May 6, 2025 • 45 mins
Jesse Kelly dives into the latest shake-up at the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is making waves with bold moves to slash bureaucracy and revive a warrior ethos. He also sounds the alarm on Congressional earmarks lurking in the latest spending bill, exposing how pork-barrel politics threaten fiscal sanity. Financial expert Carol Roth joins the show to unpack the bombshell news of Warren Buffett stepping away from Berkshire Hathaway, analyzing what it means for markets and investors. Meanwhile, Curtis Houck stops by to reflect on President Trump’s executive order targeting NPR, debating the future of public media in a polarized age. Plus, in honor of Cinco de Mayo, Jesse ranks his favorite Mexican foods.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're going to have a talk about control, what the
communists fear, what actually hurts them. We'll do that tonight.
It is Cinco de Mayo. We'll talk about that. We'll
talk about the big beautiful bill, all that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Coming up when I'm right now.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, let's talk shall we about the system, the
military specifically the communists control. Let's have a little chat
here on a Monday. Wishing everybody a very happy Sinco
de Mayo. So first, remember that the communist believes in
controlling everything. Everything has to be controlled. That's the only
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way you can sell the misery and destruction that he's
trying to sell. You have to control what people can see,
what people can hear, what people can say, where people
can go. But it's all about control, all right. You
have to get that about these people to get anything else.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's one. Two.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
They don't look at institutions the way you look at institutions,
and if you think they do, if you find yourself
saying or even thinking things like, wow, we all want
the same things. In the end, you've already lost. Honestly,
you're completely useless. If you think like that, you you
start out in such a poor direction.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That you can never get back on the right road.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The road is heading that way, and if you say, wow,
we all kind of want the same things, you're heading
that way, it will never meet.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're gone, all right, get it to your head.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
They don't look at institutions the way you look at institutions.
For instance, the United States military. You see, the United
States military has roughly three million people.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's less than that, but not much less.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Two point eight give or take, but two point eight
million people in the United States military. Now, when you
think about the military, what do you think about? Think
about bravery, courage, defending the country. When there's a veteran
introduced at the local baseball game, you stand up, don't
you Probably take off your hat, salute, say hi, woo,
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love you, respect you. That's how you think of the military.
You look at people Army, Navy, Marine Corps. You look
at these people and you think to yourself, wow, that's
really cool. They're giving up pieces of themselves, putting their
life on the line. All the things you think about
the military. The communist doesn't think any of those things
at all, not zero zero. To the communist, he sees
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three million people who can be controlled. Three million government employees.
But not just government employees, government employees in the military.
They have to do what they're told. They have to
sit and listen when you talk, they have to speak
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the way you want.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Them to speak.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The communists view, who's the American military is a gigantic opportunity,
a gigantic opportunity to control three million people, a gigantic
opportunity to control vast quantities of money and power. So
back to kind of what I talked about in the beginning.
You can always tell what the communist cares about. It's
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what makes them squeal the loudest. There's a couple of
things that you should probably put in your back pocket
that the communists have really really pitched.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
A fit about.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I would almost say three big things since Trump won
the election. The first one of those things was Matt
Gates becoming Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That was just a bridge too far. I'll tell you what.
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
One second thing has been illegal immigration mass deportation. Why
do you think that is everything else Donald Trump is doing?
But the American media is really concerned about illegals being deported.
And third, Pete Hegseth, they can't get enough of trashing
Pete Hegseth every sing day all day. Hag Seth is
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haig Seth that hag Seth. This is not some one
twenty four hours storyline. This is very clearly something they
are hot on. Trump just sat down with Kristen Welker
for some strange reason.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Here's how it went.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are you looking for a new Secretary of Defense?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, it's not even a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
No, Beach's gonna be great where his job is safe
right now, a fantastic job begins. The hoho thies who
are like blowing chips up and watching him sink in
the ocean. We're hitting him very hard.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I know he's doing a very good job.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
His job is safe right now.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We see what she's doing. You're not naive, I see it,
you see it. But let's set aside the job he's
doing for a moment and have a very very sober,
very real conversation. When I was just talking about the
military a couple of minutes ago, and I said, you know,
three million people under communist control and all that. Did
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you think I was talking about past tense things. That's
how it used to be, now that it used to
be this way. But now Trump's in charge. Now Pete
Hegseth has taken over. Now we've got things squared away.
Did you think that? Did you think that Dick Levine
and all his little dicks are gone?
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Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, I know Dick Levine personally is gone, but I
wasn't talking about past tense. When it comes to the military,
guys like that have been put into place for about
fifteen years now, fifteen to twenty years now, the American
Communists has been putting little dix like that all over
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the United States military, top to bottom, generals, admirals, NCOs, staff,
and CEOs a three million person army. I know it's
more than just the army, but a three million person
army with communism buried rooted into every single solitary part
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of it. Did you think it was just the media
out for hag Seth, the defense departments out for hag Seth.
They're now running stories with all kinds of anonymous sources
about hag Seth.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Can't do this. Hag Seth can't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I am here to talk to you about something very
very frank. The state of the United States military is
frightening beyond belief. There is more clean out necessary there
than you can possibly fathom, and it makes things like
this when Trump talks about this in the budget, it
makes me worry.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We have great things happening with our military. We also
essentially approved a budget which is in the facility. You'll
like to hear this, of a trillion dollars one trillion dollars,
and then nobody's said anything like it. We have to
build our military, and we're very coarse conscious, but the
military is something that we have to build, and we
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have to be strong because you got a lot of
bad forces out there now. So we're going to be
approving a budget and I'm proud to say actually the
biggest one we've ever done for the military.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm not going to sit here and trash Trump for
what he's doing. Is I understand he has a borders
on an impossible situation. You see, he has to clean
out these organizations while at the same time run these organizations.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We have to project American power worldwide.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I understand all that, but handing the United States military
a trillion dollars is like handing a heroin addict ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's only going to go towards bad things.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We are in a crisis situation in the military currently.
Remember when Mike Ben's came on the show talked about it.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Oh, it's super nasty. And I am very reticent about
a trillion dollar Pentagon budget. If you're going to do
something like that, do it in year two, after you've
got a massive reorg at the Pentagon that shows reform
at a fundamental level. I would like to see the
Pentagon come out and match the State Department's reorganization project
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and say that they've cut one hundred and fifty agencies.
The fact is is the Pentagon is where the real
money is. This is a massive, massive problem, and you
know by some counts. You know, the Street reported a
thirty five trillion dollar accounting black hole in the Pentagon
back in twenty twenty. If those numbers are true, that
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would be larger than the entire US national debt, just
with the amount of money that's gone missing from the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Back to what we were talking about at the beginning,
why is it that there are three really big things
the communists are focused on. They wanted to stop Matt Gates,
and they did. Now we have Pambondi. Things have been
moving slow at the Justice Department right anyway, Moving on
past that, they want.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
To keep all the illegals here.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Weird how committed they are to that, and they want
the head of Pete Hegsath. Now let me just piggyback
this with a little story from the State Department. State
Department analyst under Joe Biden six hundred fifty thousand dollars
in fraud and a two year scam spam six hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars, plead it guilty, six hundred and
fifty thousand. That's at the State Department. Now I want
you to think for a moment about the state department's budget.
The numbers don't matter, so forget about that. Forget about
forget about the numbers. Let's use a visual representation. That's
the state department's budget. That's the budget of the United
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States military. One person was writing themselves checks for six
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Do you have any earthly
idea how many criminals are current currently being paid by
the United States Military and it's not waste. Stop letting
them get away with that theft. The largest criminal organization
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on the planet is the United States government, and maybe
the most sinister part of that organization is the United
States military as of right now, Why do you think
they want hegseeth gone so badly? Why do you think
they're so concerned with that? The communist tells you what
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he truly fears. He tells you all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay, let's talk about a bit of ugliness, shall we know.
We're not going to make this about the view we
are talking about the budget spending other than it's bad.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, but you already know that. You know the dead
is bad, you know spending is bad. You get all that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But I'm just gonna say something once again that I
know you already know, but you need to tell your
normy friends because they don't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They really don't, and.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hyper informed people like you really don't grasp how uninformed
your normy friends are, so you need to tell them.
When Washington spends money, inflation gets worse. This make it
that simple. Just hand it to him. That may every
new trillion dollar bill, inflation gets worse. It doesn't mean nothing.
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Just because the numbers are huge and trillions here and
trillions there, It means your standard of living goes down.
Your dollar doesn't go as far. You don't get to
buy as much food, clothes, trips, cars, whatever it may
be because of Washington spending. Now we're in the middle
of this very frustrating spending debate, and I'll tell you
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I'm extremely frustrated because I don't see that. I don't
see any good things happening. There's a big you know,
do we do the House bill where the Senate bill?
They're all awful. Ron Johnson was on with us last
week saying this, you.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Know, seven trillion dollars, You maybe we can shave one
hundred or one hundred and fifty million dollars a year
off of that and be what it six point eighty
five trillion dollars. I mean, it's just completely unacceptable. That's
why I'm speaking out right now. I'm putting people on notice.
I'm not voting for that line by line. Let's figure
how to return to pre pandemic level. Let's set processes
in place so we can do it again. We've never
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had a process to limit come and spending. We don't
have a bounced budget requirement, the Budget Act, the Simpson Bulls,
the Budget Control Act. None of these things ever controlled
federal spending. This budget, this reconciliation process won't control either.
That's obvious. They're not getting down to a pre pandemic level,
which is why I'm speaking out.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
He's speaking out, and I'm glad he is. Other senators
are going on the television, this is John Barrasso, and
they're lying.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
What number do you believe you'll be able to come
up with in terms of spending cuts.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You just said to me it'll be more than one
and a half trillion. What are you thinking, Well, that's
what we're working on.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
You know this, Members of the Senate Finance Committee, we've
been meeting since last summer on cutting up with coming
up with potential reductions in spending by the federal government.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Our aim is two trillion dollars. I don't know that
we're going to get there. We're going to match whatever
the House is able to do.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
We need to get a bill pass the House, pass
the Senate to the President's desk so we can make
a difference in the lives of the American people and
get this country back on track and get more money
into their pockets.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Did you hear what he just did there?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I hope you heard it, because they do it all
the time, and Gop loves to do this, love to
do it. You see where he put the effort in
the emphasis. Did you see it? She asked him, or
what kind of cuts will beginning? We're going to get cuts?
And he kind of gave this little mealium mouth and
so well, I mean, I don't know. Been the House
to the Senate. We'll probably match the House and could
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be up to two trillion dollars either way. We got
to get this thing passed so we can get back
to work for the American people and we can get
done to things the American people.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Want to get done, and the things Trump want to
get done we're going to give done. He's lying.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're not cutting a thing. Nobody wants to cut a thing.
They want to spend and spend and spend and spend
and spend until we all go bankrupt. And here's the ugly,
ugly truth of it. And this is why I didn't
want to spend a ton of time on this. There
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aren't a bunch of things in life that I consider
to be hopeless. I want to be a hopeful person,
and I hope you do too. But when it comes
to the budget, at least this one, I view it
as a hopeless endeavor because they don't want to stop spending.
Everyone wants things to just continue on the way they've
always gone on.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Nobody wants to be the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No one wants to say Nope, you can't have that,
or nope, you can't have that. This Congress is so
evil and corrupt they're not capable of producing a good
bill anyway. It's not humanly possible. So when you're sending
me the email that you're about to click send on, well,
why don't they just whatever? Or they should just whatever
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before or you even hit send, You might as well
not even bother because they won't. Asking this Congress to
produce a good, corruption free bill would be like handing
fifty million dollars to the American mafia and asking them
to build a school with it. Where do you think
most of that money is going to go. I know
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that probably made you uncomfortable too, but it is. It
is right anyway. Cairo Roth is going to join us next.
Warren Buffett stepped down. I thought he died, but he
didn't die. He's still very much alive, but he did
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Speaker 1 (18:34):
Warren Buffett is stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO. Now,
if you're not in the finance world, that probably means
absolutely nothing to you. And I'll be honest, I'm not
in the finance world, so it means absolutely nothing to me.
I will say this that Warren Buffett does have one
of the great quotes of all time where he said,
you know what the difference is between cocaine and flying
a private jet?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You can quit cocaine. That's just a really great quote.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I don't know the man, don't care either way, but
either way, he's stepping down. I bet Carol cares, though
she probably knows all kinds of things. Joining me now,
Carol Roth, two times New York Times best selling author.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Which kind of sucks is I didn't even make it
there once?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Carol, Why do I care about Warren Buffett?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Why do you care about Warren Buffett? Is this a
big deal?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's a big deal within the finance community because Warren
Buffett is the goat. He's the Michael Jordan of finance,
so to speak, you know, the most legendary investoral of
all time. And by the way, you know he is
a sprightly young, ninety four years old and now just
deciding to step aside as CEO. He's, by the way,
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he's still going to be chairman because he doesn't want
to get completely out of the game. But even though
we might not agree with his politics, Jesse, there's a
lot that we probably really like about Warren Buffett, you
and me, because this is a guy who eats McDonald's
every day, he has a coke every day, he eats
dairy queen, he doesn't work out, and ninety four he's
you know, a good jillionaire, mold multi billionaire. And by
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the way, he's made a bunch of Midwestern normies completely
incredibly rich over his time period. So he's he's been
a big deal and it really is a changing of
the guard. He had a longtime partner named Charlie Munger,
who if you like Warren Buffett's quotes, you'd like Charlie's
even better. He passed away in November of twenty three
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at ninety nine. By the way, was still working at
that point in time, and so I think that you know,
not having his partner in crime, probably wait a little
bit on him. And by the way, I give Warren
Buffett credit for piecing out, you know, and stepping down
right before we go into a global financial reset. So
excellent timing on that, mister Buffett, and certainly have learned
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a lot from you over the years, although completely disagree
with your politics.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Carol, before we even move on to anything else,
you're going to give everybody a business world breakdown, if
you will. CEO versus chairman kill rothworld. This makes sense,
but for most people, both these guys sound like they're
in charge.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What do these what does this mean?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So the CEO the chief executive officer is somebody who
is running the business on a day to day basis,
overseeing the company, and the CEO there is a board
of directors and they deal with more instead of operational issues,
things like governments and higher more macro strategic issues. So
he will remain on as the head of the board.
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The chairman, you know, in a non day to day role,
a supervisory rule, some a role that you know, people
can go to, whether it's the CEO or other C
level executives and get some advice, But he is not
going to be making the day to day investment decisions
for the company any longer.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
See that's the role I want. I don't want any responsibilities.
You can pop into my office. I'll make a generous
paycheck and I'll give you some guidance, but I don't
want to actually be held to account.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'll tell you my father was an electrician and over
time he became the superintendent. And he said he would
sit in his shanty all day long and people would
come to him. He would just tell them what to do,
and you know, he'd listen to the radio or whatever.
So I feel like, if you're, you know, more of
a blue collar person, the superintendent on a job is
like being the chairman of the board.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, our superintendents were always like that, sitting in the
truck smoking cigarettes while we were in the dish.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That was pretty much that blessed all right, Carol? What
does it mean? Honestly?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Does it mean anything for normal people? I know in
the financial world it's news, and I get that it's
more on buffet, But is this going to hurt me
or help me in some way? Should I take anything
from this at all?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, not unless you're a shareholder of Berkshire stock. It
was down significantly on the news, even though you know
the guy's ninety four years old. You'd think that that
information would probably be baked in, that he'd be leaving
at some point. But you know, unless you are a
you know, somebody who's just a student of the market
or of people who are great at their jobs or financeer, no,
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it doesn't really impact you in any way, shape or form.
But said great, great learning. Is a very simple guy
by the way. You know, as we said, we talked
about the McDonald's and stuff, but you know, doesn't send email,
does a lot of reading, you know, really just kind
of back to basics kind of guy. So worth looking into,
but not going to move the needle in your life one.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Way or another.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He did have this to say about the tariffs here.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
He was, Oh, and there's no question the trade trade
can be an act of war, and I think it's
led to bad things, just the attitudes it's brought out.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
In the United States.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I mean, we should be looking to trade with the
rest of the world, and we should do what we
do best, and they should do what they do best.
I do not think it's a great idea.
Speaker 14 (23:54):
To try and design a world where a few countries
say we won and other countries are envious trade should
not be a weapon. I do think that the more.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
So, the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes,
it won't be an hard expense. The more prosperous will
become and will then the safer will feel, and your
showroom will feel.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Someday, Carol, I can love a lot of that and
hate a lot of that, and I most definitely do.
But I think my point with a lot of these
arguments is the free traders sure sound like they don't
care if we win, and the protectionists they sound like.
Comedy's a lot in this whole thing. I have a
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very difficult time finding picking a side, if you will.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean, I've always said that I'm somewhat neutral.
I think that there are times when it makes sense
and times when it doesn't make sense. You have to remember,
in terms of our own economic growth, it's not the
only tool that we have. I'm somebody who likes to
drive incentives and use the carrot when possible instead of
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the sick the stick. But you know, I'm with you.
You know the fact of the matter is that we
are now hearing a lot of folks that sound like commies.
We had the president who was on Sunday morning shows
saying that, you know, we can only have two dollars
and five pencils and that's good enough. And that sounds
a lot like Bernie Sanders, not you know, President Trump
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and you know, the right leading people who want to
have economic growth. So it's very frustrating. And the other
thing I'll say to you, Jesse, is that in March
of twenty twenty, I came on your show and we
talked about the dangers of COVID, and you and I
were two of the early and consistent voices that talked
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about COVID over and over again. And we are now
looking at COVID two point zero. We're hearing that certain
businesses aren't essential. We're seeing that big company like Apple
are getting exemptions for smartphones and chips and computers, and
small businesses are saying, you know, get out of here.
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So you know, we're seeing the same issues pop up again,
and we know what the longtail impacts are. But yet,
for whatever reason, the people who are on one side
are now on the other side and vice versa, and
it just feels like a very frustrating, bizarre world.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Carol, I know this is not a simple issue. So
I don't want to simplify the issue, but are they
making it too complicated? And I say that because I
can't figure out.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I do this for a living. I can't figure out.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Even what's been tarifft and what's about to be tariffed
and what tariff got delayed. But there's a new tariff,
but that tariff isn't coming in. But now that was
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
First of all, it's hard to know what exactly the
objective is because we keep hearing different objectives and those
are all in conflict. We're doing this to raise money,
but no, we're doing this for fairness. Okay, well, if
you get fairness and everybody removes their barriers, then we're
not going to get as much money. So which is it?
The same thing with reshoring. I'm hearing that you know
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the middle class is hollowed out and we need to
bring back jobs, when we have hundreds of thousands of
skilled trade jobs that are currently not being filled. So
it seems to me that if you wanted the middle
class to thrive and you wanted more people in those jobs,
you would have incentives for training for electricians and plumbers
and HVAC technicians. And machinists in manufacturing because we have
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hundreds of thousands of open manufacturing jobs instead of okay,
well let's put small businesses out of business and somehow
think that that's going to you know, come up with
some sort of objective. So it's very difficult when you
don't know what the problem is that you're trying to solve,
to come up with the objective. And at the one
hundred and forty five percent level, that is not a tariff,
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that is prohibition. Nobody can do business under those terms.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, So why hasn't the market really reacted yet, Carol?
We had a couple of days it was down, then
it's back up, then it's down.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
What's going on with the market?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I asked that for everybody with their four oh
one k in an app on their phone, who wakes
up checking it dreading it every day.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
So there are a lot of things. If you go
back to December again, I was on your show and
told you by the way the buffet indicator that the
market was overvalued in terms of the size of the
market to GDP, and then we had the market sell off,
so it was overvalued at that point in time, and
there was a selloff, and then the tariffs accelerated that.
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Over the last month, we have seen the rebound of
a portion of that, the quote unquote Liberation Day drop off,
but not the stuff that happened in the February March timeframe,
and I think we're still down six or seven percent
from that. My take is that when you have Scott Bessen,
who is very smart US Treasury Secretary out trying to
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calm the markets, he's giving the signal that there are
deals that are coming to fruition, and the market is
giving the administration credit. They're basically saying, we think that
the worst part of this is behind us, that there's
going to be no more escalation in the near term,
and that we'll see de escalation, and they're giving them credit.
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The longer this goes on without something concrete, and by
the way, it's been more than a month and we
have not seen one glorious deal yet. So the longer
this goes on, the less credible that is. And there's
also a thing with the market. The market always pays
more for probabilities than for realities, so when it's a probability,
they don't know what it is to judge and they
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can't put a metric on it. When there's a reality,
then they can go, well, that's not good enough, and
then put a metric on it. So I do think
we're going to have a lot more volatility this year,
and the longer this goes on, it also threatens the
health of the economy. It threatens small businesses being able
to exist, runs through the whole economy. So we need
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to get some clarity here real quickly. And I think
the best thing the administration could do is be more
surgical and focus on really the important areas, things like
defense and shipbuilding. In pharmaceuticals, they should exempt small businesses.
They should focus on training people for the jobs that
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we have. We should remove some of the regulation that
is stifling growth. We should get the tax cuts cemented
and do things that are going to remove barriers instead
of creating this confusion and putting up barriers, because that's
the only way that we're going to be able to
move forward.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Here. That was a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I feel so much smarter though, Thank you, Carol, come
back soon. Happy sego tomyo Oa.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
All right, anyway, let's talk to you about your shoes.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
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Speaker 2 (31:00):
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You just text Jesse and go from there, big fat discount.
Gets yourself some g TOPHI, we'll be back.
Speaker 15 (31:49):
What do you make of that that he's just been
a little less visible than I think a lot of
people Trump observers expected.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
He would be. Yeah.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
Well, reportedly he's been visible at nightclubs far more than
he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,
and there are reports that daily briefings to him have
been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
A few moments later, and.
Speaker 15 (32:12):
Now let's circle back to a segment from Friday Show.
Frank Fglusey was on that morning during This Hour discussing
the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment,
for Glucy said the FBI director Cash Pttel has reportedly
been more visible at nightclubs than at his office at
FBI headquarters. This was a misstatement. We have not verified
that claim. We will be right.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Back, Okay, Well, first, it wasn't a misstatement. They lied.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
A guy came on the show and lined, this is
yet another thing the communist does. Whenever he's caught, he
tries to say it was a misstep. It was a mistake.
It was a misstatement. That's a lie. That's what that's called.
If your kids did it, you'd call them liars. Joining
me now, Curtis House, managing editor of NewsBusters, Curtis, the
media loves to do this telling out right lie to
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get around the world about eighty times and then come on, well,
I mean there was a misstatement, just a little disclaimer
four days ago.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'm sure that cleared the whole thing up.
Speaker 11 (33:08):
That's what they do, right, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
It's just like one of Frank Footgluzy's other big things,
which is saying that Trump was a Russian agent. You know,
you say something for years and years and years. You
let it get into the civic bloodstream, and then when
facts show otherwise, there's no need to apologize, or people
have already settled on particular error, at least some people have,
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and then mission accomplished.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
That's exactly what we had here, although.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I did enjoy the kind of squirming by Jothly and
the Lamir, who is a snake. He's such a weasel,
such a little twerp, which is why he fits in
well as the host of Morning Joe's millionth Hour, whatever
that is. But notice that they made him do it.
They didn't make the Gluzy come back on and squeal
and squirm. They let someone else do it. But it
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was also saying, please don't CNN US.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Curtis.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Is that what these media organizations are doing now when
they have to add these disclaimers. We see the view
has to do this about every five minutes. They'll tell
some outright lie about somebody and then they'll have to
give a legal disclaimer on it. Now, that is just
because we started suing, right, Oh.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Yeah, that's exactly what this is, Jesse, And I'm glad
that we're in moving any direction back towards some accountability
but it's not about trust, and it's not that they
actually feel sorry. They're just doing it because they don't
want to get sued. Well, let's think about this. If
you don't want to get sued, then maybe you shouldn't
just make crap up on the spot. But that's who
(34:43):
we're dealing with. Frank Thegluozy is a guy who is
repeatedly referred to parents at school board organization's school board
meetings as terrorists. He has said that they are a
national security threat. This is the deep state gunk that
we are dealing with as a country. He doesn't care
about the average citizen. And to think for years, people
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like Frank Fagluozy, we're serving as FBI agents as US attorney,
that we're arresting and putting people behind bars with these
kinds of deep disgust and hatreds for certain groups of Americans.
You just wonder about what these agencies have been up
to for all of these previous decades. But it's about
time that just because Donald Trump came in, you know
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now these media organizations are running scared and because of
the work of Zachary Young suing CNN for having ruined
his life as a paramilitary contractor. We're starting to see
some sort of a little bit inching back towards some
sense semblance of normalcy.
Speaker 11 (35:44):
But it cannot stop. You can't be satisfied.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
So whenever the sixty minutes thing comes down for the
Kamala Harrison interview another donation to the Trump Library, you
can't just say that you're satisfied. People need to keep
the boot on the throat.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Curtis another person they keep lying about. They can't help
themselves as Pete hagg Seth. This is very obviously something
they're not going to let go because it's not a
twenty four hour news cycle. They're on this and they
won't let off it. What do you make of their
problem with Pete hagg Seth.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
Well, I think a couple of things.
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Number One, he's not a suit at the Pentagon who
has spent years leaking to all of these snibbling reporters
like Natasha Beartrand at CNN. You can tell that she
has a personal animus against him. Has leefally been working
publicly and probably privately behind the scenes to try and
get rid of him because he again is he pointed
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out in his hearing, which I thought was a really
from an image standpoint, was good have someone who has
dust on their boots, who actually wasn't sitting in an
air conditioned room inside the green zone of o Iraq,
who actually was out, who actually saw battle, who was
actually there with the rank and file, who was one
of the rank and file. They can't stand that. And
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then two, what he actually wants to do to get
rid of this communist, anti family nonsense out of the Pentagon,
to actually enact standards for our military that we are
the strongest, most lethal fighting force known to man, that
we can actually be that again. And so all of
those things put together just to hate from the press
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because he worked at Fox and what he wants to
do inside the Pentagon, plus just hating him because he's
a Trump nominee, all of those things put together show
that he probably is enemy number one, which we saw
in our study with the Network Evening used cast a BCCBSMEBC.
He was one hundred percent negative, whereas the president was
back at ninety two percent. Elon Musk and RFK Junior
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all well below that. There's a reason why he is
or hated depending on who you're listening to, than the President.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yah Curtis, tell me about defunding NPR and PBS.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
What happened here?
Speaker 11 (37:58):
Yeah, on Friday or day night. It was one of
those things.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
After eleven pm Eastern, the President sound on executive order
to basically defund PBS and NPR and also direct other
government agencies to cease funding these organ uh cease giving
out grants like DHS, National Dowmage for the Humanities had
to give money to PBS and NPR. The Corporation for
Public Broadcasting is this board that oversees them, and those
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seats are appointed by the president. They've since come out
and said we're an independent agency. Well, you're appointed by
the president. You serve with the pleasure of the president,
so screw off. But this is something that a Republican
president should done. You talk about this all the time, Jesse,
doing what you actually campaign on doing, and Republicans this
is one of many issues where they haven't shown a
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spine for decades, where they just said that they want
to defund PBS and NPR and then they don't actually
do it because they get scared of, oh, you want
to kill big bird or whatever crazy reason. Kids won't
be able to read now or something like that well,
the President actually had the stones to do something about it.
Congress needs to now do something about it. Unfortunately, this
is going to end up in the courts where you know,
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these far left judges, they're the ones that are carrying
around the PBS and NPR tote bags when they do
those funding pledges. These are the kind of people that
call in. So it's going to be a fight all
the way to the Supreme Court. I think on this
particular issue.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Every dagon thing all right, which brings me to Jen Saki,
because Jen Saki, she was talking about covering up Biden's
decline and saying it's a cover up is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Here she was.
Speaker 17 (39:33):
I left in May of twenty twenty two, just for
the facts here, and I have seen Biden once since then,
when I took my daughter to the holiday party this
last December after he had lost and so I hadn't
seen him in person during that period of time. I
never saw that person, not a single time. And I
was in the Oval office every day that was on
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that debate stage. I'm not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly.
Cover Up is a very loaded term, I think.
Speaker 15 (40:02):
Well means you knew that it was really bad and
you're pretending otherwise versus you're diluting yourself, which I think
is what people do a lot.
Speaker 17 (40:07):
Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover
up is often like a crime, right we're talking.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
People use that to say it's worse than the crown.
Speaker 17 (40:15):
People use that term as they relate to water Gate
or the covering up of not sharing public information about
a war.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And I'm not accusing anybody of a crime.
Speaker 17 (40:23):
I understand, but other people have used that term, and
I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, they covered everything up, and Jensaki knew the entire thing.
I know from my sources, and I don't have sources
like you have. I know that she was actually frustrated
they wouldn't let her see the president because he was
so dementia addled half the time.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yeah, and I've heard as well that you know, she
definitely had some teeth that all those folks that are
saying if you actually would try to report on the president,
you would try to hold his feet to the fire
on this usue with that issue, she was vehement in
defending him or threatening reporters.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
So I would just say it's.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
A very low bar, of course, Jess, but she's a
way better liar and more eloquent. She speaks in complete
sentences compared to Korean Jean Pierre, which is why I
guess the last few years were just you know, there's
some dark gallows humor to what was going on. But
with her, because she's so well spoken, She's definitely she's
the epitome of the Karen who asks to speak to
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the manager because you know, the one hundred dollars dinner
is not exactly cooked the way it was shown on Instagram.
I think Karen is an overused term, but I think
she is definitely the fit. She embodies that, she's the
personification of that. I think back to it with documentary
at the end of the Obama years that CNN did
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you know she They followed her on her way to
the White House one day and she was just like, well,
I'm just apparent, just like all of you. I sing
the wheels on the bus go round and round with
my kids too. It was the biggest, single, biggest joke
that I've ever seen in terms of someone in easy
trying to relate to the American people. It just sticks
with me years later, because it was just so pathetic
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and insane. You know, this is who she is, and
that's why Democrats hire her admitiration after administration, position after position,
because she's pretty good at it. But you know, at
this point, we even we know the truth about Biden
when it comes to somebody as demented and struggling as
he was, uh, truly cover that up.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
And plus she had to call it a holiday holiday party,
these freaking people. Curtis, thank you, brother, I appreciate it.
Holiday party, that's day giveaway right there. Anyway, today's a holiday,
a big one. We're going to talk about it or
light in the mood next. Ohlah, it's time for light
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in the mood. It's a sinko demayo. And you know
how cultural I am. I'm obviously a well traveled man.
I abla many different languages and dialects which may actually
be the same thing, but you understand what I'm saying.
And so today it's Cinco de Mayo. This is a
day that is sacred in Mexico, and we thought, in
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honor of this sacred holiday, we thought it would be
appropriate to name the top three Cinco de Mayo foods,
not three Mexican foods really, But I digress. So first
let's start at number three. Hold the suspense, if you will,
is enchiladas. Now I have to put a little disclaimer
on this.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
This could have been number one. It just depends on
the enchilada.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
This goes back to the pizza versus cheeseburger debate. In general,
pizza is going to be better than a cheeseburger. That said,
nothing beats a perfect cheeseburger. Nothing a perfect cheeseburger is
better than that. But they're not all perfect. Way, most
enchiladas are very good, and so that's why they're on
number three. You get the right one. It's everything, it's everything.
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But anyway, for our purposes, now it's number three. Number
two an iconic Mexican dish fried ice cream. There's actually
this little Mexican joint right up the road from where
I'm sitting right now. They do this authentic thing with
their fried ice cream where they take cinnamon toast crunch
and they crunch it up and then they bread the
ice cream. And that a Mexican tradition like no other,
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which brings us to the final and superior Mexican food.
Everybody already knows that. Let's not give it away here,
but everyone knows. Drum roll nachos, nachos, and don't scoff
at that.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
They're everywhere for a reason.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Maybe you were thinking I was going to say tacos
or burritos or a chepy.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Janga or frahetas or all that stuff. Is fine. They
sell those at the baseball game. They sell nachos.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
They sell nachos everywhere, gas station nachos, Mexican restaurant nachos.
Nachos are available everywhere because.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
They're the best. It's that simple, suitable
Speaker 14 (45:17):
Mmmm.
We're going to have a talk about control, what the
communists fear, what actually hurts them. We'll do that tonight.
It is Cinco de Mayo. We'll talk about that. We'll
talk about the big beautiful bill, all that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Coming up when I'm right now.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, let's talk shall we about the system, the
military specifically the communists control. Let's have a little chat
here on a Monday. Wishing everybody a very happy Sinco
de Mayo. So first, remember that the communist believes in
controlling everything. Everything has to be controlled. That's the only
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way you can sell the misery and destruction that he's
trying to sell. You have to control what people can see,
what people can hear, what people can say, where people
can go. But it's all about control, all right. You
have to get that about these people to get anything else.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That's one. Two.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
They don't look at institutions the way you look at institutions,
and if you think they do, if you find yourself
saying or even thinking things like, wow, we all want
the same things. In the end, you've already lost. Honestly,
you're completely useless. If you think like that, you you
start out in such a poor direction.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That you can never get back on the right road.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
The road is heading that way, and if you say, wow,
we all kind of want the same things, you're heading
that way, it will never meet.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're gone, all right, get it to your head.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
They don't look at institutions the way you look at institutions.
For instance, the United States military. You see, the United
States military has roughly three million people.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's less than that, but not much less.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Two point eight give or take, but two point eight
million people in the United States military. Now, when you
think about the military, what do you think about? Think
about bravery, courage, defending the country. When there's a veteran
introduced at the local baseball game, you stand up, don't
you Probably take off your hat, salute, say hi, woo,
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love you, respect you. That's how you think of the military.
You look at people Army, Navy, Marine Corps. You look
at these people and you think to yourself, wow, that's
really cool. They're giving up pieces of themselves, putting their
life on the line. All the things you think about
the military. The communist doesn't think any of those things
at all, not zero zero. To the communist, he sees
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three million people who can be controlled. Three million government employees.
But not just government employees, government employees in the military.
They have to do what they're told. They have to
sit and listen when you talk, they have to speak
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the way you want.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Them to speak.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The communists view, who's the American military is a gigantic opportunity,
a gigantic opportunity to control three million people, a gigantic
opportunity to control vast quantities of money and power. So
back to kind of what I talked about in the beginning.
You can always tell what the communist cares about. It's
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what makes them squeal the loudest. There's a couple of
things that you should probably put in your back pocket
that the communists have really really pitched.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
A fit about.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I would almost say three big things since Trump won
the election. The first one of those things was Matt
Gates becoming Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That was just a bridge too far. I'll tell you what.
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
One second thing has been illegal immigration mass deportation. Why
do you think that is everything else Donald Trump is doing?
But the American media is really concerned about illegals being deported.
And third, Pete Hegseth, they can't get enough of trashing
Pete Hegseth every sing day all day. Hag Seth is
(04:02):
haig Seth that hag Seth. This is not some one
twenty four hours storyline. This is very clearly something they
are hot on. Trump just sat down with Kristen Welker
for some strange reason.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Here's how it went.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are you looking for a new Secretary of Defense?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, it's not even a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
No, Beach's gonna be great where his job is safe
right now, a fantastic job begins. The hoho thies who
are like blowing chips up and watching him sink in
the ocean. We're hitting him very hard.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I know he's doing a very good job.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
His job is safe right now.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We see what she's doing. You're not naive, I see it,
you see it. But let's set aside the job he's
doing for a moment and have a very very sober,
very real conversation. When I was just talking about the
military a couple of minutes ago, and I said, you know,
three million people under communist control and all that. Did
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you think I was talking about past tense things. That's
how it used to be, now that it used to
be this way. But now Trump's in charge. Now Pete
Hegseth has taken over. Now we've got things squared away.
Did you think that? Did you think that Dick Levine
and all his little dicks are gone?
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Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, I know Dick Levine personally is gone, but I
wasn't talking about past tense. When it comes to the military,
guys like that have been put into place for about
fifteen years now, fifteen to twenty years now, the American
Communists has been putting little dix like that all over
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the United States military, top to bottom, generals, admirals, NCOs, staff,
and CEOs a three million person army. I know it's
more than just the army, but a three million person
army with communism buried rooted into every single solitary part
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of it. Did you think it was just the media
out for hag Seth, the defense departments out for hag Seth.
They're now running stories with all kinds of anonymous sources
about hag Seth.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Can't do this. Hag Seth can't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I am here to talk to you about something very
very frank. The state of the United States military is
frightening beyond belief. There is more clean out necessary there
than you can possibly fathom, and it makes things like
this when Trump talks about this in the budget, it
makes me worry.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We have great things happening with our military. We also
essentially approved a budget which is in the facility. You'll
like to hear this, of a trillion dollars one trillion dollars,
and then nobody's said anything like it. We have to
build our military, and we're very coarse conscious, but the
military is something that we have to build, and we
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have to be strong because you got a lot of
bad forces out there now. So we're going to be
approving a budget and I'm proud to say actually the
biggest one we've ever done for the military.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm not going to sit here and trash Trump for
what he's doing. Is I understand he has a borders
on an impossible situation. You see, he has to clean
out these organizations while at the same time run these organizations.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We have to project American power worldwide.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I understand all that, but handing the United States military
a trillion dollars is like handing a heroin addict ten
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's only going to go towards bad things.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We are in a crisis situation in the military currently.
Remember when Mike Ben's came on the show talked about it.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Oh, it's super nasty. And I am very reticent about
a trillion dollar Pentagon budget. If you're going to do
something like that, do it in year two, after you've
got a massive reorg at the Pentagon that shows reform
at a fundamental level. I would like to see the
Pentagon come out and match the State Department's reorganization project
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and say that they've cut one hundred and fifty agencies.
The fact is is the Pentagon is where the real
money is. This is a massive, massive problem, and you
know by some counts. You know, the Street reported a
thirty five trillion dollar accounting black hole in the Pentagon
back in twenty twenty. If those numbers are true, that
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would be larger than the entire US national debt, just
with the amount of money that's gone missing from the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Back to what we were talking about at the beginning,
why is it that there are three really big things
the communists are focused on. They wanted to stop Matt Gates,
and they did. Now we have Pambondi. Things have been
moving slow at the Justice Department right anyway, Moving on
past that, they want.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
To keep all the illegals here.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Weird how committed they are to that, and they want
the head of Pete Hegsath. Now let me just piggyback
this with a little story from the State Department. State
Department analyst under Joe Biden six hundred fifty thousand dollars
in fraud and a two year scam spam six hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars, plead it guilty, six hundred and
fifty thousand. That's at the State Department. Now I want
you to think for a moment about the state department's budget.
The numbers don't matter, so forget about that. Forget about
forget about the numbers. Let's use a visual representation. That's
the state department's budget. That's the budget of the United
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States military. One person was writing themselves checks for six
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Do you have any earthly
idea how many criminals are current currently being paid by
the United States Military and it's not waste. Stop letting
them get away with that theft. The largest criminal organization
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on the planet is the United States government, and maybe
the most sinister part of that organization is the United
States military as of right now, Why do you think
they want hegseeth gone so badly? Why do you think
they're so concerned with that? The communist tells you what
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay, let's talk about a bit of ugliness, shall we know.
We're not going to make this about the view we
are talking about the budget spending other than it's bad.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Okay, but you already know that. You know the dead
is bad, you know spending is bad. You get all that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But I'm just gonna say something once again that I
know you already know, but you need to tell your
normy friends because they don't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They really don't, and.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Hyper informed people like you really don't grasp how uninformed
your normy friends are, so you need to tell them.
When Washington spends money, inflation gets worse. This make it
that simple. Just hand it to him. That may every
new trillion dollar bill, inflation gets worse. It doesn't mean nothing.
(13:13):
Just because the numbers are huge and trillions here and
trillions there, It means your standard of living goes down.
Your dollar doesn't go as far. You don't get to
buy as much food, clothes, trips, cars, whatever it may
be because of Washington spending. Now we're in the middle
of this very frustrating spending debate, and I'll tell you
(13:38):
I'm extremely frustrated because I don't see that. I don't
see any good things happening. There's a big you know,
do we do the House bill where the Senate bill?
They're all awful. Ron Johnson was on with us last
week saying this, you.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Know, seven trillion dollars, You maybe we can shave one
hundred or one hundred and fifty million dollars a year
off of that and be what it six point eighty
five trillion dollars. I mean, it's just completely unacceptable. That's
why I'm speaking out right now. I'm putting people on notice.
I'm not voting for that line by line. Let's figure
how to return to pre pandemic level. Let's set processes
in place so we can do it again. We've never
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had a process to limit come and spending. We don't
have a bounced budget requirement, the Budget Act, the Simpson Bulls,
the Budget Control Act. None of these things ever controlled
federal spending. This budget, this reconciliation process won't control either.
That's obvious. They're not getting down to a pre pandemic level,
which is why I'm speaking out.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
He's speaking out, and I'm glad he is. Other senators
are going on the television, this is John Barrasso, and
they're lying.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
What number do you believe you'll be able to come
up with in terms of spending cuts.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You just said to me it'll be more than one
and a half trillion. What are you thinking, Well, that's
what we're working on.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
You know this, Members of the Senate Finance Committee, we've
been meeting since last summer on cutting up with coming
up with potential reductions in spending by the federal government.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Our aim is two trillion dollars. I don't know that
we're going to get there. We're going to match whatever
the House is able to do.
Speaker 10 (15:07):
We need to get a bill pass the House, pass
the Senate to the President's desk so we can make
a difference in the lives of the American people and
get this country back on track and get more money
into their pockets.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Did you hear what he just did there?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I hope you heard it, because they do it all
the time, and Gop loves to do this, love to
do it. You see where he put the effort in
the emphasis. Did you see it? She asked him, or
what kind of cuts will beginning? We're going to get cuts?
And he kind of gave this little mealium mouth and
so well, I mean, I don't know. Been the House
to the Senate. We'll probably match the House and could
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be up to two trillion dollars either way. We got
to get this thing passed so we can get back
to work for the American people and we can get
done to things the American people.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Want to get done, and the things Trump want to
get done we're going to give done. He's lying.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They're not cutting a thing. Nobody wants to cut a thing.
They want to spend and spend and spend and spend
and spend until we all go bankrupt. And here's the ugly,
ugly truth of it. And this is why I didn't
want to spend a ton of time on this. There
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aren't a bunch of things in life that I consider
to be hopeless. I want to be a hopeful person,
and I hope you do too. But when it comes
to the budget, at least this one, I view it
as a hopeless endeavor because they don't want to stop spending.
Everyone wants things to just continue on the way they've
always gone on.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Nobody wants to be the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No one wants to say Nope, you can't have that,
or nope, you can't have that. This Congress is so
evil and corrupt they're not capable of producing a good
bill anyway. It's not humanly possible. So when you're sending
me the email that you're about to click send on, well,
why don't they just whatever? Or they should just whatever
(16:59):
before or you even hit send, You might as well
not even bother because they won't. Asking this Congress to
produce a good, corruption free bill would be like handing
fifty million dollars to the American mafia and asking them
to build a school with it. Where do you think
most of that money is going to go. I know
(17:20):
that probably made you uncomfortable too, but it is. It
is right anyway. Cairo Roth is going to join us next.
Warren Buffett stepped down. I thought he died, but he
didn't die. He's still very much alive, but he did
step down. We'll talk to Carol Roth about that. Before
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Speaker 1 (18:34):
Warren Buffett is stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO. Now,
if you're not in the finance world, that probably means
absolutely nothing to you. And I'll be honest, I'm not
in the finance world, so it means absolutely nothing to me.
I will say this that Warren Buffett does have one
of the great quotes of all time where he said,
you know what the difference is between cocaine and flying
a private jet?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You can quit cocaine. That's just a really great quote.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I don't know the man, don't care either way, but
either way, he's stepping down. I bet Carol cares, though
she probably knows all kinds of things. Joining me now,
Carol Roth, two times New York Times best selling author.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Which kind of sucks is I didn't even make it
there once?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Carol, Why do I care about Warren Buffett?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Why do you care about Warren Buffett? Is this a
big deal?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's a big deal within the finance community because Warren
Buffett is the goat. He's the Michael Jordan of finance,
so to speak, you know, the most legendary investoral of
all time. And by the way, you know he is
a sprightly young, ninety four years old and now just
deciding to step aside as CEO. He's, by the way,
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he's still going to be chairman because he doesn't want
to get completely out of the game. But even though
we might not agree with his politics, Jesse, there's a
lot that we probably really like about Warren Buffett, you
and me, because this is a guy who eats McDonald's
every day, he has a coke every day, he eats
dairy queen, he doesn't work out, and ninety four he's
you know, a good jillionaire, mold multi billionaire. And by
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the way, he's made a bunch of Midwestern normies completely
incredibly rich over his time period. So he's he's been
a big deal and it really is a changing of
the guard. He had a longtime partner named Charlie Munger,
who if you like Warren Buffett's quotes, you'd like Charlie's
even better. He passed away in November of twenty three
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at ninety nine. By the way, was still working at
that point in time, and so I think that you know,
not having his partner in crime, probably wait a little
bit on him. And by the way, I give Warren
Buffett credit for piecing out, you know, and stepping down
right before we go into a global financial reset. So
excellent timing on that, mister Buffett, and certainly have learned
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a lot from you over the years, although completely disagree
with your politics.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Carol, before we even move on to anything else,
you're going to give everybody a business world breakdown, if
you will. CEO versus chairman kill rothworld. This makes sense,
but for most people, both these guys sound like they're
in charge.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What do these what does this mean?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So the CEO the chief executive officer is somebody who
is running the business on a day to day basis,
overseeing the company, and the CEO there is a board
of directors and they deal with more instead of operational issues,
things like governments and higher more macro strategic issues. So
he will remain on as the head of the board.
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The chairman, you know, in a non day to day role,
a supervisory rule, some a role that you know, people
can go to, whether it's the CEO or other C
level executives and get some advice, But he is not
going to be making the day to day investment decisions
for the company any longer.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
See that's the role I want. I don't want any responsibilities.
You can pop into my office. I'll make a generous
paycheck and I'll give you some guidance, but I don't
want to actually be held to account.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'll tell you my father was an electrician and over
time he became the superintendent. And he said he would
sit in his shanty all day long and people would
come to him. He would just tell them what to do,
and you know, he'd listen to the radio or whatever.
So I feel like, if you're, you know, more of
a blue collar person, the superintendent on a job is
like being the chairman of the board.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, our superintendents were always like that, sitting in the
truck smoking cigarettes while we were in the dish.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That was pretty much that blessed all right, Carol? What
does it mean? Honestly?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Does it mean anything for normal people? I know in
the financial world it's news, and I get that it's
more on buffet, But is this going to hurt me
or help me in some way? Should I take anything
from this at all?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, not unless you're a shareholder of Berkshire stock. It
was down significantly on the news, even though you know
the guy's ninety four years old. You'd think that that
information would probably be baked in, that he'd be leaving
at some point. But you know, unless you are a
you know, somebody who's just a student of the market
or of people who are great at their jobs or financeer, no,
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it doesn't really impact you in any way, shape or form.
But said great, great learning. Is a very simple guy
by the way. You know, as we said, we talked
about the McDonald's and stuff, but you know, doesn't send email,
does a lot of reading, you know, really just kind
of back to basics kind of guy. So worth looking into,
but not going to move the needle in your life one.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Way or another.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He did have this to say about the tariffs here.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
He was, Oh, and there's no question the trade trade
can be an act of war, and I think it's
led to bad things, just the attitudes it's brought out.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
In the United States.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I mean, we should be looking to trade with the
rest of the world, and we should do what we
do best, and they should do what they do best.
I do not think it's a great idea.
Speaker 14 (23:54):
To try and design a world where a few countries
say we won and other countries are envious trade should
not be a weapon. I do think that the more.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
So, the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes,
it won't be an hard expense. The more prosperous will
become and will then the safer will feel, and your
showroom will feel.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Someday, Carol, I can love a lot of that and
hate a lot of that, and I most definitely do.
But I think my point with a lot of these
arguments is the free traders sure sound like they don't
care if we win, and the protectionists they sound like.
Comedy's a lot in this whole thing. I have a
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very difficult time finding picking a side, if you will.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean, I've always said that I'm somewhat neutral.
I think that there are times when it makes sense
and times when it doesn't make sense. You have to remember,
in terms of our own economic growth, it's not the
only tool that we have. I'm somebody who likes to
drive incentives and use the carrot when possible instead of
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the sick the stick. But you know, I'm with you.
You know the fact of the matter is that we
are now hearing a lot of folks that sound like commies.
We had the president who was on Sunday morning shows
saying that, you know, we can only have two dollars
and five pencils and that's good enough. And that sounds
a lot like Bernie Sanders, not you know, President Trump
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and you know, the right leading people who want to
have economic growth. So it's very frustrating. And the other
thing I'll say to you, Jesse, is that in March
of twenty twenty, I came on your show and we
talked about the dangers of COVID, and you and I
were two of the early and consistent voices that talked
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about COVID over and over again. And we are now
looking at COVID two point zero. We're hearing that certain
businesses aren't essential. We're seeing that big company like Apple
are getting exemptions for smartphones and chips and computers, and
small businesses are saying, you know, get out of here.
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So you know, we're seeing the same issues pop up again,
and we know what the longtail impacts are. But yet,
for whatever reason, the people who are on one side
are now on the other side and vice versa, and
it just feels like a very frustrating, bizarre world.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Carol, I know this is not a simple issue. So
I don't want to simplify the issue, but are they
making it too complicated? And I say that because I
can't figure out.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I do this for a living. I can't figure out.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Even what's been tarifft and what's about to be tariffed
and what tariff got delayed. But there's a new tariff,
but that tariff isn't coming in. But now that was
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
First of all, it's hard to know what exactly the
objective is because we keep hearing different objectives and those
are all in conflict. We're doing this to raise money,
but no, we're doing this for fairness. Okay, well, if
you get fairness and everybody removes their barriers, then we're
not going to get as much money. So which is it?
The same thing with reshoring. I'm hearing that you know
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the middle class is hollowed out and we need to
bring back jobs, when we have hundreds of thousands of
skilled trade jobs that are currently not being filled. So
it seems to me that if you wanted the middle
class to thrive and you wanted more people in those jobs,
you would have incentives for training for electricians and plumbers
and HVAC technicians. And machinists in manufacturing because we have
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hundreds of thousands of open manufacturing jobs instead of okay,
well let's put small businesses out of business and somehow
think that that's going to you know, come up with
some sort of objective. So it's very difficult when you
don't know what the problem is that you're trying to solve,
to come up with the objective. And at the one
hundred and forty five percent level, that is not a tariff,
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that is prohibition. Nobody can do business under those terms.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, So why hasn't the market really reacted yet, Carol?
We had a couple of days it was down, then
it's back up, then it's down.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
What's going on with the market?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And I asked that for everybody with their four oh
one k in an app on their phone, who wakes
up checking it dreading it every day.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
So there are a lot of things. If you go
back to December again, I was on your show and
told you by the way the buffet indicator that the
market was overvalued in terms of the size of the
market to GDP, and then we had the market sell off,
so it was overvalued at that point in time, and
there was a selloff, and then the tariffs accelerated that.
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Over the last month, we have seen the rebound of
a portion of that, the quote unquote Liberation Day drop off,
but not the stuff that happened in the February March timeframe,
and I think we're still down six or seven percent
from that. My take is that when you have Scott Bessen,
who is very smart US Treasury Secretary out trying to
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calm the markets, he's giving the signal that there are
deals that are coming to fruition, and the market is
giving the administration credit. They're basically saying, we think that
the worst part of this is behind us, that there's
going to be no more escalation in the near term,
and that we'll see de escalation, and they're giving them credit.
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The longer this goes on without something concrete, and by
the way, it's been more than a month and we
have not seen one glorious deal yet. So the longer
this goes on, the less credible that is. And there's
also a thing with the market. The market always pays
more for probabilities than for realities, so when it's a probability,
they don't know what it is to judge and they
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can't put a metric on it. When there's a reality,
then they can go, well, that's not good enough, and
then put a metric on it. So I do think
we're going to have a lot more volatility this year,
and the longer this goes on, it also threatens the
health of the economy. It threatens small businesses being able
to exist, runs through the whole economy. So we need
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to get some clarity here real quickly. And I think
the best thing the administration could do is be more
surgical and focus on really the important areas, things like
defense and shipbuilding. In pharmaceuticals, they should exempt small businesses.
They should focus on training people for the jobs that
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we have. We should remove some of the regulation that
is stifling growth. We should get the tax cuts cemented
and do things that are going to remove barriers instead
of creating this confusion and putting up barriers, because that's
the only way that we're going to be able to
move forward.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Here. That was a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I feel so much smarter though, Thank you, Carol, come
back soon. Happy sego tomyo Oa.
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Speaker 15 (31:49):
What do you make of that that he's just been
a little less visible than I think a lot of
people Trump observers expected.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
He would be. Yeah.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
Well, reportedly he's been visible at nightclubs far more than
he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building,
and there are reports that daily briefings to him have
been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
A few moments later, and.
Speaker 15 (32:12):
Now let's circle back to a segment from Friday Show.
Frank Fglusey was on that morning during This Hour discussing
the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment,
for Glucy said the FBI director Cash Pttel has reportedly
been more visible at nightclubs than at his office at
FBI headquarters. This was a misstatement. We have not verified
that claim. We will be right.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Back, Okay, Well, first, it wasn't a misstatement. They lied.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
A guy came on the show and lined, this is
yet another thing the communist does. Whenever he's caught, he
tries to say it was a misstep. It was a mistake.
It was a misstatement. That's a lie. That's what that's called.
If your kids did it, you'd call them liars. Joining
me now, Curtis House, managing editor of NewsBusters, Curtis, the
media loves to do this telling out right lie to
(33:00):
get around the world about eighty times and then come on, well,
I mean there was a misstatement, just a little disclaimer
four days ago.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'm sure that cleared the whole thing up.
Speaker 11 (33:08):
That's what they do, right, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
It's just like one of Frank Footgluzy's other big things,
which is saying that Trump was a Russian agent. You know,
you say something for years and years and years. You
let it get into the civic bloodstream, and then when
facts show otherwise, there's no need to apologize, or people
have already settled on particular error, at least some people have,
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and then mission accomplished.
Speaker 11 (33:34):
That's exactly what we had here, although.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I did enjoy the kind of squirming by Jothly and
the Lamir, who is a snake. He's such a weasel,
such a little twerp, which is why he fits in
well as the host of Morning Joe's millionth Hour, whatever
that is. But notice that they made him do it.
They didn't make the Gluzy come back on and squeal
and squirm. They let someone else do it. But it
(33:58):
was also saying, please don't CNN US.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Curtis.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Is that what these media organizations are doing now when
they have to add these disclaimers. We see the view
has to do this about every five minutes. They'll tell
some outright lie about somebody and then they'll have to
give a legal disclaimer on it. Now, that is just
because we started suing, right, Oh.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Yeah, that's exactly what this is, Jesse, And I'm glad
that we're in moving any direction back towards some accountability
but it's not about trust, and it's not that they
actually feel sorry. They're just doing it because they don't
want to get sued. Well, let's think about this. If
you don't want to get sued, then maybe you shouldn't
just make crap up on the spot. But that's who
(34:43):
we're dealing with. Frank Thegluozy is a guy who is
repeatedly referred to parents at school board organization's school board
meetings as terrorists. He has said that they are a
national security threat. This is the deep state gunk that
we are dealing with as a country. He doesn't care
about the average citizen. And to think for years, people
(35:04):
like Frank Fagluozy, we're serving as FBI agents as US attorney,
that we're arresting and putting people behind bars with these
kinds of deep disgust and hatreds for certain groups of Americans.
You just wonder about what these agencies have been up
to for all of these previous decades. But it's about
time that just because Donald Trump came in, you know
(35:26):
now these media organizations are running scared and because of
the work of Zachary Young suing CNN for having ruined
his life as a paramilitary contractor. We're starting to see
some sort of a little bit inching back towards some
sense semblance of normalcy.
Speaker 11 (35:44):
But it cannot stop. You can't be satisfied.
Speaker 9 (35:46):
So whenever the sixty minutes thing comes down for the
Kamala Harrison interview another donation to the Trump Library, you
can't just say that you're satisfied. People need to keep
the boot on the throat.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Curtis another person they keep lying about. They can't help
themselves as Pete hagg Seth. This is very obviously something
they're not going to let go because it's not a
twenty four hour news cycle. They're on this and they
won't let off it. What do you make of their
problem with Pete hagg Seth.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
Well, I think a couple of things.
Speaker 9 (36:17):
Number One, he's not a suit at the Pentagon who
has spent years leaking to all of these snibbling reporters
like Natasha Beartrand at CNN. You can tell that she
has a personal animus against him. Has leefally been working
publicly and probably privately behind the scenes to try and
get rid of him because he again is he pointed
(36:38):
out in his hearing, which I thought was a really
from an image standpoint, was good have someone who has
dust on their boots, who actually wasn't sitting in an
air conditioned room inside the green zone of o Iraq,
who actually was out, who actually saw battle, who was
actually there with the rank and file, who was one
of the rank and file. They can't stand that. And
(36:59):
then two, what he actually wants to do to get
rid of this communist, anti family nonsense out of the Pentagon,
to actually enact standards for our military that we are
the strongest, most lethal fighting force known to man, that
we can actually be that again. And so all of
those things put together just to hate from the press
(37:20):
because he worked at Fox and what he wants to
do inside the Pentagon, plus just hating him because he's
a Trump nominee, all of those things put together show
that he probably is enemy number one, which we saw
in our study with the Network Evening used cast a BCCBSMEBC.
He was one hundred percent negative, whereas the president was
back at ninety two percent. Elon Musk and RFK Junior
(37:44):
all well below that. There's a reason why he is
or hated depending on who you're listening to, than the President.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yah Curtis, tell me about defunding NPR and PBS.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
What happened here?
Speaker 11 (37:58):
Yeah, on Friday or day night. It was one of
those things.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
After eleven pm Eastern, the President sound on executive order
to basically defund PBS and NPR and also direct other
government agencies to cease funding these organ uh cease giving
out grants like DHS, National Dowmage for the Humanities had
to give money to PBS and NPR. The Corporation for
Public Broadcasting is this board that oversees them, and those
(38:26):
seats are appointed by the president. They've since come out
and said we're an independent agency. Well, you're appointed by
the president. You serve with the pleasure of the president,
so screw off. But this is something that a Republican
president should done. You talk about this all the time, Jesse,
doing what you actually campaign on doing, and Republicans this
is one of many issues where they haven't shown a
(38:46):
spine for decades, where they just said that they want
to defund PBS and NPR and then they don't actually
do it because they get scared of, oh, you want
to kill big bird or whatever crazy reason. Kids won't
be able to read now or something like that well,
the President actually had the stones to do something about it.
Congress needs to now do something about it. Unfortunately, this
is going to end up in the courts where you know,
(39:08):
these far left judges, they're the ones that are carrying
around the PBS and NPR tote bags when they do
those funding pledges. These are the kind of people that
call in. So it's going to be a fight all
the way to the Supreme Court. I think on this
particular issue.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Every dagon thing all right, which brings me to Jen Saki,
because Jen Saki, she was talking about covering up Biden's
decline and saying it's a cover up is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Here she was.
Speaker 17 (39:33):
I left in May of twenty twenty two, just for
the facts here, and I have seen Biden once since then,
when I took my daughter to the holiday party this
last December after he had lost and so I hadn't
seen him in person during that period of time. I
never saw that person, not a single time. And I
was in the Oval office every day that was on
(39:55):
that debate stage. I'm not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly.
Cover Up is a very loaded term, I think.
Speaker 15 (40:02):
Well means you knew that it was really bad and
you're pretending otherwise versus you're diluting yourself, which I think
is what people do a lot.
Speaker 17 (40:07):
Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover
up is often like a crime, right we're talking.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
People use that to say it's worse than the crown.
Speaker 17 (40:15):
People use that term as they relate to water Gate
or the covering up of not sharing public information about
a war.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And I'm not accusing anybody of a crime.
Speaker 17 (40:23):
I understand, but other people have used that term, and
I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, they covered everything up, and Jensaki knew the entire thing.
I know from my sources, and I don't have sources
like you have. I know that she was actually frustrated
they wouldn't let her see the president because he was
so dementia addled half the time.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yeah, and I've heard as well that you know, she
definitely had some teeth that all those folks that are
saying if you actually would try to report on the president,
you would try to hold his feet to the fire
on this usue with that issue, she was vehement in
defending him or threatening reporters.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
So I would just say it's.
Speaker 9 (40:58):
A very low bar, of course, Jess, but she's a
way better liar and more eloquent. She speaks in complete
sentences compared to Korean Jean Pierre, which is why I
guess the last few years were just you know, there's
some dark gallows humor to what was going on. But
with her, because she's so well spoken, She's definitely she's
the epitome of the Karen who asks to speak to
(41:21):
the manager because you know, the one hundred dollars dinner
is not exactly cooked the way it was shown on Instagram.
I think Karen is an overused term, but I think
she is definitely the fit. She embodies that, she's the
personification of that. I think back to it with documentary
at the end of the Obama years that CNN did
(41:42):
you know she They followed her on her way to
the White House one day and she was just like, well,
I'm just apparent, just like all of you. I sing
the wheels on the bus go round and round with
my kids too. It was the biggest, single, biggest joke
that I've ever seen in terms of someone in easy
trying to relate to the American people. It just sticks
with me years later, because it was just so pathetic
(42:03):
and insane. You know, this is who she is, and
that's why Democrats hire her admitiration after administration, position after position,
because she's pretty good at it. But you know, at
this point, we even we know the truth about Biden
when it comes to somebody as demented and struggling as
he was, uh, truly cover that up.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
And plus she had to call it a holiday holiday party,
these freaking people. Curtis, thank you, brother, I appreciate it.
Holiday party, that's day giveaway right there. Anyway, today's a holiday,
a big one. We're going to talk about it or
light in the mood next. Ohlah, it's time for light
(42:55):
in the mood. It's a sinko demayo. And you know
how cultural I am. I'm obviously a well traveled man.
I abla many different languages and dialects which may actually
be the same thing, but you understand what I'm saying.
And so today it's Cinco de Mayo. This is a
day that is sacred in Mexico, and we thought, in
(43:19):
honor of this sacred holiday, we thought it would be
appropriate to name the top three Cinco de Mayo foods,
not three Mexican foods really, But I digress. So first
let's start at number three. Hold the suspense, if you will,
is enchiladas. Now I have to put a little disclaimer
on this.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
This could have been number one. It just depends on
the enchilada.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
This goes back to the pizza versus cheeseburger debate. In general,
pizza is going to be better than a cheeseburger. That said,
nothing beats a perfect cheeseburger. Nothing a perfect cheeseburger is
better than that. But they're not all perfect. Way, most
enchiladas are very good, and so that's why they're on
number three. You get the right one. It's everything, it's everything.
(44:11):
But anyway, for our purposes, now it's number three. Number
two an iconic Mexican dish fried ice cream. There's actually
this little Mexican joint right up the road from where
I'm sitting right now. They do this authentic thing with
their fried ice cream where they take cinnamon toast crunch
and they crunch it up and then they bread the
ice cream. And that a Mexican tradition like no other,
(44:35):
which brings us to the final and superior Mexican food.
Everybody already knows that. Let's not give it away here,
but everyone knows. Drum roll nachos, nachos, and don't scoff
at that.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
They're everywhere for a reason.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Maybe you were thinking I was going to say tacos
or burritos or a chepy.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Janga or frahetas or all that stuff. Is fine. They
sell those at the baseball game. They sell nachos.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
They sell nachos everywhere, gas station nachos, Mexican restaurant nachos.
Nachos are available everywhere because.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
They're the best. It's that simple, suitable
Speaker 14 (45:17):
Mmmm.
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