February 26, 2026 • 36 mins
With turmoil in the world and a very real possibility of military action in Iran, some people are literally BETTING on whether there will be a war. Some of the online betting platforms even take bets on things like how many times President Trump would say “fake news” during his State of the Union speech (he didn’t say it even once by the way…). National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
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with michael'dell charm.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I know it'll be March on Monday, but there is
something about how does the calendar and my instincts all
know it's just time to put a glove on it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It is almost time, isn't it. You put your hand
right inside that glove.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Smell that eleven in that pocket, Smell the letther smell
that all right?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Seven it it's after the hour.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, and welcome to Thursday, February twenty sixth All
eyes on cub and why they shot up one of
an American's be vote killing four and injuring six. They
think it was another bay of pigs invasion coming. I
think we'd send more than ten, and we might. Marco
Ruby is now investigating the situation. The Clintons are scheduled
for deposition in the House probe into Jeffrey Epstein. Investigation
(01:17):
will be Hillary today and the former president tomorrow. And
the US is putting new sanctions on Iran and Rory.
I'm sure we'll call his brother to tell him how
nice it is in Florida's today. The northeast could be
hit with even more snow this week.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Turmoil I would think of Roan.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know, there was a poll out Rory that shows
sixty five percent of Americans expect air strikes. I think
ninety nine point nine should be expecting it. It would
be shocking if we don't. But that doesn't stop us,
you know, any type of Now, I guess we'll add
cbeit of that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm sure the handle's going to go up today.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But whenever there's turmoil, whatever the possibility of military action,
of course, there's betting right.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well right, And it's these prediction markets that seem to
be a bit of a newer player in this space.
Remember just a few months ago when the US took
that action to remove Nicholas Maduro from Venezuela. Somebody opened
up a polymarket account and pose the question that Meduro
would be out in the matter of hours bet thirty
thousand dollars made more than four hundred thousand dollars, and
(02:27):
the question is was that person we don't know who
it was. Were they working with insider information? And now
the same as being asked about these bets that are
on the line when it comes to Iran.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
All right, if it were Iran, I would say, come on,
everybody saw it coming. I don't think any of us
want to bed the night before and thought we're gonna
wake up. Special forces will have removed Maduro and that
you know, the President addressed insider trading among members of Congress.
But you know this this actually, I mean, this shought
to be easy to investigate and should be. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, a lot of it's global, there's a lot of
cryptocurrency involved. You don't know who these people are necessarily
placed in these bets, and it may not be illegal
because this isn't the governed the same way as say
insider trading for a stock. It's it doesn't fall under
that description. So there's a lot of unwritten rules here.
This is all sort of new territory. And were having
(03:22):
a discussion earlier. I said, imagine the speech writer for
the State of the Union put out a thing on
Polymarket saying the President will say fake news three times
in the speech on Tuesday and places a book because
he or she wrote it in the speech.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Tis Well, that wouldn't be illegal.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And then you know Donald Trump Junior is on the
board of Polymarket. Does he have inside information about what's
happening through socials getting into predicted markets? All these other
questions are now being raised as to what kind of
regulation should be required for these things.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I would think if you're an enemy, if you're iron,
if your cube book, keep an eye on these markets, right,
they might tell you what's coming? Is I mean, you
lose element of surprise. It really becomes an issue of
national security as well. Absolutely, you're not gonna don't call
your brother today. Tell what is it today?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
In Florida It's gonna be seventy nine today, eighty three tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You're gonna You're gonna text him or something.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Why don't you just send him a picture outside you're,
you know, pulling weeds or something.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, I have people for that, or he's got people.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He doesn't have people to come back in the third hour, Rob,
be back in the third hour. As more people are
using plastic to pay for just about everything, businesses are
adding credit card fees.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm sure it's already happened to you. It's happened to me.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I hand my card they got, Well, we'll have to
put a three percent added fee on that. Roy'll have
more on that, the origins of that, and how widespread
it's becoming. In the third hour. All right, if you're
just waking up eleven minutes after the hour on this Thursday,
February the twenty sixth, twenty twenty six, open your ears.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Here comes your sounds of the day.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
You are fired to stop it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
God, no, No, it is by the motto keep come,
come along, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mentioned this the poll that we have today that
two thirds approved of the president's speech.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's a large number.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So for the Democrats that chose to boycott, or for
those that really chose to misbehave, or all who chose
to sit on their hands.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
On some of the issues.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The American people are against them eighty twenty on some
of the people in the chamber, it was a no
brainer and despicable to not stand. But now that you
find out that two thirds actually like the speech, you
better hope it's because most of them were Republicans are
magus watching.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But that's not quite the case.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In fact, when you look at where the President's polling
numbers are in key areas, all are up. So we
all talked about, well, the president could get a bump,
but it won't be lasting.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Listen among speech watchers tonight, sixty four percent say his
policies will move the US in the right direction. And
look at the growth President Trump made over the speech.
So pre speech it was fifty four percent of speech
watchers said his policies will move the US in the
right direction. After the speech, that number goes up ten
percentage point. So Donald Trump made some progress with people
(06:34):
watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what
they saw in the speech itself. And that's sixty four
percent number that's pretty much in range across all of
his State of the Union addresses in his first term
last year, the Joint Session. That's about what we've seen
is roughly two thirds have walked away from his speech
as thinking he's going to move.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Bye, the ways right direction was seventy one percent. In
twenty nineteen, he got a record number of popular votes
and somehow, some way, see the shadow campaign to save
the democracy, Biden actually won. And what about those Democrats
that were boycotting. Some of them are in really ridiculous places.
(07:19):
Here's one member from Oregon.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I'm a mother, i am a physician, and I have
a flag, and I am the proud representative for Oregon's
third congressional district.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let me interrupt for a second and say that if
you are a member of the United States Congress, is
there a duty? Are you representing your constituency. I'll never forget.
(07:54):
I once was speaking at a political event and I
had there's over one hundred people behind me, over one hundred.
I can't emphasize enough state representative, state senators. And there
were three protesters about one hundred yards away, maybe five
(08:20):
at the most. And the next day in the newspaper
and that night on TV, all you heard from were
the protesters. And I remember going on the air the
next day and saying, do you understand we live in
a representative republic? And when I have one hundred members
of the state legislature behind me, that's the representation of
(08:42):
millions of Tennesseeans. And the media was drawn to the
three or five NOBE ever talks about the import of
a representative of book. This woman represents a district. Was
(09:02):
her district served by her being in this auditorium of
goofballs and dressed up green frogs? Or would it have
been with all branches of government in the chamber? And
then there's duty. I mentioned earlier that analogy from the
(09:29):
movie The Social Network when the Harvard University president says
to the Winkle boss twins, and you were doing this
when you should have been doing what.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Doing?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What was representing your constituents among House members, Senate members,
Joint chiefs of Staff, Supreme Court, and Cabinet for a
State of the Union address. That's what your duty was
to be doing. But for this Oregon member of Congress
(10:04):
and her boycott, here's where she was.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And tonight I defy Trump and his authoritarian project by
standing in joyful, radical, peaceful resistance with the Portland Frog Brigade.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The Portland frog brigade, and she's standing in resistance of
not just the president, but sixty five percent of the country,
who after the speech, believe he said it in the
right direction. I mean, at some point, I don't know
(10:48):
who's in charge of this party. But after watching Talib
and Omar's behavior, and now Green's behavior, and now Chucky
Schumer's standing by it and goofballs like this, they're just
not very serious. Maybe Harrietten's right, it's a clown show.
(11:14):
And one of the clowns send in the clown is
cabin Newsom, who out of one side of his mouth
is praising people for the books that he's read of theirs,
and then out of the other he's down in Atlanta.
And I will say this, some are outraged. Is he
trying to appeal to the black community by pretending to
(11:35):
be illiterate, because that's an insult to the black community.
Now I always ruined the movie for you. AOC is
going to be the early leader. The DNC is going
to come in after everybody's looked stupid and outrageous, and
they're going to settle the score with their sensible choice.
(11:57):
And that's when all of a sudden, you'll have Romney
Manuel and where us more or something like that, and
it'll be what they have to do, not to save democracy,
but to keep a socialist like AOC from becoming the
nominee the way socialists became the mayor, or the way
the socialist Bernie Sanders would have gotten the nomination three times.
(12:21):
But here's what the polling suggests, and what Harry EDTN
and CNN believe is a circus show.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And John, so what are the polls said?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, they're all running and this is just a downright
clown car at this point. On the Democratic side, I mean,
just take a look here top choices for the twenty
twenty eight dem Press nominee. You have a leader, but
it's not really a clear leader. It's within the margin.
Avera have Newsim at nineteen percent. Then you have former
Vice president Kamala Harris at eighteen percent. Quite a weak
number for her, given that, of course she was the
(12:51):
nominee last time around. People were to judge who, of
course was run before thirteen percent alexandio Acasio Cartes at
twelve percent. This is just a total clown car. It
is a total mess. There is no clear front runner
at this particular point on the Democratic side, who the
heck knows who the nominee is going to be in
three two years. It's been a long time since we've
had a Democratic race like this. Yeah, it has been
(13:14):
a long time. This is very unusual for the Democratic
side to not have a clear front runner at this point,
national early pole leader at least twenty five percent. Look
at this this year we get the giant question mark
no one, no.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
One, no one, no one.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
In twenty twenty one, there was no incumbent.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It was Joe Biden who.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Was there, Hillary Clinton in both eight and sixteen, and
Al Gormbo two thousand and two thousand and four at
this point were at least a twenty five percent.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So it's the bottom linecause I'm running out of time.
The nominee is not going to be Kamala Harris, it
is not going to be Gavin Newsom. It might be AOC,
but I don't think so. Mister Dell Jorno will strike again.
There was one sensible Democrat in the chamber, Fetterman, and
(14:00):
he was asked his take on what everyone wouldn't stand
for and if he did.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well for me?
Speaker 8 (14:07):
You know, I never checked to see what the rest
of people in my party would stand up and clap
for if I clapped with a lot of those things
that it seemed like others like I stood up and
I clapped to recognize the family that lost their daughter,
the Ukrainian girl that was stabbed to death, you know
in North Carolina, and I stood up and I clapped
(14:28):
that political prisoner from Venezuela. You know how, you can't
celebrate those kinds of things. And now I also celebrated
all the veterans that were in the audience as well too,
and even more the political things like like Erica Kirk
I stood up in and I clapped for her as
well too. Now here, you know, can't we just be
(14:49):
more kind to a widow? I mean, we just shouldn't
be that long ago that a widow you know, with
young children, has our husband murdered. You know how we
can't just acknowledge that as well too, whether white people
would attack her, you know where they the left or
the right either.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So I'm always going to.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Stand up and clap the things that I agreed with
in like striking in.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The Iranian you know. Sites.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Now for me, I see, I never worry about who's
standing upper clapping. If I see it, I'm going to
If I don't agree with it or whatever, I'm certainly
not going to yell and scream and disrupt the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They must really hate him.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
We will win, we will wit.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
They all look like about.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It just peak doesn't all make.
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Speaker 3 (17:44):
So yesterday the FBI fied eight agents. They were caught
tape and Susie Wilds and Cash Betel. Let's see if
this thing stays in the news at least the week.
I doubt it.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Good morning, crew, just again, want to coll and say
good morn and let's have a great day after.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And in the words of the Big John.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
Bucket, uh lock you, Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Are we really going to quote other callers?
Speaker 11 (18:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Is that really where this is headed? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You can also be a part of the show by
emailing Michael d at iHeartMedia dot com. I won't give
the name because it's nobody's business, but good morning, Michael.
I met with my CPA yesterday and I was pleasantly
surprised when it turns out I only owe six dollars.
I made thirty four thousand dollars in interest this year.
I was expecting to have to cough up about six
grand in taxes. Most of the savings came from the
(18:39):
old folks six thousand dollars deduction and the increase in
the standard deduction. Oh, by the way, my California Texas,
We're still seven hundred. Yeah, you live in the wrong state.
Blake writes, my question, representatives take an oathen of office
to defend the Constitution. To Leebar and f Ice Button,
they exist to uphold the Constitution to protect the American people. Ultimately,
(19:04):
that's the goal of the Constitution, protect the American people.
As to leave broken a oath, of course she has.
There's a more significant oath there to be explored. I
brought this up yesterday. I'm surprised I don't get attacked more,
quite frankly, but I hope you guys understand where I'm
coming from. If you've studied the Quran, if you've studied
(19:24):
the Hidith, if you have studied the life of Mohammad
and the three contradictory lives of Mohammad, and you understand
Sharia law, and someone is an Islamist, there is nothing
more anathetical to an Islamist form of government and system
(19:45):
of life than our constitution, than our form of government,
than our culture and way of life, which is why
they're trying to either the long game, populate, infiltrate, agitate,
(20:08):
and then ultimately wage war.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
They're not going to change.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I cannot tell you if they're going to win, but
they're not going to change, and they're gonna stop trying
now as your hottest will kill a bunch of people
today to strike fear a political Islamist place for the
next generation. And if you wake up any morning and
think what's happening in England can't happen here, you need
to rewake up and in a hurry. Now, what you
(20:38):
ought to be asking yourself is people like Omar and Talib,
could they honestly really take an oath of office, an
oath to our constitution without denouncing their own religious beliefs?
Is it at a conflict every day in which is winning?
(20:58):
That's an even smarter question. The ultimate answer is if
they're not removed from office. You would think their constituents
and voters would remove them. But then again, look at
their districts. I noticed. I mean, it's really sickening. First,
Decker goes to his thirtieth State of the Union address,
up which he gets this Golden Boss letter from the
(21:19):
Speaker of the House. And then yesterday you got to
sit and visit with cabinet members. John Decker, our White
House correspondent, is joining us. Good Morning, John. Who'd you
get to spend time with yesterday?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well, I did.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I got to interview three members of President Trump's cabinet.
You don't get that opportunity every day. I spoke with
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, I spoke with the Transportation Secretary
Sean Duffy, and I also spoke with the Labor Secretary.
And for all three individuals, obviously they're all on message.
(21:50):
But we spoke about tariffs quite a bit with the
Treasury Secretary, and I learned some things regarding those tariff
rebates that no longer appears to be a priority for
President Trump, and that's because of that decision by the
Supreme Court last Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I have a different observation, and my observation is I thought,
in the State of the Union for the first time,
the President completed the vision, and that is ultimately returning
America to our historic roots, which is funded by tariffs
and not income tax. Did that come up with the
Treasury Secretary or the Labor secretary the possibility of that
(22:32):
and that ultimate vision is that a new vision or
was that the vision from the start?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
Well, look, I think that's pie in the sky. That's
not going to happen. I did see while I was
in the House Chamber when the President said that every
Republican stand up and cheer over that particular idea, every
Democrat on their hands, sitting on their hands.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But it's not going to happen. That's pretty clear. I
didn't even. The way I.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Feel about that not happening is because I have a
lim an amount of time, which each with each of
those Cabinet secretaries about ten minutes each, and I'm not
going to waste a question on something I just don't
think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, there's a lot of things that in life you
might not have anticipated.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What was going to happen would have probably been a
good question.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm going to explore later in the show for those
that are listening right now, the possibilities and the historic
origins of that. All right, So where do we go
from here on tariffs? Did you get a clear kind
of vision of where that's had it?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yes, So not only did I speak with those three
Cabinet secretaries, including Treasury Secretary Bessett, but also I spoke
with Kevin Hassett, who is the President's chief economic advisor.
Because I wanted greater clarity from them concerning the tariff
policy that the President has now initiated given the loss
at the Supreme Court, And what I heard from both
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Scott Bessett and also from Kevin Hassett is that they
believe that there likely will be extended litigation as it
relates to companies that paved tariffs over the course of
the past year seeking refunds. And it seems to me,
just based upon some answers that I got from both
Scott Besson and also from Kevin Hasseid, they feel they
(24:14):
may actually lose in those cases. And they call that
perhaps a gift to corporate America. Corporate welfare is what
the Treasury Secretary called it. So we'll have to wait
and see how all of that litigation plays itself out.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, and I was I was concerned, you know, when
you were talking to the Labor Secretary. One thing you know,
that ought to be laser focused on that hasn't been achieved.
The housing crisis has not been solved yet, and getting
wages to rise. You don't really want inflation to go
way way down. You don't want deflation. You want you know,
inflation at a normal rate. And then you want wages
to catch up.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Sure? Was that a question worth wasting time for?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Oh, don't don't give me that, Michael, Come on, you
giving me a hard time.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I wasn't knocking you. No, it's a very good question.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
And you know, what Scott Bess and the Treasury Secretary
spoke about is a big positive that the administration has
seen over the course of the past year with President
Trump's time back in office, is that wages are increasing.
And that's a good sign. That's a good sign obviously
for families all across America. Those wages, you know, are
(25:20):
keeping up with inflation. Inflations come down considerably, you know,
from that nine percent rate that we saw during the
Biden years, and that's.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Obviously also a good thing.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
And that is something that the FED is playing a
lot of attention to. I asked the Treasury Secretary about
the President's choice to replace Jerome Pale as head of
the Federal Reserve, and I said, how's this one individual
going to change the outlook of the FED as it
relates to lowering interest rates? And they have every bit
(25:51):
of confidence in the president's choice at Kevin worsh And
we'll see whether indeed, they follow the leader, so to speak,
in adhering to what the President wants, which is lowering
interest rates considerably from where they are now.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
By the way, in case people don't know, if you
don't know already, if I have a favorite, it's John.
There's no one I respect for and love more so
when we tease back and forth, please don't read a
rivalry into that later coming up in the White House
briefing Room, your podcast, it's only about an hour and
twenty minutes away.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What do we have, Oh, we talk about Iran.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I mean, there's a major meeting that's happening today in Geneva,
a meeting that involves on the US side, we have
obviously the Special and Envoy Steed Wickoff and Jared Envoy
thanks to see Wickoff and Jared Kushner, the Foreign Minister
for Iran on the other side, and we see this
build up of the US military that's taking place. So
(26:48):
we talk about what that means for the US and
for US interests as well in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That is where I.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Focus most of my attention today because that is a
real troubles thought that the President. He brought it up
at the State of Union address he's paying a lot
of attention to.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Right now, John, I'll just cut to the chase. This
Geneva meeting. It's their last chance, and it's not just
saying the right thing. They better say it in such
a believable way, or I think you know you gave
diplomacy a chance. You have this final meeting, and I
expect to hear missiles flying shortly after. Frankly, I expect
it either way. But let's see and let's pray, all right,
(27:27):
and can I have permission to say something nice about
you in front of your face? Nobody works harder on
this than John. He puts a lot of time and
a lot of work into this podcast. Why to make
it worth your time? And there's a sea of voices
out there, there's a sea. Everybody's a freaking podcaster right now.
But this is somebody with thirty years of experience, a
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Supreme Court bar attorney, covering from the White House all
these stories and going in depth with access to people.
Quite frankly, I don't have access to. You don't have
access to. I can't encourage you enough to listen to
the White House briefing room with John Decker and when
you find the podcast, just search that into the iHeart
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Speaker 3 (28:06):
So it's waiting for you every morning.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And John will talk again tomorrow next time ask my
questions for me, will you I will?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I will.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
I'm just a reminder about that podcast. It's just fifteen minutes,
so you can get it all on your way to work.
So thanks again. I appreciate that. Except you love talking,
it isn't briefing. That's exactly what it is. I love
talking to you every day, Michael. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
By the way, I understand when you have limited amount
of time. That happens to me every day in interviews.
People say, you know, it sounds like you're almost interrupting.
I'm trying to get everything in. I had a clock
that's like a gun pointed at me all the time,
and I get that you have to choose your prayer.
I do have time to explore that though, And we're
going to talk to an economist, David Bonsen, one of
(28:49):
the most respected in America today. Is it moral? What
income tax has become? Is it historically accurate to our intent?
What it's become? The President's kicking around. Could tariffs attack
I know you see it as a tax, but could
it replace income tax? We'll get an economic perspective from
David Bonnsen and a historian's perspective with William Fetterer, author
(29:12):
of the book The History of the Income Text. That's
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It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
This is a quick talkback from Saint Louis.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
If we can get that in.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
Okay, So I read well, I did the audio books
of all the Bill Warner series on the Sharia law,
and I got to tell you. I think we are,
we are, We're in trouble. I think it's happening. I
probably recommend folks, you know, listen or read that series
by Bill Warner, because we need.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
To wake up.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, I've been I've been at this now for going
on thirty years. I can tell you it's been it's
been coming for a long time.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Care and Audre Sabash and others that started out in
LA that's now almost twenty five years ago. They first populate,
then they infiltrate. I think the State of the Union
would give you pause, or should give you pause. It
(32:16):
doesn't take a majority, and it doesn't take half. It
doesn't take one over fifty percent. You saw how To
behaved during the State of the Union, and the rest
were following. But that has been coming and the numbers
are adding up.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I will say this, I highly recommend Bill Warner's series.
I was one of those that used to get pretty
good grades using cliffs notes when I was in school,
and that's how Bill Warner takes these ancient texts and
boils them down and it is very doable, very readable,
and very easy to understand. You must understand the life
(32:53):
of Muhammad. You must understand the Quran. You must understand
Sharia law. It's for you, the non Muslim, and then
you can much for yourself. Where we're at in America,
I will tell you this, Islamis don't believe in freedom
of religion. Islamis don't believe in separation of church and state.
(33:17):
Islamis don't believe in right of assembly. They don't believe
in equal rights. You need to understand what those beliefs
are because they are absolutely anathetical to ours. And that's
what was screaming at the president.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah. I don't say that to provoke anything.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I only brought it up in the context of you
want to question what her f ice means in terms
of fulfilling her oath to the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
How could she fulfill any.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oath of the Constitution without renouncing or Islamis beliefs.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Something's got to win every day for these people.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
They're either true to their faith or they're true to
their oath, but you can't really be both. The Cuban
Embassy where in the United States says that those on
board that Florida registered speedboat intercepted by the country's coast
Guard were trying to infiltrate Cuba for terrorist purposes like
(34:21):
a bay of pigs.
Speaker 11 (34:22):
Two.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Marco Ruby is going to investigate that crazy tale.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
The embassy says the boat was detected in territorial waters
near Cuba, and when border guard troops approached the vessel,
they were shot at, prompting them to return fire, where
people on board the boat were killed and six others
were injured. According to the embassy, some of those on
board have been identified as Cuban nationals residing in the US.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he can't
take Cuba's reports about the event at face value, adding
(34:49):
that the US will get to the bottom of what
happened and share the findings with President Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Well, I think they wanted their mother back, not her home,
but Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home is set to be turned
back over to the family, sure sign they've reached a
dead end in this investigation.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
NBC News is reporting law enforcement no longer sees the
need to seal the premises as a crime scene or
restrict the family from being able to go into the
Tucson home. This as the search in southern Arizona for
the eighty four year old mother of Today host Savannah
Guthrie is in its fourth week. The family has raised
the reward related to the recovery of her to one
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million dollars. Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February first.
I'm Jim Roope.
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It could bring you some good luck. Pretennis has more.
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The eclipse will be visible in North America March third,
when the full moon will take on a red hue.
NASA says you don't need any special equipment to see
the moon.
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Just look up.
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It will appear a reddish color as sunlight is filtered
through the Earth's atmosphere.
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That's the science.
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But Wigan see the blood moon as good luck and
spiritual growth. It's fun to believe, but there's no science
to back that. I'm Bree Tennis and that's your top
five stories of the day.
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Smell that eleven in that pocket, Smell the letther smell
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Seven it it's after the hour.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, and welcome to Thursday, February twenty sixth All
eyes on cub and why they shot up one of
an American's be vote killing four and injuring six. They
think it was another bay of pigs invasion coming. I
think we'd send more than ten, and we might. Marco
Ruby is now investigating the situation. The Clintons are scheduled
for deposition in the House probe into Jeffrey Epstein. Investigation
(01:17):
will be Hillary today and the former president tomorrow. And
the US is putting new sanctions on Iran and Rory.
I'm sure we'll call his brother to tell him how
nice it is in Florida's today. The northeast could be
hit with even more snow this week.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Turmoil I would think of Roan.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know, there was a poll out Rory that shows
sixty five percent of Americans expect air strikes. I think
ninety nine point nine should be expecting it. It would
be shocking if we don't. But that doesn't stop us,
you know, any type of Now, I guess we'll add
cbeit of that.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm sure the handle's going to go up today.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
But whenever there's turmoil, whatever the possibility of military action,
of course, there's betting right.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well right, And it's these prediction markets that seem to
be a bit of a newer player in this space.
Remember just a few months ago when the US took
that action to remove Nicholas Maduro from Venezuela. Somebody opened
up a polymarket account and pose the question that Meduro
would be out in the matter of hours bet thirty
thousand dollars made more than four hundred thousand dollars, and
(02:27):
the question is was that person we don't know who
it was. Were they working with insider information? And now
the same as being asked about these bets that are
on the line when it comes to Iran.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
All right, if it were Iran, I would say, come on,
everybody saw it coming. I don't think any of us
want to bed the night before and thought we're gonna
wake up. Special forces will have removed Maduro and that
you know, the President addressed insider trading among members of Congress.
But you know this this actually, I mean, this shought
to be easy to investigate and should be. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, a lot of it's global, there's a lot of
cryptocurrency involved. You don't know who these people are necessarily
placed in these bets, and it may not be illegal
because this isn't the governed the same way as say
insider trading for a stock. It's it doesn't fall under
that description. So there's a lot of unwritten rules here.
This is all sort of new territory. And were having
(03:22):
a discussion earlier. I said, imagine the speech writer for
the State of the Union put out a thing on
Polymarket saying the President will say fake news three times
in the speech on Tuesday and places a book because
he or she wrote it in the speech.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Tis Well, that wouldn't be illegal.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And then you know Donald Trump Junior is on the
board of Polymarket. Does he have inside information about what's
happening through socials getting into predicted markets? All these other
questions are now being raised as to what kind of
regulation should be required for these things.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I would think if you're an enemy, if you're iron,
if your cube book, keep an eye on these markets, right,
they might tell you what's coming? Is I mean, you
lose element of surprise. It really becomes an issue of
national security as well. Absolutely, you're not gonna don't call
your brother today. Tell what is it today?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
In Florida It's gonna be seventy nine today, eighty three tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You're gonna You're gonna text him or something.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Why don't you just send him a picture outside you're,
you know, pulling weeds or something.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, I have people for that, or he's got people.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
He doesn't have people to come back in the third hour, Rob,
be back in the third hour. As more people are
using plastic to pay for just about everything, businesses are
adding credit card fees.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I'm sure it's already happened to you. It's happened to me.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I hand my card they got, Well, we'll have to
put a three percent added fee on that. Roy'll have
more on that, the origins of that, and how widespread
it's becoming. In the third hour. All right, if you're
just waking up eleven minutes after the hour on this Thursday,
February the twenty sixth, twenty twenty six, open your ears.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Here comes your sounds of the day.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
You are fired to stop it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
God, no, No, it is by the motto keep come,
come along, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mentioned this the poll that we have today that
two thirds approved of the president's speech.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's a large number.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So for the Democrats that chose to boycott, or for
those that really chose to misbehave, or all who chose
to sit on their hands.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
On some of the issues.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
The American people are against them eighty twenty on some
of the people in the chamber, it was a no
brainer and despicable to not stand. But now that you
find out that two thirds actually like the speech, you
better hope it's because most of them were Republicans are
magus watching.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But that's not quite the case.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
In fact, when you look at where the President's polling
numbers are in key areas, all are up. So we
all talked about, well, the president could get a bump,
but it won't be lasting.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Listen among speech watchers tonight, sixty four percent say his
policies will move the US in the right direction. And
look at the growth President Trump made over the speech.
So pre speech it was fifty four percent of speech
watchers said his policies will move the US in the
right direction. After the speech, that number goes up ten
percentage point. So Donald Trump made some progress with people
(06:34):
watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what
they saw in the speech itself. And that's sixty four
percent number that's pretty much in range across all of
his State of the Union addresses in his first term
last year, the Joint Session. That's about what we've seen
is roughly two thirds have walked away from his speech
as thinking he's going to move.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Bye, the ways right direction was seventy one percent. In
twenty nineteen, he got a record number of popular votes
and somehow, some way, see the shadow campaign to save
the democracy, Biden actually won. And what about those Democrats
that were boycotting. Some of them are in really ridiculous places.
(07:19):
Here's one member from Oregon.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
I'm a mother, i am a physician, and I have
a flag, and I am the proud representative for Oregon's
third congressional district.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Let me interrupt for a second and say that if
you are a member of the United States Congress, is
there a duty? Are you representing your constituency. I'll never forget.
(07:54):
I once was speaking at a political event and I
had there's over one hundred people behind me, over one hundred.
I can't emphasize enough state representative, state senators. And there
were three protesters about one hundred yards away, maybe five
(08:20):
at the most. And the next day in the newspaper
and that night on TV, all you heard from were
the protesters. And I remember going on the air the
next day and saying, do you understand we live in
a representative republic? And when I have one hundred members
of the state legislature behind me, that's the representation of
(08:42):
millions of Tennesseeans. And the media was drawn to the
three or five NOBE ever talks about the import of
a representative of book. This woman represents a district. Was
(09:02):
her district served by her being in this auditorium of
goofballs and dressed up green frogs? Or would it have
been with all branches of government in the chamber? And
then there's duty. I mentioned earlier that analogy from the
(09:29):
movie The Social Network when the Harvard University president says
to the Winkle boss twins, and you were doing this
when you should have been doing what.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Doing?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
What was representing your constituents among House members, Senate members,
Joint chiefs of Staff, Supreme Court, and Cabinet for a
State of the Union address. That's what your duty was
to be doing. But for this Oregon member of Congress
(10:04):
and her boycott, here's where she was.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And tonight I defy Trump and his authoritarian project by
standing in joyful, radical, peaceful resistance with the Portland Frog Brigade.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The Portland frog brigade, and she's standing in resistance of
not just the president, but sixty five percent of the country,
who after the speech, believe he said it in the
right direction. I mean, at some point, I don't know
(10:48):
who's in charge of this party. But after watching Talib
and Omar's behavior, and now Green's behavior, and now Chucky
Schumer's standing by it and goofballs like this, they're just
not very serious. Maybe Harrietten's right, it's a clown show.
(11:14):
And one of the clowns send in the clown is
cabin Newsom, who out of one side of his mouth
is praising people for the books that he's read of theirs,
and then out of the other he's down in Atlanta.
And I will say this, some are outraged. Is he
trying to appeal to the black community by pretending to
(11:35):
be illiterate, because that's an insult to the black community.
Now I always ruined the movie for you. AOC is
going to be the early leader. The DNC is going
to come in after everybody's looked stupid and outrageous, and
they're going to settle the score with their sensible choice.
(11:57):
And that's when all of a sudden, you'll have Romney
Manuel and where us more or something like that, and
it'll be what they have to do, not to save democracy,
but to keep a socialist like AOC from becoming the
nominee the way socialists became the mayor, or the way
the socialist Bernie Sanders would have gotten the nomination three times.
(12:21):
But here's what the polling suggests, and what Harry EDTN
and CNN believe is a circus show.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And John, so what are the polls said?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, they're all running and this is just a downright
clown car at this point. On the Democratic side, I mean,
just take a look here top choices for the twenty
twenty eight dem Press nominee. You have a leader, but
it's not really a clear leader. It's within the margin.
Avera have Newsim at nineteen percent. Then you have former
Vice president Kamala Harris at eighteen percent. Quite a weak
number for her, given that, of course she was the
(12:51):
nominee last time around. People were to judge who, of
course was run before thirteen percent alexandio Acasio Cartes at
twelve percent. This is just a total clown car. It
is a total mess. There is no clear front runner
at this particular point on the Democratic side, who the
heck knows who the nominee is going to be in
three two years. It's been a long time since we've
had a Democratic race like this. Yeah, it has been
(13:14):
a long time. This is very unusual for the Democratic
side to not have a clear front runner at this point,
national early pole leader at least twenty five percent. Look
at this this year we get the giant question mark
no one, no.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
One, no one, no one.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
In twenty twenty one, there was no incumbent.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It was Joe Biden who.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Was there, Hillary Clinton in both eight and sixteen, and
Al Gormbo two thousand and two thousand and four at
this point were at least a twenty five percent.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So it's the bottom linecause I'm running out of time.
The nominee is not going to be Kamala Harris, it
is not going to be Gavin Newsom. It might be AOC,
but I don't think so. Mister Dell Jorno will strike again.
There was one sensible Democrat in the chamber, Fetterman, and
(14:00):
he was asked his take on what everyone wouldn't stand
for and if he did.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well for me?
Speaker 8 (14:07):
You know, I never checked to see what the rest
of people in my party would stand up and clap
for if I clapped with a lot of those things
that it seemed like others like I stood up and
I clapped to recognize the family that lost their daughter,
the Ukrainian girl that was stabbed to death, you know
in North Carolina, and I stood up and I clapped
(14:28):
that political prisoner from Venezuela. You know how, you can't
celebrate those kinds of things. And now I also celebrated
all the veterans that were in the audience as well too,
and even more the political things like like Erica Kirk
I stood up in and I clapped for her as
well too. Now here, you know, can't we just be
(14:49):
more kind to a widow? I mean, we just shouldn't
be that long ago that a widow you know, with
young children, has our husband murdered. You know how we
can't just acknowledge that as well too, whether white people
would attack her, you know where they the left or
the right either.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So I'm always going to.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Stand up and clap the things that I agreed with
in like striking in.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The Iranian you know. Sites.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Now for me, I see, I never worry about who's
standing upper clapping. If I see it, I'm going to
If I don't agree with it or whatever, I'm certainly
not going to yell and scream and disrupt the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They must really hate him.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
We will win, we will wit.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
They all look like about.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It just peak doesn't all make.
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So yesterday the FBI fied eight agents. They were caught
tape and Susie Wilds and Cash Betel. Let's see if
this thing stays in the news at least the week.
I doubt it.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Good morning, crew, just again, want to coll and say
good morn and let's have a great day after.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And in the words of the Big John.
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Are we really going to quote other callers?
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Now?
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Is that really where this is headed? Absolutely?
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You can also be a part of the show by
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I met with my CPA yesterday and I was pleasantly
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I was expecting to have to cough up about six
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(18:39):
old folks six thousand dollars deduction and the increase in
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Blake writes, my question, representatives take an oathen of office
to defend the Constitution. To Leebar and f Ice Button,
they exist to uphold the Constitution to protect the American people. Ultimately,
(19:04):
that's the goal of the Constitution, protect the American people.
As to leave broken a oath, of course she has.
There's a more significant oath there to be explored. I
brought this up yesterday. I'm surprised I don't get attacked more,
quite frankly, but I hope you guys understand where I'm
coming from. If you've studied the Quran, if you've studied
(19:24):
the Hidith, if you have studied the life of Mohammad
and the three contradictory lives of Mohammad, and you understand
Sharia law, and someone is an Islamist, there is nothing
more anathetical to an Islamist form of government and system
(19:45):
of life than our constitution, than our form of government,
than our culture and way of life, which is why
they're trying to either the long game, populate, infiltrate, agitate,
(20:08):
and then ultimately wage war.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
They're not going to change.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I cannot tell you if they're going to win, but
they're not going to change, and they're gonna stop trying
now as your hottest will kill a bunch of people
today to strike fear a political Islamist place for the
next generation. And if you wake up any morning and
think what's happening in England can't happen here, you need
to rewake up and in a hurry. Now, what you
(20:38):
ought to be asking yourself is people like Omar and Talib,
could they honestly really take an oath of office, an
oath to our constitution without denouncing their own religious beliefs?
Is it at a conflict every day in which is winning?
(20:58):
That's an even smarter question. The ultimate answer is if
they're not removed from office. You would think their constituents
and voters would remove them. But then again, look at
their districts. I noticed. I mean, it's really sickening. First,
Decker goes to his thirtieth State of the Union address,
up which he gets this Golden Boss letter from the
(21:19):
Speaker of the House. And then yesterday you got to
sit and visit with cabinet members. John Decker, our White
House correspondent, is joining us. Good Morning, John. Who'd you
get to spend time with yesterday?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well, I did.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
I got to interview three members of President Trump's cabinet.
You don't get that opportunity every day. I spoke with
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, I spoke with the Transportation Secretary
Sean Duffy, and I also spoke with the Labor Secretary.
And for all three individuals, obviously they're all on message.
(21:50):
But we spoke about tariffs quite a bit with the
Treasury Secretary, and I learned some things regarding those tariff
rebates that no longer appears to be a priority for
President Trump, and that's because of that decision by the
Supreme Court last Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I have a different observation, and my observation is I thought,
in the State of the Union for the first time,
the President completed the vision, and that is ultimately returning
America to our historic roots, which is funded by tariffs
and not income tax. Did that come up with the
Treasury Secretary or the Labor secretary the possibility of that
(22:32):
and that ultimate vision is that a new vision or
was that the vision from the start?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
Well, look, I think that's pie in the sky. That's
not going to happen. I did see while I was
in the House Chamber when the President said that every
Republican stand up and cheer over that particular idea, every
Democrat on their hands, sitting on their hands.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
But it's not going to happen. That's pretty clear. I
didn't even. The way I.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Feel about that not happening is because I have a
lim an amount of time, which each with each of
those Cabinet secretaries about ten minutes each, and I'm not
going to waste a question on something I just don't
think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, there's a lot of things that in life you
might not have anticipated.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What was going to happen would have probably been a
good question.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm going to explore later in the show for those
that are listening right now, the possibilities and the historic
origins of that. All right, So where do we go
from here on tariffs? Did you get a clear kind
of vision of where that's had it?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Well?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yes, So not only did I speak with those three
Cabinet secretaries, including Treasury Secretary Bessett, but also I spoke
with Kevin Hassett, who is the President's chief economic advisor.
Because I wanted greater clarity from them concerning the tariff
policy that the President has now initiated given the loss
at the Supreme Court, And what I heard from both
(23:51):
Scott Bessett and also from Kevin Hassett is that they
believe that there likely will be extended litigation as it
relates to companies that paved tariffs over the course of
the past year seeking refunds. And it seems to me,
just based upon some answers that I got from both
Scott Besson and also from Kevin Hasseid, they feel they
(24:14):
may actually lose in those cases. And they call that
perhaps a gift to corporate America. Corporate welfare is what
the Treasury Secretary called it. So we'll have to wait
and see how all of that litigation plays itself out.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, and I was I was concerned, you know, when
you were talking to the Labor Secretary. One thing you know,
that ought to be laser focused on that hasn't been achieved.
The housing crisis has not been solved yet, and getting
wages to rise. You don't really want inflation to go
way way down. You don't want deflation. You want you know,
inflation at a normal rate. And then you want wages
to catch up.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Sure? Was that a question worth wasting time for?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Oh, don't don't give me that, Michael, Come on, you
giving me a hard time.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I wasn't knocking you. No, it's a very good question.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
And you know, what Scott Bess and the Treasury Secretary
spoke about is a big positive that the administration has
seen over the course of the past year with President
Trump's time back in office, is that wages are increasing.
And that's a good sign. That's a good sign obviously
for families all across America. Those wages, you know, are
(25:20):
keeping up with inflation. Inflations come down considerably, you know,
from that nine percent rate that we saw during the
Biden years, and that's.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Obviously also a good thing.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
And that is something that the FED is playing a
lot of attention to. I asked the Treasury Secretary about
the President's choice to replace Jerome Pale as head of
the Federal Reserve, and I said, how's this one individual
going to change the outlook of the FED as it
relates to lowering interest rates? And they have every bit
(25:51):
of confidence in the president's choice at Kevin worsh And
we'll see whether indeed, they follow the leader, so to speak,
in adhering to what the President wants, which is lowering
interest rates considerably from where they are now.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
By the way, in case people don't know, if you
don't know already, if I have a favorite, it's John.
There's no one I respect for and love more so
when we tease back and forth, please don't read a
rivalry into that later coming up in the White House
briefing Room, your podcast, it's only about an hour and
twenty minutes away.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What do we have, Oh, we talk about Iran.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I mean, there's a major meeting that's happening today in Geneva,
a meeting that involves on the US side, we have
obviously the Special and Envoy Steed Wickoff and Jared Envoy
thanks to see Wickoff and Jared Kushner, the Foreign Minister
for Iran on the other side, and we see this
build up of the US military that's taking place. So
(26:48):
we talk about what that means for the US and
for US interests as well in the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That is where I.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Focus most of my attention today because that is a
real troubles thought that the President. He brought it up
at the State of Union address he's paying a lot
of attention to.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Right now, John, I'll just cut to the chase. This
Geneva meeting. It's their last chance, and it's not just
saying the right thing. They better say it in such
a believable way, or I think you know you gave
diplomacy a chance. You have this final meeting, and I
expect to hear missiles flying shortly after. Frankly, I expect
it either way. But let's see and let's pray, all right,
(27:27):
and can I have permission to say something nice about
you in front of your face? Nobody works harder on
this than John. He puts a lot of time and
a lot of work into this podcast. Why to make
it worth your time? And there's a sea of voices
out there, there's a sea. Everybody's a freaking podcaster right now.
But this is somebody with thirty years of experience, a
(27:47):
Supreme Court bar attorney, covering from the White House all
these stories and going in depth with access to people.
Quite frankly, I don't have access to. You don't have
access to. I can't encourage you enough to listen to
the White House briefing room with John Decker and when
you find the podcast, just search that into the iHeart
app and when you find it, give it a preset.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So it's waiting for you every morning.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
And John will talk again tomorrow next time ask my
questions for me, will you I will?
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I will.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
I'm just a reminder about that podcast. It's just fifteen minutes,
so you can get it all on your way to work.
So thanks again. I appreciate that. Except you love talking,
it isn't briefing. That's exactly what it is. I love
talking to you every day, Michael. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
By the way, I understand when you have limited amount
of time. That happens to me every day in interviews.
People say, you know, it sounds like you're almost interrupting.
I'm trying to get everything in. I had a clock
that's like a gun pointed at me all the time,
and I get that you have to choose your prayer.
I do have time to explore that though, And we're
going to talk to an economist, David Bonsen, one of
(28:49):
the most respected in America today. Is it moral? What
income tax has become? Is it historically accurate to our intent?
What it's become? The President's kicking around. Could tariffs attack
I know you see it as a tax, but could
it replace income tax? We'll get an economic perspective from
David Bonnsen and a historian's perspective with William Fetterer, author
(29:12):
of the book The History of the Income Text. That's
all coming up next hour. All right, eighty thousand, that's
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Speaker 9 (31:14):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
This is a quick talkback from Saint Louis.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
If we can get that in.
Speaker 11 (31:22):
Okay, So I read well, I did the audio books
of all the Bill Warner series on the Sharia law,
and I got to tell you. I think we are,
we are, We're in trouble. I think it's happening. I
probably recommend folks, you know, listen or read that series
by Bill Warner, because we need.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
To wake up.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, I've been I've been at this now for going
on thirty years. I can tell you it's been it's
been coming for a long time.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Care and Audre Sabash and others that started out in
LA that's now almost twenty five years ago. They first populate,
then they infiltrate. I think the State of the Union
would give you pause, or should give you pause. It
(32:16):
doesn't take a majority, and it doesn't take half. It
doesn't take one over fifty percent. You saw how To
behaved during the State of the Union, and the rest
were following. But that has been coming and the numbers
are adding up.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I will say this, I highly recommend Bill Warner's series.
I was one of those that used to get pretty
good grades using cliffs notes when I was in school,
and that's how Bill Warner takes these ancient texts and
boils them down and it is very doable, very readable,
and very easy to understand. You must understand the life
(32:53):
of Muhammad. You must understand the Quran. You must understand
Sharia law. It's for you, the non Muslim, and then
you can much for yourself. Where we're at in America,
I will tell you this, Islamis don't believe in freedom
of religion. Islamis don't believe in separation of church and state.
(33:17):
Islamis don't believe in right of assembly. They don't believe
in equal rights. You need to understand what those beliefs
are because they are absolutely anathetical to ours. And that's
what was screaming at the president.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah. I don't say that to provoke anything.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I only brought it up in the context of you
want to question what her f ice means in terms
of fulfilling her oath to the Constitution.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
How could she fulfill any.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oath of the Constitution without renouncing or Islamis beliefs.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Something's got to win every day for these people.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
They're either true to their faith or they're true to
their oath, but you can't really be both. The Cuban
Embassy where in the United States says that those on
board that Florida registered speedboat intercepted by the country's coast
Guard were trying to infiltrate Cuba for terrorist purposes like
(34:21):
a bay of pigs.
Speaker 11 (34:22):
Two.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Marco Ruby is going to investigate that crazy tale.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
The embassy says the boat was detected in territorial waters
near Cuba, and when border guard troops approached the vessel,
they were shot at, prompting them to return fire, where
people on board the boat were killed and six others
were injured. According to the embassy, some of those on
board have been identified as Cuban nationals residing in the US.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he can't
take Cuba's reports about the event at face value, adding
(34:49):
that the US will get to the bottom of what
happened and share the findings with President Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Well, I think they wanted their mother back, not her home,
but Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home is set to be turned
back over to the family, sure sign they've reached a
dead end in this investigation.
Speaker 12 (35:04):
NBC News is reporting law enforcement no longer sees the
need to seal the premises as a crime scene or
restrict the family from being able to go into the
Tucson home. This as the search in southern Arizona for
the eighty four year old mother of Today host Savannah
Guthrie is in its fourth week. The family has raised
the reward related to the recovery of her to one
(35:25):
million dollars. Nancy Guthrie has been missing since February first.
I'm Jim Roope.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
We'll be treated to a total lunar eclipse next week.
It could bring you some good luck. Pretennis has more.
Speaker 13 (35:36):
The eclipse will be visible in North America March third,
when the full moon will take on a red hue.
NASA says you don't need any special equipment to see
the moon.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Just look up.
Speaker 13 (35:47):
It will appear a reddish color as sunlight is filtered
through the Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's the science.
Speaker 13 (35:52):
But Wigan see the blood moon as good luck and
spiritual growth. It's fun to believe, but there's no science
to back that. I'm Bree Tennis and that's your top
five stories of the day.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Birthdays Today singer Michael Bolton seventy three years old today
NFL Great Marshall Falk fifty three And if it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born. Thanks for
spending part of your big day with us.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
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