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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's
momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back,
our confidence is back, and the American Dream is surging
bigger and better than ever before.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
This will be our greatest era.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
With God's help, over the next four years, we are
going to lead this nation even higher, and we are
going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and
most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of
this earth. We are going to create the highest quality
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of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and
most vital communities.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The vast frontiers of science, and we are going to
lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on
the planet Mars and even far beyond. And through it all,
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we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the
American spirit, and we are going to renew unlimited promise
of the American Dream.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Every single day, we will stand.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Up and we will fight, fight for the country our
citizens believe in, and for the.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Country our people deserve.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future because
the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It
will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Honors you get to join you on this the National
Day of Prayer for President making remarks earlier today in
a prayerful home, hopeful, upper tunistic positive note. I feel
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he struck number of listeners. We're not a breaking news show,
but I will speak to this because I can tell
people who are upset about it emailing me very concerned
with with Mike Waltz being out as National Security Advisor
after the signal chat leak. Let me say to you, folks,
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to be more like the Democrats. Focus yourself on the cause,
on the movement, and understand that the pieces are interchangeable.
Don't worry about winning every battle, don't worry about things
that are not important. You know, the serenity prayer. God
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grant me the strength to accept the things I can't
change and the wisdom to know which those are or
something to that effect. Okay, yeah, you're right, I bungled
it all right. Let me take a deep breath and
remember it is. God grant me the serenity to accept
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the things I cannot change, the courage to change that's right, yeah,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to
know the difference. Well, it's not like I prepared ahead
of time. I had to remember it. That's it. God.
I remember things by I wrote. So when I first
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learned things, whether it be the prologue to the Canterbury
Tales or the message behind Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson
Memorial in DC, I just say it over and over again.
So I get into a routine, and you know, everybody
has their their tricks, but I've got to say the
words exactly because one word off and train gets off
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the offtra. God grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So, folks,
we have been on a honeymoon. You understand this. This
is literally referred to in political jargon as a honeymoon.
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Trump didn't get the honeymoon most do, but I'll tell
you this, he got more of a honeymoon this time
than he did the last time because he insisted on
it because he bulldozed his way through the honeymoon. You're
going to have to stay focused on the movement because
you burn yourself out. We're going to lose some people
along the way. It might be Pete Hegseth, it might
be Christy Noum, it might be Marco Rubio. I don't
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know that they're gonna be people we're gonna lose along
the way. It is the movement that matters. It is
the war that matters. And do not fall in love
with people because they are expendable, I'm telling you, And
this is Trump's approach. He understands that there are transactional
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relationships you can really like somebody. I despised Mike Pence.
I despised him the moment he was chosen. I despised
him as vice president, and I despised him more than
ever now. And Mike Pence is one of the kind
of guys that are supposedly Republican who work harder to
undercut Donald Trump than any Democrat ever has. And the
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other one, who's the big fat guy that was Secretary
of State, Mike Pompeo, Pompus Pompeo, Chris Christy you get
all these guys around Trump that are you know, they're
working as hard as they can. Who was the woman
that was the Trump advisor and her husband? Uh, he's
a big fat guy. He wanted to be uh, he
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wanted to be attorney general, than he wanted to be
an advisor to the president. He got neither. What was
her name. She was a little bit older, blonde haired,
she's real, real, real sharp than She ended up kind
of splitting with Trump and then came back to you.
But anyway, what point of all of this is stay
focused on what matters here, folks. Stay focused on what matters,
and that is saving the country, winning the cause. We're
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gonna have some scandals, or suppose it scandals. There's gonna
be some people who are cut loose because they cause problems.
This is the first. There will be many the later
you go into an administration. I've been at this for
a long time. The later you go into an administration,
the more you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose people that
make mistakes. They're gonna have sexual pecadillos, they're gonna have
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a drug problem, they're gonna have a financial problem, they're
gonna have they're gonna get in a fight, They're going
to get a DWI. It's just gonna happen. Meanwhile, how
bad is it for the Democrats? Kamala Harris making her
first major remarks after her embarrassing, humiliating election loss, and
it's not good.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
In fact, please allow me, friends to digress for a moment.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Okay, it's kind of dark in here. When I'm asked
for show of hands? Who saw that?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
From a couple of weeks ago, the one of the
elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
During the earthquake.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Google later did not see it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
The scene has been on my mind.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Everybody's asked me what you've been thinking about these.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Days long.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Michael Barry's shows the International Monetary Fon The IMF was
one of many international organizations that was used to meddle
in the affairs of third world countries. It was a
way for the globalists to control the third worlders. You
give them some money and that gave you control. When
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my wife was growing up, the IMF, the United Nations,
all these were they were very respected in India. That's
why that was the reason she wanted to be an economist.
At the time, economists were very well respected in India
because economists provided the labor statistics and manufacturing and agriculture
data and analysis that the international organizations would use to
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figure out how exactly they were going to control these people.
And the IMF was an organization that was in these
third world countries considered very important because they wrote the
checks and pretended to care about the third world countries.
But as Scott Bessant, President Trump's Treasury secretary, who, by
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the way, is doing a great job. Is he the
most powerful homo in America?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Today?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Who's more? Elton John may not be in the Mare,
he might be in England right now? If you tell
Elton John out, is he the most powerful homeow in America?
And why is nobody celebrating him? Right? You think during
Gay Pride Month? You think during Gay Pride Month they're
going to say, Scott Bessant, he's a hero, he's one
of us. No, No, they're not. And that's sad. That's sad. Anyway,
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here's what he had to say. I like this guy
a lot.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
YE was once unwavering in its mission of promoting global
monetary cooperation and financial stability. Now it devotes does proportion
of time and resources to work on climate change, gender.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And social issues.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
These issues are not the IMF mission, and the ims
focus in these areas is crowding out its work on
critical macroeconomic issues. The IMF must be a brutal truth teller,
and not just to some members today IMF. The IMF
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has been whistling past the graveyard. It's twenty twenty four
external Sector report was entitled in Balances. Receding This pollyannish
outlook is symptomatic of an institution more dedicated to preserving
the status quo than answering the hard questions.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The Federal Reserve Chairman is appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate for a four year term. The
Federal Reserve sets monetary policy. And I'm assuming you know
what that means, but in case you don't, that is
what affects the interest rate at which you can borrow money.
So if you borrowed money for a mortgage at eight
and a half percent versus two and a quarter percent,
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those rates, the rate at which the bank borrows and
then sets rates for you, the end consumer, are set
by the Federal Reserve. The FED and as Ron Paul
said and his son after him ran It's an evil
organization up to no good. Jerome Powell was confirmed for
his second term as chairman of that evil empire in
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May of twenty twenty two. If that position can be
filled by the president, then does the president have the
power to fire the chairman? If he doesn't, then that
person is the most powerful person in the country, right,
And that's what we're going to find out. See Trump
proves you don't just go hey, people will say he
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can't fire the FED chairman. So Trump understands, you fire
him and then you force the case. This is how
you bring change. Senator John Kennedy from Wisyanna was on
Meet the Press and he said he didn't think any
president should have that power. Now I'm playing this for
all of you who love the little bone moots of
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John Kennedy. Oh, John Kennedy's great. He's like Will Rogers.
He's the folksy until it comes time that you need him,
and he'll always always let you down.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Tensions have been mounting between the President and the FED chair.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
Would you support President Trump removing Jerome.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Powell as FED chair?
Speaker 13 (12:46):
I don't think the president, any president has the right
to remove the Federal Reserve chairman. I think the Federal
Reserve ought to be independent. I think that j Powell
and President Trump need to sit down and once gain
have a hug and a cup of hot coco and
work it out. My experience with Jay Powel is that
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he's got Tiger Blake. He's going to do what he
thinks is right, and he's not going to go down
in history as the Federal Reserve chairman that allowed inflation
to become wild as March hare and he's going to
do what he thinks he's got to do.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The CEO of Azoria, James Fishback, was on Fox Business
with Charles Pain when he said the Fed cut rates
before the election to help Kamala Harris. You understand how
this works, right. They cut the interest rate so you
could borrow for less. That stimulates economic activity. They did
that to try to help Kamala Harris. Because when things
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are going well, you're more likely to support the party
that's in power. When they're not going well, you're more
likely to oppose them. That's why they don't want to
lower interest rates because that would stimulate the economy, and
they don't want that to happen. For Trump.
Speaker 14 (13:58):
For every one republic economists who works at the Federal Reserve,
there are ten Democrat economists. For every one dollars donated
from FED employees in the twenty twenty election, ninety seven
cents went to Democratic candidates or causes. The rate cut
that had no justification in unfundamentals of the economy before
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the election, was designed to throw Kamala Harris a lifeline.
And now when there's a real justification with lower inflation
in the midst of a trade negotiation, a real justification
for lower rates, j Powell wants to do absolutely nothing
except stand in the way. And so it's right that
President Trump is calling this out. He has many options
in front of him. But I just wish that Jerome
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Powell would do the right thing, look at the facts,
look at what his colleagues in Europe and Canada and
England are doing, and lower rates to support our economy
in this critical transition period.
Speaker 15 (14:49):
So day's many are concerned, myself included at firing Pal
at this very second. With the market as fragile ad
as is, can actually do more harm than good. Some
have also talked about as shadow FED chair. Would you
be open to that?
Speaker 14 (15:03):
I would be open and I would be honored if
the President would consider me for shadow FED share. I've
been following this for a decade now, looking very closely
at FED policy and its implications not just on the
stock market, Charles, but on real America. As we speak,
President Trump is meeting with the executives of companies like Walmart,
Home Depot, and Target. He regularly meets with farmers, the
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unemployed retirees. J Powell just sits around listen into whatever
four hundred PhD economists say talking about racial injustice and
climate change. We need a FED that is accountable to
the American people and the focuses on the real economy.
To your question, I'm going to be very honest with you.
If President Trump decided to fire J. Powell right now,
the stock market would panic. But at the end of
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the day, our founding fathers would not want us to
make long term decisions based on the short term emotions
of a highly volatile market. I think the President should
consider his options, and at the end of the day,
ultimately the American people and history, not the stock market,
are going to decide his faith.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
While we're on the sub finances, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.
We think he's doing a great job. He said something
that resonated with me. He said everyone should care about
financial literacy, and I agree with this.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Everyone should care about financial literacy, whether you are a
student with a summer job or a part time job
during school, whether you're in college, whether you're starting your career,
or whether you are at the end of your career.
Making good financial choices creates economic security.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And look, it's fun.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
You learn about the markets, you learn how to.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Have almost went the Lawless God of Marc the Michael
Berry Show. I've had a lot of them to me
that they should have been taught. I wish they'd been
taught in school how money works. But it's not just
in school. Read Thomas Soul's Basic Economics. Just start there
and educate yourself on how the system works. People don't
understand compounding interest. They don't understand the effects of debt,
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they don't understand the effects of equity, they don't understand
any of these things. You've got to teach yourself not
whine about it, because if you don't understand the rules
of the game, then you're you're not going to win.
You want to know who hadn't learned the lessons about
basic economics. Oakland's mayor elect, Barbara Lee. This is Barbara
Lee during one of the debates leading up to her election,
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advocating for a fifty five zero dollar minimum wage. Good grief.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
You're calling for a fifty dollars an hour federal minimum wage.
That's seven times the current national minimum wage of seven
to twenty five an hour. Can you explain how that
would be economically sustainable for small businesses? You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
First, let me say I owned and ran a small
business for eleven years.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I created hundreds of.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Jobs, benefits, retirement benefits, also.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Held care benefits.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
I know what worker productivity means, and that means that
you have to make sure that your employees are taken
care of and have a living wage. In the Bay Area,
I believe it was the United Way came out with
the report that very recently one hundred and seven twenty
seven thousand dollars for a family of four is just.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Barely enough to get by.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Another survey, very recently one hundred and four thousand for
a family of one barely enough to get by low
income because of the affordability crisis, and so Just do
the math.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Just do the math.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Of course, we have national minimum wages that we need
to raise to a living wage. You're talking about twenty
five dollars, Fine, but I have got to be focused
on what California needs and what the affordability factor is
when we calculate this wage.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
MISLEI thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It was just over a year ago when California raised
the state's minimum wage to twenty dollars, and do you
remember what happened? Do you remember the rising wages?
Speaker 16 (19:01):
California's fast food workers started earning more money today, twenty
five percent more than they were making yesterday. The pay
raise could mean higher prices at some restaurants and has
reportedly prompted at least one Central Valley business to shutter today.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
The employees of the Foster's Freeze and the more showed
up for work but got their.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Last paycheck instead.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
Actually, news anchor and Garcia was in the war tonight
and talked to workers about the abrupt closure.
Speaker 17 (19:26):
Some of the people who worked at this Foster's Freeze
thought it was an April Fool stage joke until they
saw the clothes sign for themselves and reality sunk in.
Speaker 18 (19:35):
I was like okay, uh huh, April fools before all,
my warder not April fools. I realized that she was
not joking. I drove straight over here and got my
last check.
Speaker 17 (19:47):
Mornica Nevado got a phone call from her general manager
informing her the location would not open for business again.
All day would be customers drove in and away as
they learned what the employees learned Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
How does that feel to show up and there has
not be a job.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Jarring? It's like, okay, you can go home, and then
it's like I thought I was.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Gonna work today.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
It's hard to take it when there was no notice
at all.
Speaker 17 (20:18):
The closure comes the same day California's minimum wage for
fast food workers rises to twenty dollars an hour. Economic
experts have been predicting closures and layoffs in the months
leading up to the hike.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Most of the time, not all of the time, the
business owners have to pass those costs increased onto the consumer.
Speaker 17 (20:38):
At this Foster's freeze, the assistant general manager tells us
that was supposed to be the plan increased prices and
shortened shifts.
Speaker 18 (20:46):
He had to actually talk to us like we were
preparing to pay twenty dollars an hour, like it wasn't
a possibility of us closing. He had said, like, all right,
on the schedules, we're going to run smaller crews. We're
gonna do a little bit of shorter shifts. People are
gonna get the hours cut a little bit, but we'll
be to make it work.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
We're going to raise some prices. But like we're good.
Speaker 17 (21:03):
That all changed Monday morning, Nevado says, the owner told
her he just couldn't afford to pay the new minimum wage.
We called him to ask about the closure.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Any recording.
Speaker 17 (21:18):
Hi, Lauren, this is Nick Garcia column from ABC thirty.
At the time of this broadcast, we have not heard
back from him. Now, his former employees are worried about
finding a new job.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Look for a job, because what else am I gonna
do besides to look for a job because I don't
have one anymore without notice, And.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
The challenge of finding a.
Speaker 17 (21:37):
New job for some of the people here comes is
they're trying to pay tuition for college and deal with
other expenses.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Also challenging for all involved, both.
Speaker 17 (21:45):
The workers and the business owners, is inflation, making cost
cutting all the more difficult. In Lamar on Nick Garcia,
ABC thirty Action News.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Peter Thiel is the co founder of PayPal. Smart guy. Oh,
we're talking about most powerful homos. He's up there, but
I think Scott Bess Treasury Secretaries is higher. He sat
down with Joe Lonsdale and they were talking about doge
and waste and fraud and abuse that's been found, and
Peter Thiel said, virtue signaling is a sign of doing
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something evil.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
What do you think of doge?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Speaking of efficiency gangs, it's like, can they get half
a trillion dollars with dogs?
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Like?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
What can they do?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
What do you think given me be more?
Speaker 19 (22:26):
I think there's a lot you can get. There's gonna
be a lot of resistance to getting it. You have
to you know, the the correct answer is just you
need you know it is always my correct you know
the my answer on.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Tax policy, you know what, sh your tax rates be
just always.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
A little bit lower.
Speaker 19 (22:43):
I'm not gonna tell you the number. They should always
be a little bit lower. And you know how much
should it should always be? The government should be more
efficient and then once you made it more efficient, you
should make it more efficient. And there's a lot of
room for that and there's a lot of so there's
a lot of shocking stuff.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
They're funny even I would want to limit it to half.
I don't know.
Speaker 19 (23:01):
It's it's it's a four trillion dollar and you will
spend budgetings.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I think I think it's higher.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
And of course you know, a lot of that's entitlements.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But I think I think I think six and a
half now, actually I guess I think fourths that we're
taking in forwards. Some things were taken in. We're spending
six and a half because three point eights entitlements is
a lot.
Speaker 19 (23:18):
And but even even the non entitlement pieces, you know,
is incredibly is incredibly off.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, and entilement's had lots of fraud too, probably, but
I usually I've been a little bit shocked, like I
knew there was waste, but there seems like a lot
of scams they're finding. I guess, like a lot more scams,
I guess than I think there's scams.
Speaker 19 (23:34):
I think the nonprofit stuff is really out of control.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
It's it's it's sort of like.
Speaker 19 (23:40):
I don't know, it's it's it's sort of like virtue
signaling is a sign that you're doing something evil and
and so many, so much of this uh left wing philanthropy,
nonprofit world, I think was you know, it was just
a cover for you know, borderline criminalize.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's how you shelled your soufia, put a virgie signal
players stealing money if you have everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Peter Thiel said, since Trump's inauguration, he's been the most
hopeful he's ever been in a long time. And this
is a guy who wants to travel to Mars or
live out in the sea, and this is a guy
who thinks on a plane that I can't even imagine.
Speaker 19 (24:15):
I'm the most hopeful I've been about things in a
in a long time. I think, uh, I think there
are some very deep problems that need to be fixed.
I think, uh, I think the opposition is completely exhausted
and out of ideas and so so it's it's it's
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maybe the first time since since early Reagan that there's uh,
there's really an opportunity to to uh to change some
things in this country. And it's not the sort of
lame Bush Republican thing we had in the you know,
for for a long time in between. And I don't
think it's the completely sabotaged first Trump administration where you
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had I don't know, it got blocked on every level
outside and inside the administration. So I think they will
get you know, it's very unusual. Normally the second term
does less than the first term. This is going to
be the I think people will.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Be the real first.
Speaker 15 (25:15):
They are telling you what's called onesies, these little things
clothing for a baby.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Like Mauda Barry Share. You're one of of these onesies.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The polling shows Democrats strange was going to have very
very low approval ratings, horrible approval ratings. So that's why
the media keeps saying Trump's bad. His numbers are forty four,
Democrats are twenty five. Put it into perspective. So Democrat
Congressman James Clapperton, the guy who brought you Joe Biden.
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He was on MSNBC, And you gotta admire these people.
You know, I have buddies that are lawyers that have
to represent murderers or drug dealers or whatever else. And
and and you know, or hired guns or hired assassin.
They make jokes about it. You know, I get paid
to lie. One of my buddies, a criminal defense attorney
Dan Congle, says, I get paid to lie. The other day,
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I said, you know, everybody thinks you're a liar, and
he goes, I get paid to lie. That's what I do.
I'm an advocate, and in the purest sense, that's what
a lawyer does. He says things that he may or
may not believe because his job is to provide advocacy
or a canon, and that's for his client. That's hard
for people to understand, but at least he's honest about it, right,
and we have a lot of fun with that. But
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James Clavern, he's supposed to be a trustworthy guy. He's
supposed to be somebody who's a leader, but he's not.
He's an idiot. He said with a fate, with a
straight face, that Democrats have a great message. Their only
problem is the media, because the media is not left
wing enough. So what you have here is both sides
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blaming each other for the mess they got themselves in.
Speaker 20 (26:56):
Well, I'll think the message that courently do a kind
of party. It's a good ad mess. It's the problem
we've got is that we have to depend upon the
media to deliver it. If we have the Washington Post,
for instance, uh, caving to this we'll to be dictated.
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And we've got other media entities that seem to rather
push a narrative that will bring eyes to their newspapers
or to their television sets and not really give a
fear sharing or reporting to what we're doing. And I
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have to rely upon people like yourself. You do a
great job of this. That's why I like coming on
your shows on the weekend, because you do a real
good substantive reporting of what the issues are around us.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But when you've got people say we're not going to fact.
Speaker 20 (27:57):
Check, we're not gonna worry about where not you tell
the two and just let the reproachs go out there,
that's what's killing us as Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Ramon, did you watch The Office? I never watched The Office? Okay, well,
but I know who the characters are a lot of
memes about him, and I know I was. I meant
to talk about this other day. I don't know if
I got to it, but Rain Wilson is a lefty
who was famous for playing the character of Dwight shreot
Am I pronouncing that right on the Office? He sat down. Oh,
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it's been probably a week ago now. With MSNBC, Stephanie rule,
and she says that the public has a lack of
faith in the media and that that's because of Donald
Trump and Elon Musk. And he was supposed to say
that's true. Trump and Musk are bad guys, but for
some reason he didn't, which is surprising considering what he
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does for a.
Speaker 21 (28:51):
Living of Americans don't trust mainstream media.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 22 (28:56):
How do we get here?
Speaker 12 (28:57):
Listen, we are seeing a huge loss in trust of
all of our institutions. It's the media, it's medicine, it's banking.
It's a huge problem because when you think about democracy
and all of these pillars, they need to stand tall,
they need to stand strong, and sort of losing that
trust is not by accident, it's by design. If you
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remember when President Trump was running the first time, Steve
Bannon once said, the goal is to blow the whole
thing up.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
And so I think.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
That you've got mistakes made or things starting to slip. Well,
at the same time, there's a concerted effort to destroy
the media, because the media, that the news media is,
in my opinion, the last slide of defense of holding
power accountable.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Right, And you had a bit of.
Speaker 12 (29:45):
A perfect storm, right, President Trump won and tons of
people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they're tuning out.
And at the same time you have the Elon Musk
media machine because they want you to leave traditional media
and they want you to go to X, which is
a bastion of misinformation or there is no fact checking.
So it's a perfect storm of people saying, I'm angry,
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I'm frustrated, I'm tuning out, I'm disconnecting, and then you
have a force pushing it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
But even in the last two weeks.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
What we need to do is just cover what's happening
in America.
Speaker 18 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 12 (30:22):
We have to cover Democrats trying to figure out what
their lane is and how they're going to get back
on their feet, and we have to simply cover what
this White House is doing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I think if we.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Do that right, there's that saying, you know, trust is
gained in rain drops and it's lost in buckets, and
it's not a yes, you're not incorrect that the media.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Has lost trust.
Speaker 21 (30:43):
This is where I would push back when I see
this kind of insight and passion being directed at the
current administration and the lack of this kind of insight
and passion being directed at the previous administration, where again
I'm not talking about you, talking out left leaning news
media organizations were kind of like.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
La la la, la la, everything's fine with the environments.
I mean, look, the economy's great, La la la.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Immigration's not that much of a problem.
Speaker 21 (31:11):
And really, being Cleopatra Queen of denial, thank you boom.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I could literally do an entire show with highlights of
Scott Jennings just humiliating his colleagues at CNN, just humiliate him.
He told Jeff Jarvis and Abby Phillips that the reason
the public has lost in the media has Sorry, the
reason the public has lost faith in the media should
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be obvious to them, but we all know it's not.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Hello. Scott has.
Speaker 23 (31:45):
Taken advantage of this situation, I think quite cleverly, quite wisely.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
They've played into a weakness.
Speaker 23 (31:53):
What situation, the situation of media being under attack, and
so they've created the situation.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
They've almost got it keep going.
Speaker 24 (32:01):
What the right wing has taken advantage of is finally
the American people saying enough is enough. They're tired of
feeling like the mass media screens out one viewpoint versus
another in political coverage. They're tired of media institutions favoring
one party over another. They're tired of narratives over factual stories.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
If I had any.
Speaker 24 (32:21):
Advice for sixty Minutes or anybody else, it would be
just cover the news and try to be fair about
it and stop putting your finger on the scale.
Speaker 23 (32:30):
Especially that's that you're you're you're talking about the old
mass media myth that you could have this thing that
was in the middle of the Walter Cronkite saying that's
the way it is.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
When it wasn't for many.
Speaker 23 (32:41):
Americans the way it was when people were passive.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Those who trusted the media didn't know.
Speaker 23 (32:45):
They just couldn't be heard because there was no two ways.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Now we have the Internet.
Speaker 18 (32:48):
Look at that.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Now it was here and now it's here.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's falling off.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Of a camp.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
We do have.
Speaker 22 (32:54):
We do have that gallop pulling it terrible in media
and now as in recent years, and let's be honest, Scott,
a lot of this is driven by the rhetoric of
the wer side.
Speaker 13 (33:03):
Of what.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You think.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
It's driven by the rhetoric, not the perform absolutely.
Speaker 24 (33:09):
But my point is this, if your CBS or any
other news outlet, the reason that you have lost trust
ought to be obvious to you, and the way to
fix it also ought to be obvious to you. And
it has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything
to do with the product.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Just try to make a.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Better product that appeals to more people.
Speaker 24 (33:24):
And the way you appeal to more people is by
not crapping on half or more than half of the
country because of their values
Speaker 22 (33:30):
And political view I think that is a fair just
if we were sort of on another planet, out of contact,
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's
momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back,
our confidence is back, and the American Dream is surging
bigger and better than ever before.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
This will be our greatest era.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
With God's help, over the next four years, we are
going to lead this nation even higher, and we are
going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and
most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of
this earth. We are going to create the highest quality
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of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and
most vital communities.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Anywhere in the world. We are going to conquer.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
The vast frontiers of science, and we are going to
lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on
the planet Mars and even far beyond. And through it all,
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we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the
American spirit, and we are going to renew unlimited promise
of the American Dream.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Every single day, we will stand.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Up and we will fight, fight for the country our
citizens believe in, and for the.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Country our people deserve.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
My fellow Americans, get ready for an incredible future because
the Golden Age of America has only just begun. It
will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Honors you get to join you on this the National
Day of Prayer for President making remarks earlier today in
a prayerful home, hopeful, upper tunistic positive note. I feel
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he struck number of listeners. We're not a breaking news show,
but I will speak to this because I can tell
people who are upset about it emailing me very concerned
with with Mike Waltz being out as National Security Advisor
after the signal chat leak. Let me say to you, folks,
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to be more like the Democrats. Focus yourself on the cause,
on the movement, and understand that the pieces are interchangeable.
Don't worry about winning every battle, don't worry about things
that are not important. You know, the serenity prayer. God
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grant me the strength to accept the things I can't
change and the wisdom to know which those are or
something to that effect. Okay, yeah, you're right, I bungled
it all right. Let me take a deep breath and
remember it is. God grant me the serenity to accept
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the things I cannot change, the courage to change that's right, yeah,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to
know the difference. Well, it's not like I prepared ahead
of time. I had to remember it. That's it. God.
I remember things by I wrote. So when I first
(04:40):
learned things, whether it be the prologue to the Canterbury
Tales or the message behind Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson
Memorial in DC, I just say it over and over again.
So I get into a routine, and you know, everybody
has their their tricks, but I've got to say the
words exactly because one word off and train gets off
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the offtra. God grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change, the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So, folks,
we have been on a honeymoon. You understand this. This
is literally referred to in political jargon as a honeymoon.
(05:22):
Trump didn't get the honeymoon most do, but I'll tell
you this, he got more of a honeymoon this time
than he did the last time because he insisted on
it because he bulldozed his way through the honeymoon. You're
going to have to stay focused on the movement because
you burn yourself out. We're going to lose some people
along the way. It might be Pete Hegseth, it might
be Christy Noum, it might be Marco Rubio. I don't
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know that they're gonna be people we're gonna lose along
the way. It is the movement that matters. It is
the war that matters. And do not fall in love
with people because they are expendable, I'm telling you, And
this is Trump's approach. He understands that there are transactional
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relationships you can really like somebody. I despised Mike Pence.
I despised him the moment he was chosen. I despised
him as vice president, and I despised him more than
ever now. And Mike Pence is one of the kind
of guys that are supposedly Republican who work harder to
undercut Donald Trump than any Democrat ever has. And the
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other one, who's the big fat guy that was Secretary
of State, Mike Pompeo, Pompus Pompeo, Chris Christy you get
all these guys around Trump that are you know, they're
working as hard as they can. Who was the woman
that was the Trump advisor and her husband? Uh, he's
a big fat guy. He wanted to be uh, he
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wanted to be attorney general, than he wanted to be
an advisor to the president. He got neither. What was
her name. She was a little bit older, blonde haired,
she's real, real, real sharp than She ended up kind
of splitting with Trump and then came back to you.
But anyway, what point of all of this is stay
focused on what matters here, folks. Stay focused on what matters,
and that is saving the country, winning the cause. We're
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gonna have some scandals, or suppose it scandals. There's gonna
be some people who are cut loose because they cause problems.
This is the first. There will be many the later
you go into an administration. I've been at this for
a long time. The later you go into an administration,
the more you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose people that
make mistakes. They're gonna have sexual pecadillos, they're gonna have
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a drug problem, they're gonna have a financial problem, they're
gonna have they're gonna get in a fight, They're going
to get a DWI. It's just gonna happen. Meanwhile, how
bad is it for the Democrats? Kamala Harris making her
first major remarks after her embarrassing, humiliating election loss, and
it's not good.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
In fact, please allow me, friends to digress for a moment.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Okay, it's kind of dark in here. When I'm asked
for show of hands? Who saw that?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
From a couple of weeks ago, the one of the
elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
During the earthquake.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Google later did not see it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
The scene has been on my mind.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Everybody's asked me what you've been thinking about these.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Days long.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Michael Barry's shows the International Monetary Fon The IMF was
one of many international organizations that was used to meddle
in the affairs of third world countries. It was a
way for the globalists to control the third worlders. You
give them some money and that gave you control. When
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my wife was growing up, the IMF, the United Nations,
all these were they were very respected in India. That's
why that was the reason she wanted to be an economist.
At the time, economists were very well respected in India
because economists provided the labor statistics and manufacturing and agriculture
data and analysis that the international organizations would use to
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figure out how exactly they were going to control these people.
And the IMF was an organization that was in these
third world countries considered very important because they wrote the
checks and pretended to care about the third world countries.
But as Scott Bessant, President Trump's Treasury secretary, who, by
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the way, is doing a great job. Is he the
most powerful homo in America?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Today?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Who's more? Elton John may not be in the Mare,
he might be in England right now? If you tell
Elton John out, is he the most powerful homeow in America?
And why is nobody celebrating him? Right? You think during
Gay Pride Month? You think during Gay Pride Month they're
going to say, Scott Bessant, he's a hero, he's one
of us. No, No, they're not. And that's sad. That's sad. Anyway,
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here's what he had to say. I like this guy
a lot.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
YE was once unwavering in its mission of promoting global
monetary cooperation and financial stability. Now it devotes does proportion
of time and resources to work on climate change, gender.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And social issues.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
These issues are not the IMF mission, and the ims
focus in these areas is crowding out its work on
critical macroeconomic issues. The IMF must be a brutal truth teller,
and not just to some members today IMF. The IMF
(10:37):
has been whistling past the graveyard. It's twenty twenty four
external Sector report was entitled in Balances. Receding This pollyannish
outlook is symptomatic of an institution more dedicated to preserving
the status quo than answering the hard questions.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The Federal Reserve Chairman is appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate for a four year term. The
Federal Reserve sets monetary policy. And I'm assuming you know
what that means, but in case you don't, that is
what affects the interest rate at which you can borrow money.
So if you borrowed money for a mortgage at eight
and a half percent versus two and a quarter percent,
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those rates, the rate at which the bank borrows and
then sets rates for you, the end consumer, are set
by the Federal Reserve. The FED and as Ron Paul
said and his son after him ran It's an evil
organization up to no good. Jerome Powell was confirmed for
his second term as chairman of that evil empire in
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May of twenty twenty two. If that position can be
filled by the president, then does the president have the
power to fire the chairman? If he doesn't, then that
person is the most powerful person in the country, right,
And that's what we're going to find out. See Trump
proves you don't just go hey, people will say he
(12:03):
can't fire the FED chairman. So Trump understands, you fire
him and then you force the case. This is how
you bring change. Senator John Kennedy from Wisyanna was on
Meet the Press and he said he didn't think any
president should have that power. Now I'm playing this for
all of you who love the little bone moots of
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John Kennedy. Oh, John Kennedy's great. He's like Will Rogers.
He's the folksy until it comes time that you need him,
and he'll always always let you down.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Tensions have been mounting between the President and the FED chair.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
Would you support President Trump removing Jerome.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Powell as FED chair?
Speaker 13 (12:46):
I don't think the president, any president has the right
to remove the Federal Reserve chairman. I think the Federal
Reserve ought to be independent. I think that j Powell
and President Trump need to sit down and once gain
have a hug and a cup of hot coco and
work it out. My experience with Jay Powel is that
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he's got Tiger Blake. He's going to do what he
thinks is right, and he's not going to go down
in history as the Federal Reserve chairman that allowed inflation
to become wild as March hare and he's going to
do what he thinks he's got to do.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The CEO of Azoria, James Fishback, was on Fox Business
with Charles Pain when he said the Fed cut rates
before the election to help Kamala Harris. You understand how
this works, right. They cut the interest rate so you
could borrow for less. That stimulates economic activity. They did
that to try to help Kamala Harris. Because when things
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are going well, you're more likely to support the party
that's in power. When they're not going well, you're more
likely to oppose them. That's why they don't want to
lower interest rates because that would stimulate the economy, and
they don't want that to happen. For Trump.
Speaker 14 (13:58):
For every one republic economists who works at the Federal Reserve,
there are ten Democrat economists. For every one dollars donated
from FED employees in the twenty twenty election, ninety seven
cents went to Democratic candidates or causes. The rate cut
that had no justification in unfundamentals of the economy before
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the election, was designed to throw Kamala Harris a lifeline.
And now when there's a real justification with lower inflation
in the midst of a trade negotiation, a real justification
for lower rates, j Powell wants to do absolutely nothing
except stand in the way. And so it's right that
President Trump is calling this out. He has many options
in front of him. But I just wish that Jerome
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Powell would do the right thing, look at the facts,
look at what his colleagues in Europe and Canada and
England are doing, and lower rates to support our economy
in this critical transition period.
Speaker 15 (14:49):
So day's many are concerned, myself included at firing Pal
at this very second. With the market as fragile ad
as is, can actually do more harm than good. Some
have also talked about as shadow FED chair. Would you
be open to that?
Speaker 14 (15:03):
I would be open and I would be honored if
the President would consider me for shadow FED share. I've
been following this for a decade now, looking very closely
at FED policy and its implications not just on the
stock market, Charles, but on real America. As we speak,
President Trump is meeting with the executives of companies like Walmart,
Home Depot, and Target. He regularly meets with farmers, the
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unemployed retirees. J Powell just sits around listen into whatever
four hundred PhD economists say talking about racial injustice and
climate change. We need a FED that is accountable to
the American people and the focuses on the real economy.
To your question, I'm going to be very honest with you.
If President Trump decided to fire J. Powell right now,
the stock market would panic. But at the end of
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the day, our founding fathers would not want us to
make long term decisions based on the short term emotions
of a highly volatile market. I think the President should
consider his options, and at the end of the day,
ultimately the American people and history, not the stock market,
are going to decide his faith.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
While we're on the sub finances, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson.
We think he's doing a great job. He said something
that resonated with me. He said everyone should care about
financial literacy, and I agree with this.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Everyone should care about financial literacy, whether you are a
student with a summer job or a part time job
during school, whether you're in college, whether you're starting your career,
or whether you are at the end of your career.
Making good financial choices creates economic security.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And look, it's fun.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
You learn about the markets, you learn how to.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Have almost went the Lawless God of Marc the Michael
Berry Show. I've had a lot of them to me
that they should have been taught. I wish they'd been
taught in school how money works. But it's not just
in school. Read Thomas Soul's Basic Economics. Just start there
and educate yourself on how the system works. People don't
understand compounding interest. They don't understand the effects of debt,
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they don't understand the effects of equity, they don't understand
any of these things. You've got to teach yourself not
whine about it, because if you don't understand the rules
of the game, then you're you're not going to win.
You want to know who hadn't learned the lessons about
basic economics. Oakland's mayor elect, Barbara Lee. This is Barbara
Lee during one of the debates leading up to her election,
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advocating for a fifty five zero dollar minimum wage. Good grief.
Speaker 11 (17:33):
You're calling for a fifty dollars an hour federal minimum wage.
That's seven times the current national minimum wage of seven
to twenty five an hour. Can you explain how that
would be economically sustainable for small businesses? You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
First, let me say I owned and ran a small
business for eleven years.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I created hundreds of.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Jobs, benefits, retirement benefits, also.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Held care benefits.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
I know what worker productivity means, and that means that
you have to make sure that your employees are taken
care of and have a living wage. In the Bay Area,
I believe it was the United Way came out with
the report that very recently one hundred and seven twenty
seven thousand dollars for a family of four is just.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Barely enough to get by.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Another survey, very recently one hundred and four thousand for
a family of one barely enough to get by low
income because of the affordability crisis, and so Just do
the math.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Just do the math.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Of course, we have national minimum wages that we need
to raise to a living wage. You're talking about twenty
five dollars, Fine, but I have got to be focused
on what California needs and what the affordability factor is
when we calculate this wage.
Speaker 10 (18:52):
MISLEI thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It was just over a year ago when California raised
the state's minimum wage to twenty dollars, and do you
remember what happened? Do you remember the rising wages?
Speaker 16 (19:01):
California's fast food workers started earning more money today, twenty
five percent more than they were making yesterday. The pay
raise could mean higher prices at some restaurants and has
reportedly prompted at least one Central Valley business to shutter today.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
The employees of the Foster's Freeze and the more showed
up for work but got their.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Last paycheck instead.
Speaker 12 (19:21):
Actually, news anchor and Garcia was in the war tonight
and talked to workers about the abrupt closure.
Speaker 17 (19:26):
Some of the people who worked at this Foster's Freeze
thought it was an April Fool stage joke until they
saw the clothes sign for themselves and reality sunk in.
Speaker 18 (19:35):
I was like okay, uh huh, April fools before all,
my warder not April fools. I realized that she was
not joking. I drove straight over here and got my
last check.
Speaker 17 (19:47):
Mornica Nevado got a phone call from her general manager
informing her the location would not open for business again.
All day would be customers drove in and away as
they learned what the employees learned Monday morning.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
How does that feel to show up and there has
not be a job.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Jarring? It's like, okay, you can go home, and then
it's like I thought I was.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Gonna work today.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
It's hard to take it when there was no notice
at all.
Speaker 17 (20:18):
The closure comes the same day California's minimum wage for
fast food workers rises to twenty dollars an hour. Economic
experts have been predicting closures and layoffs in the months
leading up to the hike.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Most of the time, not all of the time, the
business owners have to pass those costs increased onto the consumer.
Speaker 17 (20:38):
At this Foster's freeze, the assistant general manager tells us
that was supposed to be the plan increased prices and
shortened shifts.
Speaker 18 (20:46):
He had to actually talk to us like we were
preparing to pay twenty dollars an hour, like it wasn't
a possibility of us closing. He had said, like, all right,
on the schedules, we're going to run smaller crews. We're
gonna do a little bit of shorter shifts. People are
gonna get the hours cut a little bit, but we'll
be to make it work.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
We're going to raise some prices. But like we're good.
Speaker 17 (21:03):
That all changed Monday morning, Nevado says, the owner told
her he just couldn't afford to pay the new minimum wage.
We called him to ask about the closure.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Any recording.
Speaker 17 (21:18):
Hi, Lauren, this is Nick Garcia column from ABC thirty.
At the time of this broadcast, we have not heard
back from him. Now, his former employees are worried about
finding a new job.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Look for a job, because what else am I gonna
do besides to look for a job because I don't
have one anymore without notice, And.
Speaker 8 (21:36):
The challenge of finding a.
Speaker 17 (21:37):
New job for some of the people here comes is
they're trying to pay tuition for college and deal with
other expenses.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Also challenging for all involved, both.
Speaker 17 (21:45):
The workers and the business owners, is inflation, making cost
cutting all the more difficult. In Lamar on Nick Garcia,
ABC thirty Action News.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Peter Thiel is the co founder of PayPal. Smart guy. Oh,
we're talking about most powerful homos. He's up there, but
I think Scott Bess Treasury Secretaries is higher. He sat
down with Joe Lonsdale and they were talking about doge
and waste and fraud and abuse that's been found, and
Peter Thiel said, virtue signaling is a sign of doing
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something evil.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
What do you think of doge?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Speaking of efficiency gangs, it's like, can they get half
a trillion dollars with dogs?
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Like?
Speaker 8 (22:23):
What can they do?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
What do you think given me be more?
Speaker 19 (22:26):
I think there's a lot you can get. There's gonna
be a lot of resistance to getting it. You have
to you know, the the correct answer is just you
need you know it is always my correct you know
the my answer on.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Tax policy, you know what, sh your tax rates be
just always.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
A little bit lower.
Speaker 19 (22:43):
I'm not gonna tell you the number. They should always
be a little bit lower. And you know how much
should it should always be? The government should be more
efficient and then once you made it more efficient, you
should make it more efficient. And there's a lot of
room for that and there's a lot of so there's
a lot of shocking stuff.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
They're funny even I would want to limit it to half.
I don't know.
Speaker 19 (23:01):
It's it's it's a four trillion dollar and you will
spend budgetings.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I think I think it's higher.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
And of course you know, a lot of that's entitlements.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But I think I think I think six and a
half now, actually I guess I think fourths that we're
taking in forwards. Some things were taken in. We're spending
six and a half because three point eights entitlements is
a lot.
Speaker 19 (23:18):
And but even even the non entitlement pieces, you know,
is incredibly is incredibly off.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, and entilement's had lots of fraud too, probably, but
I usually I've been a little bit shocked, like I
knew there was waste, but there seems like a lot
of scams they're finding. I guess, like a lot more scams,
I guess than I think there's scams.
Speaker 19 (23:34):
I think the nonprofit stuff is really out of control.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
It's it's it's sort of like.
Speaker 19 (23:40):
I don't know, it's it's it's sort of like virtue
signaling is a sign that you're doing something evil and
and so many, so much of this uh left wing philanthropy,
nonprofit world, I think was you know, it was just
a cover for you know, borderline criminalize.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
It's how you shelled your soufia, put a virgie signal
players stealing money if you have everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Peter Thiel said, since Trump's inauguration, he's been the most
hopeful he's ever been in a long time. And this
is a guy who wants to travel to Mars or
live out in the sea, and this is a guy
who thinks on a plane that I can't even imagine.
Speaker 19 (24:15):
I'm the most hopeful I've been about things in a
in a long time. I think, uh, I think there
are some very deep problems that need to be fixed.
I think, uh, I think the opposition is completely exhausted
and out of ideas and so so it's it's it's
(24:36):
maybe the first time since since early Reagan that there's uh,
there's really an opportunity to to uh to change some
things in this country. And it's not the sort of
lame Bush Republican thing we had in the you know,
for for a long time in between. And I don't
think it's the completely sabotaged first Trump administration where you
(24:59):
had I don't know, it got blocked on every level
outside and inside the administration. So I think they will
get you know, it's very unusual. Normally the second term
does less than the first term. This is going to
be the I think people will.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Be the real first.
Speaker 15 (25:15):
They are telling you what's called onesies, these little things
clothing for a baby.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Like Mauda Barry Share. You're one of of these onesies.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The polling shows Democrats strange was going to have very
very low approval ratings, horrible approval ratings. So that's why
the media keeps saying Trump's bad. His numbers are forty four,
Democrats are twenty five. Put it into perspective. So Democrat
Congressman James Clapperton, the guy who brought you Joe Biden.
(25:48):
He was on MSNBC, And you gotta admire these people.
You know, I have buddies that are lawyers that have
to represent murderers or drug dealers or whatever else. And
and and you know, or hired guns or hired assassin.
They make jokes about it. You know, I get paid
to lie. One of my buddies, a criminal defense attorney
Dan Congle, says, I get paid to lie. The other day,
(26:08):
I said, you know, everybody thinks you're a liar, and
he goes, I get paid to lie. That's what I do.
I'm an advocate, and in the purest sense, that's what
a lawyer does. He says things that he may or
may not believe because his job is to provide advocacy
or a canon, and that's for his client. That's hard
for people to understand, but at least he's honest about it, right,
and we have a lot of fun with that. But
(26:31):
James Clavern, he's supposed to be a trustworthy guy. He's
supposed to be somebody who's a leader, but he's not.
He's an idiot. He said with a fate, with a
straight face, that Democrats have a great message. Their only
problem is the media, because the media is not left
wing enough. So what you have here is both sides
(26:53):
blaming each other for the mess they got themselves in.
Speaker 20 (26:56):
Well, I'll think the message that courently do a kind
of party. It's a good ad mess. It's the problem
we've got is that we have to depend upon the
media to deliver it. If we have the Washington Post,
for instance, uh, caving to this we'll to be dictated.
(27:19):
And we've got other media entities that seem to rather
push a narrative that will bring eyes to their newspapers
or to their television sets and not really give a
fear sharing or reporting to what we're doing. And I
(27:39):
have to rely upon people like yourself. You do a
great job of this. That's why I like coming on
your shows on the weekend, because you do a real
good substantive reporting of what the issues are around us.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
But when you've got people say we're not going to fact.
Speaker 20 (27:57):
Check, we're not gonna worry about where not you tell
the two and just let the reproachs go out there,
that's what's killing us as Democrats.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Ramon, did you watch The Office? I never watched The Office? Okay, well,
but I know who the characters are a lot of
memes about him, and I know I was. I meant
to talk about this other day. I don't know if
I got to it, but Rain Wilson is a lefty
who was famous for playing the character of Dwight shreot
Am I pronouncing that right on the Office? He sat down. Oh,
(28:28):
it's been probably a week ago now. With MSNBC, Stephanie rule,
and she says that the public has a lack of
faith in the media and that that's because of Donald
Trump and Elon Musk. And he was supposed to say
that's true. Trump and Musk are bad guys, but for
some reason he didn't, which is surprising considering what he
(28:51):
does for a.
Speaker 21 (28:51):
Living of Americans don't trust mainstream media.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 22 (28:56):
How do we get here?
Speaker 12 (28:57):
Listen, we are seeing a huge loss in trust of
all of our institutions. It's the media, it's medicine, it's banking.
It's a huge problem because when you think about democracy
and all of these pillars, they need to stand tall,
they need to stand strong, and sort of losing that
trust is not by accident, it's by design. If you
(29:19):
remember when President Trump was running the first time, Steve
Bannon once said, the goal is to blow the whole
thing up.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
And so I think.
Speaker 12 (29:26):
That you've got mistakes made or things starting to slip. Well,
at the same time, there's a concerted effort to destroy
the media, because the media, that the news media is,
in my opinion, the last slide of defense of holding
power accountable.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Right, And you had a bit of.
Speaker 12 (29:45):
A perfect storm, right, President Trump won and tons of
people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they're tuning out.
And at the same time you have the Elon Musk
media machine because they want you to leave traditional media
and they want you to go to X, which is
a bastion of misinformation or there is no fact checking.
So it's a perfect storm of people saying, I'm angry,
(30:08):
I'm frustrated, I'm tuning out, I'm disconnecting, and then you
have a force pushing it.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
But even in the last two weeks.
Speaker 12 (30:18):
What we need to do is just cover what's happening
in America.
Speaker 18 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 12 (30:22):
We have to cover Democrats trying to figure out what
their lane is and how they're going to get back
on their feet, and we have to simply cover what
this White House is doing.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I think if we.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Do that right, there's that saying, you know, trust is
gained in rain drops and it's lost in buckets, and
it's not a yes, you're not incorrect that the media.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Has lost trust.
Speaker 21 (30:43):
This is where I would push back when I see
this kind of insight and passion being directed at the
current administration and the lack of this kind of insight
and passion being directed at the previous administration, where again
I'm not talking about you, talking out left leaning news
media organizations were kind of like.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
La la la, la la, everything's fine with the environments.
I mean, look, the economy's great, La la la.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Immigration's not that much of a problem.
Speaker 21 (31:11):
And really, being Cleopatra Queen of denial, thank you boom.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I could literally do an entire show with highlights of
Scott Jennings just humiliating his colleagues at CNN, just humiliate him.
He told Jeff Jarvis and Abby Phillips that the reason
the public has lost in the media has Sorry, the
reason the public has lost faith in the media should
(31:40):
be obvious to them, but we all know it's not.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Hello. Scott has.
Speaker 23 (31:45):
Taken advantage of this situation, I think quite cleverly, quite wisely.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
They've played into a weakness.
Speaker 23 (31:53):
What situation, the situation of media being under attack, and
so they've created the situation.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
They've almost got it keep going.
Speaker 24 (32:01):
What the right wing has taken advantage of is finally
the American people saying enough is enough. They're tired of
feeling like the mass media screens out one viewpoint versus
another in political coverage. They're tired of media institutions favoring
one party over another. They're tired of narratives over factual stories.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
If I had any.
Speaker 24 (32:21):
Advice for sixty Minutes or anybody else, it would be
just cover the news and try to be fair about
it and stop putting your finger on the scale.
Speaker 23 (32:30):
Especially that's that you're you're you're talking about the old
mass media myth that you could have this thing that
was in the middle of the Walter Cronkite saying that's
the way it is.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
When it wasn't for many.
Speaker 23 (32:41):
Americans the way it was when people were passive.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Those who trusted the media didn't know.
Speaker 23 (32:45):
They just couldn't be heard because there was no two ways.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Now we have the Internet.
Speaker 18 (32:48):
Look at that.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Now it was here and now it's here.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's falling off.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Of a camp.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
We do have.
Speaker 22 (32:54):
We do have that gallop pulling it terrible in media
and now as in recent years, and let's be honest, Scott,
a lot of this is driven by the rhetoric of
the wer side.
Speaker 13 (33:03):
Of what.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
You think.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
It's driven by the rhetoric, not the perform absolutely.
Speaker 24 (33:09):
But my point is this, if your CBS or any
other news outlet, the reason that you have lost trust
ought to be obvious to you, and the way to
fix it also ought to be obvious to you. And
it has nothing to do with Donald Trump and everything
to do with the product.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
Just try to make a.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Better product that appeals to more people.
Speaker 24 (33:24):
And the way you appeal to more people is by
not crapping on half or more than half of the
country because of their values
Speaker 22 (33:30):
And political view I think that is a fair just
if we were sort of on another planet, out of contact,
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