October 13, 2025 • 26 mins
Mick Mulvaney stops by the Ty Boyd Studio to discuss major political headlines including President Trump's address to the Israeli Parliament after a successful hostage negotiation with Hamas as well as the latest news surrounding the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Monday, October thirteenth, Momentous day and world Happening's President Trump.
Fresh off a speech he gave within the last couple
of hours following the release of all twenty living hostages
from Hamas captivity, President Trump said, the sun rises on
a holy land that is finally at peace. And former
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White House Chief of Staff Mick mulvaney is back in
studio with us today and got the ball rolling late
last hour.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But now the.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Official opening to the show when you're here, because you're
going to be here for the remainder of this hour.
You saw President Trump's speech, Listen to this as you
were getting set to join us today. This is, as
we said heading into the top, this is probably the
most momentous speech he will ever give. I mean, other
things could happen, of course, but you're going to be
hard pressed to find a bigger global happening than this.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I think that's fair, And I thought the speech was really, really,
really well done. Again, I'm assuming that Steven Miller wrote
all or part of it. You know, Steve doesn't do
all of Stephen doesn't do all of writing anymore, but
that's how he got into Trump's world as a speech writer.
And it's still, to my mind, one of the most
talented people at speaking in Trump's voice. But how is
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it that's not a great day? I mean, I know
there's a lot of folks and you're right to ask
questions about what comes next and how do you secure
the piece and will it hold? And those are all
fair questions to ask. But maybe you just take this
one day to celebrate the fact that the hostage is
at home and for a day at least, there's there's peace.
Might not last till tomorrow, but enjoy it wal it
is here.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
There were some great ad lib moments in this speech
as well. The part that got me chuckling a little
bit was when he started talking about how long the
other people spoke. You know, he was talking about how
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke a little too long, and his his
counterpart spoke a little too long, and he's like, you've
kept me here too long.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I need to get to Egypt.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I really got to go, but let me say this
one more thing. I gotta go, but let me say
one more thing.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
So he got me.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
He got me chuckling in his in his moments of riffing.
But he also talked a lot about the Abraham Accords.
He recognized Jared Kushner twice in that in that one speech,
but also talked about how those members, those initial members
of the Abraham Accords, the four countries, I think it's Bahrain, Morocco,
the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Maybe Jordan, I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I can look that up really quickly, and talked about
the fact that it sounds like Sudan. Sudan is the
other one that they might be some of the countries
involved initial and helping rebuild Gaza.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Listen, I think there's gonna be some wonderful stories about
One of the things that that that that struck me
that Trump said this morning was he said, you know
that Marco Rubio maybe looked at as one of the
great sec one of the greatest secretary of state of
all time. Of course, that's that's Trump. That's how Trump
speaks anyway, right, But in this particular circumstance, I'm trying
to think, Okay, I mean, who are the great secretaries
of state? And you know, Kissinger clearly comes to mind,
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and I'm wondering, Okay, did what Kissinger accomplished in the
relationship with China? How does that measure up to what
just happened here. So I think it's a fair comparison
that that Jared Kushner. You know, people I know reading
social media and reading some press and so forth. Over
the weekend, people were critical him sort of air dropping
in at the last minute to take credit. I don't
see it like that at all. Jared had some very
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long standing relationships here because of all the work he
did in the Abraham Accords. So it doesn't surprise me.
In fact, the things surprised me was he wasn't involved
before this, So it doesn't surprise me. He's there at
the end of try it and and get things wrapped up,
and it moved relatively quickly in the last several days.
I mean, the twenty point plan has only been out
what a week, maybe two? I lose track at the time,
but so it progressed very very quickly from that first
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press conference with Netnahu in the White House to you know,
Trump being there today.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well, and as it relates to Jared Koshner, perhaps he
has been doing more than we know, just because he's
been doing it out of the spotlight. Yeah, but my
question to you is, now, we saw Ivanka, we saw Jared,
their front and center, as you would expect given the
part they played in this. But they have been you know,
if you think back to the first Trump administration, Ivanka
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and Jared were almost always present, and then they sort of,
unlike members of other members of the family, they Ivanka
has been almost you never see her anymore. And all
of a sudden, I wonder if this is going to
be sort of a re emergence of the two of
them as we get into the latter part of his
second term.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, I was one and the same thing. I can't
help but think that it won't be. I've been wondering
where they have been for the first nine month and
so forth, where they did to be involved I just
can't see Jared, because Jared would have to give up
what you have to give up your day job to
go work in the White House, right, most folks do.
There's certain exceptions to that, and so maybe he becomes
a special government employee and so forth. But I don't
think they're going back to what they were in the
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first term, which was Jared's office was next to mine.
I mean it was he was actually closer to the
to the Oval office, and I was in Ivanka had
the office right above the Oval, So I mean they
were physically in the West Wing. I don't think you'd
see them going back to that. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And I always thought that she was a very good
spokesperson for his administration. I thought she anytime she spoke
on behalf of the administration, she was one of the
better people that would would would carry the message on.
And she has decided in recent years to sort of
pull away from that spotlights, almost like she was sort
of tired of politics. But now I see maybe there's
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a route for her to become a more front and center.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Again, just just an observation.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
If you watchings, probably more the foreign policy they're not
I mean they're not the most conservative people in the
whole world. When we had discussions about you know, the
pro life movement, discussions about gun control and so forth. Ivanka,
as talented and as bright as she is, is not
really aligned with the MAGA base on a lot of policy,
which is fine. I mean, you know, it just that's
you know, everybody's different. But so I don't see them
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sort of becoming senior policy advisors again, because this administration
is clearly sort of not nearly as afraid to, uh
to break the glass as we were in the first
time round.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well, and I think I think back being at the
twenty sixteen R and C. They're in Cleveland, and she
was the person he chose to introduce him on the
final night. Now, I know that was a different administration,
a different time, but you know, he obviously back then
and I'm sure still does to a degree that she
would want to be involved.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So are you saying she was Hulk Hogan before Hulk
Cogan was Haul Covin? Is that what you're saying? Because
didn't Hulkan introduce him in the walking I can't remember.
He's close.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I feel like I think might have been.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It was close.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I want to say he was I don't think Hulk
was the last one. I think he was he was
among the last four, because I remember thinking, is it
really going to be Hulk Cogan? Who's the last one?
And I I think I'll have to go. I'll look
it up during the break. At any rate. I want
to say it was Eric, but we'll see.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Maybe it was Kai. Wasn't his granddaughter? She was up there,
She was at there some point.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
All of these are correct answers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There they were all there.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is good morning, beauty.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well see, now you can be a little bit nicer, bby,
because you're not at war anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Baby.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
But only by embracing the opportunities of this moment can
we achieve our goal of ensuring that the horrors of
recent years will never happen again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You don't want to have to go through this again.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Eight years ago I came to this region on a
very special first trip abroad as the President of the
United States. I came here very early at your request.
I addressed the leaders of the Arab and Muslim world
gathered in Saudi Arabia and said that it was time
to build a future free if the grip of extremism Mintera,
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and I'm interestingly right now as soon as I'm finished.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I'm quite late.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You've kept me quite late between opposition leaders and Beebe's
brilliant but very long speech. I thought I was going
to run up here, make a speech and then head
to Egypt. It didn't work out, though, and you made
a pretty long one.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Too, Sarah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's President Trump earlier this morning addressing the parliament there,
and he is now he's not there yet, but he's
that much closer to the peace summit in Egypt that
he's going to attend as part of his itinerary following
this historic speech. Today, Mick mlvaaney is with us former
White House Chief of Staff and of course White House
Budget Director. You see him on News Nation Bowen Beth
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here on a Monday morning. And that was quite a speech.
And I think, of course, the question now is he
talked about when he made this initial announcement last week
about the phases of this Yeah, now what now? What
happens after today is in the rear view.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You just look at the twenty point plan and try
and figure out what are the real sort of difficult
ones to deal with, to address, to fix. And then
I got to think the first one is Hamas disarming,
that's part of the deal, and then Hamas leaving and
turning over you know, governance of Gaza to an independent
third party. That that is going to be interesting to
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see if it happens. I'll be curious to watch. I
don't know what's happening in Egypt today. If they're if
they're just there to talk, if they're that, I can't
imagine they're to sign anything because there's nothing left to sign.
But I will be curious to see if there's anybody
there speaking on or on behalf of h Hamas, because
it could be curious to see what their body language is,
what you know, what they are they saying the right things.
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We've seen some videos of the of Gaza that, if
they're accurate, would suggest that the Hamas still has their weapons,
and so that that's going to be the next thing.
In order for to be a lasting piece, or at
least anything that lasts longer than the next couple of days,
Amas is going to have to agree to a disarm.
We here's to see if that happens.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
There was one moment of disruption during President Trump's speech
where two of the MK's that were there in the building.
Their names there were heads of the Hadash party. His
name was Iman O'Day and o fair Kasif apparently started
protesting briefly during Trump's speech, and according to the Jerusalem Post,
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one of the men yelled terrorists at Trump and another
said recognize Palestine and they were quickly quickly escorted out
of the room. President Trump even said, well that was
swift and praised how quickly they got them out of
the room. But it raises the question what happens to Palestine?
Will it be recognized as a state? And that's what
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that protester was I think asking or protesting against.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
A couple of things there. People forget, people forget there's
internal politics in Israel. Is it's a democracy, There's going
to be internal politics. There are people on the far
right and people on the far left. Don't like the deal.
Some folks don't think it goes far enough. Other folks
think it's you know, you can't trust a mass to
deal with them. So nettyaw is gonna have to deal
with that. You also have this looming issue of the
corruption charges against net Yahoo. There were critics who said
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he only prolonged the war because it allowed him to
stay in office and so forth. We'll see how that
how that plays out. But as to the you know,
the two states solution, will Palestine be recognized as part
of this? I think it's it's much too early to say.
I can't remember. I don't think recognition of Palestine as
a state was part of the twenty point deal or not.
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I don't think that it was. If I'm wrong about that,
I apologize. But it comes back to a point. You know,
as you folks know, I do a lot of media overseas,
and I was, you know, Britain recently indicated its willingness
or its intention to recognize Palestine as a state, France
to the same, Australia to the same. And the one
of the questions I kept asking of my British, French
and Australian France's okay, so has Palestine agreed to recognize Israel?
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You're going to recognize Palestine as a state as a
condition of that? Did you ask them to recognize Israel?
Or is it okay for them to still have this
idea that Israel shouldn't be allowed to exist and they're
going to try and destroy it utterly? Right? So, I
got to think that if we as we move to
have those conversations, maybe end up in a situation where yeah,
Palestine is recognized, but Palestine recognizes Israel. And that's a
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key step to lasting piece as well, because part of
this is just driven by the fact that there's elements
within the the extreme equasion versions of Islam overseas that
just think that Israel shouldn't exist and it's okay to
kill everybody that has to stop.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Do you think that they will rebuild in that area
the way that that President Trump had had initially planned
that it becomes much more of a of a resort
type space than I mean, obviously right now it's it's
completely decimated from the footage that we see from that area.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
A couple things, and I do I think, you know,
I don't think the resort thing was that well thought through.
It certainly does have. I think I know where it's
coming from. If you go back historically forty years ago,
Lebanon was perceived as sort of the Rivi era of
the of the Eastern met It just was it's a
beautiful part of the world, you know, great natural beauty,
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great weather, et cetera. And because of the stability they
had politically forty fifty years ago. It was where everybody
wanted to do business. It was a banking center, It
was a paradise in the Middle East and had Jews
and Christians and Muslims living together in relative peace and harmon.
It was an example for how you could do it right.
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I don't know if that's a model they're using for Gaza.
I don't think it's going to be golf courses and resorts,
but there could be a bunch of economic development. As
to whether or not it's built there, that's a practical question,
that's logist. I don't know if you can build on
top of that much rubble. I don't know if you
can dig it all out. I don't know what the
unexploded bomb ordinance is that's lying around. So there's a
lot of the questions to ask. But you know, listen,
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the first threshold is to have the will to do
something positive. And it sounds like sounds like that that
will is building.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This is Good Morning Beaty.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Continuing with Mick mulvaney on a Monday. Mick mulvaney, former
White House Chief of Staff, in studio with us. We
don't get this as often as we used to, but
you are just all over the place in demand and
all all kinds of networks, and so when we can
get you in the room like this, we love to
do it. And glad you are here, and your lovely
life wife Pam as.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well is over here as well. Good to see you.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I apologize in advance for the two of them, you know,
chattering during the ad breaks.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh yeah, If I have anything to say to Beth,
I do it before, because I don't I doing.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
By the way, the sign outside the studio because the
the on air light, which is a central feature of
a television radio studio, has got a sign on it
saying it's out of order, and that it says thank
you for your attention to this matter, which I just
I love. That's courtesy of Pete Calendar.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Ye, it's been out of order since you were last here.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Is it really just change the light bulb?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
But the door lock works for the first time in
five years? Are they doing this? How long am I
doing this? Four years?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It lesally four years, I mean on a regular basis.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, So what do we do the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I want to ask you.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
About the shutdown because back here on American soil. That's
still a big story. And would you say it's gone
on longer now that you thought it would or is
this about what you thought would happen.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
No, I thought it would end today or tomorrow. So
that's right, because you said you said the day fourteen.
Now the a couple of wrinkles to that. I just
found out last week an interesting detail that the air
traffic controllers got paid last week. They're out of cycle
with a lot. Most folks get paid the last in
the in the fifteenth, okay, or the first and the fifteenth,
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whatever it is, twice a month or every two weeks.
The air traffic controllers are a different cycle, which means
they got paid last week and that paycheck was only
half full, okay. So they got paid for their last
week of work in September, but did not get paid
for their first week of work in October. And that
is a pressure point I hadn't thought about yet because
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it was actually a sick out by a lot of
air traffic controllers back in twenty nineteen. That put a
lot of pressure on us to end the government shutdown
that we had we were trying to have over border
security in the wall and so forth. So that adds
a little bit of pressure on the other side of
the ledgers you're looking at sort of, you know, the
yang and yang of what goes on here is there's
an announcement by the administration over the weekend that they
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think they figured out a way to pay the troops
on the fifteenth, and that would be a big deal.
Back in twenty nineteen, or had that thirty five day shutdown,
the troops were being paid because Congress had already passed
and we'd already signed the defense appropriations bills. Okay, so
there was spending for military was approved back in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, so it wasn't a complete government shutdown, okay,
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our laps and appropriations is a better term. So now
you don't have that. So unless they forgot a way
to pay these troops, there's no troops paid on fifteenth.
But omb announced over the weekend they'd found some money
that they can use legally to pay the troops on
the fifteenth, And so that will be fascinating to see.
Number one, if they can pull it off, and the
number two if it changes sort of the balance of
power short version, and I know I've already too late
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for that. Now both sides think they are winning, so
I don't think there's a lot of pressure on either
side to end this well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And as all this was all of the discussions about
paying the troops and certainly the air traffic controllers. There
was a story over the weekend about the administration firing
some members of the CDC, and now they're bringing a
lot of those members back, and yesterday on the Sunday Shows,
Vice President Vance said that that was due to just
a glitch, a system wide glitch that created some error.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It's million. There's roughly at any one time, there's roughly
two million non military federal workers, as another two or
two point three I think at the military, but that's
a different So that's anyway, the civilian workforce is about
two million folks, and it's an extraordinarily complicated system. As
you can match the largest employer in the country. It
wouldn't surprise me you would think that they try to
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make sure that doesn't happen, but catching the mistake is
probably just as important and doing it. You know, the
riff's reduction in force, which is essentially a permanent firing,
have gotten a lot of attention. But I was actually
looking at the numbers this week and it's like four
thousand people, So it's two tenths of one percent of
the of the federal workforce. My guess is in any
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particular day in the federal government that many people quit
because it's just such a relatively small number of folks. Well,
don't get me wrong, if you've lost your job, it's
a big deal to you, but not a big deal
to the overall economy and not a big deal to
the overall political spectrum.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
And that's sort of the way you look at this, right.
There are not two sides. But either you're affected by
it immediately and of course it's going on in your world,
or it doesn't affect you and it's sort of off
the radar. And especially with what's happening with President Trump
in the Middle East, that story absolutely is trumping, no
pun intended, this government showed down story. I'm going to
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be curious to see how much play this this shutdown
gets as this other story is sort of playing out,
which has you know, global scope yep.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
And of course, then that last Thursday, we had the
announcement that Letitia James is going to be uh, charged
for the crime or it was charged with the crime.
And how does that play into the dynamic. There's so
much news happening at one time, I got to think
maybe they GUMA shutdown is not the biggest story of
the day.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, and on the friend, you know, of the government
shut down, you have Marjorie Taylor Green making headlines siding
with That's what she does best with Democrats on healthcare,
on saying like, look, we're going to have to deal
with this healthcare issue because premiums are about to skyrocket.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I saw her interview one of the interviews where she said,
you know, they said, what do you think we should
do about it? She said, I don't know. I just
know it's wrong. I'm like, oh my goodness, great, that's great.
This is the someone we've elected actually fixed problems, who
has no clue what to do, none whatsoever. She just
knows it's a problem. That's that's populism. That's that's anybody
on a street corner can tell you what the problems
they're having. It's it's the people were good at the job.
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People have ideas and how to fix it. I don't
know if her idea is just to redo the original
Obamacare subsidies or extend them. That would be change of
pace for Republican But again, who knows. But no, it's
it's she's good at getting headlines. I'm not sure she's
good at actually fixing problems.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
This is Good Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Math
troud Man.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
In just a few moments, Nick mulvaney and his lovely
wife will go on their separate ways on the Tyboid
studio permanently.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
No from us, from you.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I thought I was getting not freaking some news here
that I don't know about.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, no, no, can I have that back over again?
Thank you, Biff, hang on, hang on a second, guy,
let me get me go back up.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
News Talk eleven ten double DBT.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
In just a few minutes, we will Bo and Beth
go our separate ways. Nick mulvaney and his wife Pam.
We don't get them in studio very often, but we
do today and covered a lot of territory. Actually even
started a few minutes earlier because there's so much stuff
to talk on.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
The ladies have been chit chatting the whole time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I don't think it's an alternate show. Has been going on.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I get so excited when she's here. It's so much fun.
We have been we have been chit chatting.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Hi, Pam.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
A couple of stories to get mixed take on as
we go out the door here. This one happened Friday
going into the weekend and has sort of gotten lost
because obviously it's a huge story everything else in the
Middle East, but it is it raises some questions. Maybe
you can shed some light on here. Pete Hegseth, the
Secretary of War, was making comments on Friday afternoon and
right at the end said this, and.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I'm also proud that today we're announcing or signing a
letter of acceptance to build a Katari Emuri Air Force
facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Location will be host.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
A contingent of Katari F fifteen's and pilots to enhance
our combined training, increase lethality in our operability. Is just
another example of our partnership.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So a Katari facility being built on US soil and Idaho.
Let's go to Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox on Sunday morning.
Her guest was the Vice President.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Well, what is the function of this Cutter facility. People
are wondering is this an airbase? What is Cutter going
to be developing in Idaho.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, I saw some reporting about this, Maria. I actually
talked to the Secretary of Warpete hexth this morning. This
is largely a fake story. We continue to have with
countries that we work with. We have relationships where sometimes
their pilots work on our basis, sometimes that we train together,
sometimes we work together in other ways. The reporting that
somehow there is going to be a Katari base on
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United States soil, that's just not true. We are continuing
to work with a number of our Arabs, our Arab
friends to ensure that we are able to enforce this piece.
But we're not going to let a foreign country have
an actual base on American soil. So there's a bit
of misreporting on that, as there often is.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
As you know, Maria, Well, again the report came from
the guy.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, I'm sure if it's misreporting as between those two.
By the way, and again I have no inside informations.
I think JD's probably right. We train foreign armies on
American soil all of the time, most specifically on airplanes.
We just do it. We student in South Carolina's reason
I know about it. We trained on F thirty five's
I think down someplace near just south of Charleton anyway,
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so that it would be typical. And it may be
that we are building an American facility to help train
Kataris at this place in Idaho. I would be stunned
if we were actually building a Katari owned base on
American soil. We're allowing them to do so. My guess
is that the Secretary of Defense just simply was not
articulate in the way he explained that that JD we
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had a little bit more time to get ready for
that has the more accurate answer.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I think it probably raised eyebrows too, just because of
the story story from a few months ago with the
Qatari airplane, you know, being being given to President.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Apparent we've signed an executive order with them giving them
certain protection rights in case they're invaded and so forth. Yeah,
so it raises all sorts of questions. But again I
think it was probably just not accurately stayed. And the
Vice President's probably right here, which again would be no
news because we train them all the time. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
One final story involving James Comy, which which now seems
like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How is that only like last week?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah? And this idea of the of the purp walk.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, they fired somebody of the FBI because he refused
to do the purp walk for Coomy'll be perfectly clear.
I don't like purp walks. I think they're awful. I
think they're a terrible precedent. I didn't even like it
when they did it to Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
because I don't like those guys very much, right, but
it was wrong for the Biden administration to do that.
I don't like it as a policy. That being said,
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if I'm working at the FBI and the boss calls
me and says, look, I want you to do this
and it's not against the law, and it's not immral
they said, oh, it's against the policy, I'm like, who
do you think makes the policy? Do you make the
policy or do the bosses make the policy? And if
the boss is call you and say, look, we're going
to violate our own policy here, We're going to go
do this and you say no, you should get fired.
I mean the boss walks in today and says, we
want you guys to read this ad and you say, look,
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it's not for anything really immral or illegal. I just
don't want to do it. Fine, you're gone. So I'm
not really sure why this is a big thing. But
of course everything gets sort of hyper analyzed in Trump world,
and there are folks out there who want to make
him out to be a dictator and use this as
an example. I don't like revenge against political adversaries. I
don't like purp walks. But again, if the boss tells
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you to do something and you don't do it, you
should get fired.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
What do you think the outcome ends up being?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
With the Komy case now and the Letitia James case,
we have two that will be ongoing.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Again, I'm a conservative with a small sea. I hope
it gets a chance to work through the system. By
the way, I do think Kome's probably got a really
good claim for vindictive prosecution, which is almost never if
the lawyer's listening. No, you can never get rid of
a criminal charge based upon I can't remember what the
motion is under twelve B, but anyway, there's there's precedent
that says if you can prove that it was vindictive
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or selective, that that's a defense. It almost never happens.
I think Comy actually has a viable claim for that.
So'll be fascinating to watch this go through the process
as it goes through trial courts and up to the
feels courts like I expect it will.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We've covered a lot. We appreciate you being in here.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Talk to you guys soon.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Who knows where I'll be right?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
When? Will we see you again?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I have no idea, so I don't even know what
time zone I'll be in, but we'll figure it out.
We always do.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Do you know what time zone you're in?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Now? Time to go? Time to go to the airport zone.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, thanks both of you for being here and save travels,
and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
See you, Bobby, all right
Speaker 4 (26:44):
See a Biff, say a little Marty for me.
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Monday, October thirteenth, Momentous day and world Happening's President Trump.
Fresh off a speech he gave within the last couple
of hours following the release of all twenty living hostages
from Hamas captivity, President Trump said, the sun rises on
a holy land that is finally at peace. And former
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White House Chief of Staff Mick mulvaney is back in
studio with us today and got the ball rolling late
last hour.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But now the.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Official opening to the show when you're here, because you're
going to be here for the remainder of this hour.
You saw President Trump's speech, Listen to this as you
were getting set to join us today. This is, as
we said heading into the top, this is probably the
most momentous speech he will ever give. I mean, other
things could happen, of course, but you're going to be
hard pressed to find a bigger global happening than this.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
I think that's fair, And I thought the speech was really, really,
really well done. Again, I'm assuming that Steven Miller wrote
all or part of it. You know, Steve doesn't do
all of Stephen doesn't do all of writing anymore, but
that's how he got into Trump's world as a speech writer.
And it's still, to my mind, one of the most
talented people at speaking in Trump's voice. But how is
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it that's not a great day? I mean, I know
there's a lot of folks and you're right to ask
questions about what comes next and how do you secure
the piece and will it hold? And those are all
fair questions to ask. But maybe you just take this
one day to celebrate the fact that the hostage is
at home and for a day at least, there's there's peace.
Might not last till tomorrow, but enjoy it wal it
is here.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
There were some great ad lib moments in this speech
as well. The part that got me chuckling a little
bit was when he started talking about how long the
other people spoke. You know, he was talking about how
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke a little too long, and his his
counterpart spoke a little too long, and he's like, you've
kept me here too long.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I need to get to Egypt.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I really got to go, but let me say this
one more thing. I gotta go, but let me say
one more thing.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
So he got me.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
He got me chuckling in his in his moments of riffing.
But he also talked a lot about the Abraham Accords.
He recognized Jared Kushner twice in that in that one speech,
but also talked about how those members, those initial members
of the Abraham Accords, the four countries, I think it's Bahrain, Morocco,
the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Maybe Jordan, I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I can look that up really quickly, and talked about
the fact that it sounds like Sudan. Sudan is the
other one that they might be some of the countries
involved initial and helping rebuild Gaza.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Listen, I think there's gonna be some wonderful stories about
One of the things that that that that struck me
that Trump said this morning was he said, you know
that Marco Rubio maybe looked at as one of the
great sec one of the greatest secretary of state of
all time. Of course, that's that's Trump. That's how Trump
speaks anyway, right, But in this particular circumstance, I'm trying
to think, Okay, I mean, who are the great secretaries
of state? And you know, Kissinger clearly comes to mind,
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and I'm wondering, Okay, did what Kissinger accomplished in the
relationship with China? How does that measure up to what
just happened here. So I think it's a fair comparison
that that Jared Kushner. You know, people I know reading
social media and reading some press and so forth. Over
the weekend, people were critical him sort of air dropping
in at the last minute to take credit. I don't
see it like that at all. Jared had some very
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long standing relationships here because of all the work he
did in the Abraham Accords. So it doesn't surprise me.
In fact, the things surprised me was he wasn't involved
before this, So it doesn't surprise me. He's there at
the end of try it and and get things wrapped up,
and it moved relatively quickly in the last several days.
I mean, the twenty point plan has only been out
what a week, maybe two? I lose track at the time,
but so it progressed very very quickly from that first
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press conference with Netnahu in the White House to you know,
Trump being there today.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well, and as it relates to Jared Koshner, perhaps he
has been doing more than we know, just because he's
been doing it out of the spotlight. Yeah, but my
question to you is, now, we saw Ivanka, we saw Jared,
their front and center, as you would expect given the
part they played in this. But they have been you know,
if you think back to the first Trump administration, Ivanka
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and Jared were almost always present, and then they sort of,
unlike members of other members of the family, they Ivanka
has been almost you never see her anymore. And all
of a sudden, I wonder if this is going to
be sort of a re emergence of the two of
them as we get into the latter part of his
second term.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, I was one and the same thing. I can't
help but think that it won't be. I've been wondering
where they have been for the first nine month and
so forth, where they did to be involved I just
can't see Jared, because Jared would have to give up
what you have to give up your day job to
go work in the White House, right, most folks do.
There's certain exceptions to that, and so maybe he becomes
a special government employee and so forth. But I don't
think they're going back to what they were in the
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first term, which was Jared's office was next to mine.
I mean it was he was actually closer to the
to the Oval office, and I was in Ivanka had
the office right above the Oval, So I mean they
were physically in the West Wing. I don't think you'd
see them going back to that. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And I always thought that she was a very good
spokesperson for his administration. I thought she anytime she spoke
on behalf of the administration, she was one of the
better people that would would would carry the message on.
And she has decided in recent years to sort of
pull away from that spotlights, almost like she was sort
of tired of politics. But now I see maybe there's
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a route for her to become a more front and center.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Again, just just an observation.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
If you watchings, probably more the foreign policy they're not
I mean they're not the most conservative people in the
whole world. When we had discussions about you know, the
pro life movement, discussions about gun control and so forth. Ivanka,
as talented and as bright as she is, is not
really aligned with the MAGA base on a lot of policy,
which is fine. I mean, you know, it just that's
you know, everybody's different. But so I don't see them
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sort of becoming senior policy advisors again, because this administration
is clearly sort of not nearly as afraid to, uh
to break the glass as we were in the first
time round.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well, and I think I think back being at the
twenty sixteen R and C. They're in Cleveland, and she
was the person he chose to introduce him on the
final night. Now, I know that was a different administration,
a different time, but you know, he obviously back then
and I'm sure still does to a degree that she
would want to be involved.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So are you saying she was Hulk Hogan before Hulk
Cogan was Haul Covin? Is that what you're saying? Because
didn't Hulkan introduce him in the walking I can't remember.
He's close.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I feel like I think might have been.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
It was close.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I want to say he was I don't think Hulk
was the last one. I think he was he was
among the last four, because I remember thinking, is it
really going to be Hulk Cogan? Who's the last one?
And I I think I'll have to go. I'll look
it up during the break. At any rate. I want
to say it was Eric, but we'll see.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Maybe it was Kai. Wasn't his granddaughter? She was up there,
She was at there some point.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
All of these are correct answers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There they were all there.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is good morning, beauty.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well see, now you can be a little bit nicer, bby,
because you're not at war anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Baby.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
But only by embracing the opportunities of this moment can
we achieve our goal of ensuring that the horrors of
recent years will never happen again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You don't want to have to go through this again.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Eight years ago I came to this region on a
very special first trip abroad as the President of the
United States. I came here very early at your request.
I addressed the leaders of the Arab and Muslim world
gathered in Saudi Arabia and said that it was time
to build a future free if the grip of extremism Mintera,
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and I'm interestingly right now as soon as I'm finished.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I'm quite late.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
You've kept me quite late between opposition leaders and Beebe's
brilliant but very long speech. I thought I was going
to run up here, make a speech and then head
to Egypt. It didn't work out, though, and you made
a pretty long one.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Too, Sarah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's President Trump earlier this morning addressing the parliament there,
and he is now he's not there yet, but he's
that much closer to the peace summit in Egypt that
he's going to attend as part of his itinerary following
this historic speech. Today, Mick mlvaaney is with us former
White House Chief of Staff and of course White House
Budget Director. You see him on News Nation Bowen Beth
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here on a Monday morning. And that was quite a speech.
And I think, of course, the question now is he
talked about when he made this initial announcement last week
about the phases of this Yeah, now what now? What
happens after today is in the rear view.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
You just look at the twenty point plan and try
and figure out what are the real sort of difficult
ones to deal with, to address, to fix. And then
I got to think the first one is Hamas disarming,
that's part of the deal, and then Hamas leaving and
turning over you know, governance of Gaza to an independent
third party. That that is going to be interesting to
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see if it happens. I'll be curious to watch. I
don't know what's happening in Egypt today. If they're if
they're just there to talk, if they're that, I can't
imagine they're to sign anything because there's nothing left to sign.
But I will be curious to see if there's anybody
there speaking on or on behalf of h Hamas, because
it could be curious to see what their body language is,
what you know, what they are they saying the right things.
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We've seen some videos of the of Gaza that, if
they're accurate, would suggest that the Hamas still has their weapons,
and so that that's going to be the next thing.
In order for to be a lasting piece, or at
least anything that lasts longer than the next couple of days,
Amas is going to have to agree to a disarm.
We here's to see if that happens.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
There was one moment of disruption during President Trump's speech
where two of the MK's that were there in the building.
Their names there were heads of the Hadash party. His
name was Iman O'Day and o fair Kasif apparently started
protesting briefly during Trump's speech, and according to the Jerusalem Post,
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one of the men yelled terrorists at Trump and another
said recognize Palestine and they were quickly quickly escorted out
of the room. President Trump even said, well that was
swift and praised how quickly they got them out of
the room. But it raises the question what happens to Palestine?
Will it be recognized as a state? And that's what
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that protester was I think asking or protesting against.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
A couple of things there. People forget, people forget there's
internal politics in Israel. Is it's a democracy, There's going
to be internal politics. There are people on the far
right and people on the far left. Don't like the deal.
Some folks don't think it goes far enough. Other folks
think it's you know, you can't trust a mass to
deal with them. So nettyaw is gonna have to deal
with that. You also have this looming issue of the
corruption charges against net Yahoo. There were critics who said
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he only prolonged the war because it allowed him to
stay in office and so forth. We'll see how that
how that plays out. But as to the you know,
the two states solution, will Palestine be recognized as part
of this? I think it's it's much too early to say.
I can't remember. I don't think recognition of Palestine as
a state was part of the twenty point deal or not.
(11:37):
I don't think that it was. If I'm wrong about that,
I apologize. But it comes back to a point. You know,
as you folks know, I do a lot of media overseas,
and I was, you know, Britain recently indicated its willingness
or its intention to recognize Palestine as a state, France
to the same, Australia to the same. And the one
of the questions I kept asking of my British, French
and Australian France's okay, so has Palestine agreed to recognize Israel?
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You're going to recognize Palestine as a state as a
condition of that? Did you ask them to recognize Israel?
Or is it okay for them to still have this
idea that Israel shouldn't be allowed to exist and they're
going to try and destroy it utterly? Right? So, I
got to think that if we as we move to
have those conversations, maybe end up in a situation where yeah,
Palestine is recognized, but Palestine recognizes Israel. And that's a
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key step to lasting piece as well, because part of
this is just driven by the fact that there's elements
within the the extreme equasion versions of Islam overseas that
just think that Israel shouldn't exist and it's okay to
kill everybody that has to stop.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Do you think that they will rebuild in that area
the way that that President Trump had had initially planned
that it becomes much more of a of a resort
type space than I mean, obviously right now it's it's
completely decimated from the footage that we see from that area.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
A couple things, and I do I think, you know,
I don't think the resort thing was that well thought through.
It certainly does have. I think I know where it's
coming from. If you go back historically forty years ago,
Lebanon was perceived as sort of the Rivi era of
the of the Eastern met It just was it's a
beautiful part of the world, you know, great natural beauty,
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great weather, et cetera. And because of the stability they
had politically forty fifty years ago. It was where everybody
wanted to do business. It was a banking center, It
was a paradise in the Middle East and had Jews
and Christians and Muslims living together in relative peace and harmon.
It was an example for how you could do it right.
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I don't know if that's a model they're using for Gaza.
I don't think it's going to be golf courses and resorts,
but there could be a bunch of economic development. As
to whether or not it's built there, that's a practical question,
that's logist. I don't know if you can build on
top of that much rubble. I don't know if you
can dig it all out. I don't know what the
unexploded bomb ordinance is that's lying around. So there's a
lot of the questions to ask. But you know, listen,
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the first threshold is to have the will to do
something positive. And it sounds like sounds like that that
will is building.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This is Good Morning Beaty.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Continuing with Mick mulvaney on a Monday. Mick mulvaney, former
White House Chief of Staff, in studio with us. We
don't get this as often as we used to, but
you are just all over the place in demand and
all all kinds of networks, and so when we can
get you in the room like this, we love to
do it. And glad you are here, and your lovely
life wife Pam as.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well is over here as well. Good to see you.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I apologize in advance for the two of them, you know,
chattering during the ad breaks.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Oh yeah, If I have anything to say to Beth,
I do it before, because I don't I doing.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
By the way, the sign outside the studio because the
the on air light, which is a central feature of
a television radio studio, has got a sign on it
saying it's out of order, and that it says thank
you for your attention to this matter, which I just
I love. That's courtesy of Pete Calendar.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Ye, it's been out of order since you were last here.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Is it really just change the light bulb?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
But the door lock works for the first time in
five years? Are they doing this? How long am I
doing this? Four years?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It lesally four years, I mean on a regular basis.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah, So what do we do the shutdown?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I want to ask you.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
About the shutdown because back here on American soil. That's
still a big story. And would you say it's gone
on longer now that you thought it would or is
this about what you thought would happen.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
No, I thought it would end today or tomorrow. So
that's right, because you said you said the day fourteen.
Now the a couple of wrinkles to that. I just
found out last week an interesting detail that the air
traffic controllers got paid last week. They're out of cycle
with a lot. Most folks get paid the last in
the in the fifteenth, okay, or the first and the fifteenth,
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whatever it is, twice a month or every two weeks.
The air traffic controllers are a different cycle, which means
they got paid last week and that paycheck was only
half full, okay. So they got paid for their last
week of work in September, but did not get paid
for their first week of work in October. And that
is a pressure point I hadn't thought about yet because
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it was actually a sick out by a lot of
air traffic controllers back in twenty nineteen. That put a
lot of pressure on us to end the government shutdown
that we had we were trying to have over border
security in the wall and so forth. So that adds
a little bit of pressure on the other side of
the ledgers you're looking at sort of, you know, the
yang and yang of what goes on here is there's
an announcement by the administration over the weekend that they
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think they figured out a way to pay the troops
on the fifteenth, and that would be a big deal.
Back in twenty nineteen, or had that thirty five day shutdown,
the troops were being paid because Congress had already passed
and we'd already signed the defense appropriations bills. Okay, so
there was spending for military was approved back in twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, so it wasn't a complete government shutdown, okay,
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our laps and appropriations is a better term. So now
you don't have that. So unless they forgot a way
to pay these troops, there's no troops paid on fifteenth.
But omb announced over the weekend they'd found some money
that they can use legally to pay the troops on
the fifteenth, And so that will be fascinating to see.
Number one, if they can pull it off, and the
number two if it changes sort of the balance of
power short version, and I know I've already too late
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for that. Now both sides think they are winning, so
I don't think there's a lot of pressure on either
side to end this well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And as all this was all of the discussions about
paying the troops and certainly the air traffic controllers. There
was a story over the weekend about the administration firing
some members of the CDC, and now they're bringing a
lot of those members back, and yesterday on the Sunday Shows,
Vice President Vance said that that was due to just
a glitch, a system wide glitch that created some error.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It's million. There's roughly at any one time, there's roughly
two million non military federal workers, as another two or
two point three I think at the military, but that's
a different So that's anyway, the civilian workforce is about
two million folks, and it's an extraordinarily complicated system. As
you can match the largest employer in the country. It
wouldn't surprise me you would think that they try to
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make sure that doesn't happen, but catching the mistake is
probably just as important and doing it. You know, the
riff's reduction in force, which is essentially a permanent firing,
have gotten a lot of attention. But I was actually
looking at the numbers this week and it's like four
thousand people, So it's two tenths of one percent of
the of the federal workforce. My guess is in any
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particular day in the federal government that many people quit
because it's just such a relatively small number of folks. Well,
don't get me wrong, if you've lost your job, it's
a big deal to you, but not a big deal
to the overall economy and not a big deal to
the overall political spectrum.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
And that's sort of the way you look at this, right.
There are not two sides. But either you're affected by
it immediately and of course it's going on in your world,
or it doesn't affect you and it's sort of off
the radar. And especially with what's happening with President Trump
in the Middle East, that story absolutely is trumping, no
pun intended, this government showed down story. I'm going to
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be curious to see how much play this this shutdown
gets as this other story is sort of playing out,
which has you know, global scope yep.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
And of course, then that last Thursday, we had the
announcement that Letitia James is going to be uh, charged
for the crime or it was charged with the crime.
And how does that play into the dynamic. There's so
much news happening at one time, I got to think
maybe they GUMA shutdown is not the biggest story of
the day.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, and on the friend, you know, of the government
shut down, you have Marjorie Taylor Green making headlines siding
with That's what she does best with Democrats on healthcare,
on saying like, look, we're going to have to deal
with this healthcare issue because premiums are about to skyrocket.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I saw her interview one of the interviews where she said,
you know, they said, what do you think we should
do about it? She said, I don't know. I just
know it's wrong. I'm like, oh my goodness, great, that's great.
This is the someone we've elected actually fixed problems, who
has no clue what to do, none whatsoever. She just
knows it's a problem. That's that's populism. That's that's anybody
on a street corner can tell you what the problems
they're having. It's it's the people were good at the job.
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People have ideas and how to fix it. I don't
know if her idea is just to redo the original
Obamacare subsidies or extend them. That would be change of
pace for Republican But again, who knows. But no, it's
it's she's good at getting headlines. I'm not sure she's
good at actually fixing problems.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
This is Good Morning Bet with Bo Thompson and Math
troud Man.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
In just a few moments, Nick mulvaney and his lovely
wife will go on their separate ways on the Tyboid
studio permanently.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
No from us, from you.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I thought I was getting not freaking some news here
that I don't know about.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, no, no, can I have that back over again?
Thank you, Biff, hang on, hang on a second, guy,
let me get me go back up.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
News Talk eleven ten double DBT.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
In just a few minutes, we will Bo and Beth
go our separate ways. Nick mulvaney and his wife Pam.
We don't get them in studio very often, but we
do today and covered a lot of territory. Actually even
started a few minutes earlier because there's so much stuff
to talk on.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
The ladies have been chit chatting the whole time.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I don't think it's an alternate show. Has been going on.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I get so excited when she's here. It's so much fun.
We have been we have been chit chatting.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Hi, Pam.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
A couple of stories to get mixed take on as
we go out the door here. This one happened Friday
going into the weekend and has sort of gotten lost
because obviously it's a huge story everything else in the
Middle East, but it is it raises some questions. Maybe
you can shed some light on here. Pete Hegseth, the
Secretary of War, was making comments on Friday afternoon and
right at the end said this, and.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
I'm also proud that today we're announcing or signing a
letter of acceptance to build a Katari Emuri Air Force
facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Location will be host.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
A contingent of Katari F fifteen's and pilots to enhance
our combined training, increase lethality in our operability. Is just
another example of our partnership.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So a Katari facility being built on US soil and Idaho.
Let's go to Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox on Sunday morning.
Her guest was the Vice President.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Well, what is the function of this Cutter facility. People
are wondering is this an airbase? What is Cutter going
to be developing in Idaho.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, I saw some reporting about this, Maria. I actually
talked to the Secretary of Warpete hexth this morning. This
is largely a fake story. We continue to have with
countries that we work with. We have relationships where sometimes
their pilots work on our basis, sometimes that we train together,
sometimes we work together in other ways. The reporting that
somehow there is going to be a Katari base on
(22:51):
United States soil, that's just not true. We are continuing
to work with a number of our Arabs, our Arab
friends to ensure that we are able to enforce this piece.
But we're not going to let a foreign country have
an actual base on American soil. So there's a bit
of misreporting on that, as there often is.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
As you know, Maria, Well, again the report came from
the guy.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, I'm sure if it's misreporting as between those two.
By the way, and again I have no inside informations.
I think JD's probably right. We train foreign armies on
American soil all of the time, most specifically on airplanes.
We just do it. We student in South Carolina's reason
I know about it. We trained on F thirty five's
I think down someplace near just south of Charleton anyway,
(23:32):
so that it would be typical. And it may be
that we are building an American facility to help train
Kataris at this place in Idaho. I would be stunned
if we were actually building a Katari owned base on
American soil. We're allowing them to do so. My guess
is that the Secretary of Defense just simply was not
articulate in the way he explained that that JD we
(23:52):
had a little bit more time to get ready for
that has the more accurate answer.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I think it probably raised eyebrows too, just because of
the story story from a few months ago with the
Qatari airplane, you know, being being given to President.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Apparent we've signed an executive order with them giving them
certain protection rights in case they're invaded and so forth. Yeah,
so it raises all sorts of questions. But again I
think it was probably just not accurately stayed. And the
Vice President's probably right here, which again would be no
news because we train them all the time. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
One final story involving James Comy, which which now seems
like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How is that only like last week?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah? And this idea of the of the purp walk.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, they fired somebody of the FBI because he refused
to do the purp walk for Coomy'll be perfectly clear.
I don't like purp walks. I think they're awful. I
think they're a terrible precedent. I didn't even like it
when they did it to Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
because I don't like those guys very much, right, but
it was wrong for the Biden administration to do that.
I don't like it as a policy. That being said,
(24:55):
if I'm working at the FBI and the boss calls
me and says, look, I want you to do this
and it's not against the law, and it's not immral
they said, oh, it's against the policy, I'm like, who
do you think makes the policy? Do you make the
policy or do the bosses make the policy? And if
the boss is call you and say, look, we're going
to violate our own policy here, We're going to go
do this and you say no, you should get fired.
I mean the boss walks in today and says, we
want you guys to read this ad and you say, look,
(25:16):
it's not for anything really immral or illegal. I just
don't want to do it. Fine, you're gone. So I'm
not really sure why this is a big thing. But
of course everything gets sort of hyper analyzed in Trump world,
and there are folks out there who want to make
him out to be a dictator and use this as
an example. I don't like revenge against political adversaries. I
don't like purp walks. But again, if the boss tells
(25:37):
you to do something and you don't do it, you
should get fired.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
What do you think the outcome ends up being?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Here?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
With the Komy case now and the Letitia James case,
we have two that will be ongoing.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Again, I'm a conservative with a small sea. I hope
it gets a chance to work through the system. By
the way, I do think Kome's probably got a really
good claim for vindictive prosecution, which is almost never if
the lawyer's listening. No, you can never get rid of
a criminal charge based upon I can't remember what the
motion is under twelve B, but anyway, there's there's precedent
that says if you can prove that it was vindictive
(26:08):
or selective, that that's a defense. It almost never happens.
I think Comy actually has a viable claim for that.
So'll be fascinating to watch this go through the process
as it goes through trial courts and up to the
feels courts like I expect it will.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We've covered a lot. We appreciate you being in here.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Talk to you guys soon.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Who knows where I'll be right?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
When? Will we see you again?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I have no idea, so I don't even know what
time zone I'll be in, but we'll figure it out.
We always do.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Do you know what time zone you're in?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Now? Time to go? Time to go to the airport zone.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That's right, all right?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, thanks both of you for being here and save travels,
and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
See you, Bobby, all right
Speaker 4 (26:44):
See a Biff, say a little Marty for me.
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