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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
A year and a half later, now she has something
to say. Former Vice President Harris is being crossed about
why she did not raise concerns about former President Biden's
health before he pulled out of the race. In a
BBC interview, Harris was asked about a section of her
new book where she discusses neither her nor Biden discussing
his health. The former Vice president said she now wonders
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whether she should have raised concerns, but was not worried
about whether he could do the job or not. Harris
stepped in as the Democratic candidate in the twenty twenty
four presidential race after Biden ended his campaign following a
poor debate performance Despicable Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Okay, so she you know, they the pair left their
party in shambles, our country in chambeles.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And do you know, I think it was more than
a hint.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean she pretty much said she's not done yet,
meaning she could run again. I want, you know, well,
gruesome Newsome and oh cackling Kamala on a ticket.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I've talked about that before.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, they're not going to be on the same ticket,
they're gonna run against each other.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean, we could show Fatty Pritzker in there too.
Of course they're all out there. Gruesome newsom if Pritzker
shamelessly seemingly pressing for a possible presidential run in twenty
eight I mean, we know she's out here pimping her
book or media tours. What is it one hundred and
seven days of this we have to put up with.
(01:38):
But she did say in that interview which got awkward
there did you catch her? You know, here, this woman
is trying to do her job and say, you know,
you lost pretty significantly, and she's literally trying to bring
up you didn't just lose the popular vote, you you know,
of course lost the electoral college and all the key
swing states, and Kamala is like, I'm not finished yet.
(02:00):
It was just.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Everything she does is awkward, I.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Think more than awkward. How about her campaign run. I
mean she raised more than a billion dollars and still
ended up in debt. Yeah, let's make that our next president.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, she was an awful candidate.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It wasn't her fall place, you know, it was just
last second she had to do something. And of course
there's zero responsibility with regards to the president not autopen,
not being there.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, she says she never wondered whether he could do
the job or not, but she wonders now whether she
should have raised concerns, raised concerns about what, oh his health. Well, uh,
you know, it doesn't make any sense. So that's talking
on both sides of your mouth, per.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
As you said, typical with cackling Kamala.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So what's she going to say, I'm just concerned about
the president's health, but he's doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right, point that out and then not be more specific
about the fact that there's he's you know, he's not there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Why would she be worried about his health? Right?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And they're all lying, every single one of them that
says they never saw it in Kareem John Pierre's written
a book and she's out on the campaign or on
the book trail.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you find her and you know, not recognizable with
the fact that she got rid of the you know,
sort of raggedy ann andy curly hair.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I didn't know who it was at first.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, I was like, wait, who's that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just happened to look. I'd come across her on
a in the middle of a TV interview. I literally
I didn't know it was.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Her, literally me either, But she's doing that on purpose
because she's peddling a book as an independent Well.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Women change their hairstyles. But the point is is that
she's a liar and always has been, except it was
her job to be a liar. So you can almost
excuse her and not the rest of them. I mean,
if when you're the White House spokesperson, I mean, you're
the you're the mouthpiece for the President of the United States,
so you're not always going to get up there, unfortunately
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and tell the truth. So that would fall in her
job description to at least, you know, hang out in
the muddy water. But when she says that behind the scenes,
she personally never saw anything of concern regarding the president's
mental acuity, come.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
On, well, I can't help with KJP with regards to
the hair and the whole She didn't change her hair
four years in the podium at the White House, and
then all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
She's changing her party, She's changing her hair.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's like, hmm, interesting, So not embracing all that you
have before, it's just like a chameleon when it comes
to well, I would think a party that has a
wayward morals and values frankly so.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well. The point being is none of these people will
come out and say, yes, I was concerned, because then
the question becomes, well, how come you didn't do anything
about it? How come you didn't say anything about it?
So they all have to deny that they saw the
president's mental ability slip. They have to pretend that he
was on top of his game. And you know, how
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dare they? And Kareem John Pierre has the problem with
her leaving the party? Was that how they treated this
man who dedicated fifty years of his life to public service?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
How was he treated because he was cast out and
Kamala installed. Yes, otherwise he was completely treated quite well,
I would think by his party, until all of a
sudden he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And when I say treated well, I mean ignoring all
of the obvious.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, they used him for as long as they could,
and then when it was very apparent that they couldn't
use him anymore, they got rid of him, and so
he used them too. He wanted to be president so
bad he does went along with it. He didn't know
what you know, in how he acted as president was
not in line with how he acted throughout the other
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forty whatever years of his political career. So he was
just letting them do whatever they wanted, and they were
letting him pretend to be president. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
says the US and China have agreed to a framework
for a trade deal. Besson and the US Trade Envoy
met with China's Vice premier on the sidelines of the
Ajia and Summit and Malaysia on Sunday. Besson said he
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the plan, which would avert one hundred percent new tariffs
on Chinese goods, is ready ahead of an upcoming meeting
between President Trump and Chinese leader Shi shin Ping. Besson
also said the TikTok deal is set to be finalized
when President Trump and Chinese President Shei meet this later
this week in South Korea.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I believe that we have the framework for the two
leaders to have a very productive meeting for both sides,
and I think it will be fantastic for US citizens,
for US farmers, and for a country in general.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I believe, Well, that's great news to hear. We've been waiting.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's been the biggest trade deal that we've been waiting on.
It could affect us in so many ways. I mean,
he had that discussion over the weekend to sit down.
I think he was on CNBC there and the rare
earth minerals the way that we've dug into I mean
from everything whether he mentioned TikTok to tomahawks to our
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fighter jets, the rare earth minerals are obviously a huge,
as the President would say deal.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He brought up a bunch of different issues. It was
on CBS but Sunday morning, and he brought up you know,
he touched on TikTok. He touched on, yeah, the rare
earth minerals and said, how this They've been working on
this trade deal and it looks like it's ready to go,
but it will be up to President Trump and she
she ping to finalized any of these deals.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Meantime, speaking of trade deals over the weekend, I'm watching
on Friday night the World Series, and I don't know
if this ad aired here in America, but with the
La Dodgers, that was a hard game to watch getting
trounced by Toronto on Friday night. But here's this misleading
ad that got right under President Trump's skin, and he
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raised the tariffs on Canada by ten percent. Said this
fraudulent Ronald Reagan ad was let's see here, quote misrepresented
the fact it was a hostile act, and I am
increasing the tariff on Canada by ten percent over and
above what they are already paying.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now, well, we have that story coming up. He broke
off trade negotiations with Canada and raised the tariff by
ten percent.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well, despite the fact that they have, you know, a
cordial relationship. We saw it when the Canadian PM sat
down in the White House with the President cident in
the last week, he left empty handed, so you know
when it came to Canada. So we'll see, I mean,
this battle kind of continues.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, we'll see what happens in South Korea later this
week when the President meets with Shishi and Ping, And
I mean, that's a huge accomplishment if we really get
this trade deal done with China agreed, and it would
also have an effect on how Canada moves forward. And
like I said, we have the story coming up, so
we'll talk about that further. But there's a few layers
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to that story that are notable. The anonymous donor who
gave one hundred and thirty million dollars to the Pentagon
to help pay troops during the shutdown, has been identified.
The New York Times is quoting two sources who say
the donor is reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, who is the
heir to the Mellon family fortune and a major financial
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backer of President Trump. Trump had declined to identify the donor,
saying he didn't want the publicity. Mellon has not commented
on the New York Times report.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I don't even like talking about this.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, the guy wanted to be what is he
lives reclusively literally off grid, hasn't been pictured in how
many decades, and wanted.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
To be anonymous. Here we are louding them out.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's like, I wonder if someone's gonna lose their job
in the Trump administration for this getting leaked.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, I mean, come on, do you really think that
there could we would remain a secret who's giving the
government one hundred and thirty million dollars to the Pentagon
to help pay troops and he's going to remain anonymous?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, it would be nice if that's what he requested.
I mean, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, I don't think it's very realistic.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Well, I guess clearly not so.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But he's from the family that started Mellon Bank. You know,
they're big. They're from Pennsylvania. Go way back in US history,
Mellon Bank. They founded the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Andrew Mellon was Treasury Secretary of the United States, the
longest serving one ever. That was from the twenties into
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their early thirties. So he was there, you know, for
the boom of the twenties and the crash of nineteen
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, bless him for doing what he did. I mean,
Trump's right, what a true patriot.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, And I don't you know, and you say, okay,
I don't want to make a big deal about this,
and the President did not, But I don't think that
you can go ahead and do that. And somebody in
his position is probably savvy enough to know that it
probably wouldn't have remained a secret for.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Long, only because he's going to be, you know, top
of the attack list when it comes to Democrats and
their hate and they're ire and the propaganda press, and
you know that's all and elicit if he's off grid
and you know nowhere to be found and has enough
money to protect himself from all that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Great, I hope so well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You were saying he was literally off the grid. I mean,
he stays out of the public eye and everything. It's
not like he's living in some cabin out in the
in the woods, going his dinner yet growing vegetables. But yeah,
but he likes to remain private and you know, and
his families have been, you know, involved in the United States.
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Like I said, the you know, founders of the National
Gallery of Art, has served in the government as a
Terasury secretary, started the Huge Melon Bank, so you know,
they have a long history of philanthropic deeds and and
also service to the United States. So he wanted to
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do his part. I guess I.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Still want to know who the two people familiar with
the matter who told the New York Times this information.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I want to know who they are. I'm sure Trump
will find out.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, then we need to find out who they are.
See how that works. President Trump says he will increase
tariffs on Canada ten percent. Trump made the comment in
a weekend post, citing a Canadian TV ad against his
global tariffs. Earlier, Trump said he was cutting off trade
negotiations with Canada over the ad, which used a nineteen
eighty seven video clip of President Ronald Reagan warning that
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tariffs hurt every American. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has plans
to pawse the ad after the World Series Games this
weekend or you know, so starting today, I would suppose,
so that trade talks can resume.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So I was watching the World's Years and it was
rough to watch, frankly, but the you know, for the
fact that the American team was getting trounced by the Canadians,
but the you know, I haven't obviously the ad here
in America, I don't think aired, so I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But man whirredy knew.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Carney left the White House empty handed and they had
a fun exchange. We know their relationship is cordial. But
at the end of the day, Trump said what was
his famous quote from that when you know, they said, well,
if you have such a great relationship, why can't you
get a trade deal set?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
And Trump says, because basically he wanted to win.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I can't remember what the quote was that everybody snickerd about,
but it was well, he.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Was saying that Carne was a great person and a
great negotiator and all of these things. And they asked him, well,
then how come a trade deal hasn't been done and
he said, because I want to be a great person too,
that's it. And you know, this is not Carne doing this.
This is Ontario Premier doug Ford doing it, which is
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a thorn in the side to Carney. And Carney said
this isn't helpful, and doug Ford backed off and said, well,
I'll pull the ads after this was on Friday, after
this weekend's the World Series. And the ads misleading because yes,
it shows Reagan talking about how tariff's hurt every American,
but it was right before Reagan put tariffs on Japanese,
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on the Japanese, so it's taken out of context.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, I it didn't stop the President from slapping this
ten percent tariffs on top of what's happening already. And
I mean, he you know, he's not only called it
a serious misrepresentation of the facts, but he called it
a hostile act.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, it's a foreign country trying to interfere with the
president by using you know, it's playing American politics from
the other side of the border, is what it's doing
so I'd be pissed off too if I was President Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, and imagine being Carney.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I mean, here this guy's already a thorn in his side,
and here he is trying to negotiate with America over
you know, very important things clearly steal and automotive tariffs
and so on. So I can only imagine that conversation,
maybe Carney with Trump over this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know, Ontario premiere, So that would be effectively like
the governor right of a province and if you want
to equalize it to what it would be in the
United States. But Ontario. I mean, if you look at,
say your Ford products that were built in Canada, they
were built in Ontario. If you look at where the
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trade's going back and forth, especially with automobiles, it's Ontario.
So that's why this dug Ford is stepping in. But
it's not helpful to the overall trade negotiations for all
of Canada, and that Mark Karney has to institute, not
doug Ford.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
He's stepping in it, all right, stepping in something.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Might be time to start spending those pennies. A penny
shortage is affecting retailers nationwide. The Treasury Department halted penny
production back in May, and the US Mint cranked out
its last batch of pennies in August. Now, a growing
number of convenience stores and major chains, including Kroger and
Home Depot, are reporting issues. The American Banking Association says
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about two hundred and fifty billion pennies are still in circulation,
but notes that some local supply issues exist. Earlier this year,
President Donald Trump called on the Treasury Department to stop
minting new one cent coins, calling them wasteful. The average
cost to make one penny rose to three point sixty
nine cents in the last fiscal year, marking the nineteenth
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consecutive year that the coin has remained above face value,
per the latest US Mint report.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm shocked by this statistic, but it's pure fact from
the Fed Reserve. Who says, now, get this, the average
home has sixty to ninety dollars in coins.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Would you say that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You fit that statistic? Sixty to ninety dollars in coins
at home.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Probably, But they're not all pennies.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, But I mentioned this before. I have an uncle
who has I don't know. I mean, it seems like
a closet full of just buckets of pennies, and I
have sent all kinds of I can't wait to talk
to him after this show because I've sent them all
kinds of YouTube videos that just to see sift through
his collection and see if he's got any rare pennies.
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Otherwise maybe he could, you know, throw the rest into
the coinstar machine and help the help the circulation problem.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, put some pennies back in circulation. I mean, that's
part of the problem. Is it cost you know, over
three and a half cents to make one cent. That
doesn't make any sense, like the President said, and a
bunch of people are sitting on their pennies. There's how
many in circulation do we just hear? You know, it's
in the billions. So it's not that there's a shortage
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of pennies out there. There's a shortage of pennies in
circulation because people like your uncle have closets full of.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All time and I feel think it's smart for him
to go through and make sure that the year, the
mint mark they you know, just look to see if
there's any errors, because there are some pennies that are
worth not just hundreds of thousands, but millions at least.
I saw one one over a million bucks. I mean
that's pretty impressive. So before you go throwing them into
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the coin star, I would say, just I mean he's retired.
This is months ago that I said, check your pennies.
There's some sort of you know, a penny that has
a mistake on it. It was like a Lincoln wheat penny.
And there's debate about this on whether it's worth one
hundred plus thousand or a million bucks, but you know
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this was nineteen forty three. Just go to govgovnt dot com,
govnment dot com and check your pennies before you throw
them into the coinstar.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, I mean you can apply that to every coin
out there. There's it with virtually every coin that there is.
There's mistakes from the mint, and some of them are
worth a lot of money. And who's got the time
to go reconcile every coin that they have before they
go spend it or turn it in.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Well, no, they're verious, specific ones that are notable to
look for. I mean, you don't to spend a whole
bunch of time on it, or I would maybe even
implore some people to just sift the room before getting
rid of them.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And plus if you're a collector, I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, I think they would be kind of fun to
revisit all the things that you sort of put off
to the side there you collected them for a reason.
It's almost like going through history.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That seems like, well, so it's not your cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well no, but I mean so you have how many
different pennies that are worth money or how many different
nickels or dimes or quarters, and then you're what you
get to cross reference them all to these things, so
you'd have to, uh, unless you're just looking for one
specific thing. But then according to you, I mean there's
more coins that are worth money, so why not check
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those two? And you could do make this your full
time job. There's literally checking your coins and the chances
of you having one of those coins a million bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I don't know if there's apps out there, but there
are certainly YouTube videos and websites where people have already.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Done all the work.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I mean it's pretty interesting actually to watch some of it,
and I'm like, wow, it made me wish that I
had guess because I used to kind of laugh and
make fun of like.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Geez, there's a lot. You know, you got a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then of course there was the ant like, oh
my god, I need my closet because you know, there's
all the taking up of the closet with his point close.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I mean sure. I mean it's up to him
if he has the time and wants to go through the.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
More interest, whether it's pennies or otherwise. When it comes
to coins, nothing new.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
There, well, I mean it's up to the individual if
they want to take all that time and go through
them to see if they're sitting on some kind of
gold mine. But I don't know, it seems kind of
like folly to me.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
A year and a half later, now she has something
to say. Former Vice President Harris is being crossed about
why she did not raise concerns about former President Biden's
health before he pulled out of the race. In a
BBC interview, Harris was asked about a section of her
new book where she discusses neither her nor Biden discussing
his health. The former Vice president said she now wonders
(00:27):
whether she should have raised concerns, but was not worried
about whether he could do the job or not. Harris
stepped in as the Democratic candidate in the twenty twenty
four presidential race after Biden ended his campaign following a
poor debate performance Despicable Democrats.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Okay, so she you know, they the pair left their
party in shambles, our country in chambeles.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And do you know, I think it was more than
a hint.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I mean she pretty much said she's not done yet,
meaning she could run again. I want, you know, well,
gruesome Newsome and oh cackling Kamala on a ticket.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I've talked about that before.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, they're not going to be on the same ticket,
they're gonna run against each other.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Well, who knows.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I mean, we could show Fatty Pritzker in there too.
Of course they're all out there. Gruesome newsom if Pritzker
shamelessly seemingly pressing for a possible presidential run in twenty
eight I mean, we know she's out here pimping her
book or media tours. What is it one hundred and
seven days of this we have to put up with.
(01:38):
But she did say in that interview which got awkward
there did you catch her? You know, here, this woman
is trying to do her job and say, you know,
you lost pretty significantly, and she's literally trying to bring
up you didn't just lose the popular vote, you you know,
of course lost the electoral college and all the key
swing states, and Kamala is like, I'm not finished yet.
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It was just.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Everything she does is awkward, I.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Think more than awkward. How about her campaign run. I
mean she raised more than a billion dollars and still
ended up in debt. Yeah, let's make that our next president.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, she was an awful candidate.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It wasn't her fall place, you know, it was just
last second she had to do something. And of course
there's zero responsibility with regards to the president not autopen,
not being there.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, she says she never wondered whether he could do
the job or not, but she wonders now whether she
should have raised concerns, raised concerns about what, oh his health. Well, uh,
you know, it doesn't make any sense. So that's talking
on both sides of your mouth, per.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
As you said, typical with cackling Kamala.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So what's she going to say, I'm just concerned about
the president's health, but he's doing a great job.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right, point that out and then not be more specific
about the fact that there's he's you know, he's not there.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Why would she be worried about his health? Right?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And they're all lying, every single one of them that
says they never saw it in Kareem John Pierre's written
a book and she's out on the campaign or on
the book trail.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do you find her and you know, not recognizable with
the fact that she got rid of the you know,
sort of raggedy ann andy curly hair.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I didn't know who it was at first.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, I was like, wait, who's that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I just happened to look. I'd come across her on
a in the middle of a TV interview. I literally
I didn't know it was.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Her, literally me either, But she's doing that on purpose
because she's peddling a book as an independent Well.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Women change their hairstyles. But the point is is that
she's a liar and always has been, except it was
her job to be a liar. So you can almost
excuse her and not the rest of them. I mean,
if when you're the White House spokesperson, I mean, you're
the you're the mouthpiece for the President of the United States,
so you're not always going to get up there, unfortunately
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and tell the truth. So that would fall in her
job description to at least, you know, hang out in
the muddy water. But when she says that behind the scenes,
she personally never saw anything of concern regarding the president's
mental acuity, come.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
On, well, I can't help with KJP with regards to
the hair and the whole She didn't change her hair
four years in the podium at the White House, and
then all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
She's changing her party, She's changing her hair.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's like, hmm, interesting, So not embracing all that you
have before, it's just like a chameleon when it comes
to well, I would think a party that has a
wayward morals and values frankly so.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well. The point being is none of these people will
come out and say, yes, I was concerned, because then
the question becomes, well, how come you didn't do anything
about it? How come you didn't say anything about it?
So they all have to deny that they saw the
president's mental ability slip. They have to pretend that he
was on top of his game. And you know, how
(05:10):
dare they? And Kareem John Pierre has the problem with
her leaving the party? Was that how they treated this
man who dedicated fifty years of his life to public service?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
How was he treated because he was cast out and
Kamala installed. Yes, otherwise he was completely treated quite well,
I would think by his party, until all of a
sudden he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But I digress.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And when I say treated well, I mean ignoring all
of the obvious.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, they used him for as long as they could,
and then when it was very apparent that they couldn't
use him anymore, they got rid of him, and so
he used them too. He wanted to be president so
bad he does went along with it. He didn't know
what you know, in how he acted as president was
not in line with how he acted throughout the other
(06:06):
forty whatever years of his political career. So he was
just letting them do whatever they wanted, and they were
letting him pretend to be president. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson
says the US and China have agreed to a framework
for a trade deal. Besson and the US Trade Envoy
met with China's Vice premier on the sidelines of the
Ajia and Summit and Malaysia on Sunday. Besson said he
(06:29):
the plan, which would avert one hundred percent new tariffs
on Chinese goods, is ready ahead of an upcoming meeting
between President Trump and Chinese leader Shi shin Ping. Besson
also said the TikTok deal is set to be finalized
when President Trump and Chinese President Shei meet this later
this week in South Korea.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I believe that we have the framework for the two
leaders to have a very productive meeting for both sides,
and I think it will be fantastic for US citizens,
for US farmers, and for a country in general.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I believe, Well, that's great news to hear. We've been waiting.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's been the biggest trade deal that we've been waiting on.
It could affect us in so many ways. I mean,
he had that discussion over the weekend to sit down.
I think he was on CNBC there and the rare
earth minerals the way that we've dug into I mean
from everything whether he mentioned TikTok to tomahawks to our
(07:31):
fighter jets, the rare earth minerals are obviously a huge,
as the President would say deal.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He brought up a bunch of different issues. It was
on CBS but Sunday morning, and he brought up you know,
he touched on TikTok. He touched on, yeah, the rare
earth minerals and said, how this They've been working on
this trade deal and it looks like it's ready to go,
but it will be up to President Trump and she
she ping to finalized any of these deals.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Meantime, speaking of trade deals over the weekend, I'm watching
on Friday night the World Series, and I don't know
if this ad aired here in America, but with the
La Dodgers, that was a hard game to watch getting
trounced by Toronto on Friday night. But here's this misleading
ad that got right under President Trump's skin, and he
(08:25):
raised the tariffs on Canada by ten percent. Said this
fraudulent Ronald Reagan ad was let's see here, quote misrepresented
the fact it was a hostile act, and I am
increasing the tariff on Canada by ten percent over and
above what they are already paying.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Now, well, we have that story coming up. He broke
off trade negotiations with Canada and raised the tariff by
ten percent.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well, despite the fact that they have, you know, a
cordial relationship. We saw it when the Canadian PM sat
down in the White House with the President cident in
the last week, he left empty handed, so you know
when it came to Canada. So we'll see, I mean,
this battle kind of continues.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, we'll see what happens in South Korea later this
week when the President meets with Shishi and Ping, And
I mean, that's a huge accomplishment if we really get
this trade deal done with China agreed, and it would
also have an effect on how Canada moves forward. And
like I said, we have the story coming up, so
we'll talk about that further. But there's a few layers
(09:34):
to that story that are notable. The anonymous donor who
gave one hundred and thirty million dollars to the Pentagon
to help pay troops during the shutdown, has been identified.
The New York Times is quoting two sources who say
the donor is reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, who is the
heir to the Mellon family fortune and a major financial
(09:54):
backer of President Trump. Trump had declined to identify the donor,
saying he didn't want the publicity. Mellon has not commented
on the New York Times report.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I don't even like talking about this.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean, the guy wanted to be what is he
lives reclusively literally off grid, hasn't been pictured in how
many decades, and wanted.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
To be anonymous. Here we are louding them out.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's like, I wonder if someone's gonna lose their job
in the Trump administration for this getting leaked.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, I mean, come on, do you really think that
there could we would remain a secret who's giving the
government one hundred and thirty million dollars to the Pentagon
to help pay troops and he's going to remain anonymous?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, it would be nice if that's what he requested.
I mean, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, I don't think it's very realistic.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Well, I guess clearly not so.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
But he's from the family that started Mellon Bank. You know,
they're big. They're from Pennsylvania. Go way back in US history,
Mellon Bank. They founded the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Andrew Mellon was Treasury Secretary of the United States, the
longest serving one ever. That was from the twenties into
(11:07):
their early thirties. So he was there, you know, for
the boom of the twenties and the crash of nineteen
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, bless him for doing what he did. I mean,
Trump's right, what a true patriot.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, And I don't you know, and you say, okay,
I don't want to make a big deal about this,
and the President did not, But I don't think that
you can go ahead and do that. And somebody in
his position is probably savvy enough to know that it
probably wouldn't have remained a secret for.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Long, only because he's going to be, you know, top
of the attack list when it comes to Democrats and
their hate and they're ire and the propaganda press, and
you know that's all and elicit if he's off grid
and you know nowhere to be found and has enough
money to protect himself from all that.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Great, I hope so well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You were saying he was literally off the grid. I mean,
he stays out of the public eye and everything. It's
not like he's living in some cabin out in the
in the woods, going his dinner yet growing vegetables. But yeah,
but he likes to remain private and you know, and
his families have been, you know, involved in the United States.
(12:21):
Like I said, the you know, founders of the National
Gallery of Art, has served in the government as a
Terasury secretary, started the Huge Melon Bank, so you know,
they have a long history of philanthropic deeds and and
also service to the United States. So he wanted to
(12:42):
do his part. I guess I.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Still want to know who the two people familiar with
the matter who told the New York Times this information.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I want to know who they are. I'm sure Trump
will find out.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, then we need to find out who they are.
See how that works. President Trump says he will increase
tariffs on Canada ten percent. Trump made the comment in
a weekend post, citing a Canadian TV ad against his
global tariffs. Earlier, Trump said he was cutting off trade
negotiations with Canada over the ad, which used a nineteen
eighty seven video clip of President Ronald Reagan warning that
(13:15):
tariffs hurt every American. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has plans
to pawse the ad after the World Series Games this
weekend or you know, so starting today, I would suppose,
so that trade talks can resume.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So I was watching the World's Years and it was
rough to watch, frankly, but the you know, for the
fact that the American team was getting trounced by the Canadians,
but the you know, I haven't obviously the ad here
in America, I don't think aired, so I didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But man whirredy knew.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Carney left the White House empty handed and they had
a fun exchange. We know their relationship is cordial. But
at the end of the day, Trump said what was
his famous quote from that when you know, they said, well,
if you have such a great relationship, why can't you
get a trade deal set?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
And Trump says, because basically he wanted to win.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I can't remember what the quote was that everybody snickerd about,
but it was well, he.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Was saying that Carne was a great person and a
great negotiator and all of these things. And they asked him, well,
then how come a trade deal hasn't been done and
he said, because I want to be a great person too,
that's it. And you know, this is not Carne doing this.
This is Ontario Premier doug Ford doing it, which is
(14:31):
a thorn in the side to Carney. And Carney said
this isn't helpful, and doug Ford backed off and said, well,
I'll pull the ads after this was on Friday, after
this weekend's the World Series. And the ads misleading because yes,
it shows Reagan talking about how tariff's hurt every American,
but it was right before Reagan put tariffs on Japanese,
(14:54):
on the Japanese, so it's taken out of context.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, I it didn't stop the President from slapping this
ten percent tariffs on top of what's happening already. And
I mean, he you know, he's not only called it
a serious misrepresentation of the facts, but he called it
a hostile act.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, it's a foreign country trying to interfere with the
president by using you know, it's playing American politics from
the other side of the border, is what it's doing
so I'd be pissed off too if I was President Trump.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, and imagine being Carney.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I mean, here this guy's already a thorn in his side,
and here he is trying to negotiate with America over
you know, very important things clearly steal and automotive tariffs
and so on. So I can only imagine that conversation,
maybe Carney with Trump over this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know, Ontario premiere, So that would be effectively like
the governor right of a province and if you want
to equalize it to what it would be in the
United States. But Ontario. I mean, if you look at,
say your Ford products that were built in Canada, they
were built in Ontario. If you look at where the
(16:09):
trade's going back and forth, especially with automobiles, it's Ontario.
So that's why this dug Ford is stepping in. But
it's not helpful to the overall trade negotiations for all
of Canada, and that Mark Karney has to institute, not
doug Ford.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
He's stepping in it, all right, stepping in something.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Might be time to start spending those pennies. A penny
shortage is affecting retailers nationwide. The Treasury Department halted penny
production back in May, and the US Mint cranked out
its last batch of pennies in August. Now, a growing
number of convenience stores and major chains, including Kroger and
Home Depot, are reporting issues. The American Banking Association says
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about two hundred and fifty billion pennies are still in circulation,
but notes that some local supply issues exist. Earlier this year,
President Donald Trump called on the Treasury Department to stop
minting new one cent coins, calling them wasteful. The average
cost to make one penny rose to three point sixty
nine cents in the last fiscal year, marking the nineteenth
(17:17):
consecutive year that the coin has remained above face value,
per the latest US Mint report.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I'm shocked by this statistic, but it's pure fact from
the Fed Reserve. Who says, now, get this, the average
home has sixty to ninety dollars in coins.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Would you say that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You fit that statistic? Sixty to ninety dollars in coins
at home.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Probably, But they're not all pennies.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, But I mentioned this before. I have an uncle
who has I don't know. I mean, it seems like
a closet full of just buckets of pennies, and I
have sent all kinds of I can't wait to talk
to him after this show because I've sent them all
kinds of YouTube videos that just to see sift through
his collection and see if he's got any rare pennies.
(18:08):
Otherwise maybe he could, you know, throw the rest into
the coinstar machine and help the help the circulation problem.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, put some pennies back in circulation. I mean, that's
part of the problem. Is it cost you know, over
three and a half cents to make one cent. That
doesn't make any sense, like the President said, and a
bunch of people are sitting on their pennies. There's how
many in circulation do we just hear? You know, it's
in the billions. So it's not that there's a shortage
(18:38):
of pennies out there. There's a shortage of pennies in
circulation because people like your uncle have closets full of.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
All time and I feel think it's smart for him
to go through and make sure that the year, the
mint mark they you know, just look to see if
there's any errors, because there are some pennies that are
worth not just hundreds of thousands, but millions at least.
I saw one one over a million bucks. I mean
that's pretty impressive. So before you go throwing them into
(19:06):
the coin star, I would say, just I mean he's retired.
This is months ago that I said, check your pennies.
There's some sort of you know, a penny that has
a mistake on it. It was like a Lincoln wheat penny.
And there's debate about this on whether it's worth one
hundred plus thousand or a million bucks, but you know
(19:27):
this was nineteen forty three. Just go to govgovnt dot com,
govnment dot com and check your pennies before you throw
them into the coinstar.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, I mean you can apply that to every coin
out there. There's it with virtually every coin that there is.
There's mistakes from the mint, and some of them are
worth a lot of money. And who's got the time
to go reconcile every coin that they have before they
go spend it or turn it in.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Well, no, they're verious, specific ones that are notable to
look for. I mean, you don't to spend a whole
bunch of time on it, or I would maybe even
implore some people to just sift the room before getting
rid of them.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And plus if you're a collector, I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, I think they would be kind of fun to
revisit all the things that you sort of put off
to the side there you collected them for a reason.
It's almost like going through history.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That seems like, well, so it's not your cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well no, but I mean so you have how many
different pennies that are worth money or how many different
nickels or dimes or quarters, and then you're what you
get to cross reference them all to these things, so
you'd have to, uh, unless you're just looking for one
specific thing. But then according to you, I mean there's
more coins that are worth money, so why not check
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those two? And you could do make this your full
time job. There's literally checking your coins and the chances
of you having one of those coins a million bucks.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I don't know if there's apps out there, but there
are certainly YouTube videos and websites where people have already.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Done all the work.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I mean it's pretty interesting actually to watch some of it,
and I'm like, wow, it made me wish that I
had guess because I used to kind of laugh and
make fun of like.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Geez, there's a lot. You know, you got a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And then of course there was the ant like, oh
my god, I need my closet because you know, there's
all the taking up of the closet with his point close.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, I mean sure. I mean it's up to him
if he has the time and wants to go through the.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
More interest, whether it's pennies or otherwise. When it comes
to coins, nothing new.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
There, well, I mean it's up to the individual if
they want to take all that time and go through
them to see if they're sitting on some kind of
gold mine. But I don't know, it seems kind of
like folly to me.
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