August 8, 2025 • 11 mins
I have no idea what exactly will or won’t take place today but the implications are many.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time out for today's top three takeaways, Swing
your partners, occupy Gaza, and mess with Texas by top
three takeaways for you on this Faraday, Happy for Rah
Day and today important day. We got a lot of
deadlines that are going to come up before we ride
into the weekend. And so my top takeaway for you
(00:26):
is to choose your trade partners wisely. And it's related
to Trump's deadline for Russia.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Today. Here's Fox's Jaron Halbern.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
President Trump has threatened new sanctions targeting Russia if President
Vladimir Putin does not agree to a cease fire in
Ukraine by today.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're going to see what he has to say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's going to be up to him. Very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Still, President Trump says he could meet with Putin next week,
even if the Russian leader will not meet with Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, No, they would like to meet with me, and
I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, So today potentially important day and numerous ways. First,
it is President Trump's deadline to Russian President Putin to
end the war in Ukraine or to suffer additional consequences.
And at this point it's clear there will be no
peace declaration today. So you know, Putin's not going to say,
all right, I'm done with the war. So Trump's tough talk,
(01:23):
it's got to be backed up with something. It's got
to be backed up with some kind of tough policy
or he risks losing credibility.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, already we've seen President Trump double tariffs on one
of Russia's top trade partners, India, due to their energy
trade with Russia. Here's the view of who could be
in the cross heers today, China. China by far the
largest trade partner of Russia. Over eighty percent of China's
(01:50):
fuel comes from Russia. Will Trump reignite a trade war
with China over his Russian demands?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But does it in there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Turkey, a NATO member that shouldn't be, is number three
and purchasing Russian energy. Brazil, which Trump has already singled
out for especially high TIFFs. He did that last week.
They're a big buyer. South Korea. They're also in the mix.
Even country still within the EU. This is what I love.
(02:22):
Hungary is not woke. They've they've got some solid leadership there.
They buy Russian energy. Still, did you know France does?
Did you know the French people Emanuel McCrone and his
wife that might be more man than him.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
They what nothing?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh, touch check is all I'm saying, No.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Big Mike, but you know, touch check.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It is a surprise though, not about not about the wife,
but about the the energy, the oil.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So yes, the the frenchie French well in insects that gas.
In France's case, I don't think they're not currently doing
any oil, but it's not gas. So France is a
is a big buyer. So you know they sit there
in the virtual virtue signal with their whole EU Credian
flag and then they fund Russian's war through energy purchases.
So that's fun. Belgium, Belgium big buyer on a relative basis.
(03:21):
Joel's evan of things that derive from Belgium.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Well, we've discovered back under President George W. Bush that
the Freedom Fries were not actually from France, they were
from Belgium.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And the Waffles. I mean, I know you're pro clevity
that love things you put syrup on.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I do like I do like a waffle now and again.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so there's that. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Not many people are paying as much attention to today's
Russian deadline as it probably deserves. I have no idea
what exactly will or won't take place today, but the
implications are many, so it's something worth while watch something
else that has the deadline attached to it. My second
takeaway for you today, will Democrats be allowed to mess
(04:07):
with Texas? We're going to have a pretty good idea
by the end of the day today. Here is the
latest on redistricting efforts before I get into what goes
on specifically in Texas today, including a really big development
in our state.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
The recent fight over redrawing congressional.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Maps, which began in Texas, has spread to red and
blue states coast to coast. Today, Florida's legislature announced it's
launching a committee to study the issue, while New York's
governor says she's going to counter any changes in red states.
In Maryland, democratic lawmakers are threatening to eliminate the state's
only Republican held district, Politico calling the trend poison for
(04:45):
blue state Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, so I'll have more in Florida situation in
Florida News, something else that could happen that could come
to a head today whatever may be with the fleeing
Democrats in Texas. So today is today that Texasttorney General
Ken Paxton has pledged to move forward with his plan
to remove the fifty plus fleeing state legislators from Texas
(05:08):
who left the state to prevent a vote on the
state's congressional redistricting plan. And by the way, just as
an aside, if you've seen or heard different numbers of
Democrats that have been gone, it's because the number actually
has been different. If you go back to the original
number that fled heading into this week, it was fifty six.
You had fifty six Democrats that left the state by
(05:28):
the time you had the first threat issue by Governor
Greg Gabbott. Yet four that came back, and it was
at fifty two as of yesterday in the afternoon when
I when I updated this, the number was right at
fifty and that I believe is right around the number
they need to keep the corm away. So you know
(05:48):
it's probably still But anyway, that's what's been going on,
is you have had a few Democrats here and there
that have come back during the course of the week. Now,
in the words of Paxton Star Friday, any Roague law
makers refusing to return to the House will be held
accountable for vacating their office. Okay, so what does that
(06:09):
actually mean and how does this actually work in Texas? Well,
it would mean that Paxton would file a case against
each of the fifty Democrats in district courts seeking to
expel them from office. And that's what has to happen
under Texas law. There have to be fifty separate cases.
It can't file one case and throw everybody's name into it.
So it's a process from there. If Paxton in the
(06:32):
state of Texas were to win, Governor Grey Gabbott would
have to call special elections to fill their seats. That's
been another question people wonder, Hey, you know, can they
just not come out and then you know, Abbot appoints
all the replacements and they get what they want to know.
Doesn't work that way, So there have to be special
elections and so it's a process. If it goes down
(06:53):
this way, it's not they're going to get the redistrict
team happ anytime soon. It'll play out for a long time.
But there is one development that sets the states for
all of this. Today, the Texas Supreme Court has set
a five pm deadline for Texas Democrat Caucus Chair Gene Woo.
(07:14):
So Gene Woo, the leader of the fleeen Democrats, to
respond to the States already filed requests for him to
be removed from office. So that's one that's already taken place,
that happened on Tuesday. We'll know by the end of
the day what that looks like. So stay tuned. My
third takeaway for you today, change plans. So this was
(07:40):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett Yahoo in an interview with
Fox News and Bill Hemmer, who's been in Israel all
week yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I don't want to occupy Gaza forever. I don't want
to govern Gaza. I want to have a different governance
there that basically is willing to live in peace with
Israel and give of different future.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
On that note, big development Friday morning, nearly twenty years
to the day that a tremendous mistake was made by
the Israeli government that eventually led to Hamasa's atrocities. On
October seventh of twenty twenty three, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ninya,
who successfully pushed through a proposal approved by israel Security
Cabinet that approves a full occupation of Gaza City and
(08:25):
the surrounding strip. By the way, they have had occupational
control of seventy five percent of Gaza most recently, so
it's the remaining quarter, but also the plan for occupation
for a period thereafter. What that means is that Israel
intends to undo what it did that aided the rise
of Hamas in the process called the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law.
(08:51):
The Israeli Cabinet passed the law in June of two
thousand and four, seating control of the Gaza Strip to
the Palestinian National Authority. The law imposed deadline of August fifteenth,
two thousand and five for all twenty one Israeli settlements,
which had been in place since nineteen seventy, to be
dismantled and for all Israeli soldiers to be evicted. The
(09:12):
logic at the time was said to be twofold. First,
there was the high cost of the ongoing occupation, which
was said to be draining resources from Israel's mainland to
a non permanent Israeli territory. Second was the ongoing warring
between Israel and terrorist organizations like Hamas over the Gaza territory,
(09:32):
which Israel had occupied since nineteen sixty seven. The demand
of Palestinians at that point, led by the PLO an
exchange for relative peace, was the withdrawal from Gaza. If
you just get out of Gaza, we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
We see how that worked out.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Israel had already agreed to see control of disputed territories
under nineteen ninety three's Oslo Accord, and then only over
a decade later, seated the Gaza trip as well. These
moves viewed as weakness, right, they're viewed as huge victories
by terrorists like Kamas, which flooded the territory with its presence,
rapidly recruited new members, and within a matter of months
(10:15):
overwhelmingly won the election in January of two thousand and six,
knocking the PLO from power, setting the states for everything
that happened, since it was literally only five months, just
five months from the time Israel fully withdrew from Gaza
until the time that Helmas had completely taken over control
of the entirety of the Palestinian territories and people. It
(10:39):
was entirely predictable that a tear organization which was founded
on a mission statement that states Israel will exist and
continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as
it obliterated others before, it would result in what we've seen.
So there can be no peace with Palestinians because they
(10:59):
do not desire piece, but rather the eradication of the
Jewish people in the state of Israel. Then Yahoo's reversal
plans twenty years later is what's needed if the citizens
of Israel are to ever have a chance to live
in relative peace once again. The plan calls for the
eventual turning over of the territory to an alternative civil
(11:22):
administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority. Who
that ends up being that will be the key ongoing.
But what was decided here will put an end to
the Israel Hamas War
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time out for today's top three takeaways, Swing
your partners, occupy Gaza, and mess with Texas by top
three takeaways for you on this Faraday, Happy for Rah
Day and today important day. We got a lot of
deadlines that are going to come up before we ride
into the weekend. And so my top takeaway for you
(00:26):
is to choose your trade partners wisely. And it's related
to Trump's deadline for Russia.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Today. Here's Fox's Jaron Halbern.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
President Trump has threatened new sanctions targeting Russia if President
Vladimir Putin does not agree to a cease fire in
Ukraine by today.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're going to see what he has to say.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's going to be up to him. Very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Still, President Trump says he could meet with Putin next week,
even if the Russian leader will not meet with Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, No, they would like to meet with me, and
I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, So today potentially important day and numerous ways. First,
it is President Trump's deadline to Russian President Putin to
end the war in Ukraine or to suffer additional consequences.
And at this point it's clear there will be no
peace declaration today. So you know, Putin's not going to say,
all right, I'm done with the war. So Trump's tough talk,
(01:23):
it's got to be backed up with something. It's got
to be backed up with some kind of tough policy
or he risks losing credibility.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, already we've seen President Trump double tariffs on one
of Russia's top trade partners, India, due to their energy
trade with Russia. Here's the view of who could be
in the cross heers today, China. China by far the
largest trade partner of Russia. Over eighty percent of China's
(01:50):
fuel comes from Russia. Will Trump reignite a trade war
with China over his Russian demands?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But does it in there?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Turkey, a NATO member that shouldn't be, is number three
and purchasing Russian energy. Brazil, which Trump has already singled
out for especially high TIFFs. He did that last week.
They're a big buyer. South Korea. They're also in the mix.
Even country still within the EU. This is what I love.
(02:22):
Hungary is not woke. They've they've got some solid leadership there.
They buy Russian energy. Still, did you know France does?
Did you know the French people Emanuel McCrone and his
wife that might be more man than him.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
They what nothing?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh, touch check is all I'm saying, No.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Big Mike, but you know, touch check.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It is a surprise though, not about not about the wife,
but about the the energy, the oil.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So yes, the the frenchie French well in insects that gas.
In France's case, I don't think they're not currently doing
any oil, but it's not gas. So France is a
is a big buyer. So you know they sit there
in the virtual virtue signal with their whole EU Credian
flag and then they fund Russian's war through energy purchases.
So that's fun. Belgium, Belgium big buyer on a relative basis.
(03:21):
Joel's evan of things that derive from Belgium.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Well, we've discovered back under President George W. Bush that
the Freedom Fries were not actually from France, they were
from Belgium.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And the Waffles. I mean, I know you're pro clevity
that love things you put syrup on.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I do like I do like a waffle now and again.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, so there's that. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Not many people are paying as much attention to today's
Russian deadline as it probably deserves. I have no idea
what exactly will or won't take place today, but the
implications are many, so it's something worth while watch something
else that has the deadline attached to it. My second
takeaway for you today, will Democrats be allowed to mess
(04:07):
with Texas? We're going to have a pretty good idea
by the end of the day today. Here is the
latest on redistricting efforts before I get into what goes
on specifically in Texas today, including a really big development
in our state.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
The recent fight over redrawing congressional.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Maps, which began in Texas, has spread to red and
blue states coast to coast. Today, Florida's legislature announced it's
launching a committee to study the issue, while New York's
governor says she's going to counter any changes in red states.
In Maryland, democratic lawmakers are threatening to eliminate the state's
only Republican held district, Politico calling the trend poison for
(04:45):
blue state Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All right, so I'll have more in Florida situation in
Florida News, something else that could happen that could come
to a head today whatever may be with the fleeing
Democrats in Texas. So today is today that Texasttorney General
Ken Paxton has pledged to move forward with his plan
to remove the fifty plus fleeing state legislators from Texas
(05:08):
who left the state to prevent a vote on the
state's congressional redistricting plan. And by the way, just as
an aside, if you've seen or heard different numbers of
Democrats that have been gone, it's because the number actually
has been different. If you go back to the original
number that fled heading into this week, it was fifty six.
You had fifty six Democrats that left the state by
(05:28):
the time you had the first threat issue by Governor
Greg Gabbott. Yet four that came back, and it was
at fifty two as of yesterday in the afternoon when
I when I updated this, the number was right at
fifty and that I believe is right around the number
they need to keep the corm away. So you know
(05:48):
it's probably still But anyway, that's what's been going on,
is you have had a few Democrats here and there
that have come back during the course of the week. Now,
in the words of Paxton Star Friday, any Roague law
makers refusing to return to the House will be held
accountable for vacating their office. Okay, so what does that
(06:09):
actually mean and how does this actually work in Texas? Well,
it would mean that Paxton would file a case against
each of the fifty Democrats in district courts seeking to
expel them from office. And that's what has to happen
under Texas law. There have to be fifty separate cases.
It can't file one case and throw everybody's name into it.
So it's a process from there. If Paxton in the
(06:32):
state of Texas were to win, Governor Grey Gabbott would
have to call special elections to fill their seats. That's
been another question people wonder, Hey, you know, can they
just not come out and then you know, Abbot appoints
all the replacements and they get what they want to know.
Doesn't work that way, So there have to be special
elections and so it's a process. If it goes down
(06:53):
this way, it's not they're going to get the redistrict
team happ anytime soon. It'll play out for a long time.
But there is one development that sets the states for
all of this. Today, the Texas Supreme Court has set
a five pm deadline for Texas Democrat Caucus Chair Gene Woo.
(07:14):
So Gene Woo, the leader of the fleeen Democrats, to
respond to the States already filed requests for him to
be removed from office. So that's one that's already taken place,
that happened on Tuesday. We'll know by the end of
the day what that looks like. So stay tuned. My
third takeaway for you today, change plans. So this was
(07:40):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett Yahoo in an interview with
Fox News and Bill Hemmer, who's been in Israel all
week yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I don't want to occupy Gaza forever. I don't want
to govern Gaza. I want to have a different governance
there that basically is willing to live in peace with
Israel and give of different future.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
On that note, big development Friday morning, nearly twenty years
to the day that a tremendous mistake was made by
the Israeli government that eventually led to Hamasa's atrocities. On
October seventh of twenty twenty three, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ninya,
who successfully pushed through a proposal approved by israel Security
Cabinet that approves a full occupation of Gaza City and
(08:25):
the surrounding strip. By the way, they have had occupational
control of seventy five percent of Gaza most recently, so
it's the remaining quarter, but also the plan for occupation
for a period thereafter. What that means is that Israel
intends to undo what it did that aided the rise
of Hamas in the process called the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law.
(08:51):
The Israeli Cabinet passed the law in June of two
thousand and four, seating control of the Gaza Strip to
the Palestinian National Authority. The law imposed deadline of August fifteenth,
two thousand and five for all twenty one Israeli settlements,
which had been in place since nineteen seventy, to be
dismantled and for all Israeli soldiers to be evicted. The
(09:12):
logic at the time was said to be twofold. First,
there was the high cost of the ongoing occupation, which
was said to be draining resources from Israel's mainland to
a non permanent Israeli territory. Second was the ongoing warring
between Israel and terrorist organizations like Hamas over the Gaza territory,
(09:32):
which Israel had occupied since nineteen sixty seven. The demand
of Palestinians at that point, led by the PLO an
exchange for relative peace, was the withdrawal from Gaza. If
you just get out of Gaza, we'll leave you alone.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
We see how that worked out.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Israel had already agreed to see control of disputed territories
under nineteen ninety three's Oslo Accord, and then only over
a decade later, seated the Gaza trip as well. These
moves viewed as weakness, right, they're viewed as huge victories
by terrorists like Kamas, which flooded the territory with its presence,
rapidly recruited new members, and within a matter of months
(10:15):
overwhelmingly won the election in January of two thousand and six,
knocking the PLO from power, setting the states for everything
that happened, since it was literally only five months, just
five months from the time Israel fully withdrew from Gaza
until the time that Helmas had completely taken over control
of the entirety of the Palestinian territories and people. It
(10:39):
was entirely predictable that a tear organization which was founded
on a mission statement that states Israel will exist and
continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as
it obliterated others before, it would result in what we've seen.
So there can be no peace with Palestinians because they
(10:59):
do not desire piece, but rather the eradication of the
Jewish people in the state of Israel. Then Yahoo's reversal
plans twenty years later is what's needed if the citizens
of Israel are to ever have a chance to live
in relative peace once again. The plan calls for the
eventual turning over of the territory to an alternative civil
(11:22):
administration that is neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authority. Who
that ends up being that will be the key ongoing.
But what was decided here will put an end to
the Israel Hamas War
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