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February 28, 2025 46 mins

At long last, we are finally starting to learn information about the Jeffrey Epstein list. Attorney General Pam Bondi just rolled out Phase One. Jesse Kelly dives into this information with Senator Marsha Blackburn, who has been all over this from the start. Also joining the show is Congressman Eli Crane with fresh information on the budget reconciliation process. Plus, Trump's deputy Chief of Staff just called for the abolition of the IRS. Is that going to happen? Carol Roth joins Jesse to discuss.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This Epstein file stuff. We'll talk about it. We'll talk
about the budget, we'll talk about grocery cards, we'll talk
about the media getting there, just desserts. What a show
tonight on I'm writing. Okay, let's talk about this Epstein

(00:23):
stuff really quickly. Here. I told you that it was
not going to be earth shattering. Today list is at
least some of it, the Epstein Files, the Epstein List,
whatever you want to put it. Was released courtesy in
large part of Senator Marsha Blackburn, who will join us
in a couple of moments. Credit to her for being
all over this stuff. But you know, I told you

(00:46):
it wasn't going to be what you want it to be.
It's just not. That's not how it works. Think for
a moment, just just let's talk about why. Think for
a moment about how many wealthy powerful people did really
bad things, which you have wealthy powerful people. Okay, you
got that. Now, think about the kind of attorneys wealthy

(01:06):
powerful people are able to get their hands on. Have
you ever paid one thousand dollars an hour attorney? Neither
have I? But wealthy powerful people do. Now, think about
all the legal loopholes and liability that comes with just
dumping a list on somebody's lap, where everybody will immediately
assume any name on that list is some child trafficking pedophile.

(01:31):
Of course, the lawyers have been all over this. Look,
it was always going to be disappointing. And look, I'll
tell you again, sorry to be Debbie Downer, sorry to
be Daddy Jesse, but mommy's gone. It's time for daddy.
The JFK files are going to be disappointing too. If
you ever lay your eyes on those, As I've told
you many times before, it's going to be a whole

(01:52):
lot of black marker through everything. Because anything really truly
damaging that's in those things was long paper shredded. Oh
I don't know, probably about nineteen sixty three. So it
is what it is. But it is good that people
are pushing forward. It's good that we're learning something we

(02:14):
need to know. I want to know how many wealthy,
powerful people traffic in kids. It's just the most sick,
depraved thing in the world. And so if people are
on that list, I want to know who they are. Look,
we've known names for years. We've known about Clinton, We've

(02:35):
known that for years. Amy Roebuck came out and that
behind the scenes video where she said we had Clinton.
We know that. We know that Bill Gates's ex wife
told a magazine that she divorced him in part because
of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. We know some names.
Of course, are we going to learn a bunch of
new earth shattering things? No, but maybe something's gone.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Let's talk to Senator Marshah Blackburn about it, because she
gets credit for this thing really coming out at all.
Joining me now, the lady who deserves all the credit
in the world for the stuff we're finally finding out,
Senator from the Great State of Tennessee, Senator Marsha Blackburn
joins me. Senator one, I applaud you for being all
over this when so many others weren't. It's hard to

(03:22):
find something more sick and evil than trafficking women. But
apparently that's been done by some very powerful people.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
And what we know is this is kind of phase
one of the Epstein files. This is information I've tried
for years to get the FBI to release to us
and they have refused. So now that we have ag
Bondi and Director Patel, we do have this first tranch.

(03:53):
What you will see when you look at this is
names from Jilane Maxwell's Black Book. You will see some
flight blogs. I do want to say this, Jesse, not
every name that you see means they participated in this
trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein. But some of these people may

(04:15):
have just been in his orbit, maybe they saw something,
Maybe they would.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Be willing to talk with the FBI.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Our goal is to make certain that for the two
hundred and fifty four women and children who their daughters
are fulldacted, everything redacted, that we get justice for these individuals,
and that we stop the human and sex trafficking that
is helped happening in this country. It is modern day

(04:46):
slavery breaking apart this human trafficking ring, which is a
one hundred and fifty billion dollar a year business. This
is something we need to be focused on doing.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Amen, we sure do. The things I have learned about
human trafficking and what goes on in this country, in
Cuba and Latin Americans, it's unbelievable to me. Okay, you
say the FBI has been hanging on to these things,
That really begs the question. Honestly, that's almost more evil
than Jeffrey Epstein, the Federal Law Enforcement Arm, the premier

(05:23):
federal law enforcement arm, has been keeping this stuff from you.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Why well, as the top Republican on the Human Rights Subcommittee,
I've asked repeatedly for information about this because you know,
unraveling these trafficking rings is like a puzzle. You get
one piece and it leads you to pieces two, three,
and four, and then you begin to pull together the

(05:49):
information around this. And as I said, the cartels have
gotten involved in the human and sex trafficking. It is
estimated to be one hundred and fifty billion dollar a year.
It is pervasive, and we know that in the case
of Epstein and what we've learned there were two hundred
and fifty four women and children that were involved in this. Now,

(06:15):
in the records we saw today, there is information from
the raid that the FBI did at Epstein's house, and
this was before he was apprehended and before the trial,
and as we all know, he died while he was
in jail. And what we know now is that there

(06:37):
are laptops, computers, phones, there are other items that were taken.
And we had suspected that the FBI had these. We
couldn't get them. We also know that there is video
footage that was taken from his place there in Florida.

(06:57):
We would like to have access to that to see
who else is involved. Now, from some of the law
enforcement notes that were revealed today, we do know that
Jean Luke Brunell, who was the French sex trafficker who
by the way, died in a French prison awaiting trial

(07:18):
on sex trafficking charges, we do that he was in
Epstein's orbit, and so beginning to this gives us the
opportunity to look more closely at that now. Asking for
the IRS records that are also yet to come is

(07:40):
something that will show us who is financial transactions were
with and so you know, Jesse, all of this, like
I said, everything we get is one piece of the puzzle.
Ag Bondi, director Patel are on this. They're trying to
find all of this information where ever it may be

(08:01):
have been kept or stored, and we anticipate that we
will have more information we're able to bring forward. The
American people want answers to this. They all agree. I
talk to people every single day who talk about how
revolting the crime of human and sex trafficking is and

(08:26):
what it does to people. I talked to someone this
week who was working with an individual who had been
trafficked for an eight year period of time, and they
finally got away from it because they were pregnant and

(08:48):
they gave birth, and so that is the way they
were able to get away from this. But when you
hear some of these stories and you know that human
trafficking is modern day slavery, it is imperative that we

(09:08):
get the puzzle pieces and that we begin to hold
these people to account.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's my final question to you, Senator, the holding to
account thing. Now, I understand I'm not pretending to be
some lawyer that there's statue of limitation stuff. There's all
kinds of rules and laws and things like that. Here
is this going to enter? Is it possible this ends
with powerful people going to prison, because that doesn't seem
to happen very often.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
And what we want to do is those people that
participated in the trafficking of individuals to have them held
to account. So this is one of the reasons we've
tried for years to get this information and we will
continue to do that. And then also it's when we're

(09:57):
looking for the financial transactions on this Jesse what cause.
That will tell us who Epstein was working with and
who his transactions were with.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Senator, thank you for staying on this. Thank you for
being on it for so long. You deserve so much
credit for what came out today. I very much appreciate you.
Thank you. It's freaking gross man, and she's not wrong.
It's slavery. You hear these stories. Have you ever heard
these stories? It's a global business trafficking in people. You

(10:32):
didn't think slavery was over, did you. It'll never be.
As long as there are evil people in the world.
They will want to own and control and abuse others.
Freaking awful anyway. I'm sure that probably made you uncomfortable,
but I am right now. Let's talk about the budget.
Let's move off of this sticky stuff and talk about
the budget and other things with Eli Crane in a moment.
Before we do that, maybe you're noticing something. Maybe you're

(10:55):
noticing that I'm not wearing my Wasson watch today. Do
you know why I'm not wearing my Wasson watch today?
Because my sons are obsessed with it. They know it
was created by a marine, which of course it was.
That's Wasson Watch, and they they've wanted a good watch forever.
I won't give them one because they'll break it. And
so those little thieves swiped it and took it to

(11:15):
school today. That's why I don't have my Wasson Watch on.
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(11:39):
They do it without shame, without hesitation. That's awesome. I
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Speaker 4 (12:02):
We want to balance a budget.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
We want to have a balanced budget within a reasonably
short period of time, meaning maybe by next year or
the year after, but maybe even sooner than that.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Sounds good? Sign me up for that? Is it possible?
I don't know. I bet you Eli has a good
idea joining me now, Congressman Eli Crane, good one from
the state of Arizona. Former Navy seal Okay Congressman, Trump
says he wants a balanced budget. We hear every day
about you know, cuts here and cuts there, and Doze
this and Doze that. Is a balanced budget possible?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Well, Jesse, I'm not going to hold my breath, but
based on some of the folks that I work with
up here in Congress, but I do know that the
President has always been an outside the box thinker, and
I'm very impressed with his first thirty days. And I'm
especially impressed with this Doze group that has been exposing
to the.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
American people what many of us have known for a
long time.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
I don't think even those of us that have been
extremely skeptical of the federal government for a long time
knew even the tip of the iceberg when they start
going in and look at some of these agencies like
USAID and others, and so, you know, I think we're
headed in the right direction.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
But I'm not going to hold my breath.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Let's talk about the budget that just went through. It
was one that had the vocal backing of Donald Trump.
He was all about it, and you voted for it.
And what's in it. What do we like? What do
we hate? I know, there's all kinds of crap we
hate all the time.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, well, Jesse, you know, this, like many of the
spending bills up in Washington, was a tough bill for
many of us. Many of us felt like it didn't
cut enough, and it absolutely didn't. But when you look
at what the Republican Conference came back from Miami with
several months ago, the cuts were a laughable three hundred

(13:54):
billion dollars over ten years. So some of us were
able to, you know, negoiate that up to about two.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Trillion dollars as the floor over ten years.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
But when you break that down on an annual basis, Jesse,
you know, that's a that's a couple hundred billion dollars
annually when you have a you know, two trillion dollar deficit,
which is why I say it's not nearly enough.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
You know.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Uh So, you know, didn't didn't love it, but uh,
you know, I think with the group that we have
up here, that's honestly the best we could do. It
came down to the very end. There were several holdouts.
At the end, there were caucuses saying that they weren't
going to you know, vote for it earlier on in
the week. So I'm actually surprised that it passed, you know,
to begin with.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
All speaking of it passing, you're there and we're not
we we we hear all the time now about the
reconciliation process. Now there's reconciliation. Well what does that mean?
Where do we go from here?

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Well, the next uh, you know, the next event up here, Jesse,
it's gonna be uh, the lapsing of the funding and
a weeks and so you know, I'm here and there's
probably gonna be an attempt at a cr you know,
same old, same old business in Washington.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
And so that's that's where we go from here, you know.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
And it's it's it's sad and it's disappointing, but you know,
it's we still have the same people up here, Jesse.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
You still have the same group.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
You have the appropriators, the Warhawks, the Californians, the New Yorkers,
And it's just like most people don't up here, don't
seem to understand, in my opinion, where this you know,
where this thing is headed, and that we cannot keep
doing this forever. So it's it's a frustrating place to be.
But I do see signs of headed in the right

(15:43):
direction because of not because of the Congress, which is
pretty laughable and quite honestly a joke at most times,
but because of the leadership of the President and how
he thinks outside the box, and also how he puts
pressure on the House of Representative and the Senate to
enact you know, his agenda.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I know you're frustrated, brother, I hear in your freaking voice.
Can you can you help me understand why these people
don't get it when it's math. You know, it's not
you and I having an argument about abortion or border
security or something like that. It's math, Like the math
says we can't keep doing this or you know, people

(16:26):
can't afford groceries, right, they know that, right, I mean
they do math.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Well, it's it's tough, Jesse, you know.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
It's like I think one one factor is it's so
easy to spend other people's money, right, And if you
come up here to DC and you start talking to
people about you know, a couple hundred billion here, trillion here,
it just it. I don't think it really resonates or
registers with a lot of people, but I think some
of them Jesse, it's kind of like a game of

(16:56):
economical music chairs where they hope that, you know, this
house of cards doesn't collapse while they're still up here
and without a chair. And so, like I said, man,
it continues to be a frustrating place to be. But
one more thing I'd like to say about that, Jesse,
is I think many politicians are able to get away

(17:16):
with it, quite frankly, because their voters don't care, their
constituents don't care. And I think one of the reasons
for that is because we've had it so good for
so long that most people don't think the United States
has to play by the rules of reality. And I
don't think that they understand that this nation could collapse
because of our arrogance and our foolishness.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, that's happened to many nations before. Tim Burchett, one
of my favorites up there, he dropped this little bit
of it yesterday.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Mister Roman, Are you aware that we are sending forty
million dollars a week to the Taliban?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
Can you name other instances of foreign aid going to
terrorist organization?

Speaker 7 (18:00):
We have assisted al Shabab and Somalia. There's been instances
of the Humsy network in Sudan, Hamas Islamic Jihad, Hesbala
how Ya Taklad al Shamsan Syria. Dozens of terror organizations
have received indirect assistance from US Foreign aid.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Congressman, can you help me understand how that happens?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
I think it's just you know, relatable to everything else
that we see in Washington. I mentioned the words arrogant
and foolish a couple a couple of seconds ago, Jesse,
and to me, that's the exact same thing. I mean,
it's just so mind boggling that we would, you know,
fund one of our adversaries, but one of the biggest

(18:45):
terrorist organizations in the world, to the tune of, you know,
forty million to eighty million dollars a week. And you know,
when you talk to some politicians up here, they'll tell you, oh, well,
that money is not really going to uh, you know,
the Taliban or other terrorist groups.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
It's going to n g os.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
But they're they're foolish to think that, you know, these
terrorists organizations which run you know, these countries aren't getting
the cut of that.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Of course, let's change the subject. Talked about something wonderful
and teaching judges. What do you got going on?

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, Jesse.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
So you know, we uh filed you know, articles of
impeachment probably about a week ago.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
We we were looking around.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
We saw that the Democrat play, because they don't control
the executive branch the House or the Senate, was going
to be to use activists judges to try and stop
the Trump administration. We've seen that the second part of
their plan is to use activism, you know, by going
you know, blowing up town halls and banging on congressman's
you know, district offices. So that's you know, step two

(19:49):
of their pro you know process to try and stop
what the Trump administration is doing. But you know, Jesse,
at the end of the day, you have activist judges
that are trying to stop U President Trump utilizing his
Article two powers under the Constitution to make sure that
our laws are faithfully executed. And when you look at
some of just take USAID for example, right, this is

(20:11):
an organization I tried to defund by fifty percent last Congress,
and it was actually Republicans who stopped me from doing it.
But you take, you know, you take all these all
these organizations and as you finally get somebody like Elon
Musk under the leadership of President Trump to start looking
under the hood of these organizations. It is just a

(20:32):
it is just a viper's nest up here. There's so
much fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption, you know, and uh,
these many of these democrats and these radical judges are
trying to stop you know, uh, you know, the Secretary
of the Treasury or Elon Musk from looking under the
hood and look organizations that they've been tasked to oversee

(20:54):
and lead. Jesse, how could you possibly you know, oversee
an organization and where you can't even look at the data,
you can't look at the payments that are going out.
Why would a judge be trying to stop that? And so,
you know, many of us are trying to use our
Article one powers to try and stop these judges.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
We have the power to impeach. We have the authority
to impeach. It is a heavy lift.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
But Jesse, I've never seen a battle one when you know,
guys on one side of you know, the fight, are
looking around at each other hoping that somebody's going to
do something.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
And so, Jesse, I don't care.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
If you know, this gets resolved through an expedited hearing
at the Supreme Court. I don't care if it's my
articles of impeachment or Andrew Clydes or you know, mister
Ogles from Tennessee. At the end of the day, I
refuse to sit by and just watch this, uh this
happen and us not do anything about it.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, it's it's incredibly frustrating to watch these these nutball
judges to do the things they do. Congressman, as always
my brother, I appreciate you very much. Stay in the fight.
I know you're frustrated. I get it. Good Man, good Man,
good Man in a very bad town. All right, are
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(22:10):
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Speaker 4 (23:04):
We'll be back.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
The IRS. Washington Post reports that the IRS is closing
one hundred and ten offices, and Trump's deputy chief of
staff came out and said, it's time to abolish the IRS. Now,
that's not exactly something you're going to come out and
say publicly unless the big Man is signing off on that,
because that's how you lose your job. Now, I'm going

(23:36):
to do the best I can and not get myself
too excited here, But are we gonna really abolish the IRS?
Joining me now, Carol Roth, hopefully not to pour cold
water all over me, is joining me, author of the
book You Will Own Nothing. Everybody knows kil Roth, Carol,
are we gonna We're gonna get rid of the IRS.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
I mean, this certainly is a dream for pretty much
everybody other than they tax me harder daddy crowd, which
you know, there's a small percentage of the people that
are that are in that. So this, this would be
very exciting. And I do like the fact that people
close to the Trump administration are playing around with that.
But the question is what doesn't mean because there are

(24:18):
so many people who say abolish the I R S.
And certainly, you know, if we are adults, we understand
there are things that still need to get paid for.
You know, we have to pay for our defense, and
we have to pay for our court systems, and we
have to pay for you know, other things, so there
needs to be some level of administration of that. I
have always contended that they should just send us a bill,

(24:40):
right like everybody else.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
Here, here are the.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
Things that you know you were charged for for the
defense for you know, shrimps, walking on treadmill, studies, whatever
it is, and they itemize it and they send us
a bill so that we don't have to waste even
more time while they are taking so much of our money.
Because that's a little bit of you know, a kick
in the teeth, and certainly with AI and folks like
Musk in place, it seems to me that you could

(25:05):
you have the ability to answer a short form questionnaire,
have AI sort through some information and be able to
come up with, you know, some sort of a number
in a couple of different places. I think that some
of the people who are spouting this jesse are assuming
that if you abolish the irs all of a sudden,
that you know, the government is not going to have
to collect trillions of dollars in taxes in some way,

(25:27):
shape or form, which you know certainly is a pipe dream,
or that they think something like tariffs is going to
pay for this, and the math doesn't map there either.
But if we are moving in the right direction, I
think that's good. It's also a really good time to
do this, because we do have a short a shortage
of accountants in this country, and so you know at

(25:49):
a time where this is going to be something that's
going to affect, you know, in particular the accounting industry,
which I'm sure is lobbying the most heavily to not
have the tax code simplified. Kind of like the barber
telling you that you need a haircut. You know, the
fact that we have fewer and fewer people who want
to be accountants and that we don't have enough of
them actually makes now the ideal time to try to

(26:11):
address this.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, I can't believe we have a shortage of accountants. Gosh,
there's nerds everywhere. I can't believe we don't have enough. Okay,
let's talk about the tariff thing, because we found out
yesterday that Trump is moving forward with a twenty five
percent tariff, not exactly a small one on Canada, Mexico
Jack and up ten percent on China. Carol strap us

(26:35):
in what are we in for here?

Speaker 9 (26:37):
You know, I've always said this is a little bit
art of the deal.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
It seems to me that this is something that Trump
wants to put out to try to extract, you know,
either real or performative concessions. We can argue about which
of those they are. And I do think that if
this were something that were to stay in place, it
would be to the detriment of everybody who's involved. So

(27:04):
I do hope that this is something that gets addressed
quicker and sooner rather than later.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
And I do think he will claim victory on.

Speaker 8 (27:13):
Something or another, but at the same time, you know,
Trump is stubborn and his team is stubborn, and he's
surrounded by a lot of people who really like the
idea of tariffs. So it doesn't mean that we won't
see some pain from that before that, you know, it
ultimately comes to a conclusion because the reality is, I think,

(27:35):
particularly in the cases of our biggest trading partners, you know,
tariffs are a tactic rather.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Than an endgame in my opinion.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
And you know, one of the things that we've talked
about before, your tariffs also strengthen the dollar, you know,
against those currencies, and given where the dollar is right
now and all the potential implications for that, that's something
that if we get too much hire could touch off
a debt spiral.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
So aget a trip wire that.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
If you want to go in one direction, you'd be
really careful that you don't touch that because that could
have all of these unintended consequences.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Explain that tariffs in the value with a dollar expand
on that for stupid people like me.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
So basically, when I tell you that the dollar is strong,
you might laugh at me and go, I went to
the grocery store.

Speaker 9 (28:25):
The dollar's not strong. I can't buy anything.

Speaker 8 (28:27):
So it's not strong against a bag of groceries per se,
but it is strong against baskets of other currencies in
the world, you know, which is great if you are
trying to import things cheaply. It's bad if you're an exporter.
But it's also bad because foreigners hold a lot of
our assets, and things around the world are price in dollars,

(28:48):
and so if you have the dollar, get you know,
continue to get strong. What happens when these countries need
to buy energy, food, other goods and services that are
priced and dollars, well, they somehow have to raise those dollars.
And the easiest thing to do is something like sell
one of our treasuries. Well, we know our treasuries trade inverse.

(29:10):
Those those bonds trade inverse to treasury yields, which are
also you.

Speaker 9 (29:14):
Know, on the on the upswing.

Speaker 8 (29:16):
They've come down in recent days, but you know, have
been very high, you kind of now over the last
fifteen years. So if you end up having all of
these people who are sellers, that's going to put downward
pressure on the price of treasuries and upward pressured on
those yields.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
And if those yields get too high.

Speaker 8 (29:34):
Well, again, that impacts how much we're paying for our debt,
and could just you know, there's certain numbers that trigger.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
Lots of things that happen in the markets.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
And we're getting close on both the dollar, and then
if you get into a certain range on the tenure yield,
it's going to happen too. So all of these things
are very interconnected. They're very opaque for a reason. But
that's when I talk about these trip wires that I
have been laid by the bar An administration that really
limit the things that the Trump administration can do. And
then you see them talking about one of those things.

(30:07):
They may not realize that they're heading into one of
these trip wires. I'm sure someone in the administration must
realize this.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
They've got some of our people.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
But in terms of the things that they project outwardly,
it is not the thing that you necessarily hear first.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
But you hear it here? Do you hear it here?
Hear it here?

Speaker 4 (30:24):
First?

Speaker 9 (30:24):
Say that ten.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Times opaque is such a great word. I'm going to
figure out how to use that word, and I'm going
to use it today. What do we what do we
even get from Canada and Mexico because I don't eat avocados.
I don't care about that.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
Well, Canada is an interesting one, you know, certainly in
the auto parts industry, there's a lot of those parts
that I guess there's kind of this back and forth
trade where components are set up to Canada and there's
stuff that's added on and it comes back, you know,
the same thing as you mentioned.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
You might not like avocados. I don't either, by the way,
we can totally do without that. But there's a whole.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Bunch of other produce and goods that come from Mexico,
and so.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
They are good trading partners. The other thing that's going on.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
With Mexico is that instead of manufacturing in China, you
have all these companies who are now now chosen to
manufacture in Mexico, right where you have something that's closer
to home, have something that you know, you can just
drive across the border. And before this, oh, we have
a really good situation where we don't have these you know,
crazy issues and tariffs, and now that's going to throw

(31:32):
that whole plan, you know, a little bit of a
wrench into that plan. So you're seeing, you know, whether
it's medical devices or toys or textiles or other things.
You know, all of this manufacturing that has been increasing
right south of border in Texas, of Texas, in Tijuana
and areas, and you know this is a new endeavor

(31:55):
to get things closer and manufacture things in North America
to the extent we can't manufact for them in the
US for cost reasons. And now that's thrown a little
bit of a rege into that plan for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Gosh, all right, Carol, really quickly, small business, you've been
ranting and raving about something recently explained to people what
you're hot on right now?

Speaker 8 (32:16):
Okay, we have three weeks left, and if nothing is
done by Congress, if nothing is done by the Trump administration,
is nothing is done by the Treasury or doge that
millions of small businesses unknowingly are going to be made
into financial criminals and could face jail time and finds
that are up to almost six hundred dollars a day,

(32:38):
and we'll continue to increase because of inflation. So this
is something called the CTA BOI rule, the Corporate Transparency
Act Beneficial Ownership Information Rule, and basically it's saying, hey,
if you have an entity, even if you're seeing a
solopreneur that has an entity in LLC and es Corp,
whatever it is, that you have to register with the

(33:00):
Financial Crimes Enforcement Division of the Treasury because they're trying
to stop Cartel's money launderers and terrorists, who of course
are not going to register. Big businesses are exempt, financial
services companies are exempts.

Speaker 9 (33:14):
I'll break the news right here. I haven't put it
out out yet, but I'm hearing that.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
It could be the banks and the national security folks
who are behind this that are trying to keep this
from getting overturned. But it's in the court system and
it's been deemed unconstitutional, but only for the people who
are in that particular lawsuit, which is ridiculous. So Congress,
the House has already passed a one year delay bill.

Speaker 9 (33:39):
The Senate refuses to do anything.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
There are two bills, the Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act,
that would repeal this entirely, and unfortunately the House and
the Senate have.

Speaker 9 (33:49):
Not voted on that.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
The Trump administration, who said they want to support deregulation
in Main Street, could just go to Treasury and say
don't do this. So somebody, we have three.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
Weeks all businesses need saving.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
There are thirty five million of them, by the way,
plus housing association boards and some private companies caught up
in this. This is the most obvious win. So don't
let the banks win. Don't let these congressional weirdos win.
We have to save small business. So call your congress
people immediately. Anyone who knows anyone in the Trump administration.

(34:22):
We have to get rid of the CTA b oh
I rule immediately, because there's only three weeks left.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Amen, my local taco shop goes out of business, I'm
going to lose my mind. Carol, thank you so much.
I appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
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It's awful. Dream Powder is the only thing I've ever

(35:11):
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(35:34):
is where you go. We'll be bad. Communists need control.
It's not that they love control, although they do. They
have to have it because communism is a sick, evil,

(35:55):
demonic religion that nobody would ever sign up for if
they realized there were other options. The communist realizes that,
so he's always tried to control everything, including information. In fact,
that's probably the most important thing that he controls information.
If you can actually find the truth, you would never
sign up for the things he wants. And that brings

(36:17):
us to the American media in this country and what
they're going through and the wonderful, wonderful things that are
happening right now. You see, forever, forever, for as long
as really I've been alive, ABC, NBCCBS, New York Times,
Washington Post. These gigantic corporate press organizations have been run
by committed communists who have done everything they can to

(36:40):
destroy this country. That is what they've done. They set
out to destroy the country. They are the sword and
shield of American communism. Now, what is great, what is
happening right now is they're frantic. They're on the rung.
And look it's not actually because I don't. Trump beats

(37:01):
them up every day. This is just the fun stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Their lives have been ruined and in many and in
many cares. Listen to me for a second, stop interrupting.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
What do you say the people who worried that targeting
an individual, firm or individuals who aren't Jackson?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I've been targeted for four years, longer than that answer.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
So you don't tell me about targeting. What would you
be willing to do?

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Or is you know in piece that they.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Have for their view?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Again, you're asking me the same question. How many times
you have to answer? You're talking about after we make
the peace. Let me make peace first. Once we make peace,
I'll give you all the answers you want. But how
many times can you answer ask the same question?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Build it pass last night aims to cut you trillion dollar?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Right?

Speaker 10 (37:43):
Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, social Security will not
be touched.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
You shouldn't be asking me that questions your president.

Speaker 8 (37:53):
Do you have a reaction to the new Time magazine
cover that has Euron Musk sitting behind your resolute desk?

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Is magazine still in business? I didn't even know that.

Speaker 10 (38:03):
These voters say they're angry and frustrated by these firings.

Speaker 8 (38:06):
They don't like the work of Elon Musk and these
other actions.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
What do you say that?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Who do you work for?

Speaker 1 (38:15):
No wonder?

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Vice Presidents suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in
a way that you don't like.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
They could just be clocify themselves.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
You would agree with them.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
I don't know even what you're talking. Are neither dear?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Who you with? Up? Closer? Who?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'm no wonder? I thought they I thought they died.
Are they still around? I haven't read them in years.
I thought they'd died.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Well, oh, I enjoy it. That's the fun stuff.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Though.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
The truth is the American media, American communism, they are desperate,
they're afraid, they're frantic right now because due to a
lot of things, really, the Internet age and other things.
We now have other sources. If I want the news,
if I want opinion, I don't have to go to ABC, NBCCBS.

(39:07):
That really was their ultimate power. For you know, if
it's nineteen ninety even nineteen ninety five, if you want
to know what's going on in the world, what's going
on in politics, you have to pick up the New
York Times, which is all comedy garbage. You have to
sit down and watch CBS at night, all comedy garbage.
Now you can sit down and watch the First Now

(39:27):
you have so many different options the Internet era, and
that is really what has doomed American communism and most
definitely the American media because back to what we discussed
in the very beginning, they must control everything at all times,
otherwise people will be able to find the truth that

(39:48):
communists must have control. And if he doesn't, he's finished.
And look this stuff that like Caroline Levitt and what
they're doing with the Report and stuff like that. This
stuff is wonderful because it's driving home to the American
media that you were not the only show in town anymore.
You are one of many, or she.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Was, as you all know, for decades, a group of
DC based journalists. The White House Correspondence Association has long
dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President
of the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore.
I am proud to announce that we are going to
give the power back to the people who read your papers,

(40:32):
who watch your television shows, and who listen to your
radio stations. Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will
be determined by the White House Press Team. Legacy outlets
who have participated in the press pool for decades will
still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will
also be offering the privilege to well deserving outlets who

(40:53):
have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
They're losing control, and it's wonderful to watch, absolutely wonderful
to watch. Now. Maybe you're sitting there thinking, well, that's
not fair. I doubt you're saying that if you're watching
me right now, But maybe you were saying, well, that's
not fair, that's not fair. Remember this, Oh, they were
more than excited for this to happen to Fox News.

Speaker 11 (41:20):
There are you know, these questions about Foxes. As Fox
radicalizes and as it becomes even more and more of
a political tool, Zerwich. You wrote a column recently for
The Sun about this, saying Fox should be viewed as
a political tool, and that raises the question should it
be a part of the White House press pool? You know,
should it be afforded the privileges to come with news gathering.
Even though they do have some news reporters at the

(41:40):
White House. You're saying they're primarily a political tool show,
So should that be reassessed? Serwick and listen, I really do.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
I think it's a discussion we need to have.

Speaker 11 (41:50):
Look, you're not supporting democracy, you're not supporting the larger
values of this culture.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
They were totally happy to get rid of anybody who
could create any dissenting view, totally happy. Watching them be
destroyed is wonderful and just I'm going to remind you
how sick and evil these people are. Jake Tapper recently
announced that he's coming out with a book. This book

(42:19):
is about Biden's decline. Of course, the guy who is
no longer president. No one even knows where he is.
Have you heard from Joe lately. He's long gone. He
walked into the White House for four years. He was
basically a cadaver, and so the United States of America
was run by the most radical maoists you can possibly find.
That's why the borders open, That's why they destroyed so

(42:41):
much in four years, And for four years people like
Jake Tapper covered it up and they knew.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
How do you think it makes little kids with stutters
feel when they see you make a comment.

Speaker 8 (42:54):
Like that is very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what
I'm referring to.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
It makes me uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
You are no view of ation.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
That's so amazing.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
It's so amazing to me that.

Speaker 10 (43:05):
Trying to figure out.

Speaker 6 (43:06):
An answer cognitive declarative. Biden embraces his stutter talking about it,
while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it, belittles it. He's sharp physically,
I mean mentally. Yeah, I think the question is physically.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Right right or so right right? And the guy who's his.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
Chief opponent is only three or four years younger than
false claims to the Wall Street Journal about President Biden's
mental fitness and acuity. He's eighty one and his memory.
You know, it doesn't seem great, it's not horrible, But
I don't understand the outrage.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Four years Jake Tapper was the shield protecting Joe Biden
in the White House and now publishes a book, Joe
Biden's Decline. These are sick people and they're getting exactly
what they deserve. All Right, it's too late in the mood,
shall we all right? It is time to lighten the mood.

(44:07):
And before we do that, I need to let you
know that in the coming days, maybe a week, I
don't know, I'm waiting on something. I'm gonna have a
pretty big reveal and I'm gonna reveal it on YouTube.
You know that. Go subscribe to the YouTube channel. It's
free and all you have to do is YouTube dot com,
slash at Jesse kellydc. Just scan that thing with your

(44:28):
phone will roll out a little something on YouTube. You
gotta be on there to watch it, all right. All right? Now,
you know that I've ranted many times before about putting
away your shopping cart at the grocery store. And I'm
not I'm not joking when I say I actually believe

(44:50):
this country would improve leaps and bounds if we arrested
and deported everybody who just leaves the shopping cart in
the middle of the park cannot at the grocery store.
And I'm not even close to kidding about that. Why
Because it's such a small thing, but it reveals so
much about you and how you view yourself and your

(45:12):
place in the world. It's just such an insanely selfish
act to just leave it out there, arrest, deport every
single person who leads the grocery card out there. That said,
every now and then, people who do it can deliver
some hilarious videos.

Speaker 11 (45:53):
I fall in

Speaker 1 (46:02):
At cinema
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