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Speaker 1 (00:00):
BRIDI.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I bet you, by the end of the week, we're
going to have a new headline and nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Will even remember the drones existed.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh, I disagree. I think either today or by Wednesday
we'll have that new headline Pearl Luigi. Remember Luigi? Did
you have any Luigi over the weekend? Dragon, or did
you just have the Luigi?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, the Luigi and Mangioni had extra part in a
little red pepper flake.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, Well, next week it'll be something else. And because
these are you know, we're trying to get rid of
the Chinese drones, we'll probably have you know, I don't know,
Mushu pork or something.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Did they try to do that with Pelosi and her hip?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
By the way, speaking of Pelosi in her hip, isn't
it nice that you're able to get a military transport
to a military base so you can have a hip
replacement at zero cost.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I am slightly curious about that, because I've known several
people who have got hip replacements, actually several times, and
it's not a spur of the whim momentary thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I know she fell down a flight of stairs, and
I know she broke some things. But a hip replacement
isn't just a day decision or day of decision going yep,
we need to replace it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There's a lot more.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That goes into it, especially if you're eighty four years old.
So color me slightly skeptical.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, we'll call me.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Call me slightly sick. Because I thought two things. One, uh,
is she eighty four? Because for some reason I thought
she was like eighty five.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I thought eighty four.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'll okay, what you know at.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This point, what difference does it make eighty four eighty five?
I thought, is the classic that we've got an eighty
four year old? Yeah, all over the world at you know,
in some congression, you know, some codell, a congressional junket.
And then when I heard that she fell down a
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flight of stairs, I don't want her to get hurt.
I don't want her to die or any of that.
But you know how she's always so prim and proper,
and you know, she's always got her stiletto heels, and
she's so you know, dressed to the nines, and her
hair's perfectly quaffed, and the botox is perfectly placed everywhere,
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so her eyes are always wide open.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I just wanted to see her fall. And that's sick.
I just a little bit. It is sick, isn't it
a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Because then I wondered, was she like in the middle
of a group of people and she caused other people
to trip and fall, you know, like you know, the
a domino effect, like a bunch of clowns trying to
get down stairs. She starts the whole thing falling except
the people behind her, and they're all watching like, oops.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Look at that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's a mess. So we're talking about drones. I see
what the headline on Drudge is right now. Conspiracy theories abound.
Drones hunting, radiation detection systems sent to New York. There's
one more. Homeland wants States to shoot, Yeah, because they
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don't want to be the ones shooting down. So now
they've got to do something. But detection systems sent to
New York without violating I think I can say this.
We already have detection systems in major cities, including New York.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I even know where some are located in what they
look like. Yeah, I know what that story is. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Let me just hang on a second. US deploys resources
on drone Sightings New York to receive state of the
art detection system. Oh, so maybe they're just getting new systems,
because I guarandemn to you there are already radiation detective
detection systems and well.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Thew ORG DC LA Denver. Yes, real quick.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Want to jump back to this text message about Nancy's
hip Mike a thirty year practicing hospital base pharmacist here.
Unlike hip replacements that are caused by a worn out joint,
broken hips get replaced the next day or two. It's
routinely done that way. Dragon's experience with hip surgeries has
been planned, not broken.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I appreciate the information, Thank you very much for this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But no, let's let's let's get a hysteria going about
some conspiracy about her getting a hip replacement because she
used to be the Speaker of the House or she
was on a Actually, I think you know whether she
paid for it or not. My guess is she probably
did not, because the she's still a member of Congress
and their health insurance is well premier. Back to the
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drones and then and then back to Eric Schmidt. Probably
the person that gets this the most might actually be
Donald Trump. His take on the drones has been very
serious and very silly, ranging from a stern warning that
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the drones may deserve military action to a mean that
shows former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stuffing his face
with McDonald's hamburgers that are being delivered.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
By drones, by dozens of drones.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That collective mania, this collective hysteria feels strangely like community.
Even better when it's a conspiracy theory that crosses political
lines and that allows us all allows us to all
blame top Pentagon, Brass or whomever. At one point, I
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think they're even blaming amaz Speed. Speaking of Amazon delivering
burgers to Chris Christy, I think they were. At one
point that was a theory that Amazon was, you know,
testing these gigantic drogs to deliver huge amounts of packages
to delivery trucks that didn't take it elsewhere. Walk outside
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your house now in Denver or right here in the
metropolitan area, you're not going to see a lot. But
if you live down in Wafano County, or you live
down and you live out in Yuma or somewhere, go
out and look at the sky. Most people in the
city still have a clue what the sky looks like.
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So let's go back to Eric Schmidt because he's finally interviewed.
I shouldn't say finally, but they do interview Eric Schmidt
about this program and what's really going on.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Let's talk to about a real war is going on.
I know that something you've been very involved in is
the Ukraine War, and particular I don't know how much
you can talk about White Stork and your goal of
having a five hundred dollars drones and destroy five million
dollar tanks.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So is that changing warfare?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I worked for the Secretary of Defense for seven years
and try to change the way we run our military.
I'm not a particularly big fan of the military, but
it's very expensive and I wanted to see if I
could be helpful. And I think, in my view, I
largely failed. They gave me a medal, so they must
give metals to failure or but my self criticism was
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nothing has really changed and the system in America is
not going to lead to real innovation. So watching the
Russians use tanks to destroy apartment buildings with little old
ladies and kids just drove me crazy. So I decided
to work on a company with your friend Sebastian Throne
and as a former faculty member here and a whole
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bunch of Stanford people. And the idea basically is to
do two things. Use AI in complicated, powerful ways for
these essentially robotic war and the second one is to
lower the cost of the robot. Now you sit there
and you go, why would a good liberal.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Like me do that?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And answer is that the whole theory of armies is tanks,
artilleries and mortar, and we can eliminate all of them.
Because I've been doing this for the last year, I've
learned a lot about war that I really did not
want to know. And one of the things to know
about war is that the offense always has the advantage
because you can always overwhelm the defensive systems. And so
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you're better off as a strategy of national defense to
have a very strong offense that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You can use if you need to.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And the systems that I and others are building will
do that because of the way the system works. I
am now a licensed arms dealer. Hey, so computer scientists
businessman arms.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Dealers progression, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I do not recommend this in your cop It's stick with.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
A on all right now, if he wants to develop
a more efficient way of say, blowing up tanks that
are killing innocent women and children and buildings in Ukraine,
and not have to send fighter jets with RPGs or
using missiles or whatever to destroy jets, but be more
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cost effective, and you don't want to rely on Chinese
the dj the Dji drones, then you'll go develop your
own and you'll do it, as he points out, in
conjunction with the Partment of Defense. So maybe that's what's
going on. And by the way, I just realized, yes,
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the National Defense Authorization Act it did pass.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Congress has just eight days until government funding is that
to run out. Next Friday, December twentieth is the deadline
to get a spending measure passed. Meanwhile, progress is being
made on the annual Defense Bill. My Gooding has the
latest grab.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
The House passed the eight hundred ninety five billion dollar
National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday on a bipartisan two
eighty one to one forty vote. The NBAA includes a
fourteen point five percent pay raise for junior enlisted service
members and a four point five percent hike for all
other members. The most contentious provision was a restriction on
the use of Tricare funds for gender affirming care for
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the children eighteen years and younger of service members. Local
Democrats Bobby Scott and Jennifer McClellan opposed that part of
the bill, but still voted yes for the overall measure.
Joining local Republicans Jen Kiggins and Rob Whitman.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
This bill reinforces our national security priorities while taking care
of our service members.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
The Senate is scheduled to vote upon the NDAA next week. However,
it's also expected that the two chambers will elect to
pass a continuing resolution before the December twentieth deadline, preventing
a government shutdown but delaying in action of the NDAA
until next March. Virginia Senator Democrat Tim Kaine hopes the
general framework of the NDAA survives the work product.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Doesn't go away, but you could see a Republican Senate saying, Okay,
we have different priorities in the Democrats center.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I don't think that's that likely.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
In good news for the Navy and Newport newship building,
the bill includes full funding of the Columbia Class Ballistic
Missile Submarine program and one Virginia class submarine.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So what if buried somewhere in the in the bill
was a requirement that, oh yeah, if we're going to
do this, then let's make certain that we eliminate and
prohibit the Pentagon from buying drones from China. And let's
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put some additional money in to continue the testing and
perhaps the purchasing of drones from this Operation STOK that
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google is putting together. What
if that's in there? What if it is part of it? Well,
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let's go to This comes from press Wire an agreement.
An agreement to create and test and evaluate the development
of uncrewed aerial systems and all and made it advanced
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air Mobility Technologies, was recently signed by officials representing the
United States Transportation Command, USE, Transcom, Air Mobility Command, the
National Aerospace Research and Technology Park, and the Atlantic count
County Economic Council. This agreement is a significant accomplishment and
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will demonstrate narp's ability to facilitate aviation research. USE Transcom
and AMP are major players in aviation they're interested in
working with NARPED helped to advance both the development of
the NARPED and the emerging aviation industry in New Jerseys
Atlantic County.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Under the terms of.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the parties will cooperatively
develop a prototype, dual use US East Coast Test and
Evaluation Corridor for the demonstration, development, and evaluation the military, commercial, academic,
and federal government UAS's and AAM technologies with future application
to strategic airlift capabilities of the US Air Force. UAS's
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are often referred to as drones well. AAM involves the
use of electric vertical takeoff and landing eve TAHL aircraft
to move people and cargo between places not easily served
by other motive transportation OOH described as small SUVs carrying oh,
I don't know, six, eight, ten, twelve passengers. Both UASS,
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UAS and AAM technologies are being developed rapidly by government
and military agencies and private industry. In the testing corridor
will help safely integrate them into the national airspace that
comes from the EI. In press wire this see what's
the date on this June two of twenty twenty three.
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So now for more than a year, almost a year
and a half, this agreement has been in existence to
do this.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
On the Eastern Shoreboard.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Now, I don't know how you square that with the
story from the London Telegraph that says the US Homeland
Security Secretary has said states need the power to shoot
down drones following criticisms of the government's response to sidings
across the East Coast. Alejandro Majorcus made the comments after
state officials in New York and New Jersey said that
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Joe Biden's administration had failed to get a grip on
the issue. Kathy Holkl, the New York governor, said drone
activity had closed down the runways at Stewart International Airport.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
She said, we want state and local authorities.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
To also have the ability to counter drone activity under
federal supervision.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Hmm. So when they asked for new authorities.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They know that right now they the Feds have the authority.
So now they want to pretend or make you think, oh, yeah,
we're actively engaged in this and we want state and
locals to have this authority. How long will it take
for the FEDS to approve legislation that maybe they could
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do cooperatively with state and local governments, particularly maybe New
Jersey and New York, so that they have to cooperate,
which will then raise the issue of if there's another
series of these drone sightings, who's in charge, who's in charge,
and who makes the decision to shoot or not shoot
down one. So the headline is kind of misleading. The
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headline is basically saying, yeah, we probably have that authority now,
but let's give some additional authorities state and local governments
so we can show the public how we're trying to
get something done. I think it's time that we recognize
that all of this stuff is more mass hysteria than
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it is anything else. There was a story from last
year till over a year ago. Headline in the New
York Post was New Jersey UFO scare.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
See this isn't new.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Turns out to be oh elon Musk Starlink satellite launch.
So now you now know about Eric Smith, you know
about special access programs, you know about this special development,
you know about the Chinese drones that we buy that
the NDAA says we shouldn't buy, and you know about
the testing.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, Michael I made at the Springfield I'm awake, but
it may have more to do with a coffee than
you just saying have a good day, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, that might as well just go home. Might as
well just go home.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
George Stephanopolis and ABC News, I've reached the settlement with
President MacDonald Trump in a defamation lawsuit. The agreement was
filed publicly on Saturday, and ABC News will pay Trump
fifteen million dollars. They'll make it as a charitable contribution
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toward his presidential foundation and potential future museum. And in
addition to the fifteen million dollars, the network will cover
at least one million, if not more, dollars in Trump's
attorney fees. I don't remember that this defamation lawsuit was
going on, but it comes from this lawsuit that Trump
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filed after Stephanopoulois made all these claims during a March
twenty twenty four interview on This Week that Trump had
been found liable for rape.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Now I do remember that story.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Because the allegation was that Trump had been found guilty
of rape.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In fact, the same was remade during an interview between
George Stephanopolis and Congresswoman Nancy Mace and that was after
the civil case involving e. Gen Carroll, where the jury
specifically found Trump liable for sexual abuse, not rape under
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New York law. In fact, you can find a copy
of the jury form almost anywhere on the interweb. And
the very first question was did Donald Trump rape the plaintiff?
Check yes or check no. They checked no. If no,
proceeded to question two, if yes, proceed whatever. And it
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was clearly marked no that it was not proven by
a preponderance of the evidence because it was a civil case,
not criminal. He was not proven by a undance of
the evidence that Donald Trump raped E. G.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And Carroll. And it's right there for everybody to look at.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So the settlement includes both ABC News and Stephanopoulos releasing
a statement of regret over the inaccurate claims, which will
be included as an editor's note in a related article. Now,
obviously there was some negotiation going on here, because if
ABC News and their legal department is constantly and consistently
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requiring Sunny Houston to read, in fact, to stop whatever
they're discussing, and to say, oh, I have to read
illegal here in which she says something to the effect
that yesterday I said quote.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah end quote.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That was incorrect, and I hereby have to say the
following quote I hear by apologize for misleading or incorrectly
stating blah blah blah blah blah, and thus ends the
reading of the legal statement. And then they go on
to continue to lie about something else. Well, why isn't
George Stephanopolis required to in fact, yesterday it was not
brought up at all on the program, so that must
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have been part of the settlement. So, despite challenging the
lawsuit and claiming that I will not be intimidated, Stepanovlis
now agrees to the terms of the settlement. And it
follows Magistrate Judge Reid's order for a deposition ahead of
a deadline the twenty fourth of this on Christmas Eve,
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for a motion for summary judgment, potentially of winning a trial. Now,
this settlement comes amid several legal developments for Trump. Federal
Judge Tanya Chuckin recently to missed Jack Smith's case against
Trump concerning the twenty twenty election and the documents, and
then in New York, Trump was granted the right to
pursue dismissal of the charges in the case brought by
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Alvin Bragg. And Trump continues to pursue legal action against
CBS News. There He's seeking ten billion dollars over a
ledge deceptive conduct. He just keeps running these cases, and
I understand in the settlement both sides have to give
up something. And I'm sure that Trump's lawyers were negotiating
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for a public statement by George Deevenopolis on This Week
with George Stevenopolis in which he goes back to that
conversation with Nancy Mace and has to apologize. They didn't
get it. I wish they had, but they didn't get it,
and that may have simply been part of the agreement.
I mean, I don't know who knows what it was.
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In fact, let me see if I can find Nancy
Mace and let me look at see if I can
find them under rape, uh, rape, sexual assault Nancy Mace. Yes,
here it is. Here's what precipitated all of this US.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Microphone on and you endorse Donald Trump for president by
judges and two separate juries. If I'm liable for rape
and for defaming the victim of.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That not true, I'm fascinated and bewildered. I'm fascinated by
the fact that Stephanopoulos and all of the editors would
allow him he's reading from something, would allow him to
read something on air that says that Trump was found
guilty of rape when the jury verdict itself, which is
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publicly available. The very first question is was is Donald
Trump guilty of But has it been shown by a
prepondence or the evidence that Donald Trump raped e Jane Carroll?
Or maybe it says the planet And there's two choices,
yes or no. The jury marks no.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
And yet Stephanopolis, can donald Trump for president? Judges and
two separate juries have found him liable for rape and
for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you
square your endorsement of Donald Trump for the testimony we
just saw.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, I will.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Tell you I was raped at the age of sixteen,
and any rate will tell you I've lived for thirty
years with an incredible amount of shame over being raped.
I didn't come forward because of that judgment and shame
that I felt. And it's a shame that you will
never feel.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
George.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
And I'm not going to sit here on your show
and be asked a question meant to shame me about
another potential rape victim. I'm I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I say, it's actually not about shaming you. It's a question.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
But no, you are shaming. You've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He is not. He repeats it again.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Donald Trump has been found liable for the rape of
eg And Carroll by a jury that is blatantly unequivocally false.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim
of that rape by a jury.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's been affirmed by a judge.
Speaker 11 (25:05):
It was not a criminal court case. Number one. Number two,
I live with shame, and you're asking me a question
about my political choices, trying to shame me as a
rape victim, and I find it discussed.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's an idiot, He's an absolute idiot. And why she
puts up with it, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
You endorse sland Trump for again.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
You make a mockery out of rape.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
When they joke about it, it's going to come forward women.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
It makes it harder when other women joke about it,
and she's joked about it. I find it offensive, and
I also find it offensive that you're trying to shame
you with this question.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm not trying to shame you.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I had dealt with this.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
For thirty years, no heart, it was to tell my
story five years ago when they were doing a fetal
heartbeat bill and there were no exceptions for rape incestor
or rape or.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Incest in there.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
I had to tell my story because no other woman
was coming up for us, no rape victims were represented.
And you're trying to shame me this morning, I said,
I find it offensive, and this is why women won't
come forward.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Women won't come forward because they're defamed by those who
perpetrate rape.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Donald they are judged and they're shamed, and you're trying
to shame me this morning.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I think it's I told my story.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
It took me twenty five years to tell my story
I was judged for I still get judged for it today.
Asking you a very simple question, and I answer you,
why you're shaming me for my political choice.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So now they're going to.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Pay fifteen million dollars to a charitable organization, and they're
going to pay cover a million dollars in legal fees.
But they only have to put the apology in writing,
not Eric. The same ABC News division that makes the
view apologize on air all the time is not going
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to do it here. I just want you to know
about it, because if you hear which you probably won't.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But if you hear.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Somewhere else that Donald Trump was found guilty of raping
eg Carol, that is an absolute false statement. Now, speaking
of presidents doing stupid things, let's go to Biden for
a moment. This story absolutely I heard a mother of
this morning on Fox News describing her child who got
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caught up in this. Biden has granted clemency to a
state judge who's responsible for what's being called a kids
for Cash scandal, and of course an Ohio County County's
corrupt commissioner. But let's think about the first one. This judge,
Michael T. Conahan, he's had his sentence commuted. He was
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involved in a notorious kids for Cash scandal where he
actually got millions of dollars in kickbacks for sentencing juveniles
to for profit detention centers. In twenty ten, this judge
pled guilty to federal rocketeering charges and was sentenced to
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seventeen and a half years in prison. His sentence was
shortened during the COVID nineteen penny when he was granted
compassionate release to a home confinement. In twenty twenty, he
spent time in home confinement and that appears to have
made him eligible for commutation. I don't understand why that
makes him eligible, because the president can do it whether
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he's eligible for it or not. Now here's what the
mother's story was. Her son, juvenile at the time, was
got caught up in a bunch of kids out drinking somewhere.
Public intoxication, public drinking, whatever the charges were. He was
sent to the county detention center for one month.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So when he.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Came back to be for his case to be reviewed,
this judge, who was making money by taking kids out
of the county facility and then sending them to this
for profit facility, was getting kickbacks from the for profit facility.
So the kid comes back up for his court appearance.
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He's got recommendation letters from teachers, principles from neighbors, from doctors,
from psychiatrists, from everybody about. You know, this kid's done
his thirty days in the county detention center. He is remorseful,
he is, you know, he it's time to let him out,
and the judge just summarily said no and sent him
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to this for profit detention center where he spent a
couple of years. And his mother says, when he came
out of that for profit detention center. He was so
screwed up he couldn't make eye contact. He was totally depressed,
he was belligerent, he was horrible, and he ended up
committing suicide, all because this judge was taking kickbacks to
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send kids kids for cash, send the kids to the
for profit detention center. Irregard this like that term, regardless
of whether it should be sent or not. The guy,
the judge makes money off that the kid commits suicide
because who knows what happened to him in that county
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or in that for profit detention center. I'm sure he
was raped, abused everything. He commits suicide. Joe Biden commutes
the sentence of the judge, and he's getting backlash. Damn right,
he's getting backlash. Let me say one thing about pardons
that I was asking the text line that I want
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to answer.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
That's next, Michae or Michael, you say all your cools
and wrenches have been used. All I hear is Tamra
is pretty handy around the house.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I have a friend of mine there's a lot of
work for me at the house, and he texted me
earlier this morning when I was talking about that he said,
the only reasons you don't own a table or a
minor solace because you have me.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah. I said, yeah, yep, you're right.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So Maria emailed me yesterday and said, Hello, I just
wanted to thank you for your podcast. I listened daily
here in Pennsylvania. Hope you don't mind, but I do
have a question. Our current president is obviously cognitively impaired.
Can President Trump undo any of the pardons given by Biden?
Stating that if he was already able to mentally stand
questioning and determined feeble, then he doesn't have the cognitive
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ability to determine who gets pardoned. The answer is no,
Trump cannot do that. The only way that Biden could
have been prevented from issuing these pardons and commutations is
if his vice president and cabinet had invoked the twenty
fifth Amendment and him to have been found in cognitive
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declined and unable to mentally perform the duties. Then he
would have been removed and she would have become the
acting president, and he would not have been allowed to
exercise the pardon power. But that would have had to
have happened first, and that would have prevented him, but
there is no provision to overturn a pardon or a commutation.
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It's an absolute power. So the only way to prevent
an absolute power from being exercised by the president is
for him to not be the president.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And the only I.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Shouldn't say the only way, but the main way for
him to not have been the president was for him
to have been declared unfit for office by the twenty
fifth Amendment, to have been impeached for the obviously illegal
influenced pedling campaign, or for him to have resigned, which
we take him out of out from under Article two,
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which would prevent him from exercising any of the powers
of Article two. So no, I know people have a
hard time with that, but I understand. Look, the founders
thought there needed to be a relief valve and that
the president, who was you know, going to be a
high moral standing standard, would not do things like what
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Biden did, but he did such such is the Constitution.
BRIDI.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I bet you, by the end of the week, we're
going to have a new headline and nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Will even remember the drones existed.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh, I disagree. I think either today or by Wednesday
we'll have that new headline Pearl Luigi. Remember Luigi? Did
you have any Luigi over the weekend? Dragon, or did
you just have the Luigi?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah, the Luigi and Mangioni had extra part in a
little red pepper flake.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, Well, next week it'll be something else. And because
these are you know, we're trying to get rid of
the Chinese drones, we'll probably have you know, I don't know,
Mushu pork or something.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Did they try to do that with Pelosi and her hip?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
By the way, speaking of Pelosi in her hip, isn't
it nice that you're able to get a military transport
to a military base so you can have a hip
replacement at zero cost.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I am slightly curious about that, because I've known several
people who have got hip replacements, actually several times, and
it's not a spur of the whim momentary thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I know she fell down a flight of stairs, and
I know she broke some things. But a hip replacement
isn't just a day decision or day of decision going yep,
we need to replace it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There's a lot more.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That goes into it, especially if you're eighty four years old.
So color me slightly skeptical.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, we'll call me.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Call me slightly sick. Because I thought two things. One, uh,
is she eighty four? Because for some reason I thought
she was like eighty five.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I thought eighty four.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'll okay, what you know at.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
This point, what difference does it make eighty four eighty five?
I thought, is the classic that we've got an eighty
four year old? Yeah, all over the world at you know,
in some congression, you know, some codell, a congressional junket.
And then when I heard that she fell down a
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flight of stairs, I don't want her to get hurt.
I don't want her to die or any of that.
But you know how she's always so prim and proper,
and you know, she's always got her stiletto heels, and
she's so you know, dressed to the nines, and her
hair's perfectly quaffed, and the botox is perfectly placed everywhere,
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so her eyes are always wide open.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I just wanted to see her fall. And that's sick.
I just a little bit. It is sick, isn't it
a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Because then I wondered, was she like in the middle
of a group of people and she caused other people
to trip and fall, you know, like you know, the
a domino effect, like a bunch of clowns trying to
get down stairs. She starts the whole thing falling except
the people behind her, and they're all watching like, oops.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Look at that.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's a mess. So we're talking about drones. I see
what the headline on Drudge is right now. Conspiracy theories abound.
Drones hunting, radiation detection systems sent to New York. There's
one more. Homeland wants States to shoot, Yeah, because they
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don't want to be the ones shooting down. So now
they've got to do something. But detection systems sent to
New York without violating I think I can say this.
We already have detection systems in major cities, including New York.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I even know where some are located in what they
look like. Yeah, I know what that story is. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Let me just hang on a second. US deploys resources
on drone Sightings New York to receive state of the
art detection system. Oh, so maybe they're just getting new systems,
because I guarandemn to you there are already radiation detective
detection systems and well.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Thew ORG DC LA Denver. Yes, real quick.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Want to jump back to this text message about Nancy's
hip Mike a thirty year practicing hospital base pharmacist here.
Unlike hip replacements that are caused by a worn out joint,
broken hips get replaced the next day or two. It's
routinely done that way. Dragon's experience with hip surgeries has
been planned, not broken.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I appreciate the information, Thank you very much for this.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But no, let's let's let's get a hysteria going about
some conspiracy about her getting a hip replacement because she
used to be the Speaker of the House or she
was on a Actually, I think you know whether she
paid for it or not. My guess is she probably
did not, because the she's still a member of Congress
and their health insurance is well premier. Back to the
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drones and then and then back to Eric Schmidt. Probably
the person that gets this the most might actually be
Donald Trump. His take on the drones has been very
serious and very silly, ranging from a stern warning that
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the drones may deserve military action to a mean that
shows former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stuffing his face
with McDonald's hamburgers that are being delivered.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
By drones, by dozens of drones.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That collective mania, this collective hysteria feels strangely like community.
Even better when it's a conspiracy theory that crosses political
lines and that allows us all allows us to all
blame top Pentagon, Brass or whomever. At one point, I
(06:15):
think they're even blaming amaz Speed. Speaking of Amazon delivering
burgers to Chris Christy, I think they were. At one
point that was a theory that Amazon was, you know,
testing these gigantic drogs to deliver huge amounts of packages
to delivery trucks that didn't take it elsewhere. Walk outside
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your house now in Denver or right here in the
metropolitan area, you're not going to see a lot. But
if you live down in Wafano County, or you live
down and you live out in Yuma or somewhere, go
out and look at the sky. Most people in the
city still have a clue what the sky looks like.
(07:00):
So let's go back to Eric Schmidt because he's finally interviewed.
I shouldn't say finally, but they do interview Eric Schmidt
about this program and what's really going on.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Let's talk to about a real war is going on.
I know that something you've been very involved in is
the Ukraine War, and particular I don't know how much
you can talk about White Stork and your goal of
having a five hundred dollars drones and destroy five million
dollar tanks.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So is that changing warfare?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I worked for the Secretary of Defense for seven years
and try to change the way we run our military.
I'm not a particularly big fan of the military, but
it's very expensive and I wanted to see if I
could be helpful. And I think, in my view, I
largely failed. They gave me a medal, so they must
give metals to failure or but my self criticism was
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nothing has really changed and the system in America is
not going to lead to real innovation. So watching the
Russians use tanks to destroy apartment buildings with little old
ladies and kids just drove me crazy. So I decided
to work on a company with your friend Sebastian Throne
and as a former faculty member here and a whole
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bunch of Stanford people. And the idea basically is to
do two things. Use AI in complicated, powerful ways for
these essentially robotic war and the second one is to
lower the cost of the robot. Now you sit there
and you go, why would a good liberal.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Like me do that?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And answer is that the whole theory of armies is tanks,
artilleries and mortar, and we can eliminate all of them.
Because I've been doing this for the last year, I've
learned a lot about war that I really did not
want to know. And one of the things to know
about war is that the offense always has the advantage
because you can always overwhelm the defensive systems. And so
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you're better off as a strategy of national defense to
have a very strong offense that.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You can use if you need to.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And the systems that I and others are building will
do that because of the way the system works. I
am now a licensed arms dealer. Hey, so computer scientists
businessman arms.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Dealers progression, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I do not recommend this in your cop It's stick with.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
A on all right now, if he wants to develop
a more efficient way of say, blowing up tanks that
are killing innocent women and children and buildings in Ukraine,
and not have to send fighter jets with RPGs or
using missiles or whatever to destroy jets, but be more
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cost effective, and you don't want to rely on Chinese
the dj the Dji drones, then you'll go develop your
own and you'll do it, as he points out, in
conjunction with the Partment of Defense. So maybe that's what's
going on. And by the way, I just realized, yes,
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the National Defense Authorization Act it did pass.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Congress has just eight days until government funding is that
to run out. Next Friday, December twentieth is the deadline
to get a spending measure passed. Meanwhile, progress is being
made on the annual Defense Bill. My Gooding has the
latest grab.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
The House passed the eight hundred ninety five billion dollar
National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday on a bipartisan two
eighty one to one forty vote. The NBAA includes a
fourteen point five percent pay raise for junior enlisted service
members and a four point five percent hike for all
other members. The most contentious provision was a restriction on
the use of Tricare funds for gender affirming care for
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the children eighteen years and younger of service members. Local
Democrats Bobby Scott and Jennifer McClellan opposed that part of
the bill, but still voted yes for the overall measure.
Joining local Republicans Jen Kiggins and Rob Whitman.
Speaker 10 (11:00):
This bill reinforces our national security priorities while taking care
of our service members.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
The Senate is scheduled to vote upon the NDAA next week. However,
it's also expected that the two chambers will elect to
pass a continuing resolution before the December twentieth deadline, preventing
a government shutdown but delaying in action of the NDAA
until next March. Virginia Senator Democrat Tim Kaine hopes the
general framework of the NDAA survives the work product.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Doesn't go away, but you could see a Republican Senate saying, Okay,
we have different priorities in the Democrats center.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I don't think that's that likely.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
In good news for the Navy and Newport newship building,
the bill includes full funding of the Columbia Class Ballistic
Missile Submarine program and one Virginia class submarine.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So what if buried somewhere in the in the bill
was a requirement that, oh yeah, if we're going to
do this, then let's make certain that we eliminate and
prohibit the Pentagon from buying drones from China. And let's
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put some additional money in to continue the testing and
perhaps the purchasing of drones from this Operation STOK that
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google is putting together. What
if that's in there? What if it is part of it? Well,
(12:38):
let's go to This comes from press Wire an agreement.
An agreement to create and test and evaluate the development
of uncrewed aerial systems and all and made it advanced
(13:00):
air Mobility Technologies, was recently signed by officials representing the
United States Transportation Command, USE, Transcom, Air Mobility Command, the
National Aerospace Research and Technology Park, and the Atlantic count
County Economic Council. This agreement is a significant accomplishment and
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will demonstrate narp's ability to facilitate aviation research. USE Transcom
and AMP are major players in aviation they're interested in
working with NARPED helped to advance both the development of
the NARPED and the emerging aviation industry in New Jerseys
Atlantic County.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Under the terms of.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the parties will cooperatively
develop a prototype, dual use US East Coast Test and
Evaluation Corridor for the demonstration, development, and evaluation the military, commercial, academic,
and federal government UAS's and AAM technologies with future application
to strategic airlift capabilities of the US Air Force. UAS's
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are often referred to as drones well. AAM involves the
use of electric vertical takeoff and landing eve TAHL aircraft
to move people and cargo between places not easily served
by other motive transportation OOH described as small SUVs carrying oh,
I don't know, six, eight, ten, twelve passengers. Both UASS,
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UAS and AAM technologies are being developed rapidly by government
and military agencies and private industry. In the testing corridor
will help safely integrate them into the national airspace that
comes from the EI. In press wire this see what's
the date on this June two of twenty twenty three.
(14:49):
So now for more than a year, almost a year
and a half, this agreement has been in existence to
do this.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
On the Eastern Shoreboard.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Now, I don't know how you square that with the
story from the London Telegraph that says the US Homeland
Security Secretary has said states need the power to shoot
down drones following criticisms of the government's response to sidings
across the East Coast. Alejandro Majorcus made the comments after
state officials in New York and New Jersey said that
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Joe Biden's administration had failed to get a grip on
the issue. Kathy Holkl, the New York governor, said drone
activity had closed down the runways at Stewart International Airport.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
She said, we want state and local authorities.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
To also have the ability to counter drone activity under
federal supervision.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Hmm. So when they asked for new authorities.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They know that right now they the Feds have the authority.
So now they want to pretend or make you think, oh, yeah,
we're actively engaged in this and we want state and
locals to have this authority. How long will it take
for the FEDS to approve legislation that maybe they could
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do cooperatively with state and local governments, particularly maybe New
Jersey and New York, so that they have to cooperate,
which will then raise the issue of if there's another
series of these drone sightings, who's in charge, who's in charge,
and who makes the decision to shoot or not shoot
down one. So the headline is kind of misleading. The
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headline is basically saying, yeah, we probably have that authority now,
but let's give some additional authorities state and local governments
so we can show the public how we're trying to
get something done. I think it's time that we recognize
that all of this stuff is more mass hysteria than
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it is anything else. There was a story from last
year till over a year ago. Headline in the New
York Post was New Jersey UFO scare.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
See this isn't new.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Turns out to be oh elon Musk Starlink satellite launch.
So now you now know about Eric Smith, you know
about special access programs, you know about this special development,
you know about the Chinese drones that we buy that
the NDAA says we shouldn't buy, and you know about
the testing.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, Michael I made at the Springfield I'm awake, but
it may have more to do with a coffee than
you just saying have a good day, right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, that might as well just go home. Might as
well just go home.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
George Stephanopolis and ABC News, I've reached the settlement with
President MacDonald Trump in a defamation lawsuit. The agreement was
filed publicly on Saturday, and ABC News will pay Trump
fifteen million dollars. They'll make it as a charitable contribution
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toward his presidential foundation and potential future museum. And in
addition to the fifteen million dollars, the network will cover
at least one million, if not more, dollars in Trump's
attorney fees. I don't remember that this defamation lawsuit was
going on, but it comes from this lawsuit that Trump
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filed after Stephanopoulois made all these claims during a March
twenty twenty four interview on This Week that Trump had
been found liable for rape.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Now I do remember that story.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Because the allegation was that Trump had been found guilty
of rape.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Not true.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In fact, the same was remade during an interview between
George Stephanopolis and Congresswoman Nancy Mace and that was after
the civil case involving e. Gen Carroll, where the jury
specifically found Trump liable for sexual abuse, not rape under
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New York law. In fact, you can find a copy
of the jury form almost anywhere on the interweb. And
the very first question was did Donald Trump rape the plaintiff?
Check yes or check no. They checked no. If no,
proceeded to question two, if yes, proceed whatever. And it
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was clearly marked no that it was not proven by
a preponderance of the evidence because it was a civil case,
not criminal. He was not proven by a undance of
the evidence that Donald Trump raped E. G.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And Carroll. And it's right there for everybody to look at.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So the settlement includes both ABC News and Stephanopoulos releasing
a statement of regret over the inaccurate claims, which will
be included as an editor's note in a related article. Now,
obviously there was some negotiation going on here, because if
ABC News and their legal department is constantly and consistently
(20:32):
requiring Sunny Houston to read, in fact, to stop whatever
they're discussing, and to say, oh, I have to read
illegal here in which she says something to the effect
that yesterday I said quote.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah end quote.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That was incorrect, and I hereby have to say the
following quote I hear by apologize for misleading or incorrectly
stating blah blah blah blah blah, and thus ends the
reading of the legal statement. And then they go on
to continue to lie about something else. Well, why isn't
George Stephanopolis required to in fact, yesterday it was not
brought up at all on the program, so that must
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have been part of the settlement. So, despite challenging the
lawsuit and claiming that I will not be intimidated, Stepanovlis
now agrees to the terms of the settlement. And it
follows Magistrate Judge Reid's order for a deposition ahead of
a deadline the twenty fourth of this on Christmas Eve,
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for a motion for summary judgment, potentially of winning a trial. Now,
this settlement comes amid several legal developments for Trump. Federal
Judge Tanya Chuckin recently to missed Jack Smith's case against
Trump concerning the twenty twenty election and the documents, and
then in New York, Trump was granted the right to
pursue dismissal of the charges in the case brought by
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Alvin Bragg. And Trump continues to pursue legal action against
CBS News. There He's seeking ten billion dollars over a
ledge deceptive conduct. He just keeps running these cases, and
I understand in the settlement both sides have to give
up something. And I'm sure that Trump's lawyers were negotiating
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for a public statement by George Deevenopolis on This Week
with George Stevenopolis in which he goes back to that
conversation with Nancy Mace and has to apologize. They didn't
get it. I wish they had, but they didn't get it,
and that may have simply been part of the agreement.
I mean, I don't know who knows what it was.
(22:42):
In fact, let me see if I can find Nancy
Mace and let me look at see if I can
find them under rape, uh, rape, sexual assault Nancy Mace. Yes,
here it is. Here's what precipitated all of this US.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Microphone on and you endorse Donald Trump for president by
judges and two separate juries. If I'm liable for rape
and for defaming the victim of.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That not true, I'm fascinated and bewildered. I'm fascinated by
the fact that Stephanopoulos and all of the editors would
allow him he's reading from something, would allow him to
read something on air that says that Trump was found
guilty of rape when the jury verdict itself, which is
(23:34):
publicly available. The very first question is was is Donald
Trump guilty of But has it been shown by a
prepondence or the evidence that Donald Trump raped e Jane Carroll?
Or maybe it says the planet And there's two choices,
yes or no. The jury marks no.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
And yet Stephanopolis, can donald Trump for president? Judges and
two separate juries have found him liable for rape and
for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you
square your endorsement of Donald Trump for the testimony we
just saw.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Well, I will.
Speaker 11 (24:10):
Tell you I was raped at the age of sixteen,
and any rate will tell you I've lived for thirty
years with an incredible amount of shame over being raped.
I didn't come forward because of that judgment and shame
that I felt. And it's a shame that you will
never feel.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
George.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
And I'm not going to sit here on your show
and be asked a question meant to shame me about
another potential rape victim. I'm I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I say, it's actually not about shaming you. It's a question.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
But no, you are shaming. You've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He is not. He repeats it again.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Donald Trump has been found liable for the rape of
eg And Carroll by a jury that is blatantly unequivocally false.
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim
of that rape by a jury.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's been affirmed by a judge.
Speaker 11 (25:05):
It was not a criminal court case. Number one. Number two,
I live with shame, and you're asking me a question
about my political choices, trying to shame me as a
rape victim, and I find it discussed.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's an idiot, He's an absolute idiot. And why she
puts up with it, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
You endorse sland Trump for again.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
You make a mockery out of rape.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
When they joke about it, it's going to come forward women.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
It makes it harder when other women joke about it,
and she's joked about it. I find it offensive, and
I also find it offensive that you're trying to shame
you with this question.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm not trying to shame you.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I had dealt with this.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
For thirty years, no heart, it was to tell my
story five years ago when they were doing a fetal
heartbeat bill and there were no exceptions for rape incestor
or rape or.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Incest in there.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
I had to tell my story because no other woman
was coming up for us, no rape victims were represented.
And you're trying to shame me this morning, I said,
I find it offensive, and this is why women won't
come forward.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Women won't come forward because they're defamed by those who
perpetrate rape.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Donald they are judged and they're shamed, and you're trying
to shame me this morning.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I think it's I told my story.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
It took me twenty five years to tell my story
I was judged for I still get judged for it today.
Asking you a very simple question, and I answer you,
why you're shaming me for my political choice.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So now they're going to.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Pay fifteen million dollars to a charitable organization, and they're
going to pay cover a million dollars in legal fees.
But they only have to put the apology in writing,
not Eric. The same ABC News division that makes the
view apologize on air all the time is not going
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to do it here. I just want you to know
about it, because if you hear which you probably won't.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But if you hear.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Somewhere else that Donald Trump was found guilty of raping
eg Carol, that is an absolute false statement. Now, speaking
of presidents doing stupid things, let's go to Biden for
a moment. This story absolutely I heard a mother of
this morning on Fox News describing her child who got
(27:20):
caught up in this. Biden has granted clemency to a
state judge who's responsible for what's being called a kids
for Cash scandal, and of course an Ohio County County's
corrupt commissioner. But let's think about the first one. This judge,
Michael T. Conahan, he's had his sentence commuted. He was
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involved in a notorious kids for Cash scandal where he
actually got millions of dollars in kickbacks for sentencing juveniles
to for profit detention centers. In twenty ten, this judge
pled guilty to federal rocketeering charges and was sentenced to
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seventeen and a half years in prison. His sentence was
shortened during the COVID nineteen penny when he was granted
compassionate release to a home confinement. In twenty twenty, he
spent time in home confinement and that appears to have
made him eligible for commutation. I don't understand why that
makes him eligible, because the president can do it whether
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he's eligible for it or not. Now here's what the
mother's story was. Her son, juvenile at the time, was
got caught up in a bunch of kids out drinking somewhere.
Public intoxication, public drinking, whatever the charges were. He was
sent to the county detention center for one month.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So when he.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Came back to be for his case to be reviewed,
this judge, who was making money by taking kids out
of the county facility and then sending them to this
for profit facility, was getting kickbacks from the for profit facility.
So the kid comes back up for his court appearance.
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He's got recommendation letters from teachers, principles from neighbors, from doctors,
from psychiatrists, from everybody about. You know, this kid's done
his thirty days in the county detention center. He is remorseful,
he is, you know, he it's time to let him out,
and the judge just summarily said no and sent him
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to this for profit detention center where he spent a
couple of years. And his mother says, when he came
out of that for profit detention center. He was so
screwed up he couldn't make eye contact. He was totally depressed,
he was belligerent, he was horrible, and he ended up
committing suicide, all because this judge was taking kickbacks to
(29:53):
send kids kids for cash, send the kids to the
for profit detention center. Irregard this like that term, regardless
of whether it should be sent or not. The guy,
the judge makes money off that the kid commits suicide
because who knows what happened to him in that county
(30:16):
or in that for profit detention center. I'm sure he
was raped, abused everything. He commits suicide. Joe Biden commutes
the sentence of the judge, and he's getting backlash. Damn right,
he's getting backlash. Let me say one thing about pardons
that I was asking the text line that I want
(30:37):
to answer.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
That's next, Michae or Michael, you say all your cools
and wrenches have been used. All I hear is Tamra
is pretty handy around the house.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I have a friend of mine there's a lot of
work for me at the house, and he texted me
earlier this morning when I was talking about that he said,
the only reasons you don't own a table or a
minor solace because you have me.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah. I said, yeah, yep, you're right.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So Maria emailed me yesterday and said, Hello, I just
wanted to thank you for your podcast. I listened daily
here in Pennsylvania. Hope you don't mind, but I do
have a question. Our current president is obviously cognitively impaired.
Can President Trump undo any of the pardons given by Biden?
Stating that if he was already able to mentally stand
questioning and determined feeble, then he doesn't have the cognitive
(31:29):
ability to determine who gets pardoned. The answer is no,
Trump cannot do that. The only way that Biden could
have been prevented from issuing these pardons and commutations is
if his vice president and cabinet had invoked the twenty
fifth Amendment and him to have been found in cognitive
(31:51):
declined and unable to mentally perform the duties. Then he
would have been removed and she would have become the
acting president, and he would not have been allowed to
exercise the pardon power. But that would have had to
have happened first, and that would have prevented him, but
there is no provision to overturn a pardon or a commutation.
(32:12):
It's an absolute power. So the only way to prevent
an absolute power from being exercised by the president is
for him to not be the president.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And the only I.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Shouldn't say the only way, but the main way for
him to not have been the president was for him
to have been declared unfit for office by the twenty
fifth Amendment, to have been impeached for the obviously illegal
influenced pedling campaign, or for him to have resigned, which
we take him out of out from under Article two,
(32:47):
which would prevent him from exercising any of the powers
of Article two. So no, I know people have a
hard time with that, but I understand. Look, the founders
thought there needed to be a relief valve and that
the president, who was you know, going to be a
high moral standing standard, would not do things like what
(33:07):
Biden did, but he did such such is the Constitution.
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