1st Bruises & Now, Amid Denials of Health Rumors, a Surprise Trump Announcement from the Oval 9/2/25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank you everyone, the post Labor day audience. He is
my favorite recorded audience. Wow, I am overwhelmed. Might I say?
We were on Code red, which is why we're starting
just a few minutes past this half of the hour.
We were on a code RED. I don't need to
tell you what a code red is, but I'm gonna

(00:22):
tell you anyway, my credibility glasses were missing. What Yes,
I know these glasses which gives me ultimate credibility. You've
probably seen them in some of my public appearances, No
doubt you've seen them on this show. They give me
the gravitas, the credibility, and without them, honestly, it's weak.

(00:47):
It's weak like Superman without his cape. Like give me
another parallel, Kim, like a Jose Andreas without a kitchen.
That was week I'm speaking of week. Anyway, I've got them.
The Code rad has been canceled, and I am back

(01:10):
fully ready to rocket on the show today. Somebody's special.
David K. Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize winner an hour two,
You've really come on a great, great day. Kim is
here after a relaxing Labor Day weekend. Tony is here.

(01:31):
He never relaxes because he never really has a weekend.
He has forty jobs, and I'm sure that many of
them were in action over the weekend. I'm wearing the
Born to Peacefully Resist T shirt. I love this T shirt.
It's one of the T shirts you can get at
Getmarkmirch dot com and check cannot get mark Merch dot com.

(01:55):
You can knock around in there and you can get
a T shirt just like Daddy has, and there it is.
These are designs that came out of Courteney's work. They're
ladies tease. I think some of the ladies teas are attractive,

(02:16):
and those are a sort of specialty designs too. Born
to Peacefully Resist in different designs. But then there is
just a rocking the basic merch for the show, which
everything from bucket hats to coffee mugs to to the socks.
I don't know if there are coffee mugs. Actual think
there's still no orcs. I don't know what the story
is on there, wine tumblr, the socks just a wine

(02:37):
tumbler very popular and the socks. So I know, I like.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
The yellow Sunshine shirt. It's very happy.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's funny you say that because you know that is
exactly why I like it the yellow Sunshine shirt, and
I have to say, what's odd is I'm not a
happy person, Kim.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm not, which I think this actually could improve your mood.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
So it may be, but thank you for noticing. And
that is the wrap on that you can get one
just like I have. Now I do have some things
to Mark Thompson show. I do have some things to
relate to you. Were waiting on an address from Trump

(03:22):
and the White House. We may or may not. I
guess we can jump on it live when it comes down.
We're still waiting. We're supposed to be two o'clock eastern,
and we go on the air around two o'clock eastern,
so we thought we do jump in in progress.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
But it's still we're all waiting. We're all waiting for this.
So I started to over talk over you. We're all
waiting for this big announcement. And what I understand is
a hinting drum roll. It's gonna be Trump announcing that
the Space Command headquarters will be moving from Colorado to.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Alabama, Alabama. Yeah, that's exciting, I am what. Yeah, that's
the major announcement.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Really, yeah, big news.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean, we don't even play our major announcement open
or production element on this show, unless it's really a
major announcement, you know what I mean, like we're going
to do another meetup, or we book some guests you
need to know about or whatever. But Trump really is

(04:19):
doing two things. Probably one, he's trying to knock down
rumors that he's you know, got one cankled in the grave.
And then he's also trying to I think, just steal
Miss Tony made the point earlier, steal the moment. You know,
he loves announcements. He loves pronouncements. We've said that on

(04:41):
the show forever, ever since Trump was a thing. We
talked about the fact that he enjoys the performative aspect
of being president, of being the boss. Let me tell you,
I'll have a major announcement on Monday, or I'll major
announcement on Tuesday, a major announcement on Wednesday. In two weeks,
I'll have a major announcement. And so that's what you

(05:02):
know we're waiting on. But for those who were delusional,
and by the way, I respect delusional, I understand sometimes
delusion is the best way to go, the best way
to retain sanity. For those who were delusionally thinking that
Trump is going to come forward on this special day,

(05:23):
the day after Labor Day, a day on which he's
dogged by rumors that he's so ill, he may be faltering,
maybe no longer able to serve, and this is going
to be his announcement that he's going to step aside
and give the reins over to somebody else. JD Vance.

(05:43):
That's crazy. There is nothing nothing about Donald Trump that
would suggest that would be the case. I couldn't believe
these rumors over the weekend. If Donald Trump were at
Walter Reed and it was Tuck go, he would still
not turn the reins of command over JD. Events just

(06:05):
wouldn't happen. I mean, even if you're just auditing the
Trump class, you should know that. Ola Henson said, what
was it? I missed it?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
He will come up with new drama each week to
keep the press busy. That's exactly it, right, Trevor Starr says,
do you think it will? I will be investigated, that
is I Trevor Starr by the Secret Service. If I
just sent a copy of the twenty fifth Amendment to
remember the cabinet, excuse me, Yeah, I am the twenty
feth Amendment is another delusional thing that not just Democrats

(06:40):
but anti Trumpers come up with the idea of somehow
that you would remove this president are pretty much any
other president certainly not a GOP president. Democrats maybe they
like to kind of you know, eat their own, but
I would say that you have to really if you
read to the twenty feth Amendment, get it. So many signatures,

(07:01):
so many people have to accede to that, somebody have
to agree to removal. You just won't get that. You're
just not gonna get that kind of you know, unanimity
among these kinds of large groups of people to serve
the president. Chaplain Fred says for a ten dollars super chat. Hi,
Mark and Kim, Glad to see you back after a
long weekend. It is raining in my beautiful Richie Valens Valley.

(07:27):
Glad to see you better. Mark. My prayers worked again.
I guess I'm laughing because you know, if the patient
gets better than the prayers worked, If the patient doesn't
get better, it's because you guys aren't praying hard enough.
That's right. It's all about the prayers.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
It doesn't hurt to have a chaplain on your side.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
It does not. You're right about that. I am very
happy to have chaplain Fred, if I have to have
a chaplain And as I say, it's nice to have one.
I'm glad it's chaplain Fred. The way, what was thrown
out of the White House window? This is an interesting
question asked by someone who went by so quickly. I
didn't get a chance to focus on it. But let

(08:10):
me just follow up on that. This is what was
spotted at the White House over the weekend. Something thrown
out of the window there. Take a look, THO. I
was watching on YouTube. If you're just listening, it's hard
to see. It's kind of like a dark or black
Is it a bag or that's out of the second
story window of the White House. Oh, it looks like

(08:33):
maybe the size of a carry on bag or something.
What do you think it is? Kim?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Secret documents headed for the bathroom at mar A Lago.
I don't know, No, Yeah, how do you smuggle those out?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't know know what Tony thoughts like anything? I mean,
just to describe the side, am I right? The sizing
seems just odd. What could it possibly be? Anyway? That
was spot We showed it to you a couple of times.
We are taking multiple suggestions. It's the Epstein files. Of course,

(09:08):
didn't realize they did release it. It's a different kind
of it's the new Trump kind of release. We just
throw them out the window and you, you know, hey, hello,
we released them. I mean, I can't help it if
you guys weren't there to read them.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is that what part of the White House is that?
Is that the residence residence.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Second story probably is. I would think the nuclear codes,
says uh Bob gold Bars. Going to the bank says
Calvin Wong Shout. A producer of this show Body Parts
says Linda, Well, it's quite there are quite a few
theories at work here. Trump's real medical record, says Gil c. Yeah,

(09:49):
it could be. It is bizarre. It is bizarre. Uh,
just checking just to explain, just checking the live thread
and Trump's diapers as a chaplain, Fred could be kind

(10:12):
of I'll tell him something about the diaper thing. I
don't like to make fun of that, you know. I
don't make fun of his weight, I don't make fun
of his skin, I don't make fun of his hair.
I don't make fun of the diaper thing. Because I
feel like I'm headed to diaper land too. I mean,
we're all headed there at some point. You know, if
you live long enough, your body begins to shut down.
And I guess maybe I feel like that's tempting the

(10:32):
fates if I make fun of somebody.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Else I've just never been comfortable with, even when I
was a younger person, not sort of so close to.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's just it's one of those things you got, you
need them. I mean, it's it's it. You know. Trump
spent the whole weekend hiding while the dictators had a
summit without him seeing everyone post. Is he dead yet?
Love that for him? Says Murphy Rowan with a ten
dollars you Chad, Yeah, what a what a wonderful weekend
he must have had to the extent that he was

(11:06):
aware of and monitoring or informed of the meeting between
Putin Modi and she it was like dictators on parade
and hey, you know, fomo for Trump major fomo. What's
my boyfriend Vlad doing with those two other men? A

(11:30):
very tough spot for him.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Was he invited?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I don't know, I absolutely can I'm sure he was not.
I'm sure he was not. And the on a serious note,
which and there's sort of seriousness woven through some of
this the decisions he's made, particularly the one with the
tariffs on India. It drives India closer to China. It's

(11:56):
like that is not even three D chests. It's so
causal that outcome, it's so completely demonstrably the reason that
India then moves closer to China. I mean, these things
he does, reckless, chaotic, not well thought out done out

(12:18):
of a kind of a reptilian brain control of Trump.
These things they not only have an effect on life
in America. They don't only affect the American economy. They
similarly affect the world, both economically and in terms of

(12:39):
alliances and relationships. And so when Trump takes us out
of NATO, which he hasn't done formally yet, I understand.
But when he pulls back from Europe, then what is
the I was reading an article over the weekend, and
I think it was the Washington Post, maybe the New
York Times, like one of those mainstream paper in which

(13:01):
they were pointing out to the fact the the They
were pointing to NATO falling apart at this point in
NATO's evolution, And I thought NATO's not falling apart because
of anything but the United States pulling back from NATO.
That's the only reason NATO, if you want to say,

(13:21):
is falling apart. That's the only reason NATO is falling apart.
So these decisions he's made, particularly these geopolitical decisions, they
are the repercussions are massive, The repercussions are substantial, and
the idea, somehow that we lose track of that is

(13:41):
bizarre to me. I think it's just a sort of
a I think it's a symptom of the fact that
the news cycle is just overwhelmed, you know, with so much.
So I mean, what do you focus on? You know,
ice agents in the streets, You've got you know again,
you've got tariffs, You've got you know, withering inflation in

(14:02):
the offing. Perhaps Harry Magnan said something there. It is
a happy Tuesday. Every week should start this way. Here's
from Michael Shore's mug a five dollars super chat. Thank you,
super Chats are live and yeah, big shout out to
all of you. By the way, I speaking of big
shout outs, I wanted to recognize some some PayPal supporters

(14:29):
and before I do it, though I do want to
get into a couple of the news stories. So we
kind of told you if you're just joining us, what
the White House announcement will be. As usual, it's overblown
and it's full of Trump puffery, which is it's going
to be a major announcement. You tune in on Monday.
I'm going to tell everybody, tune in on Tuesday, tune
in on Wednesday, whatever the day is today. Apparently the

(14:52):
major announcement, according to Kim, is that the is it
the Space Force is Space Force or these.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Space Force headquarters will be moving from Colorado to Alabama.
That's the big news. Apparently.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
But you know, once he gets in front of the microphone,
he just starts yammering on. So it could be anything.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
It could be a major announcement that goes into another
major announcement into a third major announcement. You're absolutely right. Uh,
there's a Space Force flag, thank you could, Tony, as
it was being flown there inside the Oval office. But
a you know, many made fun of the Space Force,

(15:32):
and it's easy to make fun of everything that he
does because everything he does is so impulsive and poorly
thought out. And then it's staffed. If he creates a
new government agency or control over an existing government agency,
it's staffed inevitably by Trump loyalists, who are anybody incompetent.

(15:57):
Of course, yes, exactly. So the cruelty they know, they
do cruelty and brutality, well, they do cover their asses well,
but they don't do competence, well they don't. So anyway,
let me get back to space force. There is a
legitimate thing going on in space that is associated with

(16:19):
crowded satellite orbits and control of communications. All this stuff,
and some of it dovetails with the world of Elon
Musk is important. So I don't know if you call
it space force, it makes it sound star warsy, which
I guess is what he wants. But the idea that
some part of NASA or some part of the scientific

(16:42):
aerospace community should be concerned with that is not ridiculous. Now,
everything else out of Trump, as I say, not well
thought out. The Alabama thing is clearly it's a bone
he's throwing to some Alabama red state politician. I don't know,
maybe even in the chat you know more than I do.
But that's what that's about. I mean, Biden said it's

(17:03):
going to stay where it was Biden, you know, and
then probably because Biden said it's going to stay. It
was in Colorado, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, Colorado to now Alabama. That movie, what was that
movie where they were fighting these giant bugs in space?
Remember that giant like alien bugs and they had to
go fight them. Tony knows, Tony, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
You know aliens. They kind of look like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
No, they were Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers. Thank you great,
You're awesome. That's what Space Force reminds me of Starship
Troopers because it was this police like military in space
fighting all these these creatures.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Anyway, sorry, you know Starship Troopers. If I can just
tell you a little show business story.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Were you in that movie too?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, I had not really, but I'd like to, Well, everybody,
grab a cup of coffee and Uncle mircale a little
show business story. It's not long. It's more of kind
of a reference. But let me just grab my Coachella
Valley coffee and tell you. It just brings me back
to the days of show business when I was saying
I was on the MGM lot now called the Sony Lot.

(18:16):
Maybe it was a Sony lot back then too. I
don't really recall it was the I think it was
the nineties. When did that movie come out? Starship Troopers, Tony.
There's the poster for it. I was on the lot
because I've been cast in a movie. I'd ask you
to guess, but I've done so many films you probably

(18:37):
would lose track of all of.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
The you know, it's exactly kind of a big deal.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I was in the I was in Air Force one. Yeah,
I'm pasting Air Force one and it's a movie three
day shoot, and I'm on the Sony lot as I say, MGM.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Lot, colling around with Harrison Ford as one.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Does, and Gary Oldman. And when you walk up and
down the alley ways there that are sort of lined
by these huge sound stages, there were all of these
people who were dressed as Star Troopers, Starship Trooper people.

(19:19):
It was incredible. There were hundreds of them. Yeah, and
I had no idea what the movie was until like
day two, I say, what are you guys doing? You know,
we're shooting Air Force one over here? What do you guys?
Were to try to say it like that, and you know,
what are you guys? Doing. We're shooting Air Force one
over here with Wolfgang Peterson. Have you've heard of him?
What are you guys doing? And they said Starship Troopers

(19:41):
and there it is. Yeah, those exact outfits. There were
tons of them. That is my I was adjacent to
Starship Troopers, but not ever I was in Air Force
when both films did well. Both films did well. So anyway,
there is a legitimate thing happening in space from the

(20:06):
standpoint of American territorial sovereignty, if you want to think
of it that way. For satellites, communication satellites. Tony's got
a picture up of all of the satellites that are
up around planet Earth right now, so you can get
a sense that there's like a real thing going on.
But there's no real thing or real policy being affected

(20:30):
by anything from this administration. They are an absolute malevolent
force when it comes to any sort of policy. I'm
convinced that everything they meddle with only gets worse. And
so when he talks about Space Force again, his big
announcement is going to be that they're moving it from
Colorado to Alabama. Whatever. Dude, as Kim says, he might

(20:54):
blither on into something else. But that's the that's the
real issue. If you ever wanted to address the real issue,
I feel the same way about crime. You tell me
crime is bad in Washington, DC. You know we can
have a debate over whether crime is bad. I mean,

(21:14):
I get that it's not as bad as it was.
You won't say that, mister president. You want to make
it sound like it's a healthscape in Washington, d C.
I'll say that there is crime there, and I don't
mean to say it off handedly like it's no big deal.
I think crime is a very big deal. But it's
a big city. There's crime in big cities. There's crime
in rural areas as well, But if you go to

(21:34):
the big city, there are a lot of people living
in these big cities. In Washington, d C. Has crime. Now,
if you were serious about addressing that issue, you don't
just pull up a bunch of National Guard troops. Pull
these people who are accountants and teachers and real estate agents.
That's what these people do. They have real lives in
National Guard. You pull them into Washington, d C. And

(21:57):
now they're patrolling the streets. Well, that's not setting any
kind of system in motion to solve whatever issues Washington,
DC is struggling with. In your opinion, you're not adding
more police officers. No, when the National Guard tied, what
rolls out, you're gonna have the same streets and the
same staffing of the police departments that you had prior.

(22:21):
This is performative, it's theater. And then you have these
same guys National Guard to whom I've just preferred. You
have them spreading mulch, taking graffiti off of various fences,
and you can send to me, Well, Mark, isn't that important?
I mean, isn't the beautification of Washington c Yes, it is.
It's great, But you don't know the National Guard do it?
You know how expensive it is to move in the

(22:41):
National Guard. You have to house them, you have to
feed them. There are all kinds of other ways in
which they are supplemented because they are being pulled off
of their other jobs. It's just as usual, a half
baked scheme and a muscular flex that's all this is.
And now you want to do the same thing in Chicago. Well, now,

(23:02):
the latest ruling out of the courts may blunt that.
It points to the fact that it was an illegal
It was an illegal move to put the National Guard
in Los Angeles, and similarly, it would be an illegal
move to put the National Guard in Chicago. You can't
just declare a state of emergency and move in the military.

(23:25):
But that is the plan. I mean, clearly they are
road testing this plan. And we've talked about this for
a long time in David K. Johnson, I think he's
talking about this before Trump was even president.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
So this ruling that you mentioned came out of the
California case filed by Governor Gavin Newsom against Trump, and
the judge said the President violated the Posse Comatatus Act.
This is a US District judge Charles Bryer, who was
issuing a preliminary injunction and says, yeah, can't do it.

(24:00):
Congress spoke clearly in eighteen seventy eight when it passed
the Posse Coomatatis Act prohibiting the use of US military
to execute domestic law. He said, there were indeed protests
in Los Angeles, some individuals engaging in violence, yet there
was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to
respond to protests and enforce the law.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Tony, you can play the breaking news as it hit
this morning on CNN to kind of announce to the
world that it was judged and illegal Act go ahead.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
He knews a federal judge just ruled that both President
Trump and Defended Secretary Pete Hegseth violated the law by
using the military and the Los Angeles area over the summer,
the Trump administration deployed thousands of federalized California National Guard
members and Marines during an immigration crackdown in June. And
this decision comes as the president ways as we were

(24:52):
just talking about whether it's in National Guard members to
other cities, as he has done in Washington, d C.
Joining us now is former federal prosecutor and Politico Magazine
senior writer on Push Cordori.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
I'm I'm also struck by the fact that Trump does
things and then he figures by the time the court
case rules out, I'll already have done what I need
to do. He we talk about this all the time
on the show too. This is his dance to kill
the clock. And so it is with the deportations. The

(25:33):
deportations ruled the illegal remember, and then he's just like, what,
I don't know, I can't get that guy back, you know.
And finally he did come back. Now they want to
deport him again, you gandha is.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It or to anda exactly?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Indeed, do you think that this.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Ruling will stop Trump from push the National Guard to
other cities or will he say it's a different reason
this time. No, this time in Chicago it's a big
ice enforcement supplemented by the National Guard. This time it's
not for crime. This time it's you know, he'll he'll
come up with a different reason, and then a new

(26:18):
court case will have to happen each time to see
if he's violating this act.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know, yeah, no, I mean, I think the
idea somehow that he'll keep at it is correct. I
also think the idea that he'll go to his concierge,
Supreme Court. Remember it's these are judgments that are all
on appeal almost immediately because Trump wants to get it
up to the Supreme Court. Now, the Supreme Court, we

(26:44):
can ask David K. Johnston about this. But the Supreme
Court is I would think not likely to reverse in
this case the lower court. But they've been very generous
to their best friend, Donald Trump. So we'll see the
idea somehow that you could and I'll also mention. And

(27:08):
this is part of a bigger conversation, and again we'll
touch on it with David K. Johnston. But the idea
that you could marshal other agencies, not the National Guard,
not the military. I'm talking about ATF, DEA. I've mentioned
this to you before. Those are younger agencies, Okay, So
they have fewer restrictions on them, fewer constitutional restrictions. So

(27:33):
the freedom that Donald Trump has as a chief executive
is far greater with the agencies like the ATF and
DEA than the freedom he has with the military. So
he has many more constraints when it comes to deploying
the military. That's why creating this quick strikeforce, a series
of them, that's why that plays as a private militia

(27:58):
for Donald Trump. Now I know you're, oh, Mark, it's
Trump derangement syndrome. What is it? Well, explain to me
why he needs these quick strike forces to knock down
civil disturbances? Is America a country that has that many
civil disturbances all the time? You have you heard about
all these protests billing over it. Just you know, you're

(28:24):
you're you're treating a wound that doesn't exist. You're anticipating
all of this. That's why you need those forces. And
i'd also suggest, and this is something else I've said
on this show before, so apologies for those of you
who've heard it before, but the J six community all
granted pardons after January sixth, prosecuted, convicted, serving time, et cetera,

(28:53):
some violent criminals. They were pardoned, and many of them
are applying for jobs at the Justice Department at ice
And they, I believe do make up and are the
primordial oose of the Trump militias that I'm talking about

(29:15):
when I talk about his own personal militias. They will
be populated by people like the Jay sixers, also proud Boys,
the three percenters, et cetera. These are all people all
too anxious to get onto the streets and perpetrate violence.
They're violent militias. And we'll touch on with David K. Johnson,

(29:39):
But to me, that seems clear. That connection seems clear.
And you've seen the stories about Jay sixers who've been
picked up, write Kim. A couple of these Jay sixers
get picked up again for offenses. One of them has
just got twenty years for child pornography or you know,
soliciting minor. I believe I just saw that last week.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, so, or you've seen you know, them driving drunk
or whatever, and not all of them, but some of them.
And we hear the ones, the repeat offenders, and it's
just it's, you know, it's it's another indicator that these
were not the best people. These were not the people
flying the flag who loved America. They were you know,

(30:23):
kind of you know, I don't know, bad guys to
start with.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, I mean, this authoritarianism is and the rise of
fascism is always wrapped in the flag. It's always wrapped
in patriotism. You know. Look, you know again, I hate
to I'll just say Third Reich. Just look at it.
The rise of the Third Reich was all about you know,
German super race, superior people. Right, America, we're superior. Let's

(30:53):
get back to people are really Americans because they're they're pure.
Let's make America pure again. Let's make America great again
that way. So we're beginning this supercharged effort to turn
this country back to nineteen fifty and we're doing it

(31:13):
at the CDC. We're getting rid of all the vaccines,
We're getting rid of all the scientists, I mean, it's crazy.
It's like all the worst instincts are being indulged. And yes,
this is true. I saw this and I was shocked.
Oh I see underdog. Yut first, I'll do this. I

(31:34):
believe Trump may be preparing for a potential coup using
the National Guard in military on our city streets after
losing the election. Of course, I think that's a plan.
I mean, I think the election will be something that
this guy isn't giving up power, and these people aren't
giving up power. The GOP are not giving up power.
They have a plan to hang on. But this is

(31:54):
what I was referring to before. Joan Hollywood, thank you
for a ten dollars super chat. And now Janine puro
is allowing open carry in DC. Think about that when
the next transfer of power is supposed to happen. This
is true. Jeane Piro now the top law enforcement officer

(32:14):
in the District of Columbia in Washington, d C. She is,
And they've had a gun problem in DC. You understand,
I grew up there. They had a gun problem. They
have a gun problem. So bad was the gun problem
that they changed the name of the basketball team from
the Washington Bullets to the Washington Wizards. So many people

(32:37):
are being killed at gunpoint that they change the name
of the team now Jeanine Piro, the new crewise in town.
They want to bring guns back, so they want to
reduce Kim can give you all the details. They want
to reduce the punishment for any kind of pose of

(33:00):
a firearm. But beyond that, these long guns, they want
to make them totally legal. And I believe Jones right.
They want open carry in DC for the long guns,
I believe. But you're gonna have to give me some
more on that. I only saw that she wants to
loosen gun restrictions dramatically in Washington, DC, a place that

(33:22):
struggled with gun violence. It's really wrong. We're going to
talk about Trump's health with D. K. Johnston in the
next hour. There's certainly been strong efforts to knock down
rumors about his struggling health. Over the weekend, something pretty

(33:43):
exciting was announced. Don't know if you caught it. Donald
Trump has announced that the Presidential Medal of Freedom shall
be bestowed upon Rudy Julie. Honey, everyone, Rudy Giuliani, What yes?
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York. They still

(34:07):
call him mister mayor, Kim. You know, once you're mayor,
they still call him mayor.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, he's America's mayor, right.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, that's it. He's been dining out on being America's
mayor for quite some time. Trump announcing that he will
award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's
highest civilian honor. This happened two days after Rudy Giuliani
was injured in a car accident. More on that in
a moment, Giuliani's head of security saying that the former

(34:37):
mayor sustained injuries that included a spinal fracture. He was
struck from behind at high speed while riding as a
passenger in a vehicle on a highway in New Hampshire. Now,
first of all, I have a the the Presidential Medal

(34:57):
of Freedom. Here's a question for everybody. The Presidential Medal
of Freedom. Notable recipients Rosa Parks, Martin, Luther King, Steven Spielberg,
Jane Goodall, Okay, how many how many people have received

(35:25):
the Presidential Medal of Freedom? How many Americans or how
many people have received that Presidential Medal of freedom, the
highest honor to be bestowed upon someone in this country
from the president. Eleven seven and eighty says Dave Now,

(35:46):
seven hundred and eighty says Trevor Now.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Maybe one hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
One hundred and twenty five says Kim. The Presidential Medal
of Freedom. The latest recipient is Rudy Giuliani. How many
people have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom? The answer
between nineteen sixty three and twenty twenty five, Six hundred

(36:18):
and seventy people have received.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yeah, would did Trump last give it to?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Rush Limbaugh?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Rush Limbad did get it? That's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
The can that be stripped posthumously?

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You could? I'm sure President Trump is looking into it.
I want to take him away. I want to take
him away from everybody that crooked Joe gave him to.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Didn't I think Barack Obama gave one to Joe Biden, right, Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
That he got some kind of a yeah probably right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean, you know, Jose Andreas Andres got it, Bono
got it. This is all under under Biden, Michael J. Fox,
Tim Gills. You can see these are you know, but
what even these are advocates. I mean, he was saying,

(37:13):
Michael J. Fox. Isn't he an actor who's an advocate
for Parkinson's disease? This kind of thing, and so, uh
you know again, I think they play fast and loose.
There are usually a lot of high profile names. Messi
got it. Lionel Messi, the most decorated player in the
history of professional soccer, is noted here. He has it.

(37:35):
Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren, what did he do? Yeah, they see,
That's what I mean. It kind of does get your attention. Well,
he of course redefined the fashion industry, but he's, it
suggested because of that work influenced culture, business and philanthropy,
and he's done the latter in the fight against cancer,

(37:56):
and uh, you know again, I don't, I don't know,
but these are there's a pretty wide birth that the
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients have. This I'd say has
never been wider than it is under Donald Trump. So yeah,
but Rudy Giuliani gets it. Now. More about his car accident.

(38:18):
It was the oddest announcement of a car accident that
I'd ever read. You can take us through it. There
was a post kind of a I think he posted
on an axe or his people did to say less
about the accident and more about where Rudy Giuliani was.

(38:47):
The statement was that he had been involved helping an
alleged victim of domestic violence who flagged him down on
the road. Isn't that right, Kim, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
He's supposed a police was the good samaritan in this case,
stopped to help this victim of domestic violence and uh
then was hit by It was rear ended. He was
in the back passenger seat, So I don't know. The
police do say, yes, that there was a domestic violence
call that police were investigating, So I don't know. But

(39:20):
in this accident he fractures his neck and has lots
of scrapes and cuts, So I mean, yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
It's a real action. I mean, I'm going to confess
this to you, meaning all of you, know you who
join us I and tell me some of you didn't
have the same thought when you heard Giuliani had been
in an accident in a traffic wreck? What did you think?
Did you think like I did? Oh d ui yea yeah,

(39:50):
I would have bet so much on DUI. So I
think for that reason they want to say he was
riding in the passenger seat and he was flagged down
by a victim of domestic violence. I mean, the narrative
here is, you know, as a superhero, Rudy Giuliani was
first dealing with the victim of domestic violence while he

(40:14):
waited there and picked her up and took him, took
her along with him in his superhero vehicle. He was
from behind America's mayor, getting contusions, multiple lacerations, and injuries
to his left arm and lower leg. He is eighty

(40:36):
one years old. But hopefully he makes it through and
he's able to maintain a full recovery and then he
can get his Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, you know, he's eighty one. Calvin says, how old
is Rudy driving a car? He's too old.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
It's funny he has a driver.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
He has a driver. Yeah. Yeah, I also say that
try to take away the keys from somebody's eighty one,
not to Oh, it depends. There are a lot of
different eighty ones. There's a eighty one who can drive,
and there's the eighty one who could never drive from
sixty one to eighty one too.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
You know, and then there's the eighty one who can't
drive but wants to drive.

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go ahead.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Congratulations, this will result in more than thirty thousand Alabama
jobs and probably much.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
More than that.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
And Hunt talking about the moving of dollars insions, because
it can't be millions as billions and billions of dollars.
Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate
the high frontier.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
As they call it.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
I want to thank Secretary Pete Haig sith he's doing
a fantastic job. And Secretary of the Air Force Troy Mink. Troy,
thank you very much. Great job you're doing, Troy. This
is such a big deal. This is one that everybody
wanted to know, what are you doing. I also want
to thank Senators Katie Britt and I want to give

(44:16):
my condolences your grandmother. Her grandmother just passed away. She
was one hundred right well, and she was very proud
of you, very very proud of you.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
So thank you, Katie.

Speaker 6 (44:27):
She must have been to produce you indirectly, I can
tell you she had to be Tommy Tubberville, who's a
great coach. And uh, I won't say anything about what
happened with Alabama football this weekend, but you're not you're
not used to that, right, You're not used to that.
But Tommy Auburn one, right, so you're happy. Tommy has

(44:52):
been a great senators, you know, and fantastic, fantastic guy
all around. He was also a tremendous coach. House Armed
Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers, Thank you, Mike with Mike, Mike,
thank you very much doing great Mike, Representatives, Barrymore all
great friends.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Robert adderhol I could listen to this all day, but
I am afraid we have to move along. That is
the latest. It's very exciting for those of you watching
the Space Command headquarter locations and you have to move
them in your big situation rooms at home. You can
move the Space Command to the headquarters in Alabama now.

(45:34):
So Mark Thompson show, by the way, he looked okay
to me. I know, I'm sure he has good hours
in bad but you know, he is someone who is
all about it. He's all about the announcement. There's nothing
that makes him get the bounce in his step more.
And knowing that national TV cameras are there and he

(45:57):
can just blither on and read a little bit from
a and then ad lib for a while and thank
some people and tell them. How a great job they're
doing all of that. So now we all know that
he's still alive and well, says Sandy, I know a
nation can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Yeah, it
was great.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
I loved it all right.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
The whole rumor over the weekend that inspired memes? And
you know, the gossip mill was running high that Trump
was not well or or not alive, and then JD.
Vance had given this this interview that said, you know,
he's okay, but if anything should happen, I'm prepared to

(46:39):
step in.

Speaker 7 (46:40):
And all of a sudden, people were like, what what's
going on with Trump? And then the bruises on the
hands and the cankles and the wandering down the red
carpet and people were freaking out.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Well, yeah, like most conspiracy theories, you put together a
few fragments and before you know it, you have a narrative.
The story was he hadn't been seen publicly in sick days,
was the story. Anyway, he did an interview, He did
a sit down interview on Friday, I think with the
Daily Caller. It was a crazy interview by the way
I read through it. The Daily Callie and the right wing.

(47:11):
It's some I don't know some I was going to
say kid, but I don't know. But you know, young
person can also do a good interview. So I don't
mean to be too disparaging just because the person might
have been younger. I don't know the age of this
this woman who did the interview, but it was these crazy,
like softball questions. It was just ridiculous. But he did

(47:32):
do the interview. That was on Friday. Then he went
to his golf course and there were pictures I think
one of them's on the thumbnail when the front page
of our show. So he was waving to crowds and
he was able to in a sense, prove it he's
still alive right playing golf. But the rumor mill with

(47:54):
the bruises on his hand and the cankles there it
is who me dying? Ha ha ha. There is the
bruise on his right hand. Now, that could be a
few things. From what I understand, it could be blood thinners.

(48:17):
You know, you bruise very easily when you're on blood thinners.
It was suggested that it's some kind of IV that's used,
like you know, repeatedly in an area and attends to bruise.
I don't know. Oh, a body double, very very good, Santy,
I love that. Yeah, I'm just realizing now you're right.

(48:39):
So you're saying it, just don't get it. I don't
I guess I don't get it. Yeah, you're saying that
the announcement today, as we've just seen, that's actually a
body double, a guy doing an impression of Trump. It's
really good.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Well, I guess they put out these pictures of Trump
leaving with his grandkids to play golf, and the people
on the internet said those pictures are from a year ago,
more evident that there's some kind of conspiracy that he's
not okay.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Yeah, by the way, that's a fair way to fuel
a conspiracy, right, you're gonna knock down you know, it's
specifically these photos are specifically designed to show you that
he's alive and well, and you post two year old photos.
I mean that to me does suggest that you're feeding
the conspiracy. But oh, stem cell therapy caption should be

(49:33):
I'm melting. I'm melting, says a teacher Laurie. Somebody else
says stem cell therapy double two mo. Yeah, Well it's
a cover up. It's a cover up, Jeanette says, repeat
three times. A cover up, A cover up, A cover up. Yeah, well,
that there's something being covered up. I have no doubt,

(49:54):
just like the Biden people were covering up Joe Biden's situation.
I told you you quite clearly. I'll take Joe Biden
on a hospital gurney before I take Donald Trump and
his band of incompetent, craven, brutal henchmen. I mean, so,

(50:14):
I get it. Biden wasn't whatever. He wasn't putting troops
on the streets. He wasn't dismantling all of government, firing everybody,
messing with everything from Social Security to the irs. He
wasn't rounding up people who are earnestly working and supporting
the economy at car washes, at restaurants, at high school graduations,

(50:40):
in agricultural fields. He wasn't doing any of that. So
you're saying Biden seemed old infirm. Yeah, I get it.
He was old and infirm.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Yeah, but he has that chronic vein insufficiency, right, so
he has circulatory issues, which would make sense that you
would be on some type of blood finner if you
have a circulatory issue very good.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Now, I think you're right, Kim. I mean, I think
you're right and that, and though the bruising really does
occur super easily if you're on those blood dinners. Tony.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Someone asked him method right now at the interview about
his death over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
If you want to hear it, Oh yeah, please share that. Okay,
thank you for hearing you.

Speaker 8 (51:23):
Completely different, but about a big viral social media trend
over the weekend, how did you find out over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
That you were dead? You see that?

Speaker 8 (51:34):
No, people didn't see you for a couple of days.
One point three million user engagements as of Saturday morning
about your demise.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Really, I didn't see that, you.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
Know, I have heard it's sort of crazy. But last
week I did numerous news conferences, all successful, they went
very well, like this is going very well. And then
I didn't do any for two days and they said
there must be something wrong with him. Biden wouldn't do
him for months, You wouldn't say.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Him wow, Okay, yeah, well, I mean totally. The rumors
are just that rumors onto the next rumor, but they
like to feed the rumors. Here's another one starting what's
that lump on his face, asks sports.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
I didn't notice a lump on his face.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Neither did I. What is that, Tony? You mean the
lump in like under his right eye? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't know. Look, when you get to be seventy,
what is he seventy eight, seventy nine?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
It's he's not eighty yet. I thought he was eighty.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
No, no, well that boy, there is only a way
that we could possibly know. I'm howl yeah, Biden always Biden,
says Karen Cooper, Exactly, he's seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
There, you're yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
I'm just I'm going to give the Presidential Medal of
Freedom to Rudy Giuliani, our friend and a great patriot.
And I'm giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the
greatest patriot myself. That's right. It's never been done before,

(53:17):
and this president is giving himself the presidential Medal. It
has never been anything like this. I'm going to do
it at the newly named Trump Kennedy Center. It has
never been anything like this. I did want to mention

(53:37):
before David K. Johnston gets here, the fact that I'd
mentioned earlier in the show, the January sixth rioters, all
of whom were pardoned with a sweeping pardon as you
know that Donald Trump issued. The dangers associated with that

(53:59):
pardon are more than just what we've pointed out on
the show before that you're allowing violent militant criminals back
out without having paid any price for it. The other
thing you're doing is you're populating, in essence, this private

(54:19):
militia that Donald Trump will have. Now it'll be in
the form of ICE or some special task force or
what do they call them, quick strike forces. It'll be
in that form. Remember he's marshaling those quick strike forces now.
I think they'll largely be made up of people like
the Jay sixers who are pardoned, and also the I

(54:43):
think the Proud Boys, and a lot of these other
existing violent militia groups. So here's the other thing that's happening.
The j six now pardoned violent marauders are suing the government. Yeah,
they've been pardoned, and now they want money for having
been wrongly prosecuted.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
That's rich.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
One of the rioters wants to create a panel that
would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe
were unfair prosecutions. And here is why that's not absurd,
because the president of the United States. The current president,
Donald Trump, said they were unfair prosecutions. You have the

(55:28):
chief executive on the record saying these J six prosecutions
were wrong. These were great patriots. He played them singing
the national anthem at his various campaign events. Even though
the president has given the rioters their freedom and is

(55:51):
doing things to satisfy their desire for retribution, they want more.
They want money and this Mark McCloskey, who's the lawyer
for one of these J six rioters, said that he
has met with top officials at the Justice Department and
pitched them on a plan to create a special panel

(56:13):
that would dole out financial damages. These will be monies
that you and I feed into the federal coffers, And
much like the arrangement made by the Special Master to
award money to the victims of this September eleventh terrorist attacks,
these people will receive monies for the damages to be done.

(56:37):
He wants the panel to be overseen by Janine Piro.
We'll see where this all shakes out. But this is
the insult on top of insults. It's an obscenity, and
it's incredible that these people have the Bals's to pull

(56:59):
this crap and even suggests this thing. You sent a
link to David K. Johnston.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I did, and I just sent another one.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Great, just want to make sure that we don't miss him.
I have quick news out of the CDC, and then
Mark Thompson show, I have quick news of the CDC,
then to David K. Johnston. The agency in turmoil. Of course,
last week doctor Susan Monarez, the CDC director, she was terminated.

(57:33):
She wouldn't leave, she wouldn't approve the decisions made by
RFK Junior, and that's why he said she must leave.
He was getting rid of these Well, it was everybody
on the vaccine board who was going to push back
at all on this anti vax community that has now

(57:55):
completely taken over. As I understand it, There was a
I think it's there was an op ed piece and
then it was in the New York Times. Yeah, nine
former officials serving as directors or acting directors of the agency.
They all warned that the situation facing the CDC is
quote unprecedented. We ran the CDC, is the op ed piece.

(58:21):
Kennedy is endangering every American's health. What Kennedy has done
to the CDC into our nation's public health system over
the past several months. This is from that piece culminating
his decision to fire doctor Susan Monterrez as CDC director
days ago. Is unlike anything we have ever seen at
the agency and unlike anything our country has ever experienced.

(58:43):
And these are all people with great experience as public
servants at the CDC. So this is at the same
time that Kennedy got rid of thousands of federal workers
from HHS, the you know agency that he's running, and

(59:05):
also playing down the role of vaccines and fighting the
measles outbreak, which is ongoing. I mean, the measles numbers
are higher than they've been in decades. So this is
a this is an ongoing travesty, and as they said
in the piece, this is unacceptable and it should alarm
every American, regardless of political leanings. But it's a sadly

(59:33):
it's a ship that sailed. In fact, Kennedy brought in
Trump to ultimately fire the CDC chair who'd been confirmed.
So Manarez was fired as CDC director by Trump. I'm
quite concerned about and we've talked about it at some
length and will continue to with doctors who've come into

(59:55):
the show, many of them very involved in mRNA technology,
which is of course is crucial in developing a COVID vaccine.
Has developed that same technology has developed any number of
vaccines associated with any number of diseases. But as we
talk about that, one has to keep in mind that

(01:00:16):
what's happening is a dismantling of a major institution that
is upholding American health and health standards, and that's there
at AHHS under RFK Junior. So that's the latest from there,
But I want to make sure that we at least
touched on it. Mark Thompson Show. It happened last week

(01:00:38):
in a blizzard of other stuff that was happening. I
have news of immigration. There were again judges rulings ruling
against the Trump administration and the deportation of miners for example.
Also the statistics on who's disappear from the US labor

(01:01:01):
force under Trump. One point two million immigrants erased from
the US labor force under Trump. This is preliminary data,
and a labor economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas saying immigrants normally contribute at least fifty percent of
job growth in the US all of that is constricting now,

(01:01:27):
all of these immigrants now who work in the agricultural fields,
who work in all of those different places that we
refer to all the time, everything from the car wash.
I don't know if you saw the news, but the
car wash right down the street from me. Then there's
another car wash about two and a half miles away.
They're closed because they raided them last week. It happened

(01:01:51):
I think on Thursday of last week. ICE agents go
in with the typical brutality. I mean, these ICE agents
are glorified nightclub bouncers. The way they go in and
they take some poor guy who's wiping down a car
with a rag and they throw them to the pavement, gutless.

(01:02:14):
Why don't you go after violent criminals that way? Why
don't you go into the MS thirteen infested crack houses
that I hear about. Why don't you go in and
try that there, with your masks and your assault weapons
and your military cosplay, you grab these people. You don't

(01:02:34):
even speak Spanish. They've waved completely the requirement for bilingual
or at least some Spanish abilities for ICE. They've also waived,
as you know, the physical requirement. They've waived the age requirement.

(01:02:57):
They keep waving and lowering the requirements so that anybody
can sign up. Plus they've added all of these inducements, right,
fifty thousand dollars signing bonus if you come from another
area of law enforcement. So these nightclub bouncers who just
can't wait to throw people to the pavement are throwing

(01:03:19):
people to the pavement and handcuffing them with those zip
ties as they scream, let me show you my papers,
I'm here legally, let me get my wallet. Anyway, these
people are being deported in numbers that are or detained.

(01:03:40):
I should be to be pure about it. I should say,
in numbers that are so immense that it is affecting
the US labor force. More than one point two million
of immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through
the end of July. That includes people who are in
the country illegal as well as legal residents. Immigrants make

(01:04:03):
up almost twenty percent of the US workforce, and that
data shows forty five percent of workers in farming, fishing,
and forestry forty five percent are immigrants. About thirty percent
of all construction workers are immigrants, and twenty four percent
of all service workers are immigrants. So this is seen

(01:04:28):
as the first decline in the overall immigrant population after
the number of people in the US illegally reached an
all time high of fourteen million in twenty twenty three,
as is noted here. So how much of this is
because of voluntary deportation self deporting as they call it.

(01:04:50):
It's created a net negative migration in America. So this
is a new period. But again, Trump campaign on the
promise to deport millions of immigrants working in the US illegally,
and he is following through. And I would say one
other thing, then, I want to check on David K. Johnson.

(01:05:13):
I would say that, you know a lot of his
people are okay with this. I know we find it abhorrent,
but on some level, the maga core is okay with this.
I put it adjacent to and maybe connected with the
cultural issues that win the day. You know what's happening

(01:05:34):
to America, the wokeness DEI, the immigrants. You know, it's
the destruction of the America that I want. And so
I would say that even as we see this as
having this ruthlessness to it, this brutality to it, there's
something about it that probably lands cleanly with MAGA Nation.

(01:05:59):
It troubles me to say it, but I think it
really could be true. So I guess what I'm trying
to say is if you're saying, well, this will do it,
I mean, nobody's going to be good for this. One
point two million immigrants leaving. I mean a bunch of
them maybe illegal, but many of them are just worried
about them being next up, so they leave even though
they have legal status. I'm not good with that. That's

(01:06:23):
not what I voted for. I'm saying a lot of
them did vote for that. I mean, it was just
part of the package, and they're not that offended by it.
David K. Johnson has a doctor's appointment that conflicts. Now.
See this is a major announcement moving the Space Force
headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. That's not a major announcement,

(01:06:47):
President Trump, That's not okay. That's just you grabbing some
FaceTime with Pete Hegseith on your left and your other
band of incompetent losers who were there because they were
on Fox News Channel surrounding you. But that's not a
major announcement. David K. Johnston, moving from today to tomorrow.

(01:07:09):
That's a major announcement. So that's the latest.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Yeah, he wants to come on tomorrow, So I think
that's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
I think so too.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I want to apologize to the many people who were
expecting to hear David K. Johnston.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Hey, you know what life happens, right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
I am sorry that David K. Johnston has a conflict
and he will be on tomorrow. So I am like,
what I know, I'm very very sorry. I just really
do this to me all the time. I don't know
what the hell they do it for. Yeah they do, Casey.
It's tough, but I do look forward to seeing David tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
They also don't know what happened to the pictures I
was supposed to see this.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
David will bring the pictures tomorrow. Kim Jong Un in
Beijing arriving for the military parade alongside side Putin and she.
How about that? What that is? Dictators on parade? You've
waited for it. It's back for season two. Kim Jong

(01:08:06):
un arriving in Beijing to attend a military parade with
his Chinese and Russian counterparts. Fomo must be hitting the
White House? How was I left out of this? Dictator
bro Down, asks Donald Trump. I want to see a manager,
said Donald Trump. North Korean leader Kim Jong un, arriving

(01:08:30):
in Beijing by train on Tuesday to attend a military
parade with his Chinese and Russian counterparts. This is to
demonstrate potentially three way unity against anybody. Who are they
unified against? If you guess the United States, yeah, you
give yourself points. Kim and Russian President Vladimir Putin are
among the twenty six world leaders who will join President

(01:08:52):
Chijingping at Wednesday's massive military parade in Beijing that commemorates
the eightieth anniversary of the end of war World War
Two and China's fight against Japan's wartime aggressions. It's said
to be Kim's first time attending a major multilateral event
during his fourteen year rule, and the first time Kim,

(01:09:15):
she and Putin, all key rivals, of course of the
US have gathered at the same venue. It's nice that
Donald Trump is bringing people together, not in the way
he thought, but in the way that all of us
could and did predict. North Korea's official Korean Central News
Agency said Kim was greeted at Beijing railway station by

(01:09:37):
the senior Chinese officials, and Kim's delegation at the Beijing
station includes his young daughter, whose South Korean intelligence officials
view as his likely heir. That's right, Kim. There could
be a woman running South Korea as North Korea. Excuse me,

(01:09:59):
that's not right. That's a major.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Whichever career.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Yeah, yeah, but it is. As I mentioned, and if
you missed it, the ridiculousness of the tariffs and the
way in which Donald Trump has asserted the tariffs in
an ultra aggressive style and turned them on India, huge
trading partner, and Mody and Trump had a brow down

(01:10:26):
the last time Mody was around. Now, these withering tariffs
on India, supposedly because India buys Russian oil. I don't
buy it. I don't know what's going on there, but
they have driven India closer to China. It was inevitable.

(01:10:49):
Where did you think they were going to go? So
this is just again a president who was informed by
nothing and a knowledge of nothing. So the tariffs on again,
off again quality of them, and also the manifestly chaotic
way in which they are being applied. All of these
things have real world effects. And I think that's one

(01:11:10):
of them in the case of India, you know, and
Brazil is the other one. Right, Brazil also has a
fifty percent import tax applied, and the reason for that
has nothing to do with Brazil except for the fact
that his friend Bolsonaro is being prosecuted there. And Brazil

(01:11:32):
is no stranger to authoritarian uprises uprisings, but this is
the first time they've actually tried an authoritarian dictator there
in Brazil. He's sort of a Trumpian right deny the results.
He was wrapped up in a ton of illegalities, and

(01:11:53):
Brazil has come back on him with the justice system there,
and Trump wants no part of it. So you see
how there's not an American foreign policy here. There's not
even an American economic policy at play. You have coherence
only around what Donald Trump wants. That's deeply troubling. So

(01:12:13):
but that's the state of things. The last thing I'll
say about tariffs that I want to go to km's
news is that they were, as noted just a few
minutes ago, ruled illegal. So that's going to be definitely
appealed to the Supreme Court. And I'm sure Donald Trump
feels that his concierge court is going to come through
for him. But we talked about this from the very beginning.

(01:12:34):
This could be incredibly problematic because if the tariffs are
ruled illegal, then the money collected those taxes have to
be returned on some level, and that's going to be
its own mess. And Trump has created a mess on
top of a mess. And I don't leave Congress blameless either.

(01:12:57):
You the GOP in control of both houses. You let
Trump do this on his own, and so you now
are going to be spending the American people's money to
return much of this money to where it came from
where it came. And you're also going to be dealing

(01:13:17):
with the lawsuits They're going to be a lot of
them about this affected my business. I had to close
my business down because of these tariffs. They are real
damages that people are going to show in court. And
who's going to write those checks? You and me because
we have Donald Trump and you know, tariff Boy wants

(01:13:37):
to just recklessly impose these tariffs, and Congress is letting
them do it. So don't lose sight of this. This
is going to happen. If the Scotis decision doesn't go
Trump's way, then it will be ruled illegal these tariffs,
that he imposed them illegally, that he couldn't declare that
emergency where there was no emergency that met the threshold

(01:14:02):
for that declaration. And as a result, all those moneies
are now going to be contested and the real damage
done by those tariffs, literally businesses were completely closed down
because of them. Those will be played out in court
and many of those settlements will be paid by the

(01:14:22):
American taxpayer. So Kim's News upcoming, I will I'm kind
of glad we have a time for your news. I've
got Powerball news as well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
I'm gonna I'll put it in there. We can talk
about it too.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
I like it. I like it. Put it in there,
Kim all right, Kim's News and we continue. Please hit
the like button. It helps us in the YouTube universe.
And thanks for being the Mark Thomson.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
On The Mark Thompson Show. I'm Kim McCallister. This report
is sponsored by Coachella Valleycoffee Tea dot Com. President Trump
is announcing US Space Command is moving to Huntsville, Alabama.
The move reversing former President Biden's decision to keep the
headquarters in Colorado. Trump said part of His reasoning behind

(01:15:18):
the move is because Colorado has mail in voting, which
he called crooked.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Oh my god. Even the explanation has nothing to do
with the actual material. Oh right, can't make it up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Space Command oversees military space operations and the defensive satellites.
Colorado's Democratic attorney general says he will be challenging Trump's
decision in court. A federal judge says President Trump illegally
deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles. In his ruling,
the Bill Clinton appointed judge Briar said President Trump violated

(01:15:53):
a nineteenth century law forbidding the use of soldiers for
civilian enforcement activities. The judges ruling bars the use of
troops in California to execute laws. However, the ruling is
paused pending further legal action. Just as Trump considers sending
troops to other cities to fight crime, which leads me
to president of Trump says he will be offering federal

(01:16:16):
intervention in Chicago. Trump was asked about the possibility of
the National Guard going to Chicago to fight crime, and
he responded, we're going in.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
Well, we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in.
When you lose look, I have an obligation.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
This isn't a political thing.

Speaker 6 (01:16:37):
I have an obligation when we lose. When twenty people
are killed over the last two and a half weeks
and seventy five are shot with bullets. So let me
tell you a little story about a place called DC
District of Columbia. Right here where we are. It's now
a safe zone. We have no crime, we have. It's

(01:16:58):
in such great shape. Go and actually walk with your children,
your wife, your husband. You can walk right down the
middle of the street. You're not going to be shot. Peter,
you're safe.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Yeah. I've heard that flowers are springing up everywhere in
DC and you can eat all the flowers. Everything's amazing there.
And by the way, if you let those flowers bloom,
there's actually money coming out of them for all of
the DC residents. It's terrific. He really has created an
extraordinary nirvana there in Washington, d C. I can't wait

(01:17:29):
till he brings that to the people of Chicago. I'm
sure they're looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Thanks Tony for throwing that video in.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
Yeah, Tony, You're dreamy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Victims of late sex defender Jeffrey Epstein and Galaine, Maxwell
are meeting with Bipartisans, a bipartisan group of House members today.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer says the survivors are also
set for a press event tomorrow on Capitol Hill with
representatives Thomas Massey as a Republican Democrat Rokana. The news

(01:18:01):
comes as the first day of Congress is underway. Congress
people are back from their summer recess and they're taking
up the Epstein issue yet again.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Yeah, this is what we said that. You know, you
can forget about it for August while they're away, but
when they come back, it's hello Epstein.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Vladimir Putin says Russia has never been against Ukraine joining
the European Union, but he says Ukraine joining NATO, well,
now that's unacceptable. Ukraine began its bid to become a
member of the EU after Russia's invasion in February of
twenty twenty two. Putin's comments come as President Trump continues
to try to get Ukraine and Russia to agree to

(01:18:39):
some type of ceasefire.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Yeah, he's really working on that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
He's generally trying. Some Texas Republicans still upset.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
I want to get a ceasefire in Chicago. First, let
me tell you something. Have you seen the statistics. It's
horrible Chicago. Forget about Ukraine, that's over there. Let's talk
about what's happening in this country. I don't do a
Trump and Bresnan as a mobster. If you're a mobster.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Some Texas Republicans are still upset over a quorum break
by Democrats which delayed the passage of congressional redistricting. Today,
the State House in Texas took up legislation that would
punish lawmakers who left the capitol in protest. The bill
would ban lawmakers from fundraising during a quorum break. It
would also prohibit donors from giving them cash. During this

(01:19:26):
year's protest, former Congressman Beto O'Rourke lent financial support to
his fellow Democrats. State Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to sue,
but was repeatedly blocked, so now they're trying to legislate it.
Speaking of Texas, there is a man being accused of
murder after allegedly shooting and killing an eleven year old
boy who was doorbell ditching in Houston. Leon Gonzalo Junior

(01:19:49):
was arrested and charged this morning with an account of murder.
Police responded to the reported shooting in an East Houston
neighborhood on Saturday night. Investigators say someone inside the house
came out shot the boy in the back as he
ran away playing the doorbell ditch jeez. President Trump says
he plans to display a portrait highlighting former President Biden's

(01:20:11):
use of auto pen. The president's announcement came during an
interview where he showed off new portraits for his Rose
Garden Presidential Wall of Fame. Trump shared that the administration
will put up a picture of the auto pen and
noted the move will be very controversial.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):
I'm looking forward to issuing my executive order on the
portraits that we'll be here. These are very distinguished people,
and of course one of them is in the center.
There you can see it, the autopen Biden, who was

(01:20:49):
out of it for four years. Worst thing that ever
happened in this country. It is autopen, will be memorialized.
At the same time, was up late last night trying
to pick out the right carpet for the new ballroom.
The Trump ballroom will be the most magnificent ballroom, and
by the way, it will be called the Trump Ballroom,

(01:21:10):
and I'm pushing legislation through now that will make sure
that that name can never be changed. The auto pen
is there in the middle. Can you see it, Tony
get a little big on the pen. That is hilarious.
Now we don't know that that's what it's going to be,
but it's very funny. I mean, he's he's a troll.

(01:21:32):
Trump's a troll. I wouldn't be surprised if it does
look like that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, okay, Uh. The public is soon not going to
be able to listen in on Oakland police scanner calls.
Starting tomorrow, all police radio traffic in Oakland, California, will
be encrypted, cutting off public access to real time dispatch calls.
Police officials say the move to encryption is needed for

(01:21:58):
a myriad of safety reasons, but some lawmakers and civil
rights advocates are furious, saying these efforts are a blow
to transparency. The world's wealthy are already securing their luxury
accommodations for the Los Angeles Olympics. S Mark doesn't have
to do that. He's got rent out some rooms over there.

(01:22:19):
The Summer's names are still three years away, but the
rich are already making their reservations. Frank Stark is founder
of the ultra flush vacation rental company lux JB. He
tells the La Times there are only so many mega
mansions available. He manages fourteen of them, and he's already
booked three. He says, the renters will be in La

(01:22:40):
most of that year, not just the two weeks of
the Olympics. They're long term renters. Now, you know, most
luxurious of his rental goes for three hundred thousand a month.
The least expensive twenty five thousand a month. So you know,
mega mansion right now. You know, Wow, that's fancy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
I would consider. I mean, everyone has their price. I'd
consider I'd consider giving it up, giving up my place
for a couple of months for some of the numbers
that you've thrown out, Kim.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Yeah, rent rented out just you know, do the show
from up here in Penallemma.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Yeah, come on up.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Sure, Uber is teaming up with best Buy. You know, now, Mark,
after you have a couple of gummies and you're you're
deep in the throes of gaming, you really want that
fresh new game. You don't have to get off the
couch and go get it. No, the ride share company
Uber is announcing this partnership, which aims to deliver things

(01:23:43):
like headphones, gaming gear, small appliances. The service will be
offered via Uber Eats, with more than eight hundred stores participating.
It is the latest collaboration for best Buy, as the
retailer is also teaming up with door Dash and Instacart
in the last years as well. So you know, you think, God,
I'd really like to play the latest call of duty done.

(01:24:05):
Just call Uber You've got it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Well, who's going to deliver it? I mean, they're getting
rid of all the people who were, you know, in
the country in any kind of way that you know,
generally populated by you know, you've seen them. They've gone
after these Uber and door dash drivers. It's crazy. They
literally will summon a door dash driver and then when
he arrives or she arrives, they'll arrest him. This is

(01:24:30):
the latest thing for ice. Mean, that's a real long
way to make it to a million or whatever it
is you want to You're gonna have to. You're gonna
do that over and over and over again. Well, you
thugs just keep wrestling these people to the ground and
throwing them in a van. One Uber each driver at
a time.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Anyway, this is going to come as.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
Mark, I tried to tell you a good story about
how you can get stuff delivered and you turn it
into an immigration thing. Poor Kim.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
This next story, this one's going to really surprise you.
American pessimism is growing as a majority of people believe
the American dream is no longer true.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
Thank you, thank you. That's right, and I am when
it comes to pessimism, I am your king. That's right.
I agree, I'm your king.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Holding from the Wall Street Journal at Nork Research Center
found the.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
One that's right, all you pessimists, You're welcome here. The
club is just beginning. Go ahead, The Wall Street Journal one, the.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Wall Street Journal, Nork Research Center, that's who did the poll.
They found that when asked about the state of the economy,
forty five percent of respondents said it will get worse
over the next year. Twenty nine percent thought and I
don't stay about the same. According to the survey, sixty
nine percent of respondents are abandoning the so called American dream,
with less than a quarter of people saying they were

(01:25:58):
very confident they could buy a home if they want
on it too. Yeah, find that's pure speculation.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
I mean, the numbers are damning because the situation looks
pretty great.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Yeah. And lastly, the only way you will be able
to I'm word to buy a home is if you
win the powerball jackpot. It is jumping the jackpot to
one point three billion dollars. The last jackpot winner was
May thirty first, making Wednesday nights drawing one of the
biggest in game history. Wow, if there's never been anything

(01:26:29):
like this. Yeah, if you win, which is really unlikely,
but you could elect to receive annuity payments that increase
by five percent annually over thirty years, or you could
take a one time lump sum of five hundred and
eighty nine million dollars before taxes. So that's before taxes. Okay,

(01:26:50):
the odds of winning one in two hundred and ninety
two million. So it's not happening, but yet it could happen.
It's a it's a it's a moment where we can
dare to dream. Yeah, that's not fake, that's real, that's
real money.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
M h. It's a. It's a tough it's a tough plan.
I would say you should get a plan B. Yeah,
that would be my recommendation to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
It's really hard to drive by that lottery sign though
that says one point three billion and not do a
double take, like what what three billion?

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
I mean, that's way more money than you'd need to
buy any you could. You could buy probably twenty different
politicians for that kind of money, you know what I mean?
And you could throw in a Supreme Court justice all
on there. Yeah, you could get your your own. Now
you're really playing and come from regular style. You're playing
with the real crew that politicians and justice in this time.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Not enough for a presidency, though, is it? How much
did Elon pay?

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Well, Elon didn't even put in a billion. He put
in two hundred and seventy million.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I want to say, what that's cheap?

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Yeah, so you could you could do that and still
have money left over. That's mad culti Oprah money says
true to exactly right forgot Oprah? Gosh, she is a
Why isn't Oprah bigger? Where is Oprah? Now? She's kind
of what's happening with Barber's I see who.

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Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Great to have you here. It is a Tuesday, and
if you join late, I want to just update you
on something. David K. Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize winner, will
join us tomorrow. It's a special week that David joins
on a Wednesday and not a Tuesday, So we are
awaiting that with you tomorrow. But now we check in

(01:30:26):
with somebody who is the longtime tech writer for USA Today.
Now he has a show on YouTube where he travels
the country the world offering tips using technology and just
his cleverness to give you the best photos. It's called
Photo Walks TV. He is called Jefferson Grant. Hi Jefferson,

(01:30:48):
I'm on I love you. Where are you today?

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
I'm in Long Beach, California.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
Wow, I hear. It's lovely this time of year.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
It's a little warm. It's a little warm, but it's
very nice.

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
It was. It was beautiful this morning at six am.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Yes, the morning is the time now that you really
want to get the southern California day. A little bit
of a heat wave going on there now. But let
me ask you what's happening tech wise? You know, you
always give us a window on technology. It is the fall.
Isn't there a new iPhone coming out and a new
bunch of other stuff coming out? You got it?

Speaker 4 (01:31:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
No, no, but it's coming out next Tuesday. It's being
introduced next Tuesday in Coopertino, California, Apple will introduce expected
for four new iPhones. I know someone who's going to
be there at the event.

Speaker 4 (01:31:39):
That would be me. I'll be covering it and the big.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
News that I don't think anybody's going to really care about.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
But they're supposedly going to have a really ultra thin
new iPhone. I see, I don't. I just don't know
that that's going to get people excited.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
And how many, how many hundreds of dollars more will
be that ultra We don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:01):
We don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
We won't know anything until next Tuesday at ten o'clock Pacific.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Why do you say when you say they're going to
be four different iPhones debuted, what does that mean? Different size?

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
iPhone seventeen, iPhone seventeen Air I Phone seventeen Pro, iPhone
seventeen Pro Max that has been the standard that they've
been doing the last few years, and the ultra thin
for the new air. But as first pricing, let's find

(01:32:37):
out how the tariffs are going to affect Apple. We've
been speculating it on it all year. I say at
least one hundred dollars more, if not more, but we
don't know now. Google introduced just two weeks ago some
new phones and their new phone was one hundred dollars
more at the top of the line.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
So it's likely to be something in that area. Because that,
you know, I guess that they all kind of release
with of you toward each other, you.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Know, and they don't even have to justify it. I
got an email from Frontier Communications, who is my internet provider,
and they said, you know, we strive to give you
the best service. So we've started to up the rate
by ten dollars a month. Nothing about what we're giving
you when nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:23):
Extra, just we're going to chart you another one hundred
and twenty eight dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
Well, this is kind of what I get to when
I talk about the fact that you know, there's this
effort underway to kneecap a lot of government service, excuse me,
and then turn it over to private industry, so you know,
it's the disabling of one thing, and then saying that
that's crappy, so you need to turn it over to

(01:33:47):
private industry. And I remind people that this is the
stuff that you've just talked about. The private industry does
they just raise fees on you without any kind of warning,
without any kind of justification. You can't get any customer service.
You get worse service than the government was providing, and
it's more expensive. But it's privatized. So there is a winner.

(01:34:08):
And you've just described how that works.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
What else is I sent a reply to Frontier and
said what are you given? Well want to know and
it said you cannot reply to this email.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
Isn't that nights?

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Yeah? Now that's the that's the thing I mean that
they always talk about, Oh, private industry, you'll be able
to you know, the service, the competition, it'll be better
for the American consumer. Really, Yeah, when when was the
Americans that were well served by private.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
And every merger screws the consumer?

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
Right? Yeah, of course, I mean less competition. Less competition
means means worse for the consumer and the street.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Yeah, so the iPhone is the all time best selling
consumer device, so it sells about two hundred and twenty
five million units.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
A year, So it is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
And uh, you know, I think when Trump, when Tim
Cook went and uh and Neil before Trump in order
to not have tariffs.

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
We don't know what's going to happen till next week.

Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
What can you is that? Is that the big news
of the day or is there other tech news?

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
That's the big news that I've got.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
And there's also expected to be Apple a new Apple Watch,
maybe new Apple AirPods. Apple sucks up the market. This
is the big thing and a lot of people are
going to be going up there for the event.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
Well, I'm very excited that you are going as well,
because I know that they didn't want you there because
you're a truth teller, and you somehow wangled your way in.
I don't know how you did it. You haven't made
the last few.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
No, I was there last year too.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Aside from last year, you haven't really been there much.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
I think I missed one or two. Google though it
doesn't doesn't invite me.

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
I knew one of them didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
Google will not invite me, and they will not even
send me a view phone.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Tony cannot get an invitation either. It's so weird that
I think they're just they're scared. They're scared of truth tellers.
That's what they're scared of. Jefferson. Yeah, so the major
Apple product announcement. We're looking forward to it. You're covering it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
You'll get you again, And I thank you again for
doing a cameo being a celebrity presenter in Milwaukee Awards.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
Oh yeah, did I do it already or.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
Two weeks ago? Yeah? It was really great.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
Uh did I really? I don't recall doing it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Yeah, we did it on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
Oh okay, wow, I'll tell you something. I had this illness.
I'm still got, you know, whatever stuff. I can't remember anything.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
Milwaukee Awards came out on Sunday, the thirty best travel
places that I've been to. Oh yeah, question that everybody
always wants to know, best place, best place, best place?

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
What was the best place?

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
Nova Scotia?

Speaker 1 (01:36:54):
Wow, Nova Scotia? And on what what criteria went in
to that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
A friend of mine wrote a thing on Facebook and said,
I don't understand why more people don't go here because
it's twice as good as New England for half of
the price, So let's go. And it was twice as
good as New England at half the price, with amazing
music and great food, wow, and beautiful scenery, so it's
easy with their Paris.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
Put it on my list. Yeah, yeah, I just came.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
Back from British Columbia and that's really great too.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
Well. I love British Columbia. I love it. Yeah, it's terrific.
You have a pretty great life, pretty great life. Does
your wife go with you on any of this stuff
or no?

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
She came with me to British Columbia. She will not
be coming to San Francisco, but she'll be coming to
Santa Barbara, which is the next.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Trip after pretty terrific. Jeff, thank you, We adore you.
You can find his work. There is a I'm guessing
that's British Columbia.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
No, that's Kyoto, Japan. There's Mark t.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Oh, there's Kyoto Japan. Well, I don't know what's happening now. Oh,
most underrated? I see what was the most underrated?

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
San Francisco, California Francisco because it gets so much bad
press and people forget about what a beautiful city it is.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Well, thank you Tony for putting that up there. It
is a gorgeous city. I love San Francisco, and uh
it does get a lot of bad pub you know,
but it is super beautiful and super special. And there's
so many places around San Francisco over the bridge, South
Bay north into Napa in the East Bay. So much

(01:38:36):
great stuff in all these places. Yeah wow, I.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Mean you're staying court to Madera when I'm there, which
is just right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
Over in Marin. So cool. All right, Jeff you can
find Jefferson Graham Photowalks TV on YouTube. Thank you, Roger,
what a day. I know what you're saying. All of
America is saying it. Sure, the Space Force has changed

(01:39:03):
from Colorado to Alabama with its headquarters. Sure, they're deporting
a bunch of people. Alligator Alcatraz down in Florida looks
like it's being closed. But they're moving all those people
to other places. They're setting up these concentration camps elsewhere.
But what about the Epstein files, you're saying? Am I right?

(01:39:24):
I know I know you want your Epstein files. I
will just tell you. With Congress back as we said
the Epstein files will once again start to make the
news cycle. And this is a GOP. Congress Person Thomas
Massey filed a discharge petition today. It just happened. He

(01:39:49):
wants to force the disclosure of the Justice Department's investigative
files related to Jeffrey Epstein. He filed his petition. That's
going to allow the House to sig step a lot
of GOP efforts to quash this entire discussion that we'll
have to follow the release of the Epstein files. And

(01:40:14):
so you've got Rocanna, You've got a bipartisan effort to
demand the release of these files. Rocana is just a
high profile Democrat who's demanding them as well. So I
u nless Rocana is now an independent. I think he's
a Democrat any any case, the point is that there

(01:40:36):
is going to be more pressure to release something, and
so this White House will be challenged to serve something
up to magnation and to the rest of the country
that wants something. There's Massy, thank you Tony for that picture.
There is a pressure campaign from the White House. Massy's
saying they've they're coming down on those who are demanding

(01:41:04):
the release of the Epstein files. But again, this is
a discharge petition that Thomas Massey is filing and he
wants the release of the Epstein files. And look for
this to now make the news cycle in ways it
wasn't for August because August Congress is away. Now you

(01:41:26):
have congressional receptivity. You know they're okay with the idea
of talking about Epstein, even though, as we've discussed here,
the Epstein details are going to be damning to both
Democrats and Republicans, and there is likely all kinds of
underpinning of the Epstein files associated with the investigative agencies

(01:41:48):
and intelligence agencies worldwide, not only CIA, but Mossad and
who knows if there's British intelligence involved. It looks as
though if you look at away, the Epstein files were
handled by the British. It's a great way of providing
your own litmus test as to what was likely in

(01:42:09):
the files, independent of the horror which is associated with
human trafficking, meaning the British intelligence agencies. When Prince Andrew,
is it Prince was that? Who it was Kim who
is involved with the Was it Prince Andrew or who
was the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Who was it was Andrew. Are you talking about who
was involved with the allegedly.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
With Virginia Jeffrey exactly right. So the British intelligence community
looked at that, right, they are asked by British Royalty
to look at that. The British intelligence community came down
against Prince Andrew. And that's why Prince Andrew was ostracized
by the Brits. They basically turned their back on him,

(01:42:56):
the Royalty did. They cut him off in every way.
There he is on the left, there's Virginia in the middle,
and Galaine on the right. And so that should tell
you something about what's involved here underpinning much of this.
It has to be at very high levels, so damning

(01:43:17):
and so complex that the Britches say, we want nothing
to do with this anymore. No effort to defend him,
no effort to provide for him in any way. They
totally isolated him. It wasn't just the interaction with underage girls.
So we'll find out more, but we're going to find

(01:43:38):
him out. I think the way we're finding out now,
which is little bits and pieces. So did you see
this Telsey Gabbard living her best life as a Trump
apologist and as an explainer and suck up to President

(01:43:58):
Donald Trump. She uh, kissing my ass. She has a
bit of a back and forth with CIA director John Radcliffe. Yeah,
Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard and again, try to
say those words without choking, blindsiding CIA leaders. Last week

(01:44:21):
when she disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer
on a list of people that she stripped of security clearances.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
What do you think she did it on purpose or
is she just extra stupid?

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
The move alarmed the agency's workforce, and it's the latest
example of simmering tensions and cross signals between Gabbard and
CIA director John Radcliffe. The two have clashed previously over
her decisions, including her decision earlier this month when Gabbard
declassified a lightly redacted document related to Russian election interferre rans.

(01:45:02):
Two former government officials said that they looked at the
situation and they think that Gabbard is under pressure to
regain Donald Trump's confidence. So you see, she does this
because she wants to be his favorite. They are kissing
my ass. She fell out of favor with Trump and
his age earlier this year after she posted a video

(01:45:24):
and delivered testimony about Iran's nuclear capabilities. Remember she was saying, now,
I don't think they're so close to developing a bomb,
and then she got the memo, Oh, what I meant
was today they're not, but tomorrow they could easily have
the bomb. So again, Trump and Gabbard seem to not

(01:45:45):
have any open tensions. But when Gabbard announced these security
clearance removals last week, she said some of the thirty
seven current and former officials were engaged in quote, the
politicization or weaponization of intelligence. And she said she was
acting on the president's orders when he had that huge session,

(01:46:11):
the televised cabinet session in which they kind of went
around the table and tried to top each other in
speaking reverentially about Donald Trump, Tulsey Trump said, is becoming
a bigger and bigger star every day. So she thinks

(01:46:36):
clearly that she's on the right track with many of
these declassifications. One of the former government officials, though, saying
that Gabbard appeared to be trying to show the president
that she was exposing democrats and political enemies, including some
who are in the CIA. The security clearance removals we
reported on them here last week, reflected a battle between

(01:47:00):
Gabbard and Radcliffe. According to a former government official, of
course she occupies a position that was created after September eleventh, Right,
they wanted to have more coordination between CIA and other
intelligence agencies. The ideal was that had there been that

(01:47:21):
coordination prior to September eleventh, you might have been able
to stop those planes from flying into the World Trade Center.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
But how scary is it if you don't feel comfortable
sharing information with the other agency because you don't know
if the director is going to expill the beans to
the world, then that information flow stops. Exactly who's going
to share it with her? Now? She's a bladdermouth that
puts people's lives at risk.

Speaker 1 (01:47:47):
It even extends to the President of the United States.
David K. Johnston would tell you that, you know, he
gave away sources and methods Trump did to the Russians.
He did that in the first Trump administration. Remember there
was even talk with them, the intelligence community, of not
briefing Trump completely on certain things because he can't be
trusted to keep a secret. He's like pee talking about it.

(01:48:08):
And then I don't know why they say that when
he jacks thousands of pages of documents, puts them in
mar Lago's bathroom, ballroom, bedroom, closet, and then in some
spots at his Bedminster club, completely insecure areas where all
that stuff was dumped.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
And remember waves them around at mare A Lago of
the cafe, waving you can't see these, but I can
see them.

Speaker 1 (01:48:32):
This is how we were going to attack. Iron could
have attacked him if I wanted to, anytime I want.
I'm president, but.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Their secret you know you can't, so they could try
ignoring us.

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
Sir, all right, I do have a special announcement of
my own. You know, Trump had one Mark Thompson show.
Trump had a special announcement today. He announced that the
Space Force Headquarters, which every American was worried about, the
Space Force Headquarters is fine everyone. They are relocating it
from Colorado with Biden wanted it dirty Joe, sleepy Joe

(01:49:07):
Auto pendit to Colorado. They've moved it to Huntsville, Alabama.
So that was the big news. But I have big news,
and my big news is to recognize many who contribute
to our show and support our show on PayPal. What yes,

(01:49:28):
I always talk about Patreon and the many who jump
on board here with super chats and all the rest.
But I wanted to quickly give him a shout out.
And Tony adds these names to the scroll every month.
Am I right, Tony? It's a thankless job. Yes, he
does it. He does it because he's being paid to

(01:49:49):
do it. Yeah, I'm sure he would do it anyway,
is the point. But I don't want to road test that,
so we actually pay him. Eleanor Mirisol, come on, eleanor
Sweet Petit Bakery and Confections. Big shout out to you

(01:50:10):
and thank you thirty dollars a month. Sent a big
shout out, Big Shore.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
Where's the bakery? Did you say?

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
No, You're gonna have to google that? I think google it?
Sweet Petit Baking in Confection. Laurie above the bar, We
know where that is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
Yeh.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
Big shout out Laurie with a one hundred dollars contribution
to the show. Wow Wow Wow through PayPal The Red
Jack Saloon. If you're planning a trip to San Francisco,
you must check out the Red Jack. It's authentically San Francisco.
The owners Laurie and Mark. They live above the bar,
just like a good sitcom should be. Yeah. Love it

(01:50:51):
there Kathy Oh at ten bucks a month. Thank you
for Sarah Kenzie R, says Carl Schmidt with his donation.
Shout out, Carl, upset so many people. No big shout
out is what I want. Big out d with eleven bucks,
Leslie Geen with fifteen bucks, and my Eric Greetings from Brooklyn,

(01:51:13):
New York, says Eric, with forty dollars through PayPal. I
love you. The PayPal links and the Patreon links are
right under all our videos so you can join this crew.
Patrick Miller with five bucks a month, and Enid with
five and Corla with five, and Richard Ratchowski with five

(01:51:33):
and Jennifer Lentz with twenty dollars gooid shout out to
all of you living aquatic resources with ten bucks. I
mean it's pretty cool. These are all people who contribute
and help keep the show on the air. That's why
he put their names up at the end of every show. Dominate,

(01:51:53):
said Trump. Wow, I don't know what dominate that's what
he said, We're going to dominate the streets or what
he say. I don't know what that refers to. Chaplain
Fred with a two dollars super chat. Do you know
what that means to kim.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
No, but I like the comment.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
I see. Yeah, please don't interrupt when I'm doing my
shout outs to put something up that you don't know
the reference? Uh I. My wife and I both love
your program, says on PayPal and Patreon. They let you,
you know, make a contribution of the show and you
can send a message. My wife and I both love

(01:52:28):
your program. God, that's good. Can you imagine if like
one of the two doesn't love the program and the
other you know what I mean, then they're longtime listener
and started with kg oh, says Miles Miles with three
hundred dollars into the Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm
saying these and in memory of Frendshye Nancy loftall wow,

(01:52:54):
I am. I'm humbled. I'm also just moved by the way.
All right, I won't cry, but I think of Frenchy often.
It wasn't that long ago, So sad treetop web design.
How about an eleven dollars. A lot of people they'll
donate eleven dollars. And because you know, the PayPal has
the thing it's like a processing fee, so does Patroon.

(01:53:16):
So so many of you are going to pay that
which is so sweet. But even if you don't, it's
just great to have you on board. So the tree
Top Web design people did Elizabeth Dayton with twenty, Mark
Fisher with ten, Doyle McClain with one hundred dollars. Is
that Doyle or Dale Gosha? I wrote it. It's in
my long hand, you can see I just so. Anyway,

(01:53:42):
mister McLain, thank you and one hundred dollars. Wow. And
Sue Anne Starner, we got your note, and Tony's going
to adjust the spelling of your name, so nothing to
worry about. Yeah, that's it for now, but I wanted
to thank you all of you who have contributed. I'll
pick up a list as well. I just feel like

(01:54:04):
we always recognize Patreon and the PayPal folks are so
great to jump on board that way, and PayPal actually
does take less from us, a little bit less. But
I have to tell you I don't mind sharing a
little bit of every donation with these various platforms that
permit us to stay on the air. You know, I
don't mind it. So the other thing I would say

(01:54:25):
is if neither one appeals to you and you want
to support the show, the good old fashionable way with
a check. You can do it. Just send an email
to me and I will tell you how to do it.
There's our website, the Mark Thompson Show dot com, TheMark
Thompsonshow dot com, their clickthroughs to Patreon and PayPal there
and if you send a an email the Mark Thompson

(01:54:46):
Show at gmail dot com will send you an address
where you can where you can. I don't know what
this is. There are people shouting in the in the
in the I'm just seeing it now in the chat.
Very funny. I know it's related to but anyway, let
me just tell you that if you're in the chat

(01:55:09):
and you're using caps, Kim will find you. She has
a special set of skills and she will find you.
She will use those skills against you. All right, I
could stay all day, and I want to stay all day.
Martin Thomas, we had to reorganize a bit with the

(01:55:35):
David K. Johnston reschedule. Recognizing on the way out. First
into the chat this morning was Trevor Starr in Hollywood.
Why isn't anyone here yet? He said, of course, she
came on board it super early. I think maybe not.
David is worth waiting an extra day for says sp
is he? I agree? And who was who will be throwing?

(01:56:03):
Who is throwing bags of stuff out of the White
House windows? And what was in them? We don't know, Yeah,
I do not know. We do not know. We did
sugar that the beginning of the first hour. So if
you missed it, you can check it out. Oh there
it is. Tony's going to show it to you one
more time on the way out here again, second story window,

(01:56:24):
likely living quarters. Don't know if honestly this is the
one thing we haven't been able to id.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
I think Milania is kicking them out. She's like, and
you find her stuff on the lawn by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
I don't think Milania cares to be honest. Milania is
truly a yeah, because you don't hear much from Milania.
You you know, not you, but I mean one tends
to ascribe certain sort of more kind of lofty thinking
to Malania. I think we'd be very, very surprised. Milania
is straight up money money, money, you know. Let me

(01:56:58):
go back to Bergdorf Chanel and live in New York
because that's what I signed up for. I don't know,
you know, I'm not here to do anything for America.
I could give an f you know, maybe that's true
cynical for all of you Millennia fans. I'm sorry, but
I think that's the reality. You know, Trump getting rid

(01:57:18):
of orange skincare products, says he in the Landshah, there
you go. Trump can't get a break, poor guy. This
audience is so rough on on Donald Trump. You know,
it's really really yeah. I know you don't like it
that way. It's the very very tough Hit those thumbs up, yeah,

(01:57:40):
please hit those thumbs up. It's the White House silverware,
says Rick again. Closest maybe it's uh, it's just one
more weird thing. Thank you all for joining us. David K. Johnston,
we moved to tomorrow and we'll have John Rothman tomorrow
as well. So big show tomorrow. I hope everyone will

(01:58:01):
be here. And now the Great Shadow. I'm scheffer of
Stevens for the Mark Johnson Show. Bye, b Hey, Tony,
thank you short week for you. Appreciate that all the time. Bye,
kim Pa, thank you till tomorrow. Bye bye

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