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The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has finally ended after weeks of partisan deadlock, primarily over Obamacare. With the shutdown now over, what are the next steps for Congress and the administration?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now sor presents no marksmoo. Well, hey, shutdown is over.
We'll go over the details. We'll get to the Epstein
files and the hoax that's taking place. We'll get to
Chuck Schumer, We'll get to Bruce Blakeman, We'll get to

(00:21):
mom Donnie. There's more to learn about this guy. It's
not good. It's not good at loss to talk about today.
So the shutdown was the longest in history, forty three days.
A year from now, nobody will remember it. Longest one
before that was thirty five days. That was in the
first Trump term. Nobody remembers that the shutdown ended. Trump

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was at a big dinner last night, business leaders dinner
in the East room of the White House. Big dinner
taking place. But while that dinner was going on, the
vote took place. They ended the shutdown. Took the president
a while, about an hour to get out of that dinner,
get to the Oval Office where he had the cabinet,
some of those business leaders, and announced the end of

(01:06):
the shutdown, signed the legislation that brought it all to
an end. It was a great moment. He was very
happy about that. He pointed out that this little stunt,
the Democrats pulled. This whole shutdown ended up costing America
one point five trillion dollars. What do you call it,
their little escapade, they're a little endeavor. He called it

(01:29):
something like that cost one point five trillion dollars. Was
one of the reasons for the shutdown was to try
to damage the Trump economy, just wreak a little havoc there,
especially leading up to the election. They thought it would
help them, especially in Virginia where a huge percentage of
voters are government workers. So they thought it would help

(01:49):
in Virginia, New Jersey and other places, just to have
the shutdown going on, just to rile up Democrats. So
you got to admit it did work. The down is
over now. However, this extension only goes till January thirty first,
so it's like two months before we have to go

(02:09):
through this again, and we'll see what happens. The fight
over the Affordable Care Act, which is obviously not affordable
since you need a subsidy to have it, you have
to subsidize it, it's obviously not affordable. The President will
come up with a better plan by the time January
thirty first rolls around, and he'll put that plan out.

(02:31):
One of his ideas is to give it costs so
much money for this Obamacare. The government has to spend
astronomical amounts of money on it, and he figured out
that you could be easier just to give people the
money and let him go buy their own healthcare. That way,
they could pick whatever they wanted and get a much
better plan than you'd get from the governor government. The

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problem is big one for Democrats. The reason they don't
like that. You might say, well, it makes perfect sense,
that sounds like a much better one. The real secret
of Obamacare is the money goes directly to the insurance companies,
not the consumer. Insurance companies love that they get paid
massive fees by the government under Obamacare. That's one of

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the reasons Schumer was fighting to keep it the way.
It is not just Tim but other congressmen and women,
including some Republicans, because by paying off these insurance companies directly,
it means massive donations to them from the insurance companies.
They're big, big, big donors. So Congress was trying to
keep this in place where the money just goes direct

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to the insurance companies. Now the present's going to try
to end that and give it direct to the consumers
and let them pick whatever kind of plan they want.
So that's what this fight was about, in large parts,
affordability thing. Affordabilities has been drilled into everybody's head. That's

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how propaganda works. You just repeat something i'd nauseum from
every direction. If you keep hearing it all day and night,
you start to believe it affordability crisis. It's not a
crisis because inflation is down dramatically from Joe Biden's presidency,
where it hit nine percent at one point round two percent.
Now it's way way down. Energy prices are down. Now

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people will say, well, what about healthcare, that's sort of well,
that's that's not an inflation factor. That's insurance. That's all
caused by other reasons. That's not inflation driving that up.
Even here in New York City, you didn't see the
gas prices come down that much. All around the country,
gas prices are way down, but not so much here

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or California. Well, the reason for that is state, local taxes, fees, penalty,
all kinds of stuff on the gas that's keeping it up.
So it's not an affordability crisis. Prices are down and
going down. I think this is President Trump talking to
Laura Ingram about it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Look at the price of gasoline going from four to
fifty to two fifty two seventy, it's going to be
two dollars gas.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
People want affordable.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, the anthemy is my thing, and we have the
greatest economy in history.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Are Republicans not selling it?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
For Republicans don't talk about it?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, so they need to do a better job on
Capitol Hill.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
The tags I'll give false talk and the Republicans, and
I say it all the time, Republicans have to talk
about the fact that prices are down.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, that was the Costco Walmart. Walmart just put out
that big study the price of a Thanksgiving dinner will
be twenty five percent less than less than last year.
So you got all those kinds of things. But you're right,
Democrats have to talk about it. You can drill something
into people's heads and they believe it. You remember, all
through the election, from the beginning, all you kept telling
is Curtis can't win. Curtis can't win, No way Curtis

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can win. Well, of course there is. He was as
good as candadate and probably a better candidate in many
ways in the very beginning. But if ten months, if
Curtis can't win every time, everywhere you look, Curtis can't win.
Curtis can't win. Curtis. If you just hear that four
million times, you actually start to believe it, and people
start repeating it. They're like parrots, just repeating what they're
told to repeat. So that's the affordability the State of

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the Union speech. The President will make that in January.
That's where he's got to fix all this. That'll come
before the next shutdown vote. That's where he's got to
get through and really communicate all this to the public. Hey,
let's get to this Epstein stuff for a second. These
Epstein files, they want them released. There's nothing that dramatic,
and there's nothing about Trump in the files. Nothing. And

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remember those files have been in the hands of a
lot of people. It was here at the US Attorney's
Office Southern District. They all saw the files. I've talked
to a lot of people that have seen those files.
It's nothing about Trump and there's nothing There's stuff about
other people in there, but nothing as dramatic as you think.
There was never a client list. Epstein never had any
sex clients. He had a client list, but it was

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for a wealth management fund. As far as the sexual
stuff the girls, it wasn't a business. He didn't charge anybody.
There were no clients. I mean if he came to
his house, there were women there of all ages. By
the way, he's the one that liked the young women's
It looked like a Prince Andrew like young women too.
But here's another thing to remember. Joe Biden had the

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Epstein files in his hands for four years. For four years,
Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, James Cobe, Clapper, Brannan, all these
people had the Epstein files. It belonged to the Biden
Justice Department for four years. They were trying in every
way to stop Donald Trump. At that point, they were

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coming up with every scheme to stop Donald Trump. You
can be sure they looked through the Epstein files. Had
there been one word in there damaging the Trump, they
would have released it the next day. They would They
have a million people that know how to leak it
to the press. It's real easy to do. Had there
been anything that would hurt Trump, they would have used

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it lead up to the election and during the election
they would have used it if there was anything in there.
There's nothing in there about Trump. Now, yesterday, earlier this week,
they put out this again. They leaked it. They leaked
it to reporters. There's victim number one says Trump was

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in the house, that she spent a lot of time
with Trump. Victim number one. That's all they put out.
Victim number one said she was with Trump in the
house and on the plane. Well, they didn't say what
they could have said. Victim number one was Virginia Gouffrey
because the reason they withheld her name. She did multiple

(08:41):
interviews with law enforcement. She was interrogated and interviewed millions
of times by law enforcement. In every single interview, she
said absolutely nothing happened with Donald Trump. He came to
parties and things at the house, and she said he
was always a total gentleman and very friendly. Nothing ever happened.
She's no longer with us. She died, but she did

(09:02):
write a book, a long book about everything, and in
the book she says nothing ever happened with Donald Trump.
Nothing ever. So they kept that from you. If you're
watching nightly news like NBC, boy, you really got conned
by them last night. What a fake story victim number one,
so she spent a very delar time with Donald Trump.

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Somewhere at the end of the piece they inserted it
in real quick just for a second. Virginia Goovery said
nothing happened with Donald Trump, but for ten minutes they
made it sound like something bad happen with Donald Trump.
So a complete total hoax. Now, the guy who they've
also has been dragging in this is Michael Wolfe, who
is the lowest form of journalism. I wouldn't even call

(09:49):
it journalism, a gossip column He's the lowest form of
gossip columnist. He is the most disgusting, creepy guy in
the world. He's put out a couple of books. The
whole business model is just bashing Donald Trump. And he
he'll say anything and everything, most of it not true.
He's been caught in a million things that are not true.
But because he's bashing Donald Trump, they'll put him on MSNBC,

(10:12):
He'll be on Meet the Press, He'll be on the
ABC Sunday Morning Show. He is the sleaziest, dirtiest gossip columnist.
Don't believe anything he says. Now, Apparently Epstein at one
point was emailing back and forth with this guy. So
they're starting to release all these emails Epstein and him were,
but if you really read the emails, it looks like

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this lowlife, Michael Wolf, this creepy lowlife, was coaching Epstein
on how to damage Trump and at one point suggested
blackmailing Trump because Epstein said he didn't have much of
anything on Trump, and he said, well, if you said
you did, you might. You could use it as leverage
and then take it back and then you'd have he'd

(10:55):
owe you a favor. He was talking about actually blackmailing
Trump with Epstein. It's really embarrassed in this. It's interesting
the Clinton stuff. You know, obviously the Clinton's, the Obama's
all busy with Epstein, but somewhere in there, Epstein reveals
he had a fight with Clinton. He broke up with
Bill Clinton. He doesn't exactly say what it was, but

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he said to Clinton, I guess Clinton was supposed to
do him some sort of favor, and he swore to
me that he did it, but he forgot. He swore
the exact opposite only two weeks before. So he was
supposed to do something for him, didn't do him. Now.
The other thing is this Epstein seemed to be very
cozy with the New York Times financial journalist, this lowlife

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Michael Wolf. So it's really the journalists that we're dealing
with Epstein, New York Times finance journalist emails back and forth,
you can tell their real buddies, and he's relying heavily
on Epstein. What the hell is the New York Times
doing all tangled up with Epstein? Now, the guy that
should be the most embarrass is Larry Summers, who was

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Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary. He was one of Barack Obama's
chief economic advisors. You'll remember he was the president of Harvard.
Larry Summers, who tries to be this distinguished guy. If
you look through the emails, apparently he was very close
to Epstein. And Larry Summers, a married man, was meeting

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with various women all over the place. Not young girls,
but women who he's trying to do something with and
apparently was having trouble. He was getting rejected left and
right by women, and he's constantly emailing Epstein for advice,
and there's emails back and forth. He's like a teenager

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Larry Summers right in Epstein. Well, here's what she wrote,
she texted me, can't I'm busy. I'll call you next week.
What does that mean? And then Epstein is emailing him back.
He's just play it cool, don't whine, don't look me,
don't look good. And then apparently supposed to spend a
weekend with one woman in London and she canceled and

(13:06):
what does that mean? How can I get any And
Epstein's coach him, don't say this say that's quite pathetic
on the part of Larry Summers. He should really be embarrassed.
He you know Ozzy Osbourne, We lost Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon
Osbourne finally revealed this for everybody to hear. She didn't

(13:26):
really know Donald Trump. Well, I mean not really, but
he got her number and he left her a voicemail.
This is Donald Trump leaving a voicemail for Sharon Osbourne.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Everyone will know I shared is Donald Trump, and I
just wanted to wish you the best and the family
have great. Ozzie was amazing. He was an amazing guy.
I met him a few times and I want to
say that he was unique in every way and talented.
So I just wanted to wish you the best. And

(13:57):
it's a tough thing. I know how close you were,
and whenever I can do, take care of yourself, say
loo to the family.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Thanks by Well, now they're playing it with Sharon Osbourne.
There you see her tear up listening to it. It
was very nice. He does that all the time for people.
You're not supposed to know about that, because the press
would never ever report that. Hey, we'll get to Bruce Blakeman.
Apparently he's taking it seriously this run for government. He's

(14:24):
gonna even go on a little tour upstate, which is
a good idea. That's what a smart guy does. You know,
you go test the waters.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
You go.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
You don't just sit there and decide should I shouldn't I.
You go up there and you meet voters, you see
how it feels, You get a feel for things. That's
that's what a smart manager would do. But we'll get
to that coming up. We'll get to mom Donnie, his transition,
what he's working on. Boy, even the Washington Post, even
the Washington Post bashing Mom Donnie, talking about how phony
he was, this smiling, happy, and you know candidate and

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then that angry, ugly victory speech election. But we'll take
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