What do you know about finances?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• What do you know about finances?

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Speaker 4 (00:31):
We begin our show today talking about finances and what
you know about finances and what you don't know about finances,
what you learned and who you learned it from, and
what prompts this conversation which we seem to have every
now and again is gen Z. No, if you're a
part of gen Z, I'm not blaming you may start

(00:52):
to the imagination. In fact, they're plenty of other people
I can blame for what's wrong with gen Z, but
what is perceived to be wrong with gen Z A
gen Z seems to understand that they have a money problem.
They have a spending money problem. At least according to
some of these studies, sixty three percent of gen Z
knows that they have a money problem. Thirty nine percent

(01:16):
by the way, they feel like they're being judged for
how they're spending their money, or is I guess some
people would say misspending their money. Thirty nine percent say
it's family members mainly who are judging them and how
they're spending their money. They're easily influenced by things like
social media to spend money on things they can't afford,
and to not save money and to not budget money

(01:38):
the way they should. They were talking about it on
The Big Money Show on Fox and now.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
This gen Zers are experiencing what they're calling a quarter
life crisis, not midlife quarter life, and this stems from
high living costs and being influenced into debt through social media.
This comes as sixty three percent of the generation claims
they feel judged for how they spend, with nine percent
of that judgment coming from their own families. Of course,

(02:03):
gen Z says schools are are to blame for not
setting them up holy cal with positive financial habits.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's not my fault. Okay, So two thoughts.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
The statute of limitations on blaming other people for your
debt problems expires in your mid twenties. Time for you
to take control. Stop blaming your parents, stop blaming the school,
own it, and learn you have the best smart computer
at your fingertips.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
To google what you need.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
That being said, I actually do feel sympathy towards this
generation where I feel blessed. I had parents, I think,
as we all did, who My dad taught me how
to balance my first checkbook when I was little, helped
take me to the bank, open an account. Help me
understand when you do a positive check, I have to
earn double because I have to pay taxes to.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Then give you this amount.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
There are a lot of people whose parents didn't do that,
couldn't do that, didn't have the time to do that.
So at some point, I do think that it does
fall upon our education system, which is why I think
so many people Brian can speak to this don't trust
our education system right now because they are failing in
learning basic life necessities like balancing an income statement and

(03:19):
an expense statement.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Right right on, Brian to you, you know, these people
in their twenties are facing double the costs for buying
a house. Right Millennials have forty thousand dollars on average
in debt from college.

Speaker 7 (03:32):
I mean, what do you say to this, Well, I
think it's a tragedy that in this country we have
both had politicians leaders who have made it their desire
to get kids into college and then saddle them with debt.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
And on the other hand, a government that.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
Has encouraged all of that, that has sent all this
money their way. But you know, the quarter life crisis,
Why do you have to view it as a crisis.
Why don't you view that as an opportunity to get
things right?

Speaker 4 (03:58):
I love that. That's the betterude, right, Why not view
this as an opportunity to get things right? But you
know the point, I guess the point, at least part
of the point of all this is, is who's to
blame for this? Who's the blame for us having kids
who are too influenced by social media and spend money

(04:19):
on things they can't afford, Like this is the first
generation you ever spend money on things they can't afford.
I mean, come on, we're all familiar with us. We've
all done that. I'm a baby boomer. When I was young,
I spent money on things that I couldn't afford, and
I got in credit card debt, and like most people,
I had to dig my way out of it. I
think the difference. Part of the difference is that we

(04:42):
adulted at a younger age. Therefore we figured it out
at a younger age I was. I was, I was
much closer to twenty than I was to twenty five
or twenty six or twenty seven when I figured all
this out. Where I think the gen Zers are just
now figuring it out. You know, as they approached thirty
years old, that maybe they didn't, you know, make such
great decisions. But at the end of the day, you know,

(05:06):
I think we just need to do a better job
of teaching young people about the responsibility of money and
setting up budgets and you know, buying things that you
can't afford, not things you can't afford. We did a
little talkback segment this morning on our morning show on
kat r H about this is what some of you
had to say.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
Skip from Webstern.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's the parent's fault.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
We buy them cell phones when they're twelve years old
because Grace has one and Caitlyn has one, therefore I
need one too, and that cell phone tells them what
to do with everything and when to do it and
do it now.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Of course, half of the gen Zers.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
That voted for Kamal are to blame it on Donald
Trump anyway, because it's never their fault.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Well, that's the thing I mean you got. You can
only blame it on somebody else for so long, and
then at some point in time you have to own
it yourself, don't you.

Speaker 9 (05:54):
Hey, Jimmy Sean from Pasadena, we had it in high school.

Speaker 10 (05:59):
We had a high class called Senior Survival where they.

Speaker 8 (06:02):
Taught us all these things.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
About cooking and money and how to down balance and
checkbook all those fun things.

Speaker 9 (06:10):
Yes, we got it at home too, but it was
nice to get.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
It at school.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Well, a lot of kids don't get it at home
because their parents were not necessarily responsible with money. If
you want to take this back, I'm trying to think,
if you want to take it back, it's back to
its origins. I think the baby Boomer generation was the
one that kind of, you know, they were indulged. Let's say, said,
and I'm a Boomer, I understand we were indulged as

(06:39):
children because our parents came out of the Great Depression
and there were a lot of things they didn't have,
and they wanted their kids to have the things they
didn't have, so they over indulged on us and we
got spoiled, and we got used to the things that
we wanted to have and we wanted to continue that
lifestyle as we became young adults, so we spent money
we didn't have. And then we had kids, and we

(07:00):
didn't really talk to them that much about money, and
they really didn't learn much from us about it, and
they start making some mistakes, and their kids they don't
know anything about money. See, here's the thing. If you
don't know anything about money, you can't pass it along
to your kids. So at some point in time, I
think we're going to have to incorporate this into the
education system. I'm glad to hear that we do have

(07:23):
some educational systems where this seems to be working, where
they seem to be teaching kids about this. But I
think that basic household finance, how to balance a checkbook,
how to pay your bills, how do you determine what
you're going to afford to spend on your credit card
and be able to pay it off at the end
of the month. These are all things that we should
be teaching in school that many schools don't teach. Maybe

(07:47):
ifew do, but very very few do, and we need
to do more of it. I consider it to be
an important life skill. I can guarantee you that the
vast majority of young people need this a whole lot
worse than they need trigonometry or even algebra. For goodness sakes,
have you used algebra that much since you got out
of school? I haven't. I don't remember the first thing

(08:09):
about algebra. But if I you know, whatever I have
learned about personal finance. Yeah, that's that's something you can
use for the rest of your life. All right, quick
little break back with morning. I'm a Jimmy Barrett show
here on AM nine fifty KPRC. It has been a very,

(08:39):
very busy and not so nice time in Los Angeles, California,
where the professional rioters are out there and for I
think three or four nights in the road they were
burning cars and you know, doing doing what the the
Antifa types like to do. I assume that's what we're
talking about here. We'll get into that in our next segment.
I had a couple of interviews on our morning shows

(08:59):
today on KATE that I'm going to replay for you.
I think you might find interesting. One of them is
with Aron Vateello. He's the former chief US Border Patrol
and retiring retired acting ICE Director and also FBI special
agent and Navy Seal Jonathan gilliam One is more about
what has happened and how the government of California has responded,

(09:20):
especially into getting help from the Trump administration with the
National Guard, which they claimed they didn't want, and because
they didn't want it, and because the President feels that
it's necessary to have them there. The National Guard right
now is under federal control in California and Los Angeles.
So we'll get in all that stuff in detail, but
for now, I thought i'd set a few things up

(09:41):
for you here, including some reaction to what has happened
and how it's being handled. We start with r n C.
That's Republican National Committee Chairman about this one. He's going
to comment. Michael Wattley will comment on how the government
in California's handled this thing so far.

Speaker 11 (10:01):
You know, this is the culmination of democratic leadership on
illegal immigration. You know, this is a group of people
that are in California right now because Joe Biden brought
him in to California and we're seeing right now democratic
leadership from Governor Newsom and Karen Bass who's doing everything
that they can to try and defend the illegal immigrants

(10:22):
that are in that state instead of getting them out there.
The fact that they are pushing people to attack ICE,
they are pushing people to push back on ICE. As
we've heard already tonight. It's an absolute disgrace. But this
is what happens when we see the democratic illegal immigration
policy fulfilled.

Speaker 8 (10:39):
Well.

Speaker 11 (10:39):
Look, President Trump made it very clear the reason that
he is sending in the National Guard is because the
Democratic leadership of California and Los Angeles is not going
to take steps and he's not going to allow what
happened in Minneapolis and other cities back in twenty twenty
happen again. Yeah, Look, twenty twenty four was a referendum
on a couple different issues. Obviously, the ECONO he was

(11:00):
very big, but illegal immigration was number two issue that
we saw in that entire election cycle. The American people
do not want ten fifteen to twenty million illegal immigrants here,
and they certainly do not want violent, criminal illegal aliens here.
Donald Trump said that he was going to move those
illegal aliens out when he was a candidate. That's exactly

(11:21):
what he's doing right now. And it's not surprising that
we're seeing pushback from Governor Newsom, from Mayor Bass and
other leaders in the Democratic Party for the president keeping
the promises that he made during the campaign.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
There you go. See.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I look at it this way, and we'll get into
this in our next segment here. But I don't look
at this as some sort of a spontaneous reaction to
ICE operations in the Los Angeles area. I look at
this as a well organized response to ICE operations in
Los Angeles, something that was pre planned and executed, as

(11:58):
they always are. You know, these things do not pop
up spunt. I mean, there are some people there that
probably are there, you know, after this this whole thing started.
But this whole thing began, you know, this is a
bunch of socialists who would like to overthrow the country
or at least create chaos. They do not support democracy,
They do not support our republic. They support socialism. They

(12:20):
would like this country to be a socialist country, and
they are happy to do their parton to try to
make that happen. For what little, you know, good it's
doing so far. I don't think this works with the
population in general. I don't blame I only blame the
population of California for continuing to vote for people like
Gavin Newsom and then Karen Bess. I mean, there's plenty

(12:44):
of ulter and liberal progressives out there, there's no I mean,
it's Los Angeles, for God's sakes. I'm sure there are
plenty of people out there that support them. But as
you take a look at what these rioters are doing,
and they we had the same thing here in Houston.
You know, they've got Mexican flags, they've got free Palestine stuff.

(13:05):
I mean, it's it's it's that group. It's that group
that the same people that support free Palestine are out
there riding over ice and the people that they have
removed in Los Angeles so far. These are people with
criminal records. These are people with criminal records. Some of
them need sex crimes, you know, several of them murder charges.

(13:31):
These are not nice people. This is this is not
the kind of people that normal people would want to
protect from deportation. And they had protesting going on here
in Houston as well. Now the difference is is in
Los Angeles, you know, you've got thousands of people participating
in this, and here in Houston you've got maybe one hundred.
And it's the usual crowd in the usual spot. Right

(13:51):
they're walking through Montrose, you know it's the Montrose crowd
that's participating in the protesting, so but the you know
TV course paid attention to it despite the fact that
there's very few people participating it. Here is a report
on it, and take a listen to the protester at
the end of her personal involvement in this and why

(14:11):
she's so upset. This is the report from our television
partner KPRC too.

Speaker 12 (14:16):
We just actually passed the overpass bridge over the Southwest
Freeway in the last ten minutes. But in the two
hours we've been at this protest, it's been largely peaceful.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
You can probably hear some chanting.

Speaker 12 (14:27):
I'm going to have my photo journalists turn around to
show you some of the protesters holding up signs, a
lot of them.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Saying things like quote.

Speaker 12 (14:34):
No one is illegal, I'm stolen land. Many people also
holding Mexican and Palestine flags, along with flags of other countries.
Speaking with them today, they tell me they believe immigrants
are being unfairly targeted. One protester I spoke to says
the issue is a personal one to her.

Speaker 13 (14:52):
My dad was deported in the last Trump presidency and
it just he wasn't okay under twenty four hours. He
was already deported from being detained over an easy tag
like ticket thing.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
And it's just not right.

Speaker 13 (15:11):
You know, how they treat them, how they talk to them.
I mean, that is the same person who picked your fruit.

Speaker 12 (15:19):
The Trump administration says, as of April, ICE has supported
more than one hundred and thirty nine thousand illegal immigrants.
Following the protests in LA, Secretary of Homeland Security Christy
Nomes says ICE will not be slowing down on enforcing
the law. Now back out your life. Protesters have been
out here since about one point thirty two o'clock gathering

(15:40):
to prepare for this rally.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
So that there you go. That that's the report. You
heard the the the young woman talk about her father
deported during the first Trump administration, and she's talking like
he got deported over an easy tag, the easy tag
ticket thing. That's why they deported him. That's not for

(16:05):
that's not right. Well, basically it sounds like what happened
was that's how they caught him, is that he evidently
either didn't have an easy tag and got you know,
got sent a ticket, and they discovered who he was
and deported him. In other words, somebody here who's illegally

(16:25):
he got deported, not because of his easy tag ticket.
He got deported because he's here illegally, and because he
was using the easy tag system illegally, he got caught.
So there's two there's two times he broke the law.
But but, but, but, but it's not that big a thing, right,

(16:46):
It's amazing how we justify these things. You know, breaking
the law. Breaking the law is no big deal if
you don't think the law pertains to you, I guess,
or if the law is not important. So you know,
we don't think that we should be deported for not
coming into this country legally. But and I guess I
to a certain extent, I guess maybe I can understand
a little bit as to why you might think that, because,

(17:08):
after all, that's that's how the Biden administration made you
feel that it was no big deal. There are no borders,
there should be no borders. And oh, by the way,
the signs basically a lot of the signs we're talking about.
You can't be here illegally on stolen land. So the
the other philosophy is is that this land was stolen

(17:31):
from the Mexican government. Therefore, if I'm Mexican. I should
be able to be here because this really is a
part of Mexico, or at least it should be. That's
not what the border says. The Mexican government lost a
war to the United to the United States lost several wars.
In fact, first they lost to the Texans and then

(17:52):
then they also lost the Mexican American War. They lost
two wars, and you know, hey, the victor goes to
the spoils. Sorry that this is part of the United States,
and that's not going to change. You can think that
the occupation is illegal, but that don't make it so.
So there you go, all right, next segment coming up.

(18:14):
Had a couple of guests on the Morning show today.
I think this will wrap up our conversation about what's
been going on and Los Angeles saw this protesting very well.
We'll talk with share some audio with Ron Vottello, former
Chief US Border Patrol, retired acting ICE Director, current CBP
Senior Advisor and also FBI Special Agent and Navy Seal
Jonathan Gilliam. Moore's about what has happened with Ron Vittello,

(18:37):
and the other one is more about what's behind it
all with the FBI Special Agent and Navy Seal Jonathan
Gilliam back with more in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show,
You're an AM nine fifty KPRC.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
All right, so this segment, we are going to share
a couple of interviews from our.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Morning show today on KTRH, both having to do with
the rioting going on in Los Angeles and at some
point in time, probably in other parts of the country.
It's summertime, you know, That's when the anarchers, anarchists like
like summer. They like June, July, August. Those are the
bunks they'd like to come out in riot. So I'm
guessing the Los Angeles thing is is first, and then

(19:29):
whatever next big city has some ice rates going on,
will that will probably be where they move their traveling show.
But let's start with the reasons behind all this, what
led to all this, you know, and more importantly, I
guess how the whole thing is being handled from a
political standpoint in California, because Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor

(19:51):
Karen Bass are not cooperating in the least with the
Trump administration or with ice. Ron Vittello is a former
chief US Border Patrol retired Acting ICE Director, current SEE
senior advisor. He was on with us this morning on
our morning show on KTRH. Ron Vottello Joints is former
chief US Border Patrol, retired acting ICE director, current CBP

(20:12):
senior advisor. Welcome to the show, Ron, Welcome back to
the show. I should say, thanks for coming on here
today writing me.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
You bet so. The National Guard is there.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
It's under the direction of the federal government because evidently
the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of California
doesn't want the National Guard there. They'd rather let the
city burn.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (20:32):
They've not taken the responsibility that they are sworn to
uphold to protect the citizens of Los Angeles. They would
rather coddle these protests. And let's face it, it's not
a protest when you burn down cybercabs or whatever the
heck those things are out there that are torched last
night that we all saw. It is not a protest

(20:53):
when you throw fireworks or rocks at police or police cars.
And so that the city and the state and we
will all watch them circle the drain for the last
decade or so. And now this is another opportunity for
them to step up and show leadership.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
And what do they do.

Speaker 9 (21:09):
They complain about Donald Trump. They complain about the lawful
activity performed by federal offerss in the form of ICE,
the DEA and the FBI, who are in Los Angeles
for one purpose, to meet the mandate that the voters
voted for in its last election to remove criminal aliens

(21:29):
from cities like Los Angeles and other cities and towns
all over the United States. And so Los Angeles had
a chance here to show the world they weren't as
terrible as they look mostly on television, but they didn't
take it. And Gavin Newson wants to blame Donald Trump
for the chaos while he's asking these renom bobs, you know,

(21:52):
the Antifa types, he's asking them to stand down. At
the same time he's ridiculous, and his public comments and
his action as a leader prove it.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, he's calling it a manufacturing crisis by the federal government,
you know, because of our immigration policy. Virtually everybody who's
been arrested. There's been been quite a list of people
who've been arrested during this ICE operation in Los Angeles,
and most of them have a rap sheet longer than
both both of our arms. So we're not we're arresting
it again. We're arresting people you would like to think

(22:24):
that the people of Los Angeles would not want to
have on their streets. And of course the result of this,
as you said, is you've got a basically a bunch
of anarchists who are being paid off by socialists to
show up into Riote and to set things on fire
in the city that had a wildfire that did great
damage to it not that long ago. You would think
the last thing they want to see in Los Angeles

(22:44):
right now is more fires.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
Yeah, no doubt. And like I said, you know, this
is an opportunity for the leadership in Los Angeles and
California at large to step up. They didn't do it.
And let's face it, you know, like where you're at
in Houston and most cities and towns in America, including
Los Angeles, the hard working folks that get up every day,
you know, and put their eight or nine or ten

(23:07):
hours in and grind away so they can put food
on the table, send their kids to a decent school
in a decent neighborhood. They're not out there doing they're
not protesting isis presence in LA This is a manufactured
crisis by the left of people with masks on who
want to burn things down, who want to torch our
cities and towns, not because you know, they're trying to

(23:30):
protect illegal alien criminals, which is what they're kind of
actually doing, but just because they believe in chaos. And
obviously Gavin Newso hates Donald Trump more than he loves
the people of Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, no doubt. I mean that it is an attempt
to overthrow the government. That's all there is to it.
That's why these protests are continuing. That You're right, It
has nothing to do with protecting illegal alien criminals. It
has everything to do with creating chaos, that's right.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
And I said, you know, the activity that ICE and
other federal agencies are engaged in is designed to protect
all of us, to take these criminals off the street
and send them back from where they came. And people
like Karen Bass who want to denounce the president and
the policy, people like Hakeem Jeffries who want to go

(24:20):
out and call the President all kinds of names and
talk about you know, dosing and identifying the ICE agents
who are doing lawful activity, both of which Hakim Jeffries
and Karen Bass when she was in the House, funded
as part of their responsibility in the legislature of the
three branches of government. She funded ICE detention, she funded

(24:40):
ICE positions, she funded ICE fugitive operations. And so for
her to now come out and say this is unnecessary
or it's an unnecessary escalation, it's just hypocritical on the
largest scale.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
All right, Ron, thanks as always, good to talk you, sir,
appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (24:55):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
That's uh again, Run Vitel, former Chief US Border Patrol,
retired acting ICE Director, current CBP senior advisor. So here's
the bottline. Is the Trump administration within the rights to
do what they're doing. Yeah, of course, of course they are.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Do.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
If you were to pull the people of Los Angeles,
you might find some sympathy for these rioters and what
it is they're doing. But I think we would probably
be maybe surprised to find out that there are plenty
of people there who don't appreciate what's going on, who
don't appreciate what they're doing, who want who wants the

(25:40):
California government to accept the cooperation with the Trump administration
and get this thing under control. I think that's the case.
I really do. Here's an attorney in Los Angeles, attorney,
so I'm guessing, you know, I'm guessing he's not an
ultra conservative guy. His name is Matt Murphy. Here he
is talking about the LA riots and what the law
says about what it is they can and should be doing.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
This is a really interesting area. The governor of every
state typically has control over their their state based national
guard for civil unrest, okay, but the president can invoke
it under the circumstances that you listed, including failure to
essentially enforce federal law with local forces. And you know,

(26:22):
this is a gray area. It's something that will probably
be debated for a long time. But this is for
a lot of Angelina hosts, including the people that I
was with last night. It's pretty outrageous that Gavin Newsom
is fighting him on this. You know, we just had
fires burned down the Pacific Palacage and now you're seeing

(26:43):
these these arsons. So the images that we saw that
came out yesterday in the day before, where you have
people that are actively attacking federal agents. I think that
the Pam BONDI would argue that this is an example
of a circumstance where local forces are incapable of enforcing

(27:03):
the law, when federal agents who are enacting federal law
that's been on the book for decades are unable to
do their job because they're physically being attacked by people
with impunity.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
So I think that that would be the argument. But
the real issue is we.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Can, you know, ban about words and debate all day long,
but as they say, talk is cheap, and I would
kind of like to see my city not burned down
for the second time in the same.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, I don't blame you. I don't blame you
at all. It wouldn't, you know.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
As much as I detest California, in Los Angeles in particular,
I don't want to see that city burned. I think
there's plenty of law binding citizens there who don't support
but the governor is doing it. Of course, they keep
electing people like him, so in some ways you kind
of get what you deserve, right at least you should
know what you're getting when you when you vote for
a Gavin Nusomb or a Karen Bass. You'd like to

(27:54):
think they would know better, just like I would like
to think that the people. If Houston would know better
then to vote for some of the people is that
they've voted for, But clearly they don't, which is why
we have that situation here. So there are easily fooled
or gullible people everywhere you go in coding California. I
just wonder how many more people turn the lights off

(28:14):
and leave California for good, depending about how bad this
gets and how long it lasts. I don't know how
you continue to live somewhere where there's no respect for
your personal safety, where there's no where they're more concerned
about how they're treating the rioters than they are the
people who are the victims of the rioters. You know,

(28:37):
another case of where the criminals are the ones that
are being coddled, and the law buying citizens are left
to fend for themselves. All right, quick little break, We
are back with more in a moment. Stick around, please,
Jimmy Barrett A M nine fifty KPRC. All right, were

(29:07):
spent a little time talking about the feud, you know,
Elon and and Donald Trump. Just a little more in
the feud here today, including a story that came out
and evidentely there's some truth to it. I don't know how,
I don't know exactly what happened, but there's some truth
that evidently Elon Musk and the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen

(29:28):
got into it at a meeting and gives a little
back and forth going on. I think Elon is was
miffed about you know, how much, you know, how much,
how little, in his mind, how little cutting occurred in
the big beautiful bill, which is why he called it
a big abomination, And the Treasury Secretary, you know, was

(29:51):
kind of talking back with Elon and and and and
feelings were starting to get hurt. So evidently the Treasury
Secretary says something Elon about well, cuts, I thought you
were going to come up with the trillion dollars with
the cuts, and you can get it anywhere near that.
So they're kind of going back and forth, and evidently
it got physical. It got physical. The report is that

(30:13):
Elon Musk pulled it like a rugby or a football
move on Scott Bessen and just basically kind of crashed
into him around the ribs. No punches, at least as
far as I hear, no punches were thrown, but it was,
you know, he got a little out of hand there
and President Trump. Even President Trump thought he got out
of hand. But anyway, on the talking head shows yesterday,

(30:35):
Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, got asked about
a couple of things, including that. So here she is
talking about the physical altercation or trying to answer the question.
She was asked by Maria Barta Rama on Sunday Morning
Futures about the physical altercation between the Treasury Secretary and
Elon Musk.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
Well, look, when this story originally broke, I said from
the podium that there have definitely been healthy disagreements amongst
the cabinet and Elon Musk. There were times in which
they got frustrated with one another. But I think that
really speaks to the heart of this cabinet in the
President's team, that they can have these robust disagreements and

(31:15):
then still come together to do what's right for the
people they are serving. And you saw when President Chump
graciously sent Elon Musk back to his companies. Secretary Bessant
was there in the Oval Office along with Secretary Lutnig
and Stephen Miller.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I was there, the Chief of.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
Staff was there, and we were all hoping for the
best for Elon, and I think it's unfortunate that now
that he's gone back to his companies, he is lambasting
this bill that he was very much supportive of by
all accounts. I mean, he never spoke out against it
until he went back to his companies.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
And that's okay.

Speaker 10 (31:46):
He has a right to speak for his companies. But
the President and the Treasury Secretary in this whole cabinet
are working on behalf of the country, so everyone is
focused on moving forward.

Speaker 14 (31:55):
Now, one of the reporters, apparently on ABC, I saw
your tweet about and you Shay last night in a
sense deleted post, so called journalist Terry Moran went on
a rampage against Steven Miller. What happened, Caroline.

Speaker 10 (32:09):
Well, ABC is going to have to answer for what
they're again. So called journalist put out on Twitter in
the wee hours of the night, calling Stephen Miller vile.
They said that President Trump is a world class hater.
And this is again coming from someone who is supposed
to be an unbiased and professional journalist. This is unacceptable

(32:29):
and unhinged rhetoric coming from someone who works at a
major television network. We have reached out to ABC they
have said they will be taking action, so we will
see what they do. But I think this speaks to
the distrust that the American public have in the legacy media,
and it's why in the White House Press Shop and
in President Trump's White House, we have made so many

(32:51):
significant and much needed changes to press access and transparency
at the White House.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
We've invited in new.

Speaker 10 (32:57):
Media, we have shaken up the White House press pool,
and also just one a major victory over the Associated
Press who thought that they had a constitutional right to
walk into the Oval Office or to fly on Air
Force One, and a judge said no, in fact, those
are privileged spaces that belong to the President of the
United States, and this is a great ruling for democracy.

(33:19):
We fought them in court and we won, and so
we will continue to keep a hold journalists accountable. All
we're asking for is truth and transparency.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, and here's what happened as result.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
ABC News has suspended this correspondent, Terry Moran for posting
that critical assessment, if you will, of President Trump and
Stephen Miller on social media. He called both Trump and
Miller quote world class haters, and of Trump, he said
he feeds off of hatred for quote his own self glorification.

(33:52):
So ABC News of course says, well, we are we
believe in impartiality and blah blah blah blah, all the
things they don't really believe in objectivity and impartiality. And
he has been suspended pending an investigation. My guess is
the suspension mold lasts long, but you know they're kind
of forced into having to do that, or just kind

(34:13):
of give up any pretense of trying to pretend that
somehow you're neutral, right, that you don't really care about that.
What more thought on the feud here? Greg Guttfeld still
riffing about the Trump Musk feud. Here's what he had
to say Friday night. If you missed it, don't let a.

Speaker 15 (34:29):
Self inflicted wound ruin progress for millions of Americans. Remember,
the mission is always bigger than the relationship, and part
of that mission is doze and through dose. The President
in Elon showed how our taxes are being laundered to
support illegal left wing causes and revealing bureaucracies like USAID
to be as corrupt as my computer files after I

(34:50):
clicked that email link about Korean teens. In other words,
all of us should remember that the goal is the product.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
It's one that can live forever.

Speaker 15 (35:01):
It's like when David Lee Roth and Eddie van Halen
had their falling out. Sure he had to deal with
Sammy Hagar for a while, but the magic that Dave
and Eddie created it lives on forever. Even today, if
you hear Hotford teacher in a bar, you'd bang missus
doubt fire. So Trump and Musk, we need them as

(35:24):
a team for the sake of our country's future. And
they both need to admit the amazing work they've already
done and that there's much more work left to do.
And every second they spend infighting is a chance for
AOC to look slightly less retarded. So I hope this
gets settled, but if it doesn't, we will lovingly accept

(35:46):
that such disagreements are aired out in the open. We
voted for it, and unlike the Dems, we'll take a
feud over a fraud any day.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Yeah, I would agree with that. I would agree with that,
take a feud over fraud any day. I mean, these
people are who they are, they don't pretend to be
something they're not. That's kind of refreshing anywhere near the
world of politics. Right with Trump, you know exactly what
you got, and with must, to a certain extent, the
same kind of thing. They are who they are. You

(36:15):
don't get to their positions in life without developing a
rather large ego. And when you have two large egos
in the room, one of them is bound to get
hurt at one point in time or another. Hey, listen, y'all,
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