevie dancing the other day. I'm like, Stevie B, you know. Put your shirt on. Like, pump the brakes a little. Put your shirt on. But you guys in L.A. or New York called it freestyle music? It's called freestyle. In Miami, we called it Miami roller skating music.

You guys can call it whatever you want. It's still freestyle. Anyways, guys, it's great to be here. We're not against rap. We're not against rappers. But we are against those thugs. All right, so lots going on. Tariff deal with China. 90-day pause. So is it a tariff deal? Is it not a tariff deal? Did it really happen? Wall Street Journal wrote a very interesting article that I want to read to you. The bottom two paragraphs.

of the article, how the market reacted, and the timing of it before going to the Middle East for a four-day trip. But when he's going on his four-day trip, while everything is going on, he decides not to stop at one place, which is Israel, and not to go visit Netanyahu after what happened with Mike Walsh. There's just a lot of weird things going on right now we've got to talk about. And so that's that part, okay? And then while he goes to visit MBS...

They apparently want to give him a gift, this big plane. He says, I don't care if it's a billion-dollar plane, if it's a $400 million plane. I'm saving you tax money. If somebody gives it to you as a gift, and he tells a story of who was the golfer back in the sneed? Sam Sneed. Sam Sneed told you when somebody gives you the putt, take it. Take it. Don't just take it. You're going to piss off your partner. Take it, right? This ain't a putt, though. This is Qatar. Well, we're going to talk about that because there's strong opinions there. And then while he shows up,

I don't know if you guys saw this, folks. Vinny, send this to us. They got him a big, I don't even, what do you call that, an RV of McDonald's? A mobile McDonald's just for him, flown in just for him. That's love right there. It looks like what they bring to college football games, and they put it in the parking lot. But they brought it in.

In Saudi. They probably flew it in from where? Qatar, in Saudi, wherever it was. Qatar. We'll show it to you. Qatar. Okay, next, James Carville and Democratic rep call out Ilhan Omar, say party needs to praise...

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The mob, you guys are awesome. Very sensitive, but awesome. Trump's executive order demands pharma industry price cuts. First white South African arrived in U.S. as Trump claims they face discrimination. Vinny's got some thoughts on that.

Vinny's got some thoughts also on Waltz, inside Waltz's ouster. And before Signalgate talks with Israel angered Trump. Oh, not good. And this story didn't even, it was it for like for two seconds. We kind of talked about it, but it's very interesting. I am so loving the way he's handling this whole situation. Gangster. Because it shows how multifaceted Trump can be. I like it a lot. Photos show Mike Waltz using Signal in Trump's cabinet meeting.

Trump says message to the world, he's open for business. That's a Wall Street Journal story. Couple other things that I added that's not in here. One of the stories, it may be in here, but we just didn't circle it, is Michael Jordan,

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I'm in Orlando yesterday, and we're at the hotel, and all of a sudden, boom. We're getting news, news, news. Here's what's going on. Look at the market. Look at the markets react. The market gone up 1,100 points, and S&P and all the Bitcoin crossed 100,000. Oh, my God. It's going to be great. And then while this was announced that the trade's going to be made,

It says, I retweet, I tweet and I say, I want to know the details because I want to know what this is about. Because on Sunday, we thought it was a trade deal, but it's a pause. So let me read this to you.

So U.S. and China agree to a 90-day tariff pause. So what does this mean, okay, on a 90-day trade pause? The U.S. Trade Representative Jamie Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson announced the U.S. agreed to drop its tariffs from 145% on Chinese goods by 115% to 30 points.

30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%, with Besson stating, the census from both delegations this weekend is neither side wants a decoupling agreement.

and that high tariffs are the equivalent of an embargo. China's Commerce Ministry said the two sides agreed to cancel 91% in tariffs on each other's goods and suspend another 24% in tariffs for 90 days, bringing the total reduction to 115 percentage points, adding the initiative aligns with the expectation of producers and consumers in both countries and serves the interests of both nations as well as the common interests of the world. Tom, your thoughts on this?

Well, first of all, what have I always been saying, Vinny? No math. Tom, if you said anything with math, I was going to leave. No, no, no, no, no. The market goes up and down by sentiment, right? People get a little worried about the future or they get optimistic about the future. The market goes up and down. That's what's going on. And so the market jumped.

because it liked the fact that now costs will be not rising because of tariffs. And by the way, remember the Walmart study done by the Wall Street Journal? 10,000 items at Walmart had not gone up in price for the American consumer. So when Rachel Maddow says, oh, the tariffs are hurting the American consumer for goods, tell her she's full of crap, just like you say to her when she says anything else. Yes. Now,

We go back here to China. This is 90 days. So the U.S. has apparently seen enough or heard enough that they're going to do it. And this is – they're going to put this pause in place to put something together. And what Scott Besson – he was saying the consensus from both delegation is neither side wants long-term trouble. And so that's the right thing to say in front of the microphone. I want to see the terms and conditions. I want to see what happens.

But the market sentiment is good, and it also means that Walmart and others that were holding the prices level and not raising them on the consumer, they're now going to get a little relief on their stock price because their costs won't be going up because they won't pay the tariff that they said they were going to pocket and just say, I'll eat it.

And put it out. So this is good for the market. This was good in the short term. Good for the consumer in the short term. And good for companies that were going to have it. But. Who caved Tom? I think China caved. I think China caved. Tell me why. I'll tell you why. Because they've been doing little things behind the scenes. Such as I brought up.

The one that I finally found people talking about, the chemical that is in plastic that becomes ethylene.

That we talked about. We go ethene. Ethene, I think it's called. And it gets processed and it makes ethylene, which leads to polyethylene. And that's plastic. And the Chinese dropped the tariff from like 145 to zero because they said, yeah, we need to make plastic. And they can't get that. Aside from that, Tom, who caved? You think China caved? I think, well, I think China caved, but I'll say I also think that we...

had seen the market moving and we saw the sentiment and I think we were put a little strategy into this as well to give everybody a little bit of a break. Okay, Adam, thoughts? So who needs who more? China needs the United States or does the United States need China? Well, if you look at it from a business perspective...

In essence, who is the client? Who's the customer? And who's the buyer and who's the seller? We buy the majority of our stuff from them. So they need us more than we need them in terms of import exports. We're their number one customer. I mean, they're selling us stuff. America is in a consumption economy. That's why we all have these trade deficits that you hear. We've got a trade deficit with China and with Canada and Mexico because we're buying a lot of stuff. So China is probably looking at U.S. being like, dude,

They're going to stop buying from us. Didn't they just move their, all their Apple iPhone just going to India. How bad can this get? I don't know. Could it go to Bangladesh? Could it go to Vietnam? I don't know. So on one hand, China has way more control over their people. And as she has already warned their people, like brace for impact, it could get bad, but at the same time, they don't want to crumble. So they're probably looking at the U S they're saying they're, they're, they're almost like staring at each other, having a staring contest and,

And is Trump going to blink? And Trump did not blink. Now, this isn't a resolution. They haven't come to any sort of agreement. It's a pause. You know, we talked about on the live podcast, Trump needs some wins. Trump's had a pretty good week. Weekend. Yeah. What do you mean? Four things this weekend. All right, Vinny. Sorry. It's only been three days. All right. It hasn't even been a week. Excuse me. But remember when we said let him cook. Let him cook. And people were like, no. Sorry. This is happening way sooner than I anticipated. It's not official yet, but-

signs are moving in the right direction. The market likes it a lot. I think it was them caving. And by the way, they were in Geneva, Switzerland, chilling, nice, China. I think it was them, Pat, because like we've been saying, we're not seeing what China's going through. It's just China's not... What video have you seen of China and the way of life? They are struggling. You can't see things from China. That's what I'm saying. I think they caved. And mind you, this is all...

China's way. I don't know. PB, I want to know what you think. So let's go to this article here. Okay. Trump's China deal makes sense. How he got here doesn't. Okay. Go a little bit lower. And let's go from, go a few more paragraphs lower. His original reciprocal tariffs announced April 2nd were meant to punish countries in proportion to their trade deficits. Can you zoom in a little bit more right now? Okay. With the U.S.-China deal,

at 34%, got one of the highest major economies. Britain got the minimum 10% universal tariff, hitting Britain a stalwart ally with open markets with any tariff would have been unimaginable before this year. And yet it officially bears the same 10% reciprocal tariff as China, though it ran $12 billion deficit with the U.S. last year, while China ran a $295 billion surplus last year. So meaning...

We made money off U.K. We lost 300. Not lost. They made $300 billion more than we did. With the deal with U.K., we made $12 billion more than they did. Okay? So true, China's 10% is on top of the 20% put in place a few months earlier, but that 20% is officially tied to China's role in the flow. A fentanyl to U.S. Trump's officials say China has shown readiness to act now.

On that problem, you had Canada and Mexico who have already acted are being hit with more at 25%. Another inconsistency, Trump promised to ratchet up tariffs further on countries that retaliate. China did, and Trump responded by eventually jacking his reciprocal tariff to 125. Now he slashed it to 10%. That wasn't because of concessions from China.

But the morning domestic cause, he backed off his reciprocal tariffs on most countries except China when the stock and bond market took fright and now has backed off of most of his tariffs in China amid warning of empty shelves, plunging container traffic, and small business failures. There's an irony here. Dependence on China has long been flagged as a potential national security vulnerability for which tariffs can be justified, but that same dependence...

is what makes decoupling, no matter how mild, painful. Trump's walk back on tariffs shows there are limits on how much pain Americans are willing to take. Tom, thoughts? So let's go look at something, what was happening behind the scenes. You asked who caved. Do you have that link? Yes, I do. Right there? Let's pop that up. And if you could scroll down just below the picture of the two presidents and get to that paragraph that's just below it. Okay, scroll down.

Just blow it, and we're going to read this. There it is. Okay. Right here. Nope, back up. Okay, here it is. Last week, Chinese officials granted exemptions. This wasn't asking us. It was them talking to their own...

companies apparently, pharmaceuticals, microchips, aircraft engines, and we're asking firms to identify critical goods that need levy-free. And scroll up to the top of it, please. And now I mispronounced it. Not ethene, it's ethane. It was U.S. ethane because there was five of their top, right back there, right back there. Stop, stop.

There you go. Five of their top ten chemical companies says, we need this freaking ethane from the U.S. so we can make plastic and stuff. And so China behind the scenes, I didn't think they caved, but they sure were putting a lot of exemptions out before it even happened. But I still don't trust them as far as I can throw them. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm going back again, and I'm reading the book by Robert Hiltz. What's the book's name, Brandon? Lighthouser. Lighthouser.

and this book is purely on trades. I think everybody needs to read it. He was the one that was doing the trade deal on the first term with Trump. No trade is free. Changing course, taking on China, and helping America's workers, okay? And going back and forth on how the trade deal took place with them, what did we want from this trade deal? Like, if you think about what is our concern with China, we wanted the world's dependency not to be on China, okay? So move it out from them to different places, okay?

We wanted them to not agree on certain things when it's coming down to intellectual properties that they're stealing and not agreeing to the terms, contracts.

We wanted a few other things with them in regards to the tariffs where, you know, you're acting like, you know, that $300 billion, you know, what do you call it, the trade deficit that we have, how much of it was made up? I don't know if any of it's going to be made up. That 297 deficit is going to be still a $297 billion deficit. So what are we doing that they're buying from us as well in return?

and what level of commitment was made there. I don't know. Again, this is why I said I want to know the terms because it's very easy sometimes to celebrate and see that you are so easily excited just because the market goes back up and your 401k went from 220 to 278 and you're comfortable now. You're not worried. Or your account went from 10 million to 11.6 million and you're comfortable. You're not worried. No. No.

I'm still concerned with the relationship with China a guy like me. I'm still concerned I still don't trust these guys and I understand that they want to be respectful while they're negotiating and all this other stuff I just hope this 90-day what happened to Iran back in the days when under Trump it was so close in Iran fallen and there being a revolution because of the sanctions so close and

of something taking place. He lose, Trump's out, Biden comes in, Iran's a free-for-all again, back to the same exact situation. It was this close. I think the pain was very close to even a bigger deal getting done, but because of optics, we agreed to this, and I think in the next 90 days,

The pain is going to go back to them being able to tolerate another 90 days or 180 days come 90 days from now. So what's 90 days from now? Go to June, July, August, August 8th, August 10th, let's just say, whatever, 11th. So August 11th, now we start negotiating hard again. They can go four more months, September, October, November, December. All right, now it's 2026. Now everyone's campaigning for midterms. You lost leverage. Yep. That's my opinion, Tom.

My opinion is the fact that the pain that you had to be able to make a bigger ask because of pure optics, hey, we need to show the market doing well. Today's what, 930, 944? How's the market doing right now, Tom? Have you looked at it? It should be flat or down. Down 154. Yeah, but it's profit taking on the pop yesterday. Sure, totally get it. So down 154.

And yeah, this number right here, top 10 countries with the biggest trade surplus. Look at that. It's not even close. China, 600 billion. Okay, so you're looking at, and then go to India. Look where India's at. Where's India? It's not even on the list. Not even on there. No, that's Ireland. It looks like India, but it's Ireland. So look at India. It's not even, Australia's ahead of India. So what does that mean?

Probably better terms when you negotiate with India. And they have a bigger control manufacturing around the world. China have a better structure, better system to be able to handle more business. But my biggest concern was the pain of negotiation is officially gone. And you're not going to have it come January 1st. You're not. There's a story in here that we didn't circle to talk about.

And it says the fact that Trump's already eyeing midterms. None of you guys marked that. You guys wanted to talk about that. Sorry, I don't blame you. It's not like it's a big story. But he's already eyeing midterms. Why is he eyeing midterms?

OK, if you looked at the tax deal that he did, I was reading the entire tax at the time. I don't know if you went through it or not. It's very interesting some of the things that they did here. But anyways, to just close this and go to the next story, Adam, you look like you wanted to say something about this. I just want to say one thing. You know, Trump is cleaning up past presidents mess. You know who created this mess we have in China? I could argue that it's a lot of U.S.

whether it was starting with Nixon opening up relationships with China, I believe in the late 60s, early 70s. And then I think Jimmy Carter in the 70s officially recognized the CCP. Bill Clinton, I think, was the person that at least started them getting into the WTO, the World Trade Organization. I think then it happened under Trump.

George W. Bush, and then you had Barack Obama that didn't confront China at all, it would seem. So Trump is coming in and basically saying, we're going to clean this mess up real quick. So the good, the bad, the ugly, I think we're about to find out. But if you look at small businesses, here's this article from Wall Street Journal, how tariffs are crushing small businesses. They're basically saying that the Chamber of Commerce has requested tariff exemptions for small businesses.

Small businesses are apparently closing or expect to shut down from a lack of support. But if you look on Main Street, Brandon, if you pull up the fear greed index that I text you. A little better. The 664. Yeah. So this is the first time I texted you, Brandon. Yeah, I got this is the first time that I've seen the fear greed index indicate a little bit more greed. A month ago, it was.

fear was the resounding narrative in the markets right now. This is the first time I'm seeing greed, 69. If you scroll down, Elon Musk will like that number. If you scroll down, you could see that I think it was the lowest I'd almost ever seen on the fear. It was almost a two. One to 50 is on the fear side, and then 51 to 100 is on the greed side. So Americans are basically saying, you know what? I'm not as scared as I was a month ago.

But for what it's all worth, and I understand, and Pat, my thing is with China, just with anything, something I feel personally something's going to be happening here because these guys are not going to go quiet. And what is going to be their next thing? If anybody, it doesn't just have to be China. They need to do something to try to cripple us because just this weekend, I mean, how much winning did we do this weekend? In 48 hours, he got the hostage shot.

You know, pharma, this deal, 90-day pause. I mean, how much more stuff can he do to make himself look good? Now he's off in the Middle East. You're going to win so much, Nate. You're going to be begging to lose. But hold on. Remember a week ago, everybody was losing their minds. Oh, my God. What is he doing? Tariffs. Now everybody in CNN and everybody in mainstream media is changing their tune because now they have to give him credit.

So we'll see. I'm with you, though. I don't trust China. Do you think China is capable of doing something insane? No, they won't. Now they won't. Now they won't because of what happened. But that doesn't mean we got what we wanted because now you gave them a lifeline. That's the only thing. Remember, it goes back to that arcade game. You go, finish line. Boom, you got 45 more seconds to race. You got 45 more seconds.

We just gave them an additional seven months that they can tolerate pain. They don't care about their people like America does. So to them, that's my only, again, not in the inside. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what terms are being negotiated. If I have to bank on anybody negotiating on our behalf, it's Trump and his people. I'm very confident with what they're capable of doing. All I'm saying is,

I don't know if this 90 day is going to get us back to some of the stuff that Nixon, Clinton, some of these other guys did in the past. I don't know if that's going to happen. You can't let just the market going up fool you that the right things were done. And I'm a guy that is supportive of who this guy is. I just fully know you're 47 years old. You're 45 years old. Okay, Tom, you're 59 years old. I'm 46 years old.

You know what we got? We got a lot of living to do. And guess what's going to happen next 30 years? China ain't going away. I do not want them to get any stronger than they are right now. I don't. I don't trust their... You know, they say you want to test a man's character, give him what? Money. No, power. Oh, okay, my bad. Guess what we learned during COVID with them? They had power. What did they do? We learned about them. You still want to trust their character? I don't trust their character. Me neither. So to me...

The kicking the can because you just want a good midterms or you want good news going into Saudi. Who gives a shit what the market's going to be saying and what the media is going to be saying? Anyways, I know you guys would have never thought I was going to say something like this.

No, you're right. There's two measurements, right? There needs to be less reliance on China and jobs in America. That was the stated goal. You listen to the White House. We need jobs in America, American-made products and American-made suppliers, and we need less reliance. Well, we got there a little bit with India, which has been a long time coming. Like, Apple's been moving toward India for a while. We got some of that. China's not happy about that. Now we've got to get to suppliers in America first.

Jobs in America and less reliance on China, which means a weaker China. We got to get there. We need all of them. It's not just the market. I hope you're right. I'm just staying a little bit paranoid because they destroyed the world for a year and a half. They destroyed memories. I will never forget. Listen, you know how I feel about business owners. To me, I have a very special place in my heart for business owners because I know how hard it is. Yesterday for me was an 18-hour day.

And I loved it. Guy asked me a question. What are you doing here at 1230? We had a private jet that we're trying to get on a flight to come back from Orlando and the, what do you call it? The weather hits and we cancel. We rent a used Dodge Ram and a, whatever the other Kia was. We get out of the car three hours. We drive here. We go to a place called Firehouse. We buy subway three hours on the car. We're just on the phone talking to a bunch of different people. And then we get back here. We'll do a podcast with George Janko. We go for two hours. And then boom, I'm on the phone back. Small business owners, right?

sacrifice time away their 401ks their savings their mortgage the money that they have in the property china destroyed tens of thousands of restaurants in america hundreds of thousands of businesses in america and around the world people couldn't see their kids people couldn't see their grandkids your grandmother's about to die in a hospital you can't go see them because of covid

These policies in America done by guys like Fauci and others, and then what those guys did from China to disrupt the entire world, and you want me to be able to? Now I'm going to hold you accountable to it. And all I'm going to say is I just want to make sure in the future you never do anything like that again. There's got to be a level of accountability. You can't have too much power.

I can't. We can't have you have too much power. You know how powerful they are? They're still not accountable. And everybody knows it came from there. Zero accountability. China flu, ladies and gentlemen. Whatever, bro. I'm not okay with that. But anyways, we'll see. I'll stay skeptical. I'm hoping I'm wrong. I'm hoping I'm wrong. And I'm hoping all the trade deals and everything's being done is done perfectly well. It's going to be great. I just hope I'm wrong. So next one here. Trump says something very funny.

This is a video you were talking about and I accidentally saw it yesterday. What do you call it? Friend got a fat shot. She drove overseas and drug executives come to overcharge. You guys, when you watch this video, Brandon, if you want to pull it up, it's full-on comedy. This doesn't make any sense. Pause it. Whatever you're doing, put your coffee down because you're going to spill it on yourself. I'm going to save you from it. Just listen to this if you haven't seen it yet. Go ahead. Adam, stop. I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a

A businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. Highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said, President, he calls me, he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President. So that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy.

Very successful. Very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. President, could I ask you a question? I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working. Get a refund, fatty. I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on?

So check this out. Let me read this to you. President Trump shared a neurotic and very, very, very top guy businessman friend prescribed a highly neurotic businessman, very seriously overweight, $88, and it's $1,300. Trump signed an executive order. If you want to pull up the tweet when he writes this, I don't know if you have it or not. If you have it, just pull it up. Signed an executive order to lower U.S. drug prices.

requiring federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid to pay rates matching others, other developed countries claiming our country has the highest drug prices anywhere in the world by sometimes a factor of five, six, seven, and even eight times.

and that pharmaceutical companies make more than two-thirds of their profits in America, despite U.S. having only 4% of the world population. Adam, thoughts? Well, listen, Trump is the Don Rickles of presidents. His ability to make abject, sort of high-level, abstract ideas relatable is second to none. So in comedy, Vinny, you would know this,

The term he's using is called personification. When you personify something or some concept or some person, it boosts people's imagination and it simplifies complex ideas and it enhances the emotional impact. So rather than talking about drug prices, he's like, let me tell you about my fat...

Amazing, brilliant, sloppy, smart, gross, amazing, gross friend. Incredibly wealthy. What a guy. What a loser. What a guy. The biggest loser. You know who did this better than anybody? It was Dave Chappelle. Do you remember on the Dave Chappelle show? He would personify and humanize drugs and STDs. He's like, hey, what's going on? Syphilis, man, I'm just out here burning people up.

So, hey, what's up, herpes? Hey, I'm hanging out. So you turn these people into characters. Trump made drug prices funny and relatable. Remember the skit when Dave Chappelle talked about his white friend? He's like, yeah, you got to watch out for these white guys hanging out with all these black gangs. You never know what those white guys did. Adam, what do you think about the story? Here's the point. I don't want to tell me the history of comedians and what they said. No, no, no, no, Pat.

Let me get to my point. Please do. The point is we would not be talking about this if he didn't use personification about his fat friend. You don't think so? We would not be talking. It would not be a main story. We would maybe...

glance over it a little bit. The fact that he talked about his fat friend and personified this... You have no opinion on the actual story. The fact that the drug is $88. Jesus, Pat! I'm trying to get there. It's been two minutes. You're telling us how much comedy you watch. It's been 20 seconds. Tell us about...

The story. What do you think about the actual story? Go back to the tweet. Let me read this while you're giving me a historian for us of comedy. So Donald Trump, here we go. For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals in the U.S.,

We're so much higher in price than they were in other nations, sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the same drug manufactured in the exact same laboratory or planned by the same company. It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for years that it was research and development costs and that all of these costs were and would be for no reason whatsoever borne by the suckers of America alone, campaign contributions alone.

can do wonders, but not with me and not with the Republican Party. We are going to do the right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for many years. By the way, this is something that Bernie Sanders would always talk about, but this guy is getting done. Tom, your thoughts on this story? Can I finish my point? I'm going to come back to you. Tom, your thoughts on this story? Well, I've never had syphilis, but I enjoy comedy. But now I will quickly get to the drug prices. Now, here's what's going on. That's bad comedy.

Watch this. Watch this. Vinny, watch this. Nothing with numbers, Tom. These drug prices are just like student loans. Why do universities keep raising up tuition? Because someone else is paying for it. The student loan pays for it because they get the student loan. Student loan pays high-priced tuition, and then they're stuck with the price. Guess what? The reason drug companies are able to do this in America is because most people had health insurance through their employer. A lot of people did. And that

It's a hidden cost nobody ever sees. It's a hidden cost nobody ever sees. He's right. So you could raise up the prices, and then how do the consumers see it? They don't blame the drug companies. They say, Vinny, did you see we have to pay another 15% for our share of the health insurance? I can't believe that. It's a hidden tax on the back. It's a hidden tax. That's exactly the way to put it. And so what he's doing— Thank you for making us smarter, Tom. Thank you, Tom. But can you tell us three examples of comedy and how to spin it and bring it back? Because I need a little bit more history, Tom.

I'm not going to... I'm not going to stand up, but I'm going to say this. Wait, wait, wait. I'm going to take you really, really, really quick here. And there's also a thing in contract law called most favored nation. Meaning if all of us had agreements to work as union workers and our contract said we have a most favored nation, so if Vinny gets a raise...

to $16 an hour from $15, and we all have the same number of years of experience as Vinny, we get $16 an hour. That's called most favored nations. What Trump is saying is drug companies are selling things all over the world. I want most favored nation for the U.S. So if you're selling it lower in Germany...

That's the price I want the U.S. consumer to get. And that's the executive order he signed. He's not trying to arbitrarily drop the prices and do wage and price controls. He's saying to them, Vinny, if you're selling aspirin for $2 in Germany, you've got to sell it for $2 here. He's not selling them what price to sell it at. He's saying, you apparently think it's perfectly fine. You know what the problem is, though? The problem is the patent laws that we have in the big pharma industry.

It's ridiculous. And what the lawyers do with it. Rob, Brandon, can you go to the clip that you have with the RFK? But this was a short one. No, this one was short. The longer one, it was such an amazing freaking speech he gave in there. And then he gives him credit here. And it was fantastic. Is it the credit or is he giving it? Because I've seen the credit part. No, no. I think this is talking about Elizabeth Warren and all that. Is he saying anything about the actual... He's calling out Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Okay, go ahead and play the clip. Okay. All right. But he can't be bought.

unlike most of the politicians in this country. And he is standing here for the American people. I don't know what, you know, there's writers like Lord Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich who are saying that President Trump is on this side of the oligarchs. There has never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.

And I'm very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage. I'll say, because I don't want to be crude, your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people. We have 4.2% of the world's population.

Our country represents 75% of the revenues for pharmaceutical companies. 75. We spend in our country $11. That's insane. So, Adam, I'm going to come back to you. Sure.

So where I was going with the whole personification thing is this is what makes Trump unique. Is Trump the first president to bring up how big of a mess our drug system is or our health care or sick care system is? Is he? No. No. Bernie's been talking about it. Elizabeth Warren's been talking about it. Obama's been talking about it. Obamacare, drug prices. Biden talked about it.

But the point is Trump is able to tell stories that you're able to gravitate towards and understand. My stupid, fat, beautiful friend.

That's memorable. And he's able to move the needle because he's such a brilliant marketer. So what's the point is that he's doing things that other people have talked about, but he's doing them. So we talk about free markets in the United States. The health care and the drug care situation in the United States, we don't have free markets in the drug situation and in the health care. We pride ourselves on free markets, but we don't have...

We don't have them within our system. There's a lack of competition. You talked about the patent system. I remember when you were talking with Vivek on stage about, because he, wasn't he a biotech guy? Didn't he have a medical company that he understood this concept, Pat? Vivek? Yeah. Did he not? So you talked about the exclusivity and what companies are able to do and like how you're not allowed to introduce generic alternatives into the marketplace. Yeah.

So there's a lot of mess that's been going on that they've been trying to fix forever. But because of Trump's ability to move the needle, they're able to do that. But Adam, you mentioned Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, all these people. All of these guys are bought and paid for by pharma. Trump doesn't need any of them. He's not bought by any of them. So they all talk the talk.

This is walking the walk. This is actually doing it and putting his money where his mouth is, and this is a great freaking... Can I tell you something again? For me, this is great. That's amazing. But it's another quick fix. What we need to do is change the patent laws of Big Pharma. Can he do that? Yes, of course. Because the same way they extended it by lobbyists, you can shorten it. All they need to do is shorten the lifespan of... You should have a patent. You should have a run rate. You should have some years where you have ahead of everything else.

Pharmaceutical patents granted 20 years from the filing date providing exclusive rights to manufacture, use, and sell a drug for that period. This exclusivity incentivizes innovation but can also lead to higher drug prices. Beyond the 20-year patent, regulatory exclusives like orphan drug exclusive can further extend market protection. So not only do they do a 20-year and then there is now a way to extend it for another 18 years, another 20 years.

So then guess what? They can sell a drug that costs them $2 or 45 cents or $3 or a buck 20. They can sell it for $800. I can sell it for $190. They can do that. And in the moment, the patent expires. Have you seen what happens to the prices when the patent expires? It drops in ways that nobody even can understand. So for me, it would be great for Bobby to work closely with the president to get the

working on the patent laws that big pharma has. If you reduce it to 10 years, to 8 years, to 7 years, you know what that'll do? It'll dramatically drop the prices of health insurance. So what are we paying right now for health insurance? Tom, if we reduce, let's just kind of spitball here. What happens if we reduce...

patent law from what it is 20 years to seven years, how much do you think it'll reduce costs? Brandon, Tom, what do you think?

I think it would immediately reduce monthly health insurance premiums for Americans by 15 percent and over time probably a third. And I say that because you know what the drugs do. And I've gone through things with with my daughters who needed particular drugs when they were very, very young because of some anomalies. And thank God they're both really helpful. But also here's something else that happens.

If you, every 10 years, expire the patent, what happens is I got to run faster cadence. So maybe that's more medical research and more projects, more projects running faster that helps good drugs get invented that help a lot of other things, number one. And also, it's not just that the price will go down for the average consumer on their health insurance. It will also go down for the federal government on Medicare. Right.

Because what is Medicare Part D? It's a special insurance you get. D stands for drugs. It's for if you have a condition, you have a thyroid condition or something, you have to take a special medication that's more expensive. It's not covered fully under Medicare. And they even lobby to make it so that they can't prescribe you the generics.

So they're in the knickers of Medicare like that. And so now you would also make it so that maybe elderly people on Medicare, the U.S. tax dollars would go farther so they could get the thyroid drugs and things that they need, and they wouldn't be reaching into their pocket for Medicare Part D. I love that, Tom. What a great breakdown. Thank you for doing that. Brandon, what would you add to that? Yeah, so you know one of the most unfortunate things about this is that it incentivizes bad behavior. So I worked at a big pharma company. I did global security there for a couple of years. And you know what most resources went into it?

lobbying DC and trying to extend their patent. So they had this one drug that made them a multi-billion dollar company. And like every last bit of effort and energy went towards it, just tweaking that drug a little bit so they can extend the patent. And like everybody was freaked out. That was their number one concern is extending the patent so that they couldn't change their $100,000 drug per treatment to like her treatment. Yeah. So this was a rare disease drug. That was a hundred thousand dollars per treatment would have been, you know, pennies in the dollar if, if,

lost the patent but they you know so they're they're not putting their energy towards the right things and by the way you know who knows this you know who knows this is bobby kennedy well that's what i was gonna ask you do you think he's okay and i get the quick fix do you think he's actually thinking this big bobby bobby for sure he knows okay how long with something like that if he starts right now bro well let me tell you with the resistance of freaking big pharma let me tell you what that's like you ready

What happened the more the trade talks got tougher and tougher and tougher for China? You all of a sudden saw what happened with Pakistan, India with tensions and all of a sudden people are worried. What are they capable of doing, right? Okay. If in America you attack one industry, whether you prevent them from advertising on TV or you prevent them from having a 20-year monopoly with these patent laws,

You're going to see gangsters in ways you've never seen before. I agree. And that's the big pharma gangsters. That's them. Those guys are not the types of gangsters you think and you see in movies. You know, name the biggest gangsters. The Al Capones have nothing on big pharma's gangsters. Nothing. They have nothing on their lobbyists. Nothing. The access to power that they have.

to be able to destroy your life is unbelievable. But to me, I think if you truly care about the future of America and taxes and all this other stuff, go address the real issue.

Do you know how big of an industry cancer is every year? $200 billion. Who makes that $200 billion? What happens if you cure cancer and you come up with something? That $200 billion is gone. There's a lot of what happens if you eliminate war. What happens to those industries? Hundreds of billions of dollars is gone. So to me, fix the patent in every possible way. Things will be positively impacted. I'm moving on to the next story. I'm moving on to the next story. All right. So James Carville, a Democratic representative, call out Ilhan Omar. Sure.

Says party needs to praise greatness of U.S. What does that mean? What does that mean that we need to praise U.S.? Brandon, do you have the clip on that? Yes, I do. If you can play that clip, go for it. Here's Carver. Why don't you just get out the Democratic Party? Honestly, start your own. Who's he talking about? All right. Let's do it a simple way. Probably 69 percent. I don't know. We call Jim Garcina, Jeff Garrett.

Roughly 69% of people going to vote in November, maybe more. Let's do 70 for just round math are going to be white. Of that, 48%, maybe a little more, are going to be male. So that's roughly, let's just call it 33 and a third percent of the entire election. Well, let's just run against them because that's so goddamn smart. All right. So now we're going to have a campaign by the progressive left against white men.

who vote about a third of everybody that votes in an election. Why don't you, lady, start your own party? And then when it's over, you want to caucus with the Democrats,

Fine. We agree with a lot of things that you do, but we don't believe we ought to be running against white men. In fact, we don't think we ought to be running against any gender, any ethnic group, any race, any religion or anything else. God damn, these people are just helpless. They cannot be helped. There's nothing you can do to help them. They don't want to be helped.

And if they had any guts, they'd start their own goddamn political party and get out of ours. Okay. So that's that. By the way, pause it and go back to what Jasmine Crockett said. Did she say to who said it that we need a something, something white man? Is that who said it? Jasmine Crockett. Do you have that one, Brandon? Okay. Watch this here, folks. It is.

that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost so far. And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win. So there's a lot of people that are like, you know what? Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find. I mean, I'm just saying. Those are the callers that we're hearing. We're hearing people. Nope!

A white man's got to do it. No, no, no, no. For real. And to be clear, when we talk about them, I can tell you that there is one specific candidate. I had a donor on the phones with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell you it's not a black person nor woman. OK, so like it is they have the quote unquote they have chosen. And when I say that.

I'll keep putting her in front of the camera. So two things. Carville, your thoughts on that, Tom, and then we'll go to Crockett. Go ahead. Okay, here's what I think is happening. Trust them when they say, because trust that they're telling the truth. James Carville is saying...

We need to praise the greatness of USA, even though the core globalist, socialist, liberal Democrats do not believe that. But he is telling them we have to do this if we want to win. Then listen to her. The core of the party they have selected. Remember Pat's comments about arranged marriage? Listen between the lines. She's admitting it right there. They have selected. They have selected. There's this one white boy that they're all getting behind. I think it's J.B. Pritzker.

because Gavin Newsom is going to be just nuked on California, left, right, and center, by his own competitors in the party. You can't even run your own state. Don't tell me what's going on. Can you hear J.B. saying that? Of course. Yep. Can you hear Shapiro saying that? Of course. So guess what? He's going to be battered and bruised. He's not the guy. I don't think Shapiro's the guy because there's something below the surface there is why Shapiro didn't get chosen. We know about something. We all know about that. There's something going on there. So guess what? I think it's J.B. Pritzker.

He's got the money. He can self-do it. He's got the unions. He's from the Midwest. There's a lot of things going on. I think that's what she's talking about. But this is not truth. They are running to a fake center. They are faking it to the center. You know the old thing from Clinton? It says you've got to govern from the center. No, these people are trying to run from the center, and then they're going to govern from the left, from the left socialists, and they're going to go after all this stuff. And they're telling Elon Musk,

Omar, hey, calm down, step back, sit down, get out of sight. Why are they saying this? Because they're trying to run from the center. But America, it is a fake center. These are the same globalists, the same socialists that are there. And what you're seeing right now is a few of them. And by the way, you know who else is real smart about this? Van Jones.

You know who else is real smart about this? Bill Maher. And now listen to those voices. Stack them all side by side by side and tell me what you think you're hearing. And they want Bernie and the freaks to go over and just hang loose, stay in the closet.

And then you, not that closet, you go stay in the other room. But when the party starts, we're going to be governing from the left and we're going to destroy everything they believe in. But we got to run to the right and stop right there in the center. When I say run to the right of where we are, stop in the center, but it's a fake center.

And Tom, notice how she said, well, I mean, James Carver just sitting there just old and wet. And it's like, that's the problem with the Democratic Party. That's who they have speaking for them. But beyond all of his bluster, he gave numbers that he's right about. Yeah, no, he's right about the numbers. But then when you go to her, she's talking about women and not...

And not women. Look at the women that they're putting up. Hillary Clinton, who's a freaking criminal. Let's not even get into her. Kamala Harris, zero message, zero policy, has no idea what the hell she's doing. And then you have Jasmine Crockett, the most hood rat, ratchet ass. Like, like that's going to work. Like they didn't learn that that shit doesn't work. All right, Tom, and you're talking about faking it at the

end of the day from the JB Pritzkers yes he has the money and yes he's doing that dog whistle to call for people to get in the streets and basically write and cause this disruption at the end of the day guys no matter who comes in and I want nobody to be fooled for the Democratic Party every single thing that Trump is doing they're going to reverse that needs to be every talking point of every debate is are you going to open up the border it

That's the main thing to me. That's what they're going to do. They're going to open the border. They're going to reverse every trade deal. They're going to dismantle everything. And that's why we cannot let them win. And just in, why are they doing it? Why? Trump's approval rating heading up to the...

To the right. As soon as the sentiment of the market changes, and the market's had everything. We got all those things that China already talked about. But you see what's happening? It's going up. As soon as things move a little bit, his approval rating moves a lot a bit. Yes. And this freaks them out. And so they're like, guess what? This is what we have to do. This is what we're fighting. This is just this morning.

So he just pulled up something. Brandon, can you go back to what you just pulled up? Vegas odds for 2028. Who's at the top? Newsome? Yes. Go back to it. Where is it? So I saw Newsome at number one, surprisingly, AOC number two, and Pete Buttigieg three. Wow. So type in more markets to see if any other names comes below it.

Josh Shapiro is for a little bit. Look at Stephen A. Smith. Yeah, he jumped up. Stephen A. Seven. Kamala is below Stephen A. Smith now. That is embarrassing. Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore.

Andy, Bashar, J.B. Pritzker, Tim Waltz, Mark Cuban, Michelle Obama, Cory Booker, I think. Pat, can I ask you one question? Yeah, for sure. You're a student and a teacher of sales, public speaking, and a lot of things. We have courses that we sell where you're teaching the world this. Put those people, this is just the perceptions in the voting right now. Right. Put J.B. Pritzker and the top eight of those people on stage, and what do you think happens? I think he does well.

I think he does. I do, too. And I think a bunch of these disappear. I think Gretchen Whitmer disappears. I think I don't even know why Kamala is on that list. I believe I think Pete disappears. Kamala isn't even going to be on the stage. You're not going to let it happen. You think AOC will be on the stage? I think. Well, I think AOC if AOC is on the stage, she's being allowed to be on the stage if she's non-volatile enough to be a VP candidate.

If she's non-volatile enough to be a VP candidate. If she's non-volatile enough. Like, if she gets up on stage and says, whack, then I think what will happen is they'll pull her back. But I think she's maturing. I think she's maturing as a politician. I don't agree with her points, but I think she's maturing. I think she's moderating a little bit. I think she's being coached. But I think she's formidable, and I think she would be their—

merely to raise her profile to the voter, knowing that, look, she's only going to go three rounds in this thing, and then these other people are going to... Adam, thoughts? So it's so obvious to me that the Democratic Party as an establishment is moving on from straight white men. We don't need you. We don't want you. We ain't here for you anymore. Is there any more clear of an example of James Carville...

Fighting with one of the new faces of the progressive left, Ilhan Omar, who's loudly and proudly saying out loud in America that white men are the problem. Threats, extremists. Yeah. So, you know, it's so amazing to me that in America, Ilhan Omar can online and in real life criticize the president of the United States.

But in Somalia, where she's from, if she said little Bo Peep about whoever the leader of the piracy of Somalia is these days, she'd be goners.

So she's out there singing about abortion and women's rights. They don't do that in Somalia. No. So it's don't act what, don't do it as I, don't do as I say, I do as I do. She hasn't lived this type of life, but she's using it to indoctrinate her people. You know what they call the city that she runs in Minneapolis? Little Mogadishu. Just like in Miami, we have Little Havana or Little Chinatown in San Francisco, Little Mogadishu. And watch out for what's going on there. Now, Pat, you said one of your words is,

that you were talking about for this year was signal versus noise. In my opinion, this is just a whole bunch of noise because these women, these loud yappy women in the Democratic Party and also in the Republican Party have what I would call no power.

So AOC probably has the most power. She's a representative. Let's set her aside. Ilhan Omar, she's just a loud woman. Jasmine Crockett, a loud ghetto woman. Rashida Tlaib, a loud terrorist woman. So they don't have power. What do you mean terrorist woman? She's a Palestinian Hamas supporter. Straight up. They're not pro-America. Like how many times do we need to see them encourage people to basically burn down the flags? By the way,

in terms of hierarchical order, by the way, I could say the same thing from Marjorie Taylor green or Lauren Bobert. How about just make a lot of noise, but at least, you know, they love America. So, you know, in, in a hierarchy of who has the most power, it goes representative mayor, uh,

Senator, governor, president of the United States in no particular order other than that. I don't know if I put any mayor. It's mayor of a big city, I would say. But the point is, a mayor of a big city has more power than any of these loud, yappy women. With the exception of maybe AOC. Here's David Hogg on Bill Maher. Go ahead. Wait.

What I think happened last election is younger men, they would rather vote for somebody who feels, who even if they don't completely agree with, they don't feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they're going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated. And what's interesting about this moment is it feels like the two parties in some senses have flipped where, you know, Republicans used to be the judgmental assholes in many ways. And since many Democrats, despite us, I would say for most of us coming from

the right place of wanting to do the right thing we've created a culture where we say well if you say the wrong thing you're excommunicated and that's just not how human beings work nobody is perfect but ultimately what we have to do here is figure out how to bring people back in and work towards the bigger goal of advancing the future of this country and helping young people especially get by so that they're able to focus on their lives and you know

getting with a young woman or something like that instead of how are they going to pay their rent, for example, or how are they working their two jobs? Young people should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun. So, by the way, fully agree with the guy. Makes a lot of sense. You know, he's you know where he's from, by the way.

He's from 15 minutes away in Parkland. So he was, I think, recently voted in as co-chair of the DNC. Vice. Vice. But now he's speaking what I would call common sense. And I literally think he's trying to be removed right now. They're trying to remove him. They're trying to remove him. Who, they, them are trying to remove them? They, them. Exactly. So when you think of cancel culture and you think of identity politics, he basically just called out the party that is essentially the reason that the party is losing is

And they canceled him. Is that an actual true story? The credentials committee of the DNC voted 13-2 to void the election results of February in which Hogg and Pennsylvania State Rep Malcolm Kenyatta Dee were elected to serve as co-vice chair of the DNC, according to the New York Times. The vote comes as Hogg is reportedly planning to spend up to $20 million to fund primary campaigns against incumbent Democrats. They're going to eat their own, bro. This party is so freaking lost. And David Hogg, I mean...

Where did he come from? What do you mean, where did he come from? No, I mean, he doesn't have no political background. He was at the Parkland shooting. He was a survivor. God bless him. He survived. I think he became president. Yeah, he went to Harvard, and he's one of the guys that wants to take everybody's guns away from him. You should Google the amount of crazy stuff. No, no, Adam, it's a fact. The amount of stuff that he said about us and having guns and stuff, he ain't the truth, and he has no chance of that. I'm just going to put myself in his shoes for a second.

Just for a second, if I saw a couple dozen of my classmates die in front of me, I'd probably have some strong feelings about guns. Yeah, and take them away from everybody? That's not what I'm saying. No, that's his attitude, and I don't like it. I'd like to see some quotes from him. I'm assuming he has a pretty strong position on it because his roommate in class and his classmates got killed.

So that would probably wake you up just a little bit. Now, I'm not advocating for taking away all guns. I'm not even sure if that's his position. But I understand why he would feel that way. Do you not? No, I understand. But what qualifications does that have to do to run a party, run a whole Democratic National? You talked about his thoughts on 2A. Don't you think if you have a couple dozen of your friends die, that might...

in front of you might sway your opinion just a little. That's fine with the swing, but for you to say Americans don't need any guns, let's just take all the guns, I have a problem with it. Show me that.

Look, we've seen this movie before, separate, what you guys are talking about. It's called The Tea Party. It's called The Tea Party. The Tea Party said we're going to primary some of the guys in our own party, in the Republican Party, because we're upset with you and we don't agree with you on this and this and this, and the Tea Party was born. What he just said, you could just change that and take that back 20 years and...

Put another face on it. And that's what the Tea Party sounded like. This is not what we want. This is not the party we envision. This is not what we're doing. And we're going to primary him. And guess what? The Tea Party people got ostracized on the outside, too. Well, now the Dems are saying, hang on. We can't have this guy taking money and primarying some of our favorite players. No, that's not the way you do it. And that's what's happening here. Tom, very good point. The only sort of.

I would say that the Tea Party had conviction. I think they came to power over the national debt and our budgets and our deficits. Well, I completely agree with the principles of it, but I'm saying it's the same situation where people upsetting the establishment got, you're out of here. The difference is this, is that what does the Democratic Party stand for at this point?

I used to vote Democrat. I look at them. I'm like, what are you doing for someone like me? A normal street white guy. Like they're kicking people like us out of the party. And we're looking at the party now being like, what are the, who are these people? The D the tea party at least had conviction. They wanted fiscal conservatism.

Tell me what the Democratic Party, especially the progressive left, stand for at this point. I agree with that 100%. Just basically TDS and hating on Trump. If you say you're going to primary the establishment, this is what happens. Adam, David Hogg once tweeted, you have no right to a gun. You are not a militia. You have no right to a gun as an American. And did he tweet that? It's out there. He could Google it. It's out there. I'm not lying to you. It's Chad GBT found it too.

Okay. He has no chance. They're going to eat him alive. He has no chance. Sorry. He's gone. Okay. The story just came out today. Do you have any strong feelings on David Hogan? What's going on here with this guy? No, I'm just watching these guys try to find each other, trying to find out what they're going to be doing.

and they're contradicting each other, they're going into different factions and they're creating, they are so lost right now. It's not even funny. For me it was easy. The best thing you said is, what do you stand for? Tell me what you stand for. Not what you're against, but what do you stand for? I don't even know what they stand for. I've asked the question so many times, what is it you stand for? We've always been the less judgmental party, now we're the more judgmental party. That was actually a very good analysis on how he broke it down.

Because, you know, Republicans were Christians that were judgmental. You can't do this. You can't do that. So now it's like the other way around, walking on eggshells with the Democratic Party. I get it. Okay, next one here. So a story goes out about Emmanuel Macron hiding a cocaine pouch in viral video. French media calls claims absurd conspiracies. This is Times Magazine.

of India explaining this. Now, this pouch on a train to Ukraine sparked social media of cocaine use, fueled by Russian Foreign Minister spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who suggested on Telegram that Macron German Chancellor Frederick Mertz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had used cocaine and failed to remove the paraphernalia before journalists arrived. Zakharova also claimed Ukrainian President Zelensky an unstable cocaine addict.

This is a real stereotype. Yeah. Claiming a Western diplomat said drug use amongst European leaders was normal. The leaders were traveling from Poland to Kiev for high-level meetings. French media outlet Liberation dismissed the claims as absurd conspiracy, stating that the mystery's bags of white powder is actually a handkerchief rolled into a ball that was placed on the table before Kirsten Maher

arrived and the cameras entered the booth, the object near Mertz called a cocaine spoon online was likely a stirrer or a toothpick, which the German chancellor is said to have been fiddling with. Okay, so now let's watch the video, Rob, Brandon, and let's see what we see. Go ahead, Brandon.

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So look, that's the back right next to the cup of water. It could be tissue. Zoom in a little bit, Brandon. Can you? I don't think I can. Watch what happens right now. Whoa, hey!

Awful concern about that tissue. And look how he switches it like a perfect running back. Look at this from one hand to the other. Boom. And it's going in the bag. And going into the pocket of the sweater. Boy, there's high-level meetings, and there's getting high-level meetings. Can you go to the straw? Do you have the picture of the other one as well, Brandon, or no? The montage? Not the montage. I said, Brandon, I slagged Rob a couple things of what it might be. There's another clip showing.

There's another clip showing what that thing could have been. Okay, Tom, for you, you're pretty, that's funny. That's a spoof right there. Tom, your thoughts on this. You're reasonable. What do you think this was? Well, I look at it, and I think where there's smoke, there's fire. And you can read quite a bit about Zelensky and a lot of tabloids and a lot of people talking about that apparently, so they say, he uses coke and really enjoys it.

Was Zelensky at this meeting? They were going to Ukraine to meet him. Where are they in this meeting? On the train. They're on this train traveling. And also, you know, these are a bunch of baby boomers that are now leading countries. And I'd just like to point out that the baby boomers partied. And so you hear a lot about this in both. And I'll tell you. See, I have a hard time. That's the one. Zoom in. Yeah.

What is that? Those are little tootski spoons, Pat. Oh, wow. And mind you, there's no lime in his drink. What are you stirring? It's a cup of water. There's no stirring. Okay? And you guys have to get to, like, guys, you have to listen from people that have done cocaine and know the mannerisms of cocaine. So go ahead, Vinny. Thank you, Adam. Hey, Mr. Miami, I'm pretty sure you know this. I've done it at your house. Listen. What? I'm messing it up. It's not like he stopped and did a quick freeze here. He's just coming in there. Yeah.

Is that what they're saying, that this is what they're saying? Well, they're saying, I mean, if you guys think about it, the mannerism of doing it, of doing that type of stuff. That's a cook's muscle. Yeah. And then, Brandon, I sent you stuff. I sent you a clip, and you said this about Zelinsky. There's rumors, everybody's saying that Zelinsky is on blow. I sent you the... Yeah, is it? Keep going. Keep going. Look at these manners right here. This one? Yeah, don't even... I wouldn't even need the volume. For anybody out there in the audience that's ever partied, what kind of... Look at this guy.

Yeah, fix that. A little tootski. A little tootski there. That's what that mannerism. And then, Brandon, I sent you a photo of him. Is that what you call it? A tootski? It's a tootski. We do a little bump. And then I go to his pants backwards. This guy is a mess. This guy is a mess. I just sent you another photo of Zelinsky doing, where was it? Keep going, Brandon.

So, so, so, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Right there. This is this meeting. His pants are on backwards. You know who does that? People that are doing cocaine. Zoom in. That's his pants are backwards, Pat. No, he was listening to Criss Cross. Not Gullit. No, that was this. His pants are backwards. Just because you do drugs doesn't mean you put it on backwards. Because when you're on cocaine, you're just like, you're geeking out. No, Vinny, stop it. Maybe that's like the style of like some kind of a new...

Balenciaga pants backwards. No, but, and here's my thing, that attitude of get rid of it, and that straw, we have club soda, that's for limes and stuff when they stab the fruit. There was no fruit, it's water. So what do you think it was, Vinny? I think they were partying, which is, boy, you're on a train ride, good for them! They got a,

gotta talk about politics and russia and shit let them let them party so they were on a train to going to meet uh the cocaine cowboy now cocaine cowboy my thing is this though since any just in in general just on a broader uh scope i think all the leaders every year not only need to take a drug test number one number two especially with a joe biden situation a live streamed cognitive test from a non-biased civilian doctor and we all get to watch it live uh

Anybody in Congress, anybody in government. You think it was drugs? I think it was drugs because if you look at the way they're moving their hands, why did he so quickly grab the tissue, then switch hands with the tissue, and then put the tissue in a pocket? What do you think? It's like he looked pretty concerned about a wadded up tissue. Thank you. Brandon. Yeah, no, I think so. Just his body language. He seems like he really wanted to hide it. Adam, what do you think?

Oh, God. Here we go. So if Hunter Biden and Zelensky were at this meeting, I'd be like, oh, they're definitely doing propane. No doubt.

But you're telling me that these three old white dudes on a train are trying to party on their way to Zalinski. Can I talk? You and your Tootski thing. Very weird. It's a little. You've had a lot of experience with this. You've never done drugs, Adam. Come on, Adam. Wait, wait, wait. I want to ask you a question. Shut up, Tom. No, no, no. I'm not shutting up. I'm asking you a question in support of your point. Let me just finish my point. I'm trying to help you make a point. I don't need your help, guy. I think I need your help when it comes to partying.

No! You need more help than you realize, my little cherub. Go ahead, help me out, Tom. Party animal. What in the...

The villages and other retirement communities in Florida. That's where you're going with this? What is like the number one health problem? STDs. STDs? Yes. They're partying. So guess what? They're retired. This is their younger brothers and sisters in their 60s. They grew up at a time of partying and they're still partying because now they're enabled by power and money that's all around them. Tom.

Why is it so surprising? Thank you for your retirement help. Retirement home. You don't think Macron and Brigitte are doing bonkers? They might be doing a whole other thing. Maybe give you an AARP discount. As much as I hang out in Miami, this isn't my thing. Your Tootski thing, I've never even heard of before. Tom is doing drugs in retirement communities. I'll tell you a funny story that a guy told me in Miami. He goes, hey, do you like to party? Keep it straight, Adam. Get your point.

Your retirement community is calling. You got to get home soon. Listen to me. There's a guy who goes, hey, do you like to party? Do you like to party? I go, no, that's not my thing. He goes, Tom, shut it. He goes, hey, do you like to party? And I go, no, that's not my thing. He goes, no, no, me either, bro. I don't do cocaine. I just like to smell keys in bathroom stalls. Mm-hmm.

What? So I don't think these guys are doing cocaine. That's not their thing. Come on. If Hunter Biden was there. I thought a key. If Hunter Biden was there and Zelensky was there, I would have other things. I don't think that's what they're doing. BBD, what do you think is going on here? You think they're actually just blowing lines? They're more likely to blow each other. They didn't know the camera crew was going to come in there. They were kind of like, hey.

It might have just been tissue. Well, you know, we are talking about Macron, so that last point maybe. I don't know. Listen, here's all I'll tell you. I even posted about this, and I said, you know, I'm sure that's just creatine or collagen or something like that. I don't think there's anything in there. Getting old. It's my anti-aging coffee supplement. But the way he reacted, and by the way, isn't there a video?

Is the video of Macron dancing, is that real? Or is that somebody else's? That video is funny as hell, right? He's just kind of gone like, you know, he's doing what he's doing. And his hairstyle is different. It's so great watching that video. I had to defend you recently. You had to what? I had to defend you. They go, I've noticed that when PBD talks, some guy said to me, he goes, he's always like touching his nose. Is he doing drugs? I go, if there's anything PBD is not doing.

It's drinking drugs, smoking maybe a cigar. Have you noticed that sometimes you'll touch your nose when you speak? Yeah. Have you noticed this? Yeah. So it's a guy's like, yeah, I think he's doing drugs. I go, listen, if you want to do drugs with his nose, he could probably take down a whole situation. I could hide a lot. You got to hide a lot. Get that guy away from my computer. I can have storage for backup. That is what PB is not doing. He ain't smelling keys and bathroom stoves. You don't want me doing anything with that. No drugs, no coffee. You do not want me doing Red Bull,

Coffee, anything like that. No. If you smoke a joint, maybe we could film that. Oh, that would be good. If I did, that podcast would be so legit. And you know we would shoot one and never go live with it.

Like instead of your vitamins, Jen or somebody. But you have to make sure the guys in the back where the camera guys, you have to trust them because they're going to be like recording to save it forever. They're going to be like, I have the clip. 22 years from now, look for a million dollars. Here's the highlight, number one. Yeah. Okay. All right. So let's continue. By the way, for some of you guys that live in California, we always like to bring good news to you guys. It's like one of the things we're fully committed to, our friends there. $8 gas. Finally.

New study reveals it may come to blue state next year, triggering bipartisan concern. But when you're that loyal to the state of California, are you kidding? Like you want to be the first to hit the $8 gas and brag about it and tweet about it. So University of Southern California, Professor Michael Mischie study predicted California gas could hit $8 and 43 cents in 2025 due to closure of Phillippies, Phillips 66, Los Angeles and Valero, California.

Benicia refineries warning any disruptions to oil and foreign gasoline supply will exasperate California's gasoline dilemma and drive up prices impacting California, Nevada and Arizona per Monday analysis reported by Fox News. Democratic Governor Newsom press office called the study unsourced but posted on X. The governor directed the state to redouble efforts to work with refineries.

to ensure a safe and affordable and reliable supply of gasoline. While former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villagrosa, a Democrat, responded, if we continue to drive refineries out of California, gas prices will soar and disproportionately affect those who can least afford it. What a weird thing to say. All these guys are becoming conservatives and capitalists all of a sudden, urging balanced climate policy. Tom, your thoughts? Well,

I'm scared to say this, but I actually agree with Antonio Villarosa. Oh, weird. He is correct. He was also mayor of Los Angeles for a time. And he's pointing out, if you drive the refineries out, there goes the supply, the price is going up. What I love about the governor's office is this guy from the University of Southern California,

says something. And rather than ignoring it because it's nothing, they say, that study is unsourced and nothing. Really? It seems to have got your attention on a Monday morning. What's up with that? They said, no, no, no, no, no. But we're calling on the state to redouble efforts to work with

And there's a typo there. It should say the few refineries that are left. State should redouble efforts to work with a few of refineries left to ensure a reliable supply of gasoline. What this is, guess what? This is called consequence hits the headlines. That's what's happening here. And the guy that chased them out through taxation and regulation is

Governor Newsom is now seeing people like University of Southern California professor Michael Amishi saying, hey, man, guess what? The supply goes down, the price goes up, and it's going to affect all these Californians, you idiot. And Mayor Villarosa says, you're right, and it's the people that can least afford it. Because one of the things that that Mayor Antonio, one of the things that he was correct about is,

He was worried about everyone wanted to recreate downtown L.A. with jobs. And you know what he kept asking? Where are the workers going to live that they could actually get here in less than an hour in the morning? You see that? He was right. Everyone's moving out to Riverside. They're moving out to San Bernardino. They're moving out to Valencia. They're moving out to Canyon Country. They're moving out to Ventura County.

Why? Because that's where they could find housing, save communities, slightly better schools. And so he was right. And he's talking about the people that can least afford it are the people that are going to be commuting the most because they have to go out to find the affordable housing and then

When jobs are in central Los Angeles or in the more urban areas, they got to do that. So this is, you know what this is? This is another reason why Gavin is just going to be a target, target, target, target during the primaries. Because you know what I would do if I was running against him and I was Josh Shapiro, I would beat him with this story. I would crush him with these things, but that's what's going on. Once again, Gavin Newsom's,

A vote for Gavin Newsom has consequences. Go back to that chart that you had, Brandon. Go back to the one that you had. You want this one or... Adam just sent me this one. You want this one or the map? That's a good one as well. But let me see that one. That's Adam. I'll let Adam talk about that one. Go to the other one that you had. So keep that for Adam. Go to that. Yeah, go to that one. Check this one out. Look at this.

Oh, my God. Florida's so wide you can't even see it. That's the gas price. I love it. Look at California. Isn't it just beautiful, though? Yeah. By the way, some people who are from California who are conservatives will say, I told you California is a red state. Look at that. It's a red state. It's a red state. It's a red state is what it is. I live in a red state, man. But I'm telling you, like...

You know, I go to church on Sundays, and I do my best to live a good life as a good man. It's tough. Every day you make mistakes. But as much as I try to live a good life, when I compare myself to the people who live in California who are that noble... You don't even hold a flame to them. Listen, let me tell you, I think...

If I was to go out there and rally, like be a political community organizer, you know what I would do? I would request anybody who currently lives in California and lived there from 2000 and you didn't leave after the COVID policies, you kept your kids in California from 2000, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. If you've lived in California during those five years, I would actually campaign to get all of those guys to have a saint in front of their names. Yeah.

Don't you think? Like on the IDJ, St. Thomas. St. Thomas Ellsworth. St. Vincent Oceana. St. Adam Sosnick. St. Brandon Assetto. I think they've earned the right to get the saint. Am I asking for too much? They're all very religious. They're a member of the same church. Our Lady of Perpetual Taxation. You have a new pope. I think they need to really consider it. And I think if Gavin did that, he can keep those people for another four years.

Just add that little saint in front of it. Adam, your thoughts on this? St. Ricardo Aguilar, mi amigo. Oh, he loves that place. So I'm going to tell you a funny story that you're going to appreciate, and this involves our friend Mario.

who I love to death. Shout out to you, Mario Aguilar. So California, I think, has the top seven of the top ten most expensive cities when it comes to gas prices. San Francisco, Napa, Sonoma, L.A., San Diego, Oakland, San Jose are the top seven most expensive cities to get gas in the United States. So rounds of the top ten. They'd have more cities on the list, but they ran out of cities.

So California is the most expensive. So I'm with PBD and Mario driving from Vegas to LA. You'll remember this story. If you don't remember it, this was the story, the time where we spent three hours laughing about, look at the view.

When Mario's telling a story about when you guys first started PHP and you guys... You're looking at some bitches out there. What are you looking at? Some bitches, Tony? You know, it was a whole funny story. We'll go there. So I'm with Mario. You remember this. So shout out to you, Mario. What the Tony? So we had a rental car. I think we drove from Vegas at like literally midnight. We got to LA. It took us a couple hours. Yeah. The next day we had to go get gas, Mario and I. And he was taking me. I think I was going to go see somebody.

And I don't have a car in Miami, much less a rental car in LA. We went to go get gas. When I saw the price of the gas, I was like, what?

$7.95. I remember the number. This is what gas cost in L.A. We stayed, I think, at the Beverly Hilton or some fancy place or whatever. But I was so shocked at the price of gas. That was the point of the story, the price of the gas. That's right. Thank you, Tom. So the point is this. I was shell-shocked. Tom, you've got to end this comedy career right now, buddy.

The point is this. You remember that story that we were with Mario? Shocking on horror of the price of gas in L.A. This is my first experience getting gas there with Mario. Well, listen, one thing's for sure. The way the guy is breaking down on what can happen in California with gas prices, it makes you think. But if Newsom plays offense and changes it up, maybe it'll be $7.50 instead of $8. So, look, to the people that are worried about it, he's going to figure it out. You guys already have so much trust in him. It's going to be fine. Be patient.

I say things are going to get better if you guys wait another 15 years. So stick it. I mean, look, we're sticking. Yeah, stick around. It's going to be fine to all the Armenians that are DMing me, pissed off. By the way, let me tell you, this is a perfect time to say this. Get to do kayak.

Or, I have an Armenian circle and I have an Assyrian circle. And I want to get all the people that follow our content on Manect for Armenian circle and an Assyrian circle. Download the app Manect. Armenians, get on there, talk to each other, network with each other. Whichever Manect circle of Armenians and Assyrians gets to 1,000, it's 10 bucks a month, and you guys can network with each other all you want. It's awesome. They're so busy talking to each other.

Whichever one gets 2,000 people first, I'm going to host a leadership event at our hangar here for Armenians and Assyrians. But whoever does it first. And the reason why I'm doing both is because my mother's Armenian, Borossian, and my dad's Assyrian. Shalom. I can't wait to see what's going to happen. By the way, which community do you think is more competitive, Armenians or Assyrians?

It's kind of a tough one. Oh, the Armenians. You think so? Oh, yeah, big time. Seriously. How many more Armenians than Assyrians are there? It's ridiculous. I haven't seen the Assyrians get too competitive. I'm not trying to create a civil war. All I'm saying is that Armenians are more competitive than Assyrians. I think way more competitive than Assyrians. I think Armenians got this. You want to bet? Yeah, yeah. I don't think the Assyrians. What do you want to do? Armenia, they kind of have their own country.

Okay, that's where you're going to go. Guys, we've got to cancel this show. I've got to take my shoe out. Guys, you can find my Jewish circle on the net. I'm sure all you guys out there would love to be a part of what we've got going on here. That's hilarious. By the way, Mike Waltz may join. I think that's just appropriate. Tom, you can be a part of it. You've just got to leave the white hood at home. Okay?

Perfect. Let's go to the next story. I'm just going to go into that story. I don't think we're going to get a better transition into that story, but let's do it now. All right. So inside Waltz's ouster, okay, before Signalgate talks with Israel angered Trump. All right. So let's go through this here. Let me read this story to you guys. President Trump asked the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz. This is WAPO. So you just know, you know who's writing it.

A former Green Beret officer, due to frustrations over his hawkish stance, particularly after Waltz coordinated with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu on the military options against Iran, with a source saying Waltz wanted to take U.S. policy in a direction Trump wasn't comfortable with because the U.S. hadn't attempted a diplomatic solution as inclusion...

Of a journalist in a sensitive signal group chat and March sealed his fate to Trump nominated Waltz as ambassador to the United Nations. The ouster influenced by White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, view that Waltz was not a good fit, prompted some officials to question the need for a traditional National Security Council with one official stating some of that just happens through the working process. As Trump prefers loyalists like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his interim secretary,

who has shed traditionalist views to align with Trump's

Vinny, I'm coming to you first. All right, guys. So I don't know. First of all, this is it's so wild that this story wasn't talked about longer than just the, you know, half a day that it was on. So basically, I'm going to break it down on May 3rd. Trump basically got rid of Mike Waltz, fired him. He was serving as national security advisor. And just to remind everybody, Mike Waltz is the same guy who accidentally added a journalist to the highly sensitive signal group chat.

where top officials were discussing attack plans in Yemen. All right, he tried to claim, and he's on camera saying it, that the contact was sucked in, whatever the hell that means. That alone should have got him fired, but for some reason, Trump kept him around. Fast forward to May 1st on my birthday. I remember this. He got caught using Signal Chat during a cabinet meeting. Brandon, you have that photo that I have. Yeah, right here. Yeah, but it wasn't just a regular app that...

that we use, and we use Signal when we leave the country, all right, guys? It was something called TM Signal, an Israeli-modified version with archiving features designed to relay and store potential classified info. Then, May 3rd, Washington Post reported that he was fired after engaging in intense coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about military operations

against Iran ahead of Bibi's Oval Office meeting. So basically, Waltz was going behind Trump's back, strategizing with a foreign head of state about striking Iran's nuclear sites. Trump found out about that. Is that confirmed? These are all confirmed. This is all Washington Post. This is a Washington Post article. So what is that story with the text? Go back to the signal thing? What do they show? They're showing that he's on TM's signal.

He's on the Israeli app. It's going back and forth. This is an Israeli intelligence app. This isn't the signal that we use.

This is going back and forth with Israel in the meeting. This guy is a freaking moron, just a complete moron. Like he didn't learn his lessons. Okay. And then the article even says, Pat, at the top, the view by some in the administration was that Walt was trying to tip the scales in favor of military action and was operating hand in glove military.

with the Israelis, okay? And by the way, it doesn't get worse than that, all right? Our national security advisor is sitting in a cabinet meeting, going back and forth, texting with the foreign government, okay? And then somebody, one of Trump's advisors said, you can't do that, this is in quotations,

And Brandon, it's in that article. You can't do that. You work for the president of your country, not a president of another country. Okay? If you think about it, that's kind of... That's borderline treason, Pat. You can't work hand in glove with a foreign leader to push military action behind the president's back. Okay? And then your punishment...

Instead of getting like in deep shit, guess what happens? He gets nominated. He's not in yet. Nominated to be the ambassador of the United Nations, which he'll probably get. And now there's reports out there that Trump has now cut off direct contact with Bibi Netanyahu. Reports from Israeli Army Radio and other outlets say Trump team told Israeli officials they believe Bibi was trying to manipulate him, especially when it came to Iran and Syria and Trump wasn't having it.

OK, and then just three days ago, Trump dropped the requirements for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel as part of the nuclear deal with the U.S., which means Trump basically said to Saudi Arabia, you don't need to be friends with Israel to make a deal with us. And that condition now is off the table.

And it's kind of – if you think about it, Pat, yes, Israel is our ally. But that type of sneaky going behind the door, Trump does not play that shit. He's all about peace. He's all about diplomacy. You're in there using a different Israeli app to tell them what the hell is going on in a meeting? And listen, again, I could criticize Israel as the government, and it has nothing to do with Jewish people. But Bibi Netanyahu, how many times has he come to our Congress and said we should strike these people?

We should go to war here. When he said about Iraq, you know what he said about Iraq? He said, and I quote, I guarantee, I guarantee if we take out Saddam Hussein, it would have enormous positive reverberations around the region. And it didn't. You doing that type of shit and trying to get us into another war behind Trump's back, he found out, he fired him, and he's not happy with it. I think it's great.

So this guy's Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz. His name keeps popping up here. And if he did anything to jeopardize American security and American authority and the Trump presidency, he should be fired. But as I continue to remind you, don't pay attention to what Trump says. Watch what he does. So, you know, you were saying that he should be fired. We should let go of this guy. It's like, well, he keeps.

being a part of the administration and he's just nominated for the United Nations. So could it be that this is just smoke and not actual fire and people are running with the story and just putting it out there and not having enough information? I don't know. This is not something that I want to take a strong stance on because I don't know Mike Waltz. I don't know this situation. A lot of hearsay here.

But it's reported. You didn't read into the story. I did. You believe everything the Washington Post says? No, no, no. Adam, I'm just telling you from all the reports that I've heard, the guy got in trouble for leaking and putting somebody in the chat. Then he's on camera. They took photos of him. So did Pete Hegseth.

But he continues to have a job. Adam, I understand where your stance is coming from, but I did the research, and all the reporting is pointing at the guy was communicating with Israel in a cabinet meeting to push for war with Iran. You can't do that. And what's his position, Mike? He was the national security. He was. He's fired. So that's on him. Okay, he's fired. Is he fired? What do you mean on him? He was communicating with Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. That's not good. To me...

the country he's communicating with is almost secondary. It's not irrelevant, but it's secondary. You're an American. You work for America. You work for the Trump administration. Your loyalty is to America. What are you doing? Well,

Whether you're talking to the UK, whether you're talking to South Korea, whether you're talking to Israel, whether you're talking to China or a foe, what are you doing? Make sure that you're abiding by the Trump administration's guidelines. 100%. That's my number one thing. It's America. It's the Constitution. That's my number one thing. Did he go behind Trump's back or not? Yes. So it is on him. Of course, every country, no matter who they are, have their own self-interest and want to perpetuate their own...

ideology and goals. Of course. Pushing us into... Hold on. Adam, I agree. Whatever it is. I agree 1,000%. My point is, this is on... Who's this on? I'm going to tell you right now. This is on Mike Walsh. Okay. And Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. Because if you're going to claim that you're our biggest ally, then...

What are we talking about? Trump is the most pro-Israel president. Pulls up in the chair. Respects the hell out of him. But you're going to go behind his back and try to push for a war? What did Trump say? Trump fired the guy. He's gone. What did Trump say about Netanyahu? What did he actually do? Absolutely.

And all I hear is a lot of hearsay. A lot of, no, Adam, there's just reports everywhere that they're canceling. Even Pete Hexeth was supposed to go to Israel. He canceled the trip. He's in Saudi Arabia right now. I'm just saying, Adam, what I'm saying are facts. What he did was obviously wrong. I don't know if what you're saying is facts. Hold on. You're reading stories and you're reading into it. That's fine. This is called doing my homework and doing my research. And I did it. I'm trying to see what, Adam, what are you trying to say? So,

What I'm trying to say is this is on – So you're saying if he's screwed up, it's on him. Yes. Okay, great. Then what? You don't think every single prime minister, president, leader is trying to influence Trump in some way?

Everyone is. You don't think she is sending his diplomats to try to influence Trump? You don't think Iran is sending their influence to try to influence Trump during their nuclear negotiations? It's the same for any country. It is on the job of the administration, the person representing the United States, to hold the line and say, no, this is what Trump wants to do. He didn't do it. That's what he's saying. That's my point. Now, if I had a country I'd be worried about...

It would not be Israel as an American. Why? Well, because there's a country called Iran. That is trying to push us to go to war with an Americans are going to die. Can I finish my point? That's what I don't like. So, by the way, did you hear the story about this $400 million luxury airplane that Qatar has gifted Trump? Yeah. Okay. What do you know about Qatar?

What do you know about the talk? Are we changing the topic? Because I'm still confused. I'm not changing the topic. Mike Walsh is wrong, but you think it's okay for a national security advisor that's sworn into office, sitting in there using a freaking Israeli communication app

app going directly with another government. Vinny, we've already talked about this. I do not think it's okay. This is on my walls. It's on both of them. I'm moving on to a different thought. It's on Israel too. I'm moving on to a different thought in this regard. The Trump administration. Vinny, shush for a second. What do you know about Qatar? Let me hear you this. Tell me where you're going with Qatar. What I want to understand is this is...

pretty outrageous gift, a $400 million luxury gift that Qatar is just giving. And by the way, if you say you don't know, tell me what you know about Qatar, what they're doing in the world. Do you have any idea? Adam, I'm still waiting. Just answer this specific question. If he's not going to give you the answer, you go ahead and say it. Yeah, tell me. Do you know anything about Qatar? Tell me about Qatar. Do you know anything? Yeah. It's a Middle Eastern country. Okay. Yeah. Okay. They're just a Middle Eastern country.

Qatar is quietly becoming a major power player in the Middle East. This $400 million luxury jet, by the way, if they gave it to Joe Biden, the right would be going insane, including you. What is this?

So Qatar, what I know about Qatar is they're one of the richest petro-states in the world. I think their GDP is one of the highest in the world, GDP per capita. They're funding terrorism and extremism and jihadism all around the world. And now all of a sudden they're giving us a $400 million jet. They're a double agent. And we'll get to what they're doing in our universities and our influencers later.

They're a double agent. They're basically saying, hey, America, we're on your side. We're here funding terrorism or fighting terrorism. And then they're secretly funding terrorism and they're letting Hamas hang out in their luxury hotels in Doha. So it's lipstick on a pig. And I'm very concerned about this. Why would you accept? He's saying, well, listen, if someone wants to give you a free putt, you know, you just take the putt.

Mr. President, this ain't golf. This ain't Jack Nicklaus. This ain't Arnold Palmer. This ain't Sam Snead. This is a terrorist state who's aligned with Iran and China to some regard, gifting you a $400 million plane. You don't have any concerns whatsoever. They're housing Hamas. They're supporting al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS, ISIS.

They're sowing discord all over the Middle East. And by the way, don't take Adam's word for it. He's just some dumb Jew on the internet. Do you know whose word you should take for it? How about the following? The following countries that have severed all diplomatic ties from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt, because they've accused Qatar of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East. So,

This hidden agenda that Qatar has when they're funding universities and sowing discord and NGOs and think tanks and now paying influencers to sow discord around the United States. I have massive concerns. So this lipstick on a pig with this $400 million gift is going to come at a price. You know, they say there's no such thing as a free lunch. Well, this is a free freaking plane.

So if that doesn't have concerns, I don't know what does. So you think Trump is getting played? But go ahead. Blame it on Bibi. You don't think Trump is getting played? You're trying to tell me if Qatar gave Biden a $400 million airplane, would you have any questions? No, I question everything. But you're not questioning this. You're just talking about reporting. Do you know all the details and what entails everything about this story? Just like how you asked me about my story. Do you know that he's not flying? He's not going to be on this thing. This thing is going to go in a museum. Say thank you, Qatar. No, no. You say thank you and move on.

Because this is going to come at a price. If Vladimir Putin pours you a vodka and says, have a drink, you drinking that thing? Let me take a pause. Tom, I'm coming to you. I got some thoughts on this because it's all over the place where we went. We have like three stories in one. But Tom, what thoughts do you have? So a very large gift like this from a foreign government, these are the reasons why

that businesses have rules on gifts. We don't let our salespeople, any company that I've worked for or with Pat and before, you can't take a gift more than dinner. You can't.

It says if they want to take you on a trip, you check with your boss. What are they doing? Hey, they're all going to Hawaii. They invited my wife and I to go with them. You say, okay, well, you pay for the hotel room with our company credit card and then pick up one dinner. Nothing extravagant, but pick up one of the dinners. Why? Because you're not for sale. So that's how bribes happen. They give gifts. Did you know that every gift given to the hotel room?

to the president gets recorded and there's like a cultural office. Most of the gifts are cultural in nature, you know, a gold plate from India that was like almost 200 years old. And it goes in and they, you know, they end up, they end up at the Smithsonian of all these gifts that were given. But you give a gift like that. It just opens up all sorts of discussions on, Oh, that's kind of, it's kind of weird. You can't do that.

So I think when you a big gift like this, unless he wants to say, that's very, very nice of you. We'll put it over here and everybody will use it. Appreciate it. You know, that's one side, but it's just why are they giving it? Qatar is a nation of three million people. And for all of you sports fans out there, that's.

The global soccer fans feel that Qatar pulled off the largest bribe and rigged selection process in sports history when it gave this megalomaniac in 2010 billions of dollars of personal wealth

through the back door that they still don't know where it is, and they won World Cup 2022. Correct. Not Italy, not Brazil. Doha. Countries with massive soccer heritage and World Cups on the shelf. France, Italy, Germany, UK, even US. Qatar wins the World Cup, and it gets played at a time of year where everybody's worried about the athletes. Yes.

So Qatar is known to be, and by the way, and now Qatar has got problems with its neighbors. You're off the list, you're off the list, you're off this, you're off this, with its Arab neighbors. It's kind of weird. So Qatar has always had this reputation, and now the gift this big, I don't know. You know, if I was president, I don't think I would accept it. By the way, can you do me a favor? Play that clip, Rob. Play that clip. The Trump clip? Yeah. Play the clip, the Trump clip. Taylor Stadium? Play this clip. It's rather...

Who has really we've helped them a lot over the years in terms of security and safety I felt they I think they and very very nicely and I have a lot of respect for the leadership and for the leader Qatar and I think they very nice they knew about it because they buy Boeing's they buy a lot of Boeing's and they knew about it and they said we would like to do something and if we can get a 747 as a contribution to our Defense Department and

to use during a couple of years while they're building the other ones. I think that was a very nice gesture. Now, I could be a stupid person and say, "Oh, no, we don't want a free plane. We give free things out. We'll take one, too." And it helps us out because, again, we're talking about -- we have 40-year-old aircraft. The money we spend, the maintenance we spend on those planes to keep them tippy-top is astronomical. You wouldn't even believe it.

So I think it's a great gesture from Qatar. I appreciate it very much. Do you have the other clip? There's a clip where the lady says, you're ABC, aren't you? You're this ABC. When he's signing the... Yeah, do that one, and then I want to get into it so we can go to the next story. Go ahead. View that luxury jet as a personal gift to you. Why not leave it behind? You're ABC fake news, right? Why not? It's only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you.

You should be embarrassed to ask him that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, "No, no, no, don't give us... I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is." Or I could say, "Thank you very much." You know? There was an old golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear of him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer. And he had a motto: "When they give you a putt,

You say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. Then they put it and they miss it. And their partner gets angry at them. You know what? Remember that. Sam's thing. When they give you a putt. Okay, so there's two things to talk about here. There's Israel. We can't just completely forget about that story with Netanyahu. And then there's the Qatar story. So for me, okay, in a dark way, let's play...

devil's advocate and a very dark way of killing an enemy. Okay. Give them a gift. That gift is what? Pagers. The pagers then do what? Blow up. And then you die. Right? Okay. Technically, it wasn't a gift. I know it wasn't a gift. They purchased them. They purchased them. Right. It wasn't a gift at all. Totally get it. But I'm now saying that let's go even worse. So if that's something you're buying, it's even worse. Now think about gift. You give a gift.

The gift is a plane. And it's to fly the president. I don't want the president in that plane at all going anywhere whatsoever. You want to take that plane, run through God knows how many different things on the back end to make sure we're 100% protected and then use it for something else or put it in a museum? Great. We'll take that gift and put it in a museum. I don't want the president I voted for to be flying that place anywhere. I just don't trust it.

And Qatar, you know, the World Cup history, we've all read about it. We've all heard about it. These guys went above and beyond to make sure they got that deal. And by the way, it sucked. The World Cup wasn't exciting over there. The heat, the weather, the temperatures, what it was like, and it's now empty. Who the hell is waking up saying, I want to go play soccer over there? Those are empty places, okay? Now, let's go to Israel and Netanyahu. So the president's going to Middle East for a four-day trip, and he doesn't want to stop by Israel?

You couldn't make one of the days to go. Or is he stopping there or no? No, he's going to the Middle East, not stopping by Israel. No, right. Trump's Middle East trip leaves Netanyahu watching from the sidelines again. So you go there and you don't go visit Israel. I absolutely love this. I love it. Because to me, this whole election, the way he won, there were so many moments where he was in Israel and he's putting his hand and he's got the yarmulke on and he's, oh my God, he's bought, bought and paid for.

and trump's like i'm campaigning in poetry okay yeah yeah yeah for sure yeah we need your support he's in dearborn muslims are endorsing him and they jump down great and then you become a president and in your governing based on what you think is best and if you think somebody behind closed doors thinks and they say something like we can get them to do anything because i got somebody on the inside that we got them elected and we got the

A guy with Trump's type of a DNA and wiring, nothing will annoy a person like that more than another person thinking they own them. Nothing at all. I absolutely love what he's doing and how he's handling it. For them to not think we get to tell Trump what to do, he works for us. I love that.

I don't even want that to be in the, what do you call it, in the ecosystem of people talking about this. Mainstream. I don't even want that narrative. I want that out. This changes that narrative. The people that are always like, Jewish people, Israel is the enemy, and, you know, Jews this, and Jews this. No. Those guys are also part of the problem, by the way, because they go full here.

But the other guys are also like, well, no, you know, it's just not there. You know, Israel, we have to do everything for them. They're also, no, no, relax. You don't kind of get me into a war. I don't want to get into this war with Iran. I'd like to find a way to do it in a different way. Let's try to find a way to negotiate in a different way. You want to do it? Do your thing. I'm not getting involved. He makes the phone call with Pakistan and what do you call it? India. Hey.

Relax. Relax. Don't do anything. And if Pakistan still does something and goes back to it, I love the way he's handling it. And by the way, you know what's the craziest thing? I'll tell you the craziest thing as well. I also understand Netanyahu. What's Netanyahu's priority when he wakes up? America first? Hell no. No way. What's Netanyahu's priority? Israel. Okay. What MBS is? Saudi. Saudi first. What's Putin's? Russia. That's right. What's China? But what I'm saying with that is I get it. Yeah.

I totally get it. I get what you want and what you're trying to get me to get into because it's going to give you a bigger backing to go out there and go after Iran because America is saying, let's go do this. I get what you're trying to get me into. I don't want anything to do with the war that you want. I don't want that war. You want that war. You want to go pick a fight with them? Go. I'm out of here. I'm not playing this. So it's going to be interesting. And by the way, keep in mind, your position could change in six weeks because in six weeks they could have a meeting in Israel and they're going and saying all this stuff about Iran.

You don't know 90% of the details of what's being negotiated behind closers and what types of deals are being brokered. We are simply talking heads. Of course. And just having conversations. Let's not kind of get over, you know, and think like, oh, you know, we really know what's going on. No, we're just giving our thoughts. And the audience gets to hear and say, well, you know what? That's pretty reasonable. I never thought about it that way. I don't know if I agree with Pat. I don't know if I agree with, I think I agree with Adam. I agree with Vinny. No problem. You know, it's good. But this is,

The idea, I get where he's at, and I fully support how the president is handling this. Good for you. I like it. I like it. I like that that's taking place. Go ahead, Adam. This trip is a trip to Saudi. So, you know...

Look, this is me speculating. I don't even know if Israel was on the agenda. That's fine. They have a phone call. They can talk. By the way, Bibi Netanyahu was here in February and in April. You don't think they have an open line of communication? I do think they have an open line of communication. Of course. I'm not saying you, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, because I start to see a lot of sort of like tensions subduing about what's going on with the Ayatollahs in Iran. Only one country...

that I know of out there is just vocally shouting death to America. And that is Iran where you have Israel with, uh, American flags everywhere they go. I only see the Gaza community, um, and the Hamas community burning the American flag where I see a lot of Jewish people wearing pins with an American flag and Israeli flag. Yes, I do understand that. Uh, none of these, uh,

leaders should think for even one second that they own America. Nor do I believe that a lot of it is sort of hyperbolic. By the way, fact check this. Did Iran try to kill president Trump? How about this key incidents? If you can check this, the U S secret service increased Trump security after intelligence surfaced about Iranian plot to assassinate him 2024. Uh,

Yeah, I'd be very skeptical of Iran. By the way, we're not even talking about what they're doing with their nuclear situation. So...

Do I trust the Ayatollahs of Iran? Not one bit. Do I trust Israel 100%? No, because I don't trust anybody 100%. America first means America first, but that doesn't mean our allies last. And that's where people get confused. Yeah.

By the way, it's funny. Brandon, can you go to our Instagram account? Something just real funny to just get a little bit lighter, and then we'll get to another story here. Go to Vagatim's Instagram account, and look what this fun fact about McDonald's just popped up. And you tell me what this looks like, okay? You tell me what this looks like. Right there, second one. Second story. Second story. Right there. The one with McDonald's on it? This is the McDonald's spoon banned in 79 for shocking drug scandal. What does that look like?

It looks like what the guy said earlier. A little Tootsie? A little Tootsie? Let me get to this next story. It's the Macron diplomacy accessory kit. Let me get to the next story. This is kind of a transitional we just talked about right now. So DOJ to investigate Muslim-led development targeted by Texas GOP, Senator says. Brandon, if you have this story to pull up. So, a little weird. I don't know if you guys have seen this video. I'm assuming you guys have seen this video. Senator John Cornyn

who called the Muslim-led epic city development anti-Semitic and anti-Christian, announced that the Justice Department will investigate whether the project around one of North Texas' largest mosques violates federal law, stating, I am grateful to Attorney General Bondi and the Department of Justice for hearing my concerns and opening an investigation while claiming religious discrimination and Sharia law have no place in Lone Star Law.

State the East Plano Islamic Center. Wow, this isn't plain. No, that's yeah backing epic city faced accusations from corn, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Governor Greg Gapit and the right-wing bloggers of creating a Muslim only community imposing Islamic law which attorney Dan Kajal defending the project denied saying from day one their intention was to comply completely and wholeheartedly with the law and

What is crazy to me is how far we have come. We haven't come since 9-11. Is this the actual property? Yeah, do you want the view of the city or the guy promoting it? The city looks crazy. Is this guy promoting the city? Yes. How long is this? This one is two minutes. Play the city first. Okay. Watch the city first, and then we'll go to this guy promoting it. Tom, have you seen this thing? Have you seen the city? Watch this. Go for it. That's what they want to build. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.

I don't think you need the music. Welcome to Epic 2.0. Leave it, leave it, leave it. Leave it. Epic City is more than just a neighborhood. It's a way of life. A meticulously designed community that brings Islam to the forefront. A community that blends with nature, crafted to elevate your living experience.

With single family homes, multifamily town homes and apartments, senior living, and in the heart, a mosque and a school. Vinny, thoughts? I mean, Adam, I'm shocked that you, you of all people, you didn't, you didn't hear this or anything like that. I'm moving there, bro. Oh, and Brandon, I sent you a, what, what governor Abbott said about the whole situation. Thank you. Um, he said, uh, they launched investigations for violations of the housing and consumer laws. Uh,

And Korn asked the feds to actually step in that it may exclude non-Muslims and push Sharia law, even though that they're saying that it's not. But they're saying exclusivity. Then why are they calling it EPIC? You know what EPIC stands for? East Plano Islamic Center. OK, you're in America. You're not going to have like, yeah, this is this is Abbott talking about the situation. Go ahead.

In part by that statement, but also in part by information that we've gathered, there appear to be multiple violations that have taken place here. One is information has been provided to investors that appears to be misleading. Another is they appear to be in violation of fair housing laws. Also, we found that, you know, they talk about doing all this building, but they don't have any building permits to actually do any building, and they have challenges even getting those building permits.

Believe this or not, we've even received information that they may have been conducting a funeral home without legal authority. Bottom line, Laura, is that there are so many questions arose, especially information that we received, that led us to need to call the elite Texas Rangers to conduct a criminal investigation to find out if criminal laws in Texas have been violated. Well, in part...

Mind you, you guys were paying attention too. The Muslims in Texas and some in Florida are literally buying up churches and they're building mosques. And then, by the way, with this type of situation, when somebody tries to question it, the left cries it's Islamophobia and it's anything but that. This is just a soft entry to plant cultural roots. And they're saying right now it's just housing, but that ends up with laws that don't match our Constitution. Texas isn't a place...

for an experiment. You're not going to do that type of stuff because it's going to expand. And I'm telling you right now, with what we're seeing in Europe, okay? Did you even see Ed Sheeran said something the other day where he's like,

Like, nowhere, he was with Theo Vaughn, he goes, nowhere is safe in England. Name a city, he goes, nothing is safe. The crime is up. This migration has gotten out of control. And it's that type of attitude that's going to come in there and it's going to change it up. I'm not a fan of it. Tom, thoughts. We live in Plano. What do you think about this? Like, would you send your kids to this club? Just give me your, like, the real thoughts about this place. My real thoughts about this place go like this. The word that comes to mind is predominantly.

There are places, for instance, downtown L.A., the Diamond District and the little community around it. It's predominantly Jewish, but they don't have their own laws. It's our laws, and they have to abide with the norms of society. You have Boise, Idaho. How?

Half of Boise, Idaho is predominantly Mormon, and they have all sorts of—they call their churches stakes, a church and stakes as groups within it, all that going on. However, they comply completely with U.S. laws. Now, this, they want to build—

basically a consulate a consulate is like you have a building you have an office and you you sound perfect and you do all these things to it and it's basically this little or embassy right and it's just your country so you could have a u.s embassy in you know ethiopia and if you lose your passport you got to get to the u.s embassy because it's regarded as u.s soil when you walk inside

So it appears that they're attempting to build a community with like embassy type privileges. They're going to have their own courts or own schools and stuff. Sorry, we saw what happened in England when radical clerics...

In iconoclastic communities, radicalized young men, and we had the subway bombings, the tube bombings in England. No, we can't do that. So when they cross the line like that, and it's not merely a community that is predominantly this, predominantly that, I'll show you streets in Granada Hills that were predominantly Armenian. A couple generations come and go.

Right. They you know, the son buys a house down the street. Mom and dad lived over here. It's predominant. But you are in the U.S. under U.S. laws and you're not stepping over lines. This concerns me because they're they want to build, by their own words, a city and a community with embassy like privileges to run their own cities.

And that concerns me a lot, especially when you take a look at what the real motives are in communities that we've seen in other countries. If you're peaceful, no one has any problem with that. Hey, there's... Yeah, but let me tell you, the slippery slope here is our Constitution says freedom of what? Religion. Okay, so now...

In China, they took it a step ahead of everybody else. I don't know if you saw what they did in China. They were knocking down mosques, weren't they? But did you know what they called it? No. Okay. A mental something? Yeah, they did something with it. Okay.

Did you see this, Brandon, or no? What's that? The girl that said you won't change taxes? Yeah, no. In China, there are certain countries that are saying we don't even want that over here. This is a challenge. It's not going to fit with our culture. If our constitution says freedom of religion and Muslims, Islam, comes in and they out-compete

Are other religions that we have, Catholicism, Christianity, add whatever you want, Presbyterian, take all of them, right? Jehovah's Seventh-day, LDS Jews, put them all in there, right? If they out-recruit, out-grow, out-invest, how does the Constitution prevent them from being able to do so? Tom?

Our constitution would not prevent them from peacefully operating their own mosque. However, if we find out that you're basically operating like the Black Panthers and you were training people for no good, guess what? We step in and we say, sorry, that's not going to happen here. You think they're capable of doing that? That song was very peaceful. It was calm, soothing.

No, I think the example you can look at is northern England. They had mosques and they built around communities and those mosques had radical clerics. Those clerics were training young men and we saw what they did. We have an example. We have a case study. We can see it. We can see how things go along. And it's kind of funny that Governor Abbott's worried about, oh, and they may have been illegally operating. The stuff he was talking about, none of that is like stuff that's long term fixable.

It's like, they don't have a permit. They don't have this. I'm like, that's not even the issue. No, those are just little stumbling point. They were illegally operating a funeral home. But the reason why I'm saying this is, according to our Constitution, if they have lawyers...

and the lawyers fight for freedom of religion, how do your lawyers defend your argument to say, no, you can't build? What if all of a sudden... You can build a mosque and freely assemble, but you can't have your own laws and your state, and you can't violate our laws. What if I buy 100,000 acres of land somewhere?

And I built and I have multiple zip codes. Now it's a city and I'm able to grow it. I think about 5,000 because Frisco used to not be a city 30 years ago, 1994 to hit the number of 5,000. Correct. And then they grew from there. They became a city and now they're at a 212, 220,000, whatever it is. It's a top city in Texas. Yeah. So what if they do that? Then what?

Then what if they do that in 10 cities, 20 cities, 50 cities? Now you have a problem. But what I'm saying to you is, again, the same thing to me goes back to the lobbying law of big pharma and patents. The short-term thing is you can't charge this because it's cheaper with the fat medicine in Europe, right? I get that. But the tougher one is what? No, your patent laws cannot constantly extend to 40 years. Okay. So, Brandon, I'm going to come to you as well on this one here. Mm-hmm.

The first, the Constitution about freedom of speech, how do you fight to say, listen, this is not going to, you guys are doing too much stuff in America. We're seeing what's going on with Dearborn. We're not going to let you do to other cities what you guys did to Dearborn. It's not going to happen.

Yeah, because a lot of the times they say they actually say they want to impose danger on us. But I think this reminds me of a lot what the government started doing in the 90s when it really started cracking down on militias and cults like you remember Waco and Ruby Ridge. That's because that really hit a nerve with the government when groups started to get together and buy plots of land and like hold weapons. It's that really freaked the government out. So, I mean, this is crazy.

Kind of similar to that. They did that under a religious tense back then, so I think that you could apply the same thing to this. If they start talking about wanting to apply Sharia law, then that's a threat to free speech for some people, and that has the nature of being infectious and contagious. So I think you could say that's a danger to people if they try to implement a fundamentally different law than we have. Adam, thoughts? So I'm on Team Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Religion, Freedom to...

Do what you want in America. If you're part of the American dream, part of the American culture, part of the American civilization, actually love America. The problem I have is if when people don't assimilate, they try to come in here and infiltrate, populate and dominate.

That's the biggest problem I have. If you want to be part of America, I don't care what religion you are, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Zoroastrian, be a part of America. We want you. We love you. We want people from all over the world to come in legally. But if you come here and you want to change what America stands for,

And you want to basically criticize everything, the foundation of America, or be like Ilhan Omar and say the biggest problem with America is what, Vinny? White men are extremists. Okay, we're going to have a massive problem here, okay? So if you take case examples, which Tom likes to do, and you look at what's going on in Toronto or London or in Germany or in Paris and France or anywhere around the world, in Sydney, Australia...

These don't look like people who absolutely love Western values or the Judeo-Christian values that a lot of these countries were founded on. They don't seem to be like that. They're very Sharia law driven. Now, my only counter argument would be is, you know how I can, I said this the other day, you know how in China, they'll allow us to have TikTok or they'll have Tencent. We can use all their companies. They can export all their products here, but we can't have any of our social media apps in China.

Facebook isn't in China. Instagram isn't in China. YouTube's not in China. Okay, so it works. It's not a two-way street. Same thing's going on in the Middle East and Islamic countries. They can set up shop here in America. You can set up shop in any country you want, but you're not letting churches and synagogues and prayer houses that are not Islamic come to your country, are they?

I think the number is dwindling. So I'm all for people of all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds, religions coming to America if you love America. If not...

Peace out.

This is the correct religion. This is the religion that all of humanity needs to be a part of Islam. And we will not stop until it enters every home. So I want you to repeat after me. I want to hear it in every single district. It should tremble. Brooklyn should hear it. The Bronx should hear it. Queens should hear it. Say it as if the oma depends on this, my brothers and sisters. Naim ha-halalah!

So that's... What was the other one with Dearborn? Oh, the other one's a Dearborn guy. Brandon, I saw it. You said that one on Slack? Actually, I texted it to you, but I can post it on Slack.

Yeah, you have it here as well. Yeah, listen, and Adam, I'm all for religion. Do your own thing. But that type of attitude, that type of shit. And that's why the difference between us and Europe is, guess what? The Second Amendment. We're not playing that shit. You're not taking over anything in this freaking country. I'm sorry. I don't like that shit at all. You're calling for...

Like a problem. And guess what? This is the wrong place to have that attitude. This is it right here. Texas? Yeah. And Florida. The message for the people of Gaza is going to be more of the message that should be sent to the people here. In that they have achieved victory. We haven't done anywhere near enough. And the people here, I promise you, we do feel ashamed. We do feel like we're not doing enough. We do feel like change needs to come. Because change must come.

And in the form that it must come is that this empire, the American empire that's been hurting our people since the beginning, the imperial Western powers are hurting our people since the beginning. They must fall. They must fall. Inshallah, they will fall. And my message to the people of Gaza and the oppressed peoples across the world is that there are people here, both young and old, who are going to be willing to fight and are willing to put their lives and everything they can on the line to bring these empires down because they must come down. He's in America saying America must fall.

You are a threat, bro. That right there, that attitude. And like you said it, don't be here then. Go somewhere else and pick up a gun and try to fight us. If that's the attitude, that's, by the way, this isn't just a little hiccup. Okay? That is happening a lot.

And if you're buying up churches in Texas, in Florida too, bro, and the attitude is that, I have a huge problem with that. Foreign and? Domestic. Thank you. You're damn right. This is taking our kindness for weakness. You know, you go and try to have freedom assembly or criticize the government.

In any Islamic country like that, heads are going to roll. You know, what's the story? I don't know if we have time to get to it, but the rapper in Iran who was sentenced to death for criticizing the government. What's that story? I didn't even hear it. You have that story? Yeah.

So there's a rapper in Iran. Sentenced to death after being accused of blasphemy by Iranian court, if you want to read it. Page number nine. Yeah, page number nine. Here you go. Rapper sentenced to death after being accused of blasphemy by Iranian court. The Iranian court sentenced pop artist Amir Hossein Magsudulu. Pat, if you want to help me with that last name. You're fine. Good job. Known as Tataloo.

to death for blasphemy after the Supreme Court overturned his previous five-year jail term. With local outlet Elemad reporting that the case was reopened. At this time, the defendant was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet, though the verdict is not final and can be appealed. Tatulu, who fled to Istanbul in 2018, was then extradited by Iran by Turkish police in December 2023, also received death.

a 10-year sentence for promoting prostitution and face charges of spreading propaganda, quote-unquote, against the Islamic Republic for publishing obscene content, having previously collaborated with the Universal Music Group in 2021 as the first Iranian artist to do so. So, Pat, I obviously want to turn this over to you. In America, you could openly call...

for the destruction of your civilization, and nothing happens to you. In fact, you're treated as a hero to many people on the left or the far right. Whereas an Iranian citizen, and believe me, I wish this was the only story, because we've seen multiple stories like this, dozens of stories, hundreds of stories of political dissidents no longer living.

So, Pat, this cognitive dissonance, what do you think? It's crazy that we have this story here because, Brandon, I'm going to send this to you if you can pull it up. While you're pulling it up, I'm just going to share a couple thoughts. This morning, while I'm driving here, I'm manecting a few people. A guy named Nader manects me. Him and I have been going back and forth about the story of this rapper, Amir Tataloo, that they're doing this to, that they want to kill this guy, right? Just this morning, literally four hours ago, five hours ago, Iran court overturns verdict in controversial case

Mm hmm.

After weeks of public attention and mounting online campaigns demanding of reconsideration of the case, he was previously sentenced to death on charges of insulting the prophet, a serious offense under the Iranian law. His case has been under review by Iran's Supreme Court efforts to secure his release on bail.

have been so far unsuccessful, and parts of the legal rulings against him remain contested. Despite reports suggesting repentance and remorse from Tata Lou's court proceedings, the legal process continues. A high-profile online petition seeking to overturn his death sentence was taken offline by Iran's Committee for Determining Offensive Content, despite being among the most signed campaigns on the Khazar platform. So here's the deal with this.

They're doing this, whether it's from the noise that the people made, which is congratulations to the Iranian people, or because they just want to seem like they are kind and forgiving. And that's kind of what they're doing. The regime that runs Iran, Khamenei, all the folks that came from Khamenei, all of these guys in Iran, they destroyed a once great nation.

Period. You can say whatever you want to say. They destroyed a once great nation. Full on once great nation they destroyed. I watched this clip this morning. You know I've been shown the Iran before and after. This is Iran's entertainment before on how they're doing it today versus what the entertainment on Iran used to be before, pre-1979. Brandon, I text you a video I want you to play. The people of Iran

are unbelievable. Some of our things, like the habits that we have, you go to have dinner with an Iranian person, you have to eat some food or else they'll offend you.

Everything they do, they want to give you a gift. No, let me give you a gift. Go to dinner with them and try to see who's going to pay for the bill. God forbid, if somebody doesn't try to pay for the bill, they're not Iranian. They're Americanized, right? No, let me pay for it. No, let me pay for it. No, let me pay for it. No, let me pay for it, right? It's constant. Watch this video. Pre-79, what it is today versus what it was before. Can you please zoom in, Brandon? You should be able to do it with control. Okay, so refresh it so we can watch it from the beginning and let's hear the audio. Oh, we can't hear. We have to...

This is the thing. This is the thing. Beautiful. He's like, shut up.

I want to hear that. What are they singing? I don't know what it is. It's their American Idol version. But the point about these types of stories, and that guy right there was Fereydoun Faroukzad, who was a very, not this guy, the guy that was singing with the girl. Very well known. He was like the Johnny Carson of Iran is who he was.

They eventually, after the revolution, they found him at a German hotel. They cut him in pieces and they put his dangling in his mouth. The guy with the mustache? That guy right there. They killed him. The Sean Connery looking guy? If you go read his story, the story of what they did to him is absolutely an atrocity. That's the new regime. That's what's capable of happening in Iran. And this is why, you know, for them to get what they want, they need one leader, man. They need one person to get behind that's willing to fight the fight. And they got...

Every year. You know, what month is it? Is it February, March, April, May? You got officially 44 months left. That's what you got left. You got 44 more months left to succeed before what happens next. And you cannot rely on assuming the next president is going to be somebody that's going to help you out. Went from a beautiful place that everybody used to go to. The other day I reacted to the Frank Sinatra singing the song. Incredible. And to now a different story. Great people. I hope they'll be free again so I can come to Iran again.

and visit the place i can't wait for that day that can you imagine the day we go and we do the podcast out of iran oh and we sell tickets tehran iran we're doing a podcast tom is there war until that day pbd there's no traveling to turn by the way just to validate everything you're saying because i learned a lot of this when i joined you in 2020 i didn't really fully understand what iran was prior to the 79 revolution

Now there's zero tolerance for political dissidents. It's viewed as treasonous. You're enemies of the state. Do you know the number one country in the world that punishment, if you say anything about the ruler, number one? North Korea. Do you know who number two is? Of course. Iran. And then you have Saudi, China, Qatar, our friends in Qatar, Iran.

Belarus, Russia, Turkey, in that order. But Iran, the number two country in the world where you cannot say anything about the government. Listen, another great day of podcast. Folks, I want to show you a trailer of a podcast that's going out tomorrow. I had Kurt here who was a 9-11 whistleblower. Do you know this congressman? I love that guy. 20-year wait till you hear this trailer.

For the first time ever, there was three of them here who worked on the inside. One of them was a lieutenant colonel who worked for the CIA. During 9-11. And he was one of the guys that was called for the hearing on a 9-11 commission that last minute they canceled. They said, we don't want to hear from him. Where guess who questioned him while he's giving him credit to Kurt Weldon? He's saying, I thought I was under the impression that we're going to be talking to the five folks. I don't know what happened. Why are we not able to ask him questions? Joe Biden.

is saying, why can't I talk to Anthony Schaefer? Tony Schaefer was here. What? And another gentleman who was a major in the Army, Eric, given his insight, he was the one that had the 2.5 terabytes of all the information they had gathered that the U.S. government told them to destroy the 2.5 terabytes. They were all here talking about 9-11. Very interesting. I want you to watch this trailer. This goes live tomorrow, 9 a.m., first thing in the morning. Go ahead, Brandon. 9-11.

The biggest event that cost the most American lives ever. Why do we only spend $15 million to investigate that? The whole thing is a cover-up, and that's why I'm here.

I know the game. You know, they have needles they insert in people that give them fast-moving cancer. You can do that to me. Come on. No, I'm not. Come on. I've had two staffers that both worked for the CIA. One was threatened. I was working with him when he died. But that's not right in America. Yeah, you know, it's interesting you say that because I had such a good conversation with him. I said, do you mind coming back a month later? Months later, Rob tells me he passed away. He reported to him. When I came back from Afghanistan, I want to talk about able danger. I was immediately suspended.

And so what I'm going to tell you now is what I told them. Two of the terrorists on 9-11 were on the payroll of the CIA at the time. Now look, I'm not accusing anybody. All I'm telling you is stop this bulls**t. This is America. Let the people know the truth. He was in the middle of all of this. All I can tell you is one of the first calls at my home that night was from Joe Biden. Unbelievable. And he said, Kurt, I'm sorry what they did to you. Wow.

Holy shit. Tomorrow. Tomorrow at 9? I'm watching. And by the way, the one person that you're going to be shocked with on how he talks about him is Joe Biden because his kids went to school together and they grew up one mile apart. And he's a full-on Republican. Oh, wow. You have to see. I can't wait to see it. And I did the interview. You were there. It was phenomenal. All right. Tomorrow at 9, I'm Gang. Everybody, appreciate you guys. Love you guys. Take care. God bless. Bye-bye.