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Speaker 5 (00:36):
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and the great pleasure to all live Thursday, June fourth,
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best of it together. As we're all in it together.
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know what members of Congress's goal is.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
My goal is to serve you, and serve you I shall,
Jeffrey Will.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Let's face it in full transparency.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
We can't figure out what got one one slot on
the board that won't play in both channels.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
But we're going to make an attempt to fix that.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Red of course, was the messenger who got shot last
hour for giving me two stories. I frustratingly couldn't make
sense if it's just too much stupid, and I can't
apply understanding to stupidity layered upon stupidity, asked to stupid,
and responses then qualified quantified by stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So I'm a little frustrated.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And in the midst of this, Redd is enjoying it
too much, and so is David Sinati, who's laughing. But
he'll get his turn in a moment, as we'll throw
about three things that'll twist his brain into a pretzel
as well. And something tells me, for the fifth time
in a row, we will not get to saying goodbye
to the fake global warming crisis.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And hello to the real birthing crisis. But maybe we will.
You never know. We may have to go two hours
to get to it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
President Trump says he'll nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
to serve in the role permanently. The President is also
picking to replace Telsea Gabbard as Acting Director of National Intelligence,
an individual that the Republicans are expressing some bewilderment over,
ladies and gentlemen, our national correspondent, the only one who
hasn't made a mistake in the last two days.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Rory O'Neil, Good morning, Rory.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
And you know that nomination of Bill Poulty to run
to become the Director of National Intelligence really has divided
a lot of Republicans, even those typically supportive of the
president's agenda.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So that might be an uphill climb.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
You know, we saw Mitch McConnell put out a pretty
aggressive statement last night saying he's against this nominee. But
you know, McConnell also voted against Tulsey Gabbard for that
job as well. But there may be just a basic
problem that mister Poulti just doesn't have the resume. It's
one of the few jobs where you actually have to
be you have to have had requirements. It says in
(02:50):
the statute that the nominee shall have extensive national security expertise,
and Poulte's resume just doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Mention none of it. What does he have? How did
he get to the top of the heat peep at
the top?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, a couple of things. One big Republican donor.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Two he was put in charge of the Federal Housing
Finance Agency. Well, you know, Poulty grandfather founded Poulty Homes,
so long history in the building community.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That seemed to make sense.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But while Poulty was at the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
he was also doing some digging in the records, which
brought up the dirt on Letitia James, the New York
Attorney General, and that member of the Federal Reserve Board
and some of their mortgage applications Shenanigan. So the question is,
you know, are you putting him in this d nah
(03:38):
d n I job just to dig up more dirt
on the president's political enemies.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And let's face it, all any of us are going
to ever remember is that at one point apparently, uh,
the the secretary, Oh what's the creepy one? Why am
I going to but assent treasure secretary? Treasure secretary trying
to kick his ass? That came out in testimony, Yester. Yes,
(04:04):
I don't know. Everything's just everything's just kind of spinning
weird for me lately. So this fits right in. But
what do we think in terms of approval? Is it
in jeopardy or just yeah? No, I think it probably
won't get out of committee. And that's how bad it is,
and again just doesn't seem to have the resume to
(04:25):
go along with it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The number two person there is.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Like an old school Republican guy that many say, you know,
would have been a rubber stamp if you just you know,
elevated the number two person there, and no one would
think a thing of it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But now this is a much more political move. We'll see.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
By the way, I mean not to be petty, but
Polti's only thirty eight years old, which also seems pretty
young for the job, considering he also doesn't have any
other outside experience and his college major broadcast journalism.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So well, I.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Actually, I frankly I think I am more qualified to
be national intelligence right. All right, So there's that we
have Elon Musk with this. This is going to be
what the largest public offering in history, and when it happens,
he will become the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Amazing, he may get there. Yeah, let's see what happens.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Coming up for the third hour, always going to be
back to talk about the ceasefire. I won't even introduce
the polling information that we had fun with last half
hour on that, but a ceasefire between Iran and us
believe it or not. With all the rockets red glare,
the President is still holding out. We are close, as
he confirms. He did in fact called bb Net Yahoo
crazy all right, David s and not. He's the CEO
(05:39):
of the American Policy Roundtable, host of the Public Square,
heard on two hundred stations, and he's our senior contributor.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We were joking off the air.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'm trying to go through this polling information, which reminded
me of our off air conversation yesterday, and then I'm
trying to go through this Atlantic directive and it just
got too weird for me. It was stupid on top
of stupid, and I just can't There's only so much
I can analyze.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But we're going to add a third. Let's go to
like what we're seeing.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
And I think probably the best way to do it
is pick a state and pick Ohio for example. I
don't know what America thinks of war. I don't think
they understand this enemy. I don't think they understand the president.
I don't understand how he's made a quagmire out of
the peace agreement. But what do you do with this
kind of information in looking at the future? Because if
that's the case, if polling was accurate in California, we'd
(06:31):
have two Democrats in a runoff, and we simply don't.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So how much you know?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Do we really know how America feels about four dollars
and thirty cent gas? Definitively? Do we really know how
they feel about this war? And while they have delusions
of grandeur for peace, did they understand the necessity and
the accomplishment of what the war ACCOMPLI I have no idea.
And everybody's trying to put these ingredients into the cake
that is being baked for a midterm and I just
(06:57):
and I try to keep reminding everybody, and you're doing
this it's all based on polling that we know one
half won't answer the phone. Do you understand my frustration
where I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Well, yeah, you could, Yeah, you could.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Actually just fly up and join the American Mission Center
and I'm able to all the rest of us and
welcome to our world every Monday morning, Exactly, how do
you know what's going on? And how do you know
what really matters? First off, let's roll this thing back
for a second. You've been asking very significant questions. I've
got a letter here with me that I received the
other day from a listener of the Public Square and
(07:31):
a listener to your morning show. They both they mentioned
both programs and they think we're thanking us because over
the last several years, from a listener in Michigan, you
helped keep me and my husband sane over all of
these things. I have heard that since COVID, I've heard
that on an almost a weekly basis from listeners around
the country. It's sometimes very helpful for people to listen
(07:54):
to folks like us that are in this business. You
in the communication side, and me and the policy side.
And you're in the communication side, but you take the
policy side like it's life and death. You're not just
here as an entertainer. This show is not just to
have a good time and run ads. This is about
us in a country with free moral agency, a country
(08:15):
built upon self evident truth, where we spend every day
lying to each other.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Okay, Now, unfortunately, we really are in this, We really
believe in these things. Yeah, and there is no bliss
and there is no areas problem.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
On the top of this. We're both Italian, which means
were always trying to fix stuff. Okay, we're problems all right,
and there's some problems you can't solve. There's some problems
that take longer times. There's some problems a free moral
agency that just don't work. So thanks, thanks for being
honest about this stuff, because that's the way everybody feels.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That's thinking, it's thinking, and then you get to the
point of saying, well, why aren't people thinking now that one.
I'll drive you a plumb loco if you spend too
much time on it, because people are people, and the
only thing I can tell you with certainty is that
history proves this reality. It's only at the end of
most conflicts when victory is certain that fifty one percent
of the people agree it was the right course of action.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Right, Yeah, I get that. That's very importing.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Here's what started this particular frustrating journey that listen to
the podcast for the two that I did last hour.
It's a story that Fox News put out Democratic Unity.
Imagine somebody's going to try to sell me the Democrat
Party is unified. But okay, Democratic unity Republican crossovers are
(09:31):
shaping Ohio Senate race. And I'm thinking to myself, Senate race,
I'm going to ignore a bad candidate.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'm going to ignore a.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Democrat candidate that is I don't know what to what
kind of a name would you call that? That's like
having the Kennedy name in Massachusetts. I'm gonna ignore all that,
and based on polls that I can't trust, come to
the conclusion that Vivek isn't running a week campaign. They
don't have the wrong candidate or flawed candidate running for Senate.
(10:01):
And I'm going to chalk this all up to Democratic
unity and Republicans.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, that's that's nonsense. It's very complicated on the ground.
Let me go back to gas prices. Gas prices are
different in different places. You've been very accurate in noting
that in the Biden administration, gas for the first time,
I think in history top five dollars, very briefly.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
But at top five, I can get to five h two.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's not there yet, but at four fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And now one person was talking, we got to get
rid of Joe Biden, we got to get rid of
every Democrat running for hous or senate because gas is
five dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But when the gas prices reached the grocery store shelf.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
As you know, is that space two right right then.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And then you add energy prices soaring, which we're not
soaring during the Biden situation, you have a drop in
consumer confidence and they start looking for someone to either
fix it or blame. That's the environment. Those are the
headwinds that are running against this election. I don't care
the Democrats. I agree, let me aggravate you more.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And to add to that, guess with the president's kicking around,
he wants to bring back some tariffs for some people.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, that's perfect timing.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, And on one side, earlier this week he reduced
something and I was trying to bring some back. And
there are people right now who I've talked to, business
people who have no predisposition to be angry at Donald
Trump at all, and who voted for him, who said,
if I could legally do this in a corner where
no one was watching and no one would get permanently hurt,
I would be happy to punch him in the nose
(11:30):
for what he did about terriffs, because he's destroyed my business. Now,
those were the same people who said the same thing.
Same kinds of people said the same thing about COVID,
and they were right. Now, there's a blind spot in
some of these massive moves that people don't see until
it's too late. Now, will that handful of people that
are truly impacted, devastated, literally having to recreate their whole lives,
(11:53):
will they swing an election?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Probably not.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I said something out of the blue yesterday that you
got that. If I said it today right now in
the air, most people wouldn't. I went COVID plus tariffs
and it could soon be plus an obsession with a
peace agreement that is a impossible to trust, be probably
impossible to get, and see unnecessary. These are the three
(12:18):
Trump blunders. And I know a lot of you out
there love Donald Trump. You're very protective and you will
choose him over me any day, and I get it.
But those are three mistakes he has made. Now, I
can tell you fifteen to twenty things real quickly that
he did great, and you know what, I'll take that.
But you know, for those of you that hate COVID
with all your heart and know it's the greatest scandal
(12:39):
ever perpetrated on mankind, it started with Trump. He's the
one that did it all. You forget that when you
make him savior. That's why I'm sticking with Jesus, he's
the only one that's never let me down, past present
or future, whoever made a mistake. But these are three
big mistakes Donald Trump's made, and I will grant you
COVID was his first, Tariff's was his second.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Even though the there's some good that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Can come from the tariff's long term, I'm telling it
was a mistake and didn't need to happen right now.
And Thirdly, if he doesn't let go of the obsession
of having this peace agreement or this bow on something,
it shows no understanding of it, and I think he
does understand it, it'll be his third biggest mistake, and.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's playing out on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But then I look and I go, well, I could
make a better case that Vivek is really underachieving and
maybe he's saving it for a late push. And you
got a weak candidate up against a good candidate and
a Senate race, or maybe a candidate should even be
up against Brown in the Senate race. I think that's
up there with these other things to Ohio and.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Try to put this on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Sure, I'm with you, yeah, because you know, the last
thing I want to base it on is oh the
President's done. The President's sinking, and he's going to sink
the mid terms with him. I think Fox is missing
a lot of the examination than that. It is more complicated,
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
All right, so here's the formula, and Fox is trying
to sell this and that's what started the conversation. We
got a President Trump declining popularity problem, we got a
war problem, we got an energy problem, we got a
cost a living problem. Well, tell me something new, and
that's why they've got big problems in Ohio. And I'm like, well,
(15:41):
I never had Houston beating Brown personally, and and Vivek
should be leading by more. He could probably still surge
and win. And then of course that's the top of
the ticket. What could that do to help with that
weaker candidate in the Senate race? How does all this
have to do with polling Trump's decline Gasolan, what's real
what is and who really is a bad candidate, and
(16:04):
then who really is underachieving.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All that's missing here is don King promoting the fight.
It's set up perfectly for two hundred or three hundred
million dollars to get spent the next ninety days on
local media. So of course this is the way we
want the fight to run, so we got to set
it up that way. And however, there are some factors
here that if the Democrats choose to be able to
(16:28):
manipulate this election as to a referendum on Trump's current
policy questions and consequences. Shared Brown, who's got the best
political name you could possibly put in the history of
Ohio voting, and who generally is considered to be a
little wacky but okay guy, right, no one's ever pressed
(16:48):
into the depth of his progressive socialism. There's only ninety
days left before the voting begins, one and twenty days max,
depending on how the schedules work. So we got to
get started somewhere, and there's nothing going on right now.
So the question becomes, is this the case where the
republic the Democrats flip a Senate seed by dropping two
hundred million dollars on top of people and leaving Euston
(17:10):
in the dust, basically in a position where he's not
too Trump to start with, but he's not Trump enough
and he's gonna catch it both ways. So's it's definitely
a race to watch.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah, because I sent you that one poll and the
answer is not Trump enough. Let alone blame Trump for
his falling. All right, we'll dust this out some more.
We else got to visit with John Decker at the
White House.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
When your Morning show continues.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
This is Philip on Space Coast at Melbourne, Florida, and
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We'd love to be a part of your morning routine,
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New York Knickerbockers did it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
They went and stole Game one in San Antonio, remember
the Alamo. They took Game one for the Spurs one
oh five ninety five, led by Jalen Brunson literally injured
and all he pulled to Willis Reid and took charge
of the game. Late in the third quarter. After being
down fifteen, nickt win by ten. Brunson leads away with thirty.
Game two will be Friday night tonight, game two of
(18:27):
the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. The Golden Knights up one
game to nothing. Both away teams went and won game
one on the road, so the Golden Knights are up
one game to nothing heading to rally tonight for Game
two against the Hurricanes. At seven o'clock, President Trump says
he's going to nominate the acting Attorney General to be
permanent Attorney General, Todd blanche. Meanwhile, the House has passed
(18:48):
a measure to aimed at limiting the presidents around war powers.
One person is dead, three injured after a shooting at
a high school graduation in Fairfield, California, and Elon Musk
boys to be the first trillionaire when SpaceX announces the
largest IPO in the history.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of IPOs. That is the stories we're working with.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
We're having a fun conversation with David Snadi, and we've
got three, four or five things piled on top to
make five confusing things impossible to sort through. We'll try
to do them one at a time when we come back,
and later we're going to visit at the sounds of
the day. And remember, speaking of Elon Musk. Elon Musk
disappeared after what was a physical altercation with Scott Piscent,
(19:35):
who now says he threatened to kick someone else's.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And that is the you know what of who the
President is now proposing to take over as National Intelligence Director.
There's just there are layers of odd pairings and dysfunction
going on right now. It's all getting too weird for me.
First things First, is Decker here yet? A few days
(20:00):
ago we were discussing President Trump's fund to compensate those
who were targeted for political retribution. The president has shut
that fund down, and if so, why John Decker's here
with that story.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
The thing of it is is it's not clear whether
that is shut down for good. And it has a
lot to do with what Todd blanche the acting Attorney General,
said in congressional testimony on Tuesday, and also, Michael, what
the president said yesterday in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What Todd blanche.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Said yesterday is yes, we've abandoned this idea of a
one point eight billion dollar anti weaponization fund at the
Department of Justice, but when pressed by House Democrats, he
would not commit to putting that in writing. That's problematic
for a lot of members, including Republicans. And then what
the President said yesterday was that this fund is something
(20:57):
that he believes is a very good idea he puts it,
which leads some to believe that, you know, it may
be dead for now, but it's not dead for good.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah, and very good idea. Well, that opens up a
whole other can of worms. The President was certainly targeted.
Others were targeted. This was a lawsuit, and of course
if it was pursued, we would be the ones paying
for it tax payers, And this was part of a
settlement that gets lost in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That's one side of it.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
The other side of it is, you may love Donald
Trump doing this right now to make good for the
people on your team that you think we're targeted or harmed,
But you know what, if this becomes a good idea
and something up all presidents begin to do, we're gonna
be paying for a lot of political paybacks that I'm
not interested even paying for any of them. They're already
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the millionaires and we're always struggling. All of that gets
lost in this whole conversation, doesn't it. Let's start with
the This was a settlement to begin with, right it was.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
It was a settlement based upon a lawsuit that was
filed by President Trump related to the release of his
tax returns that happened way earlier in his first administration,
and for whatever reason, he never sued during the Biden years,
which he certainly could have done. Instead, he waited to
(22:20):
sue when he was president, so it was like he's
suing himself essentially, because he controls the Justice Department, and
the Justice Department is the one that's calling the shots
in terms of settling any kind of lawsuit. So that
seems to be problematic for a lot of people, including
a federal judge, who wants the administration, specifically lawyers at
(22:42):
the DOJ, to give some background and explain what it
is that they've done and how this settlement came about.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It's always hard when we're talking about Donald Trump because
we don't know what is just stuff that popped up
and he rolled with what are things that were kind
of on his agenda. Is he doing some kind of
bigger deal here, some kind of bigger negotiation here, Because
on the surface, yes, he was wronged. He had every
right to sue and had every right to win, and
(23:11):
the American people that have had every obligation to pay it.
But the minute you settle and then you take the
money and you put it in a fund for others,
and then you take it down and then you won't
put it in writing your ticket, now it starts getting
I don't know, it's kind of like Watergate, right, the
cover up becomes worse than the original act. I don't
even know how to follow the story anymore. John, But
(23:31):
that's the fifth today.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Well, yeah, here's the other thing that's still a part
of the deal. So although the president does not receive
any sort of compensation as part of the settlement, as
part of the settlement, it was agreed to that the
Irs henceforth would never audit the president, the president's family,
or the president's businesses. That's a remarkable agreement that has
(23:56):
been made by the president's own Department of Justice. That
is problematic for many Republicans, and that is something that
Todd Blanche and his testimony that he gave before the
House on Tuesday said still remains even though this one
point eight billion dollar fund, he says, is going away.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Oh, let's add to it.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Right in the midst of all this, the President decides
to make Blanche permanently attorney general.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Timing of that, well, there's a problem with that, a
fly in the ointment if you want to call it, Michael,
and that is he would need Senate confirmation. And I
don't know whether Todd Blanche right now can get confirmed
by the Senate, even though Republicans control the Senate. And
a lot of it has to do with the fact
(24:44):
that the President has really peoed, let's put it nicely,
a lot of Republicans with some of the actions that
he's taken, including the John Cornyn non endorsement, including Tom Tillis,
forcing him essentially to retire. There's what's known as the
Wounded Bear Caucus. And I don't think that caucus is
(25:04):
necessarily going to rubber stamp the president's choice for attorney general.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
They may not even get Pulty out of committee. I mean,
this is a different time for Donald Trump. Closing moments
with our White House correspondent John Decker, and you know,
we were kicking around on much bigger subject. I couldn't
even use our time to get you up to speed.
But we're just talking about all these narratives of the
President's declining popularity, the cost of gasoline and energy and
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hitting the grocery stores soon, and the timing of this
with the midterms, and now the President wants to add
to that bringing back tariffs for some Well, this is
a really bad time to I can defend the President
on a lot of things, but this is a really
bad time to go back to that.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That'll jest nut Well.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
The president, as you know, this is something that he
has believed in even before he was a public figure
in terms of being a politician. When he was a
private citizen, he advocated for tariff. So it's not something
new for the president. And the President would use a
different legal authority to impose those terrafs, not the legal
authority which was shot down as you know at the
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US Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Well, a lot of a lot of businesses have been
paying a pretty high price on this tariff uncertainty and certainty,
and here comes more along with gas prices and grocery prices.
You got to wonder about the timing, at least that
loud I have to what's coming up today in the
White House Briefing Room.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
We'll be talking about the latest efforts to end the
war in Iran, the President expressing some optimism about that yesterday.
We'll also be talking about, you know, that UFC match
which will be happening very soon at the White House
June the fourteenth. There's a big I guess you call
it a stadium on the south lawn of the White House.
And the President suggested yesterday and in TikTok video, maybe
(26:49):
he'll leave that stadium in place.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Even after the uf No. I gotta go on there.
Let me tell you something. There's only so much of
this one human being can take.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Today.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna end our segment and I'm
gonna go listen to the White House Briefing Room, and
then I'm going to punch a wall the White House
Briefing Room. What Shohn Decker comes your way, eighth Central,
nine eastern. It's very concise, it's very good. You'll find
on the iHeart app and give it a position that way.
It's waiting for you every morning. We'll talk tomorrow. John
well Decker kept with our theme of layers and layers
(27:23):
and layers of stupid. I don't know about you, but
I don't believe in alcohol, and I may start drinking today.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
David Natty's back, our senior contributor, keeping a fighting ring
in the back lawn of the White House permanently. I mean,
I don't know what's real, what isn't real. I don't
know what to make sense of, what to stand by,
what not to stand by. I stand by the war.
I don't know why we're making a peace quag Myra
out of it. I understand that the gas temporarily went up.
(27:57):
It's already returned for dollars and thirty cents is at
the five dollars it was during the Biden administration, and
nobody was looking to overturn elections over that. And now
he wants to bring back more tariffs on common partners.
There's only so much I can I can make sense
of it once.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, and it's still where the election basically is here, right,
We're getting through the primaries. It's all here. The clock
is ticking. You feel it, You understand lanes you understand momentum.
You understand how these things happen and how difficult it
is to shift momentum. We also know that there are
things that happen that can turn elections on a dime,
(28:38):
and that people don't even know are coming in conversations
as such. So what we have to do is we
got to just keep trying to do the thing we
do each day and have some faith. You know, I
was talking to someone the other day and they made
the comment that, and I've heard this over and over again,
it is that Americans, in when they're allowed to have
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their therapy analysis quantified therapists will tell you that the
greatest problem facing our country is an acute sense of loneliness. Now,
it's kind of interesting that when you decide to believe
a doctrine of reality that we're alone in the universe,
why wouldn't we all suddenly be afflicted by loneliness if
(29:23):
you're absolutely alone in the universe. That's the difference between
the declaration of independence, the celebration of the fourth of July,
and where we are today. The people who started this
country didn't think they were alone in the process, and
when you consider yourself to be alone in the process
about all you got left is the mma ring all
you got less is the question for power is who
(29:43):
you're going to punch in a face? I mean, it's
got the said set at all. When you've got no
moral objective that's bigger than all of us, you just
punch them in a face. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We were having a conversation off the air, and it
really boiled down to and this goes back to the
Atlantic story, which is basically telling these this is the
advice for all the candidates. This is the consultants Big three.
They need to focus on. You need to be visible,
You need to be online everywhere, cutting through podcasts everywhere.
(30:12):
And that's just we talk too much, we think too little,
and thanks to Red brought up X and its character limitations,
we think more and more shallow. And all of this
has led to just this shallow, overexposed system of outrage,
when what we really need is John F.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought. And for those who are thoughtful, who
are still motivated by the intent of that document and
this experiment that began two hundred and fifty years ago,
it becomes more and more frustrating because I don't want
members of Congress that are getting more likes or popping
(30:52):
up on more screens saying outrageous things or being influencers.
I want them to be servant leaders. I want them
to go to Washington and represent and work together collectively
for a more perfect union and identify and solve problems.
I don't even think that's the game anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
No, Michael, the game is posing for power. Right. They'll
position themselves, however, they have to to make the pose
look right, just like kids taking pictures at the mall.
They pose because what they're really all about is power
because power controls the largest budget in the world, and
they each have a vote. They get two votes every
time they get elected to the House of Representatives on
(31:32):
the biggest budget in the world. So that's what we're
that's what we're fundamentally dealing with, and that's what we
the people, have to overcome. And you're right to perpetually
point out the debt because the debt is the fundamental
feeling of them all. The debt proves that they're lying
and we're tired of being lied.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To, or they're pandering and we're paying for it. Yeah. Yeah,
it has become a game of fooling. I mean that
that's really what that Atlantic story boiled down to. Look,
you can't make a fool out of yourself like Governor Holkele.
You got to really no sports. You got to talk
to these dumb men in a language they understand sports,
you know. But but ultimately what they're doing is a
(32:13):
scam of deceiving to appear a certain way for what
for trust for votes. You win votes with ideas, you
win votes with with policies, you win votes with with with.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Rep I guess a resume.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I mean, we got a guy running for president there
was a character witness for a terrorist, and he's winning big.
We got another guy that was with a Nazi tattoo. Now
he's been sexting and he's winning big. I mean, I
love Dan Bongino at the Line of the Day yesterday
and he said, this is like a guy walking into
a bank to apply for a bank teller job and
his resume is five felon.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
He's a bank robbery, I mean, and he's hirable.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And the pseudo moralists of the Democrat Party who would
absolutely lampoon anyone in the Republican arena that would try
to run with that kind of a resume together and say, well,
he just had a rough run in life for a
brief time. He's okay, now we'll support it.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
You and I had a kind of got one minute,
but you and I had a conversation off the air
about a whole other thing. You've been tracking a poll
on the importance of religion in America, and there's no
question we've turned away from God. And you can see
it in the numbers. God as a way, a truth
and a life. The decline is massive, and the increase
and gullibility to fall for things like global warming and
(33:27):
so on, and and loneliness to pay for it. To me,
I looked at that real quickly, and I said, and
you said, And then I got people telling me a
revival starting. Well, no, I see America, I see human experience.
Remember that lesson of the three chairs. First generation believes
and really lives it. Second generation believes and lives in compromise.
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Third generation doesn't believe and lives lives in rebellion. The
last fifteen years of my radio career, America had its
one butt cheek in the second chair and one butt
cheek in the third. The last five years both butt
cheeks purely in don't believe in living in rebellion, and
we're coming to an end of ourselves. Man does this?
(34:09):
We let go of God only to go find a
way to nowhere, hit a wall and turn back to God.
Now the remnant can sense and feel the revival coming.
But we've really got rock bottom coming, and I'm just
wondering how much of America is going to go to
rock bottom with it. But they're all related. It's all
of the above, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's all of the above. And the best thing people
can do today is pray for our country.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Amen. All right, Well, we'll try to make more sense
of it.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I think you're off tomorrow and your non paid job,
but maybe we still haven't gotten to my favorite story,
which is the scientists have joined Bill Gates and saying
goodbye to the global warming crisis. So oops, we'll get there.
It was wrong, It was a mistake. We scared you
for no reason. Now, good luck with your real crisis,
a birth crisis, which is something you and your team
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We got to get to that next week.
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know what members of Congress's goal is.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
My goal is to serve you, and serve you I shall,
Jeffrey Will.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Let's face it in full transparency.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
We can't figure out what got one one slot on
the board that won't play in both channels.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
But we're going to make an attempt to fix that.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Red of course, was the messenger who got shot last
hour for giving me two stories. I frustratingly couldn't make
sense if it's just too much stupid, and I can't
apply understanding to stupidity layered upon stupidity, asked to stupid,
and responses then qualified quantified by stupid.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
So I'm a little frustrated.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
And in the midst of this, Redd is enjoying it
too much, and so is David Sinati, who's laughing. But
he'll get his turn in a moment, as we'll throw
about three things that'll twist his brain into a pretzel
as well. And something tells me, for the fifth time
in a row, we will not get to saying goodbye
to the fake global warming crisis.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And hello to the real birthing crisis. But maybe we will.
You never know. We may have to go two hours
to get to it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
President Trump says he'll nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
to serve in the role permanently. The President is also
picking to replace Telsea Gabbard as Acting Director of National Intelligence,
an individual that the Republicans are expressing some bewilderment over,
ladies and gentlemen, our national correspondent, the only one who
hasn't made a mistake in the last two days.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Rory O'Neil, Good morning, Rory.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Hey, good morning.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
And you know that nomination of Bill Poulty to run
to become the Director of National Intelligence really has divided
a lot of Republicans, even those typically supportive of the
president's agenda.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So that might be an uphill climb.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
You know, we saw Mitch McConnell put out a pretty
aggressive statement last night saying he's against this nominee. But
you know, McConnell also voted against Tulsey Gabbard for that
job as well. But there may be just a basic
problem that mister Poulti just doesn't have the resume. It's
one of the few jobs where you actually have to
be you have to have had requirements. It says in
(02:50):
the statute that the nominee shall have extensive national security expertise,
and Poulte's resume just doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Mention none of it. What does he have? How did
he get to the top of the heat peep at
the top?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, a couple of things. One big Republican donor.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Two he was put in charge of the Federal Housing
Finance Agency. Well, you know, Poulty grandfather founded Poulty Homes,
so long history in the building community.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That seemed to make sense.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But while Poulty was at the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
he was also doing some digging in the records, which
brought up the dirt on Letitia James, the New York
Attorney General, and that member of the Federal Reserve Board
and some of their mortgage applications Shenanigan. So the question is,
you know, are you putting him in this d nah
(03:38):
d n I job just to dig up more dirt
on the president's political enemies.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And let's face it, all any of us are going
to ever remember is that at one point apparently, uh,
the the secretary, Oh what's the creepy one? Why am
I going to but assent treasure secretary? Treasure secretary trying
to kick his ass? That came out in testimony, Yester. Yes,
(04:04):
I don't know. Everything's just everything's just kind of spinning
weird for me lately. So this fits right in. But
what do we think in terms of approval? Is it
in jeopardy or just yeah? No, I think it probably
won't get out of committee. And that's how bad it is,
and again just doesn't seem to have the resume to
(04:25):
go along with it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
The number two person there is.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Like an old school Republican guy that many say, you know,
would have been a rubber stamp if you just you know,
elevated the number two person there, and no one would
think a thing of it.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But now this is a much more political move. We'll see.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
By the way, I mean not to be petty, but
Polti's only thirty eight years old, which also seems pretty
young for the job, considering he also doesn't have any
other outside experience and his college major broadcast journalism.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So well, I.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Actually, I frankly I think I am more qualified to
be national intelligence right. All right, So there's that we
have Elon Musk with this. This is going to be
what the largest public offering in history, and when it happens,
he will become the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Amazing, he may get there. Yeah, let's see what happens.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Coming up for the third hour, always going to be
back to talk about the ceasefire. I won't even introduce
the polling information that we had fun with last half
hour on that, but a ceasefire between Iran and us
believe it or not. With all the rockets red glare,
the President is still holding out. We are close, as
he confirms. He did in fact called bb Net Yahoo
crazy all right, David s and not. He's the CEO
(05:39):
of the American Policy Roundtable, host of the Public Square,
heard on two hundred stations, and he's our senior contributor.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We were joking off the air.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'm trying to go through this polling information, which reminded
me of our off air conversation yesterday, and then I'm
trying to go through this Atlantic directive and it just
got too weird for me. It was stupid on top
of stupid, and I just can't There's only so much
I can analyze.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But we're going to add a third. Let's go to
like what we're seeing.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
And I think probably the best way to do it
is pick a state and pick Ohio for example. I
don't know what America thinks of war. I don't think
they understand this enemy. I don't think they understand the president.
I don't understand how he's made a quagmire out of
the peace agreement. But what do you do with this
kind of information in looking at the future? Because if
that's the case, if polling was accurate in California, we'd
(06:31):
have two Democrats in a runoff, and we simply don't.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So how much you know?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Do we really know how America feels about four dollars
and thirty cent gas? Definitively? Do we really know how
they feel about this war? And while they have delusions
of grandeur for peace, did they understand the necessity and
the accomplishment of what the war ACCOMPLI I have no idea.
And everybody's trying to put these ingredients into the cake
that is being baked for a midterm and I just
(06:57):
and I try to keep reminding everybody, and you're doing
this it's all based on polling that we know one
half won't answer the phone. Do you understand my frustration
where I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Well, yeah, you could, Yeah, you could.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Actually just fly up and join the American Mission Center
and I'm able to all the rest of us and
welcome to our world every Monday morning, Exactly, how do
you know what's going on? And how do you know
what really matters? First off, let's roll this thing back
for a second. You've been asking very significant questions. I've
got a letter here with me that I received the
other day from a listener of the Public Square and
(07:31):
a listener to your morning show. They both they mentioned
both programs and they think we're thanking us because over
the last several years, from a listener in Michigan, you
helped keep me and my husband sane over all of
these things. I have heard that since COVID, I've heard
that on an almost a weekly basis from listeners around
the country. It's sometimes very helpful for people to listen
(07:54):
to folks like us that are in this business. You
in the communication side, and me and the policy side.
And you're in the communication side, but you take the
policy side like it's life and death. You're not just
here as an entertainer. This show is not just to
have a good time and run ads. This is about
us in a country with free moral agency, a country
(08:15):
built upon self evident truth, where we spend every day
lying to each other.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Okay, Now, unfortunately, we really are in this, We really
believe in these things. Yeah, and there is no bliss
and there is no areas problem.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
On the top of this. We're both Italian, which means
were always trying to fix stuff. Okay, we're problems all right,
and there's some problems you can't solve. There's some problems
that take longer times. There's some problems a free moral
agency that just don't work. So thanks, thanks for being
honest about this stuff, because that's the way everybody feels.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That's thinking, it's thinking, and then you get to the
point of saying, well, why aren't people thinking now that one.
I'll drive you a plumb loco if you spend too
much time on it, because people are people, and the
only thing I can tell you with certainty is that
history proves this reality. It's only at the end of
most conflicts when victory is certain that fifty one percent
of the people agree it was the right course of action.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Right, Yeah, I get that. That's very importing.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Here's what started this particular frustrating journey that listen to
the podcast for the two that I did last hour.
It's a story that Fox News put out Democratic Unity.
Imagine somebody's going to try to sell me the Democrat
Party is unified. But okay, Democratic unity Republican crossovers are
(09:31):
shaping Ohio Senate race. And I'm thinking to myself, Senate race,
I'm going to ignore a bad candidate.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'm going to ignore a.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Democrat candidate that is I don't know what to what
kind of a name would you call that? That's like
having the Kennedy name in Massachusetts. I'm gonna ignore all that,
and based on polls that I can't trust, come to
the conclusion that Vivek isn't running a week campaign. They
don't have the wrong candidate or flawed candidate running for Senate.
(10:01):
And I'm going to chalk this all up to Democratic
unity and Republicans.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, that's that's nonsense. It's very complicated on the ground.
Let me go back to gas prices. Gas prices are
different in different places. You've been very accurate in noting
that in the Biden administration, gas for the first time,
I think in history top five dollars, very briefly.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
But at top five, I can get to five h two.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's not there yet, but at four fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And now one person was talking, we got to get
rid of Joe Biden, we got to get rid of
every Democrat running for hous or senate because gas is
five dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But when the gas prices reached the grocery store shelf.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
As you know, is that space two right right then.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And then you add energy prices soaring, which we're not
soaring during the Biden situation, you have a drop in
consumer confidence and they start looking for someone to either
fix it or blame. That's the environment. Those are the
headwinds that are running against this election. I don't care
the Democrats. I agree, let me aggravate you more.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And to add to that, guess with the president's kicking around,
he wants to bring back some tariffs for some people.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, that's perfect timing.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, And on one side, earlier this week he reduced
something and I was trying to bring some back. And
there are people right now who I've talked to, business
people who have no predisposition to be angry at Donald
Trump at all, and who voted for him, who said,
if I could legally do this in a corner where
no one was watching and no one would get permanently hurt,
I would be happy to punch him in the nose
(11:30):
for what he did about terriffs, because he's destroyed my business. Now,
those were the same people who said the same thing.
Same kinds of people said the same thing about COVID,
and they were right. Now, there's a blind spot in
some of these massive moves that people don't see until
it's too late. Now, will that handful of people that
are truly impacted, devastated, literally having to recreate their whole lives,
(11:53):
will they swing an election?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Probably not.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I said something out of the blue yesterday that you
got that. If I said it today right now in
the air, most people wouldn't. I went COVID plus tariffs
and it could soon be plus an obsession with a
peace agreement that is a impossible to trust, be probably
impossible to get, and see unnecessary. These are the three
(12:18):
Trump blunders. And I know a lot of you out
there love Donald Trump. You're very protective and you will
choose him over me any day, and I get it.
But those are three mistakes he has made. Now, I
can tell you fifteen to twenty things real quickly that
he did great, and you know what, I'll take that.
But you know, for those of you that hate COVID
with all your heart and know it's the greatest scandal
(12:39):
ever perpetrated on mankind, it started with Trump. He's the
one that did it all. You forget that when you
make him savior. That's why I'm sticking with Jesus, he's
the only one that's never let me down, past present
or future, whoever made a mistake. But these are three
big mistakes Donald Trump's made, and I will grant you
COVID was his first, Tariff's was his second.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Even though the there's some good that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Can come from the tariff's long term, I'm telling it
was a mistake and didn't need to happen right now.
And Thirdly, if he doesn't let go of the obsession
of having this peace agreement or this bow on something,
it shows no understanding of it, and I think he
does understand it, it'll be his third biggest mistake, and.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's playing out on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But then I look and I go, well, I could
make a better case that Vivek is really underachieving and
maybe he's saving it for a late push. And you
got a weak candidate up against a good candidate and
a Senate race, or maybe a candidate should even be
up against Brown in the Senate race. I think that's
up there with these other things to Ohio and.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Try to put this on the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Sure, I'm with you, yeah, because you know, the last
thing I want to base it on is oh the
President's done. The President's sinking, and he's going to sink
the mid terms with him. I think Fox is missing
a lot of the examination than that. It is more complicated,
But maybe that's better print than I'm doing in radio
right now. Trusting it all out all right, Layer Capital,
(14:03):
what's happening right now in Iran is not just another headline.
It can be and ultimately could possibly be a direct
hit to your wallet if it isn't already. Why Because
when a conflict breaks out in the Middle East, oil
moves first, and then everything follows. As David was just
talking about, gas prices go up, then shopping costs bike,
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
This is your Morning Show with Michael del Chno.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
All right, so here's the formula, and Fox is trying
to sell this and that's what started the conversation. We
got a President Trump declining popularity problem, we got a
war problem, we got an energy problem, we got a
cost a living problem. Well, tell me something new, and
that's why they've got big problems in Ohio. And I'm like, well,
(15:41):
I never had Houston beating Brown personally, and and Vivek
should be leading by more. He could probably still surge
and win. And then of course that's the top of
the ticket. What could that do to help with that
weaker candidate in the Senate race? How does all this
have to do with polling Trump's decline Gasolan, what's real
what is and who really is a bad candidate, and
(16:04):
then who really is underachieving.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
All that's missing here is don King promoting the fight.
It's set up perfectly for two hundred or three hundred
million dollars to get spent the next ninety days on
local media. So of course this is the way we
want the fight to run, so we got to set
it up that way. And however, there are some factors
here that if the Democrats choose to be able to
(16:28):
manipulate this election as to a referendum on Trump's current
policy questions and consequences. Shared Brown, who's got the best
political name you could possibly put in the history of
Ohio voting, and who generally is considered to be a
little wacky but okay guy, right, no one's ever pressed
(16:48):
into the depth of his progressive socialism. There's only ninety
days left before the voting begins, one and twenty days max,
depending on how the schedules work. So we got to
get started somewhere, and there's nothing going on right now.
So the question becomes, is this the case where the
republic the Democrats flip a Senate seed by dropping two
hundred million dollars on top of people and leaving Euston
(17:10):
in the dust, basically in a position where he's not
too Trump to start with, but he's not Trump enough
and he's gonna catch it both ways. So's it's definitely
a race to watch.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah, because I sent you that one poll and the
answer is not Trump enough. Let alone blame Trump for
his falling. All right, we'll dust this out some more.
We else got to visit with John Decker at the
White House.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
When your Morning show continues.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
This is Philip on Space Coast at Melbourne, Florida, and
my morning show is your Morning Show with Michael Del Giorno.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
He is the wine. Not spot sme, Paul Hi. It's Michael.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
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six to nine Eastern in great cities like Memphis, Tennessee, Telsa, Oklahoma, Sacramento, California.
We'd love to be a part of your morning routine,
but we're happier here now. Enjoy the podcast. Well, the
New York Knickerbockers did it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
They went and stole Game one in San Antonio, remember
the Alamo. They took Game one for the Spurs one
oh five ninety five, led by Jalen Brunson literally injured
and all he pulled to Willis Reid and took charge
of the game. Late in the third quarter. After being
down fifteen, nickt win by ten. Brunson leads away with thirty.
Game two will be Friday night tonight, game two of
(18:27):
the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. The Golden Knights up one
game to nothing. Both away teams went and won game
one on the road, so the Golden Knights are up
one game to nothing heading to rally tonight for Game
two against the Hurricanes. At seven o'clock, President Trump says
he's going to nominate the acting Attorney General to be
permanent Attorney General, Todd blanche. Meanwhile, the House has passed
(18:48):
a measure to aimed at limiting the presidents around war powers.
One person is dead, three injured after a shooting at
a high school graduation in Fairfield, California, and Elon Musk
boys to be the first trillionaire when SpaceX announces the
largest IPO in the history.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Of IPOs. That is the stories we're working with.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
We're having a fun conversation with David Snadi, and we've
got three, four or five things piled on top to
make five confusing things impossible to sort through. We'll try
to do them one at a time when we come back,
and later we're going to visit at the sounds of
the day. And remember, speaking of Elon Musk. Elon Musk
disappeared after what was a physical altercation with Scott Piscent,
(19:35):
who now says he threatened to kick someone else's.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And that is the you know what of who the
President is now proposing to take over as National Intelligence Director.
There's just there are layers of odd pairings and dysfunction
going on right now. It's all getting too weird for me.
First things First, is Decker here yet? A few days
(20:00):
ago we were discussing President Trump's fund to compensate those
who were targeted for political retribution. The president has shut
that fund down, and if so, why John Decker's here
with that story.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
The thing of it is is it's not clear whether
that is shut down for good. And it has a
lot to do with what Todd blanche the acting Attorney General,
said in congressional testimony on Tuesday, and also, Michael, what
the president said yesterday in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What Todd blanche.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Said yesterday is yes, we've abandoned this idea of a
one point eight billion dollar anti weaponization fund at the
Department of Justice, but when pressed by House Democrats, he
would not commit to putting that in writing. That's problematic
for a lot of members, including Republicans. And then what
the President said yesterday was that this fund is something
(20:57):
that he believes is a very good idea he puts it,
which leads some to believe that, you know, it may
be dead for now, but it's not dead for good.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah, and very good idea. Well, that opens up a
whole other can of worms. The President was certainly targeted.
Others were targeted. This was a lawsuit, and of course
if it was pursued, we would be the ones paying
for it tax payers, And this was part of a
settlement that gets lost in this conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That's one side of it.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
The other side of it is, you may love Donald
Trump doing this right now to make good for the
people on your team that you think we're targeted or harmed,
But you know what, if this becomes a good idea
and something up all presidents begin to do, we're gonna
be paying for a lot of political paybacks that I'm
not interested even paying for any of them. They're already
(21:49):
the millionaires and we're always struggling. All of that gets
lost in this whole conversation, doesn't it. Let's start with
the This was a settlement to begin with, right it was.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
It was a settlement based upon a lawsuit that was
filed by President Trump related to the release of his
tax returns that happened way earlier in his first administration,
and for whatever reason, he never sued during the Biden years,
which he certainly could have done. Instead, he waited to
(22:20):
sue when he was president, so it was like he's
suing himself essentially, because he controls the Justice Department, and
the Justice Department is the one that's calling the shots
in terms of settling any kind of lawsuit. So that
seems to be problematic for a lot of people, including
a federal judge, who wants the administration, specifically lawyers at
(22:42):
the DOJ, to give some background and explain what it
is that they've done and how this settlement came about.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It's always hard when we're talking about Donald Trump because
we don't know what is just stuff that popped up
and he rolled with what are things that were kind
of on his agenda. Is he doing some kind of
bigger deal here, some kind of bigger negotiation here, Because
on the surface, yes, he was wronged. He had every
right to sue and had every right to win, and
(23:11):
the American people that have had every obligation to pay it.
But the minute you settle and then you take the
money and you put it in a fund for others,
and then you take it down and then you won't
put it in writing your ticket, now it starts getting
I don't know, it's kind of like Watergate, right, the
cover up becomes worse than the original act. I don't
even know how to follow the story anymore. John, But
(23:31):
that's the fifth today.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Well, yeah, here's the other thing that's still a part
of the deal. So although the president does not receive
any sort of compensation as part of the settlement, as
part of the settlement, it was agreed to that the
Irs henceforth would never audit the president, the president's family,
or the president's businesses. That's a remarkable agreement that has
(23:56):
been made by the president's own Department of Justice. That
is problematic for many Republicans, and that is something that
Todd Blanche and his testimony that he gave before the
House on Tuesday said still remains even though this one
point eight billion dollar fund, he says, is going away.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Oh, let's add to it.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Right in the midst of all this, the President decides
to make Blanche permanently attorney general.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Timing of that, well, there's a problem with that, a
fly in the ointment if you want to call it, Michael,
and that is he would need Senate confirmation. And I
don't know whether Todd Blanche right now can get confirmed
by the Senate, even though Republicans control the Senate. And
a lot of it has to do with the fact
(24:44):
that the President has really peoed, let's put it nicely,
a lot of Republicans with some of the actions that
he's taken, including the John Cornyn non endorsement, including Tom Tillis,
forcing him essentially to retire. There's what's known as the
Wounded Bear Caucus. And I don't think that caucus is
(25:04):
necessarily going to rubber stamp the president's choice for attorney general.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
They may not even get Pulty out of committee. I mean,
this is a different time for Donald Trump. Closing moments
with our White House correspondent John Decker, and you know,
we were kicking around on much bigger subject. I couldn't
even use our time to get you up to speed.
But we're just talking about all these narratives of the
President's declining popularity, the cost of gasoline and energy and
(25:31):
hitting the grocery stores soon, and the timing of this
with the midterms, and now the President wants to add
to that bringing back tariffs for some Well, this is
a really bad time to I can defend the President
on a lot of things, but this is a really
bad time to go back to that.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
That'll jest nut Well.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
The president, as you know, this is something that he
has believed in even before he was a public figure
in terms of being a politician. When he was a
private citizen, he advocated for tariff. So it's not something
new for the president. And the President would use a
different legal authority to impose those terrafs, not the legal
authority which was shot down as you know at the
(26:09):
US Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Well, a lot of a lot of businesses have been
paying a pretty high price on this tariff uncertainty and certainty,
and here comes more along with gas prices and grocery prices.
You got to wonder about the timing, at least that
loud I have to what's coming up today in the
White House Briefing Room.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
We'll be talking about the latest efforts to end the
war in Iran, the President expressing some optimism about that yesterday.
We'll also be talking about, you know, that UFC match
which will be happening very soon at the White House
June the fourteenth. There's a big I guess you call
it a stadium on the south lawn of the White House.
And the President suggested yesterday and in TikTok video, maybe
(26:49):
he'll leave that stadium in place.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Even after the uf No. I gotta go on there.
Let me tell you something. There's only so much of
this one human being can take.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Today.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I'm just gonna I'm gonna end our segment and I'm
gonna go listen to the White House Briefing Room, and
then I'm going to punch a wall the White House
Briefing Room. What Shohn Decker comes your way, eighth Central,
nine eastern. It's very concise, it's very good. You'll find
on the iHeart app and give it a position that way.
It's waiting for you every morning. We'll talk tomorrow. John
well Decker kept with our theme of layers and layers
(27:23):
and layers of stupid. I don't know about you, but
I don't believe in alcohol, and I may start drinking today.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
David Natty's back, our senior contributor, keeping a fighting ring
in the back lawn of the White House permanently. I mean,
I don't know what's real, what isn't real. I don't
know what to make sense of, what to stand by,
what not to stand by. I stand by the war.
I don't know why we're making a peace quag Myra
out of it. I understand that the gas temporarily went up.
(27:57):
It's already returned for dollars and thirty cents is at
the five dollars it was during the Biden administration, and
nobody was looking to overturn elections over that. And now
he wants to bring back more tariffs on common partners.
There's only so much I can I can make sense
of it once.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, and it's still where the election basically is here, right,
We're getting through the primaries. It's all here. The clock
is ticking. You feel it, You understand lanes you understand momentum.
You understand how these things happen and how difficult it
is to shift momentum. We also know that there are
things that happen that can turn elections on a dime,
(28:38):
and that people don't even know are coming in conversations
as such. So what we have to do is we
got to just keep trying to do the thing we
do each day and have some faith. You know, I
was talking to someone the other day and they made
the comment that, and I've heard this over and over again,
it is that Americans, in when they're allowed to have
(29:00):
their therapy analysis quantified therapists will tell you that the
greatest problem facing our country is an acute sense of loneliness. Now,
it's kind of interesting that when you decide to believe
a doctrine of reality that we're alone in the universe,
why wouldn't we all suddenly be afflicted by loneliness if
(29:23):
you're absolutely alone in the universe. That's the difference between
the declaration of independence, the celebration of the fourth of July,
and where we are today. The people who started this
country didn't think they were alone in the process, and
when you consider yourself to be alone in the process
about all you got left is the mma ring all
you got less is the question for power is who
(29:43):
you're going to punch in a face? I mean, it's
got the said set at all. When you've got no
moral objective that's bigger than all of us, you just
punch them in a face. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We were having a conversation off the air, and it
really boiled down to and this goes back to the
Atlantic story, which is basically telling these this is the
advice for all the candidates. This is the consultants Big three.
They need to focus on. You need to be visible,
You need to be online everywhere, cutting through podcasts everywhere.
(30:12):
And that's just we talk too much, we think too little,
and thanks to Red brought up X and its character limitations,
we think more and more shallow. And all of this
has led to just this shallow, overexposed system of outrage,
when what we really need is John F.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Kennedy.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought. And for those who are thoughtful, who
are still motivated by the intent of that document and
this experiment that began two hundred and fifty years ago,
it becomes more and more frustrating because I don't want
members of Congress that are getting more likes or popping
(30:52):
up on more screens saying outrageous things or being influencers.
I want them to be servant leaders. I want them
to go to Washington and represent and work together collectively
for a more perfect union and identify and solve problems.
I don't even think that's the game anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
No, Michael, the game is posing for power. Right. They'll
position themselves, however, they have to to make the pose
look right, just like kids taking pictures at the mall.
They pose because what they're really all about is power
because power controls the largest budget in the world, and
they each have a vote. They get two votes every
time they get elected to the House of Representatives on
(31:32):
the biggest budget in the world. So that's what we're
that's what we're fundamentally dealing with, and that's what we
the people, have to overcome. And you're right to perpetually
point out the debt because the debt is the fundamental
feeling of them all. The debt proves that they're lying
and we're tired of being lied.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To, or they're pandering and we're paying for it. Yeah. Yeah,
it has become a game of fooling. I mean that
that's really what that Atlantic story boiled down to. Look,
you can't make a fool out of yourself like Governor Holkele.
You got to really no sports. You got to talk
to these dumb men in a language they understand sports,
you know. But but ultimately what they're doing is a
(32:13):
scam of deceiving to appear a certain way for what
for trust for votes. You win votes with ideas, you
win votes with with policies, you win votes with with with.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Rep I guess a resume.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
I mean, we got a guy running for president there
was a character witness for a terrorist, and he's winning big.
We got another guy that was with a Nazi tattoo. Now
he's been sexting and he's winning big. I mean, I
love Dan Bongino at the Line of the Day yesterday
and he said, this is like a guy walking into
a bank to apply for a bank teller job and
his resume is five felon.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
He's a bank robbery, I mean, and he's hirable.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
And the pseudo moralists of the Democrat Party who would
absolutely lampoon anyone in the Republican arena that would try
to run with that kind of a resume together and say, well,
he just had a rough run in life for a
brief time. He's okay, now we'll support it.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
You and I had a kind of got one minute,
but you and I had a conversation off the air
about a whole other thing. You've been tracking a poll
on the importance of religion in America, and there's no
question we've turned away from God. And you can see
it in the numbers. God as a way, a truth
and a life. The decline is massive, and the increase
and gullibility to fall for things like global warming and
(33:27):
so on, and and loneliness to pay for it. To me,
I looked at that real quickly, and I said, and
you said, And then I got people telling me a
revival starting. Well, no, I see America, I see human experience.
Remember that lesson of the three chairs. First generation believes
and really lives it. Second generation believes and lives in compromise.
(33:49):
Third generation doesn't believe and lives lives in rebellion. The
last fifteen years of my radio career, America had its
one butt cheek in the second chair and one butt
cheek in the third. The last five years both butt
cheeks purely in don't believe in living in rebellion, and
we're coming to an end of ourselves. Man does this?
(34:09):
We let go of God only to go find a
way to nowhere, hit a wall and turn back to God.
Now the remnant can sense and feel the revival coming.
But we've really got rock bottom coming, and I'm just
wondering how much of America is going to go to
rock bottom with it. But they're all related. It's all
of the above, I promise you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
It's all of the above. And the best thing people
can do today is pray for our country.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Amen. All right, Well, we'll try to make more sense
of it.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I think you're off tomorrow and your non paid job,
but maybe we still haven't gotten to my favorite story,
which is the scientists have joined Bill Gates and saying
goodbye to the global warming crisis. So oops, we'll get there.
It was wrong, It was a mistake. We scared you
for no reason. Now, good luck with your real crisis,
a birth crisis, which is something you and your team
(34:56):
have been on for years.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
We got to get to that next week.
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