China Pats Trump’s Head with Trade Talks: Deal in Reach? 10/27/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome all to another week and the dismantling of America.
It is a great, great pleasure to have you all
with me. And Kim is here as well. Kim, how
are you right? And Tony is here? All sunder and
I know, so we got the full crew. We're on

(00:21):
between two and four on the East coast. We start
a little after two. And that's who is to blame
for that? Kim, I think it's Sat blame you, all right,
it probably is maybe a bit my fault. Eleven to
one on the West coast. Congratulations to you Angelino's I
know your baseball team is in the World Series and

(00:44):
got I mean just crushed I think in the one game.
But now in the game two, wasn't it they did
really well? And so yeah, now it looks like they
are the unstoppable force that all of Major League Baseball
felt they were. Many of you are not baseball fans.
Many of you join us from the Bay Area and

(01:06):
you're football fans. That didn't go so well. But the
commissioner comes in later in the week and we review
all things sports today. What a show. The President of
the United States, I will tell you, is Donald Trump. Yeah,
the flim flam artist, real estate dude who stiffed contractors,

(01:32):
never paid bills, created the image of billionaire billionaiiness when
he actually was close to broke. If you read the
David K. Johnston stuff, you'll never believe it. He made
his way to the presidency. Yeah, what happened was he

(01:53):
was in a show called The Apprentice, which is really
a good show, and it really created this vision of
him and image of Donald Trump for America. That was
about a successful businessman. It was a TV show, but
enough people bought it. And then he went on the

(02:14):
stump with this angry stuff, talked about how stupid everybody was.
We've got bad deals with you. The Iran and Nuclear
deal is bad, the Paris Climate deal is bad. This
inflation is awful. And he made it to the presidency.
Then he tried to overthrow the vote, and you would

(02:35):
have thought that would be like enough to knock this
guy out of the running. My hair is all messed
up today. Sorry it looks curly.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's cute.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Didn't really get a chance to get to hair and makeup. Yeah,
it's sort of I didn't. I needed hairspray or something.
But the second term, no one would have believed, but
he made it. So now here we are in the
second term, like eight months in, and he starts right
out of the choot with creating this huge, well funded

(03:08):
agency ICE that goes around and under the guise of
arresting people who are in the country, creating gangs of
violent drug running awful villains. He ends up detaining and

(03:31):
deporting a bunch of people who are working at car
washers and in the agricultural fields and in hospitals and
who are coming to a court for their court mandated
immigration hearing. Those people are are arrested, detained, throned in vans,
and those people their kids never see them again. That's

(03:52):
where we are. And at the same time he's smack
talking are big trading partners and our closest friends. I'm
talking about Canada, Mexico. And then of course you throw
in this isn't a close friend, but this is a
huge trading partner China. So the tariffs he then imposed,

(04:16):
and again you have to go back and see the
whole movie. It's just unbelievable. But that's essentially where we are.
And so now thanks for the recap.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I'll get into where we are with China, because
the smack talk becomes these impulsive economic policies that are
then foisted upon the American people and we're choking down
higher prices on everything from automobiles to eggs, and all

(04:46):
of the sort.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Of promised relief for inflation goes away. So that's where
we are, and we'll update the China situation because he
is going to meet with President She and President She
and he have a great relationship, he says, that's something
he's spoken of. He's a weird dude because he's on

(05:10):
the one hand, you know, he's like a spurned lover
talking about China. You know, they treated me poorly. The
rare earth minerals we want or not being shared with
us at the level we want. I mean, at least
that's substantive. I mean. The thing with Canada is that

(05:31):
they ran a commercial that quoted Ronald Reagan, had Ronald
Reagan speaking about tariffs, and based on that, he imposes
new tariffs, I mean, withering tariffs on Canada. It's insanity.
I mean, in other words, it's all bruised ego. So

(05:51):
that's the public policy face of Donald Trump. Meantime, there
is corruption on a level well, you would never even
conceive of. I mean, Washington has always been corrupt with
paid lobbyists, moneies going into reelection campaigns, reelection campaigns that

(06:13):
then have foundations and packs, and there's all this dark
money in Washington. It's been written in written about, i
should say, in a book called dark Money. Read the
book from Jane Mayer. It's brilliant, and you'll see how
all of this money doesn't just flow into campaigns politically.
It goes into education, it goes into universities, it goes

(06:35):
into high schools. I mean, the seeds of political dominance
are sown very early in the political process in American culture.
So anyway, this president is realizing that he has all
the power. Nobody's going to stop him. There is no

(06:55):
Congress effectively that's going to limit him in any way.
That he didn't limit him on the tariffs. They didn't
limit him on blowing boats out of the water in
Venezuela though. I'll play you a little bit in a
second about that. And so he decided, hey, I'm going
to do what I want in relation to and this

(07:17):
is just on the corruption stuff, grabbing two hundred and
thirty million dollars from the US Treasury under the guise
of relief for my harm psychologically as a result of
being harassed. I was harassed by the judicial system, is

(07:41):
his argument, and he says I was the victim of
a witch hunt. And who could put a price tag
on that. I'll just grab two hundred and thirty million
dollars and we'll call it even. And who has to
approve it. My concierge, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and my
former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche who's number two at the

(08:02):
Justice Department. And then ultimately, though it does have to
be signed off by the President, who is me. So
Trump works that bit of baldface corruption that actually follows
the billions he's received in the crypto pipeline which he's

(08:22):
so much part of, and that, my friends, gives you
a little bit of the snapshot of what's happening in America.
And I've left out the crushing way in which the
Justice Department is coming down on anyone and anything, any
entity that they perceive to be dissenting opinion. So they're

(08:44):
shaking down media law, They're going after governmental officials who
they perceive as their enemies. Everyone from Adam Schiff to
Letitia James, and then it's thought that they'll broaden beyond that.

(09:04):
That certainly appears to be the dance that's being done.
That is your summary of where we are today. Thank
you a little something I threw together, and be honest,
I just kind of lived it. But I think it
gives you a sense of the picture. Mark. Keep your
efforts on the files where all the action is, says you,
heny O, they arenell. I forgot that that the congressional

(09:25):
absence may be tied completely or in large measure, to
the loyalty they have toward their maga leader, Donald Trump
and his desire to never see the Epstein files or
information released in any way, because he's all over it
like a bad smell. His best friend was Jeffrey Epstein.

(09:45):
Now the files have already been dry cleaned of his name,
a lot of it. So I think when we do
see anything, and there have been drips and drabs out,
you're not going to see a lot of Donald Trump's name.
These there's no sense of hands off the fire, you know.
That's really you can't mess with them. No, the Justice
Department is a place where they are just doing the

(10:08):
bidding of the president. So yeah, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, says,
man from the West four twenty right, it does. And
so good morning from Lucy McAllister. It is a delight
Lucy McCallister as my favorite McAllister to say good morning
to you, and I might say, big shout out, big
shout out, yeah, thank you for the twenty dollars supersticker.

(10:31):
A super chatter should say, superstickers and super chats are
live now while we're on the air, feel free to
jump in support this show. And I'll get to the
China stuff in a moment, and I'm seeing a few quickly.
Villma says, can call Congress back in session anytime he wants, Yeah,

(10:52):
Johnson can. Johnson chooses not to. It's up to the Republicans.
They are the majority in Congress and the Senate, and
they have the presidency. It's true. I mean, I think
to blame the Democrats is kind of a bad a
bad move. But they do. Oh, they scrubbed anything they could,

(11:12):
I agree, Canadian nice agent in eighteen sixty seven. All right,
let me quickly then. I did want to share with
you a moment I had, but I do I share
it now? Or do I wait, what do you think, Kim,
you're the producer. No, share it, share it? Okay? How

(11:33):
are you all right? Let me get and then we'll
get into the China thing. We've got Gary Dietrich bottom
of the hour. There's some great stuff ahead, So Mark
Thompson Show. Over the weekend, I went to a special
lecture and Q and a with one of my idols, okay,
And he's been on the show before. Timothy Snyder brilliant,

(11:54):
brilliant intellectual, brilliant writer and expert on the rise of
tyrannical regimes. He wrote a book called on Tyranny, and
he also is very familiar with the rising despotism and
indeed the authoritarianism that has ruled much of Eastern Europe.

(12:16):
I'm talking about everywhere from Russia to Ukraine to Kazakhstan
to areas that might even constitute sort of small slivers
of a large region where despotic rule has kind of
taken hold. So he knows how the primordial ooze of

(12:41):
fascism shows up. There's his book on Tyranny, Twenty Lessons
from the Twentieth Century, and he wrote that Timothy Snyder
did as sort of a historical document, and it wasn't
really designed as a guide book or handbook for America.
But then America fell into this place where you've seen

(13:04):
a rising authoritarian flex. So he has a new book.
I got it here on freedom, and so I'm really
like in awe of him. And yeah, he moved to
Canada and moved his family away from the US tyranny.
That's exactly right, said Murphy Rowan. So I get a

(13:26):
chance to go to this thing. I mean, it's a ticket,
you buy it, right, I'm not no big deal. But then,
largely because of whatever connection, we get invited to this
reception that precedes the Q and A. It's very very
very very small crowd. Not many people there. Long it

(13:46):
might have been twenty people there. It's like, wow, this
is really like you're almost like a green room situation,
you know. So I I'm all dressed up because he's
my eyed all right, one of them, you know. I
just think he's brilliant. And I go over to him

(14:07):
to say hello and to remind him that he was
on our show. But this is the part that I
want you to see. So at the end of a
little brief exchange, and he was quite he's obviously a
funny guy. I mean, he's got a great sense of humor,
although I think we hear him speaking about authoritarianism and
despotism and you don't, you know, you don't really get
into yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So at the end of

(14:33):
our super brief conversation, I say, well, you know, let's
get a picture, and Courtney takes a bunch of pictures.
But this is how messed up I am. This is
how screwed up and full of anxiety and just always
wanting to do the right thing I am. So we
stand there and just buy a reflex, almost like you

(14:54):
would always take a picture. I'm standing next to him.
He puts his hand, I think, on my back. You
see there, He's on the right, of course I'm on
the left, and I put my hand on his back.
But I'm thinking, I'm not sure his hand is on
my back. And I've got my hand on his back,
and he's like a big star, and I'm maybe this
is too familiar because I don't really know him. So

(15:16):
why do I have my hand on his back? And
I'm not sure that he has his hand on my back?
I think he does, but maybe that's not right. This
is all going through my efed up head, right, so
you'll see what happens. I because I'm so into this,
I'm not sure he's got his hand on my back. Thing,
I begin to lower my hand and now I'm just

(15:37):
there with my hand now and I don't realize this
till later. He does have his hand on my back,
but now I'm the one who doesn't have my hand
because I'm thinking, don't be too familiar with Timothy Snyder.
And so at the end it's me like that and
he has his hand on my back. But I think
the picture still kind of passes, but you realize how yeah, exactly,

(15:59):
I felt complete dude, Dude, the whole thing at the
end was all awkward because of me. I mean, why
I can't channel confidence in these situations. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think you're really overthinking it and.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
No kidding, no kidding, paranoid Mark exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Like you know, it's not that complicated.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm telling you it's not. And I am, I am,
I'm I'm a mess. I am. I I need some
kind of therapy to get past this. And I yeah,
he looks okay with it, right, exactly right. I don't know, Well,
my my eyes are closed in that picture.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
But anyway, I think I think that's the moment you're like,
I shouldn't be you.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Him anyway. I hope he'll come back, and when he does,
you'll be able to remind him of this. But uh,
Professor Timothy Snyder on freedom and the lecture was really good.
So take a chill pill before visiting. That is probably
a good idea. Try transcendental meditation. I really want to

(17:04):
get into transcendental meditation. You have no idea. I I
did it in college for a little while and it
was great. But you needed to have Kim there. Maybe
when you need confidence, think of yourself as Barack Obama. Wow,
that's real. I haven't tried that. That's a new kind
of therapy. You were in awe and your mind short
circuit and said, thank you. Karen Cooper gets it. I

(17:28):
like Tim's wearing some kind of tunic or some kind
of shirt that way. Yeah, that's it. He's very good,
very very college professor, which is what he is. At
least you kept your smile pasted on, that's true. I
was I was happy take a gummy. I agree what
Corty said. You want to take a gummy I said, no,
I don't. I want to kind of be all clicked in.
But yeah, all right, that's your R. Thompson Show. I

(17:52):
want to tell you and give you a quick update
on China. You know, China knows how to handle Trump.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
What's that China?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
China?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
But as you say it, it almost sounds like China.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, that was his Yeah, I don't know. I haven't
heard him. It's like now he has other people say
it for him. He's worried working on the ballroom. More
on the ballroom a little bit later. The I have
that peacefully Resist a T shirt in Sage Green. Love it. Yeah,
this is my peacefully Resist And you can get a
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(18:26):
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Speaker 2 (18:47):
I'm sorry, I do like the sage green option that
Karen picked though. That's cool.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, that really is a strong choice, very strong choice. Yeah,
get Mark merch dot com. Anyway, so as I was saying.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Sorry, oh yeah, it looks good.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah it really does. That looks great all right now,
so Mark Thompson show, the deal with China is that
Trump's smack talk. Trump really threatened to throw the world
into a true huge, i mean apocalyptic trade war between

(19:26):
the two biggest trading partners, the United States and China.
One tarriffit's essentially you know, you're you're shutting down trade. Uh,
rare earth minerals, all of these issues involving the soybean farmers.
I mean, let's be clear about this. Trump started this.
Trump started this, yet he's now in the back and

(19:50):
forth and having to essentially crawl back to where we
were before he started this. So that means I have
to trying to make a deal around soybeans, and I
have to make a deal around rare earth minerals. I
have to somehow get this back to where we started.

(20:11):
Apparently that has happened, Tony. Here's the latest to share
this report from just a couple hours ago.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Eric Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen has been a lot more
forthcoming about what's not going to be in this deal
than what is going to be in this deal. For example,
he says that both the US and China are now
walking back some of these really significant threats that they've
been making over the past couple of months as they
both seek leverage in these ongoing trade negotiations. So China,

(20:42):
he says, is going to start buying US soybeans again.
They had boycotted the purchase of all US soybeans, which
was devastating to the US soybean industry because China is
their biggest customer. He says that's now off the table,
as is a China's vow to place import controls on
rare earth minerals, which is a real problem because China

(21:04):
controls about seventy percent of rare earth minerals and they
are critical for building cars and military jets and all
kinds of things. On the other side, he says that
President Trump is walking back his threat to impose another
one hundred percent tariff on Chinese goods on top of

(21:25):
the fifty five percent that is already in place. So
as to the details of what they did agree to.
He said he wants to wait until President Trump and
President She sit down and talk about all this in
person in South Korea later this week. But one thing
Errol that we do know is that Besson says that
the Chinese have now signed off on a deal to

(21:47):
transfer the US operations of TikTok to new owners, so
China would no longer control the algorithm and would not
have as much much access to Americans data.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Wow. Yeah, okay, So that's the that's the long and
short of it. By the way, that thing at the
end about TikTok is not nothing because you have to decide.
You tell me, Americans, are you okay with what has
essentially been the gifting of an immense social media platform.

(22:21):
Maybe Tony, you can tell me. I think it's the
It's the biggest social media platform, isn't it? Or maybe
Facebook's bigger. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
It's easily one of these is.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
But that's yeah, it's funny that it's controlled by the Chinese.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Is something else?

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Right? No, it's controlled by the control of the Chinese.
And so this is always the thing that was the
problem that Americans data is ending up in the hands
of the Chinese. But you tell me, are you comfortable
with the gifting of this again immense social media platform,
the world's biggest, to an American who already controls other

(22:58):
major media platforms and is a friend of MAGA, is
a friend of Trump. Trump okays another deal for Larry
Ellison and the Ellison Group run by his son and
father Larry Ellison, to control h is it sky Dance,
the takeover a Warner Brothers CB that will include YEAH

(23:22):
and CBSCNN, these media instruments that are all there under
the umbrella of what will be the empire that is
going to far surpass like the empire of a Rupert Murdoch.
So you're going to add to that now TikTok. So
the algorithms for TikTok are going to change. They just

(23:46):
said they're going to change, and you're going to see
a lot more right wing content show up in that.
That's just the way it's going to be. I mean,
oh no, no, Mark, They'll be objective, but really will
they There's no track record of that at all. In fact,
if you want to not run a foul of this government,
you better make sure that that algorithm favors them. This
is the way in which capitalism and the growth of

(24:11):
these industries, and the merging of these industries and the
acquisition of these industries all in media lead to less
and less information for a public that's already incredibly divided.
It's a really dangerous thing. So I get back to it.
I get that you don't want this data in the
hands of the Chinese, But look how our data is
being surrendered by well by giving Peter Thiel and Pllenteer

(24:37):
control of all of this different data that comes out
of the US government. All of this is scraped for
information about voters. You know and probably read about the
way in which the voter roles are being surrendered to Washington.
They want to see information on voters across the country.

(24:58):
And this highly part and administration, which has actually declared
a kind of economic war on blue states and blue cities.
You don't think that this data is going to be weaponized.
I mean, this is scary stuff. So that's the state
of the state. And you can see where China, TikTok rare,

(25:22):
earth minerals, soybean farmers, they're all in the same dragnet
of stuff being discussed, but they all have very different
implications for the future. West theory says, I was an
avid TikTok lover, but so many videos are now AI
generated it's not nearly the same. In the last month
or so, ai VID's ruining it. That's a different thing

(25:43):
about content. Although I thank you for that a Wes,
and thank you for the super chat. It is true, Tony.
I feel like I say Tony, because I feel like
you're on this, maybe more than Kim is. But I
am bummed out at how many like these amazing scenes
of you know, uh maybe everything from a car crash

(26:03):
to uh to a cat video. But then you look
and you see, oh it was a I jener.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Have you seen the Stephen Hawking wrestling videos?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
My god, they are so good.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
You can do like our halfpipe. It's I get it.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Anyway, it's a it's the it's it's the it's the
way of the of the of the Internet and the
social media world at the moment. So uh. But that's
the latest on the the Chinese deal, which does appear
to have been handled, I think handled in the way
that they know they handled Trump, which is to uh

(26:44):
flatter him, uh talk about the great relationship that China
and America have a vestent and his team know that.
They basically just want to get back to where they
were before the King started, you know, throwing food in
this ridiculous trade war, food fight that he just started.

(27:08):
So he likes to smack talk other nations. He gets
into trouble, and it's the really the job of his
team to try to undo the damage. But in the
way of tariffs, you really can't undo a lot of
the damage that he's done. And these many of these
tariffs are in place. Let's leave China aside. The American
economy is going to suffer under these tariffs and under

(27:31):
this loss of immigration. You know, you're gonna you're getting
rid of a workforce and a labor force that's critical
to the American economy. And there's no question about it. Economists
have spoken of it. In fact, even the FED when
they were lowering interest rates, they made a reference to
these things. So, uh, the the effects and the ongoing
way in which these tariffs are going to affect us,

(27:54):
it's real, and so one of the yeah, stay tuned.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
One of the things, the only thing that is part
of the deal that you didn't mention is fentanyl because
apparently China makes all of the precursors, the key ingredients
that go into fentanyl, and so Treasury Secretary Besant says
that they've reached a preliminary accord to address China made
fentanyl bound for the United States. They say they've agreed

(28:21):
the Chinese will begin helping us with the precursor chemicals
for this terrible fentanyl epidemic that's ravaging our country. So
that also is included in this trade deal.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
As I say, I think a lot of this is
just getting back to the start and the fentanyl thing.
I mean, maybe they're doing something. I wouldn't be surprised
if they just folded into the announcement and it was
just part of the deal. We just yeah, of course,
we'll agree to whatever you want to the fentanyl huh uh,
huh huh. The Chinese position is simple. You know what
the Chinese vision is. Guys, you're the ones in the

(28:55):
US with the insatiable app a tight and thirst for
our fentanyl and for the drugs. Why don't you handle
the demand and that way the supply won't be such
an issue. That's their general disposition in China. And it's
not wrong. I mean, both things could happen, and you

(29:15):
should try to get cooperation from a friendly government. And
I think they're trying to get to friendlier terms on
this issue. But again, I think it may be pro forma.
It may just be like, hey, we'll meet the announcement
and then you know, nothing happens. We're very used to
that in this country.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
The good news is that plastic cheap toys will be
cheaper for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
I love my Team? Is it Tamu? What is it?
Tam Is that what it is? Kim?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I say Temu? You say Tamu.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I don't know. Let's call the whole thing Thompson Show.
How about it? For a super smart guy. He is
the political analyst for iHeartRadio. He's the political analyst for
the CBS television stations. He's our pal on Mondays. Is
the great Gary Dietrich. Everyone Hi Gary.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
Hey, Mark?

Speaker 8 (30:01):
And uh yeah, just the word to the West Wall
And I've never ordered from it, but don't plan on
this Christmas. Maybe the following Christmas if you're ordering some
some of these online shopping gigs.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Do you think, uh you think my TA my Team
order is going to be held up? Because of H
What is it tariffs? Is it UH? Customs inspection? What
is no?

Speaker 8 (30:24):
I think it's surely monitoring of your conversation with D
Trick every Monday and their concerns about the geopolitical aspirations.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I see, Oh wow, I could be targeted personally. Hey,
so yeah, China is the UH is the move of
the moment, and play for Gary a little bit of
bestent who was making the rounds on the Sunday shows.
Here's a little bit of best on this view.

Speaker 9 (30:49):
China is ready to make a trade.

Speaker 10 (30:51):
Deal, christ and I can tell you they are because
we just finished two days of negotiation and we've created
a framework for the two leaders to discuss on Thursday
in Korea.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
So that's optimism. President Trump had threatened to impose an
additional one hundred percent tariffs on China on November first,
if Beijing goes forward with a plan to put restrictions
on rare earth minerals. As you know, if China refuses
to pull back those restrictions. Mister secretary, can you confirm
that President Trump will in fact impose those one hundred

(31:31):
percent tariffs against China?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
A few years ago, I put out, well, the reality
is that that's already off the table. I was reading
about it this morning. Apparently they've gotten back to good
on that Gary, and to the extent that you know,
I was saying before you got here that Bessington his
team are really just trying to get back to where
America was with China before the Mad King started a
food fight with China. Now that those are my words,

(31:57):
not yours, You're far more a repertory and objective then,
am I. But I really feel as though that's kind
of where we are. So the one hundred percent tariffs
are off the table, is what I was reading.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
Yeah, I'm guessing that they are. But I almost felt
like both of these things from China's point of view,
you know, the severe restrictions on rareerth materials and then
the trump hundred percent was just both frankly posturing on
both sides. And now we're seeing that because here's the
reality of it. Okay, we can joke about Timu and

(32:29):
everything else, but it's no secret who's the biggest consumer
market for all these Chinese goods. Hello, it's the United States,
all right. So both sides are very ware aware of
mark and that's why we've seen kind of the you know,
you raise the straight stakes and you bring the back
kind of.

Speaker 7 (32:47):
Sort of the normal. But you know, the big cahoun
on the table is at rares minerals.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
I mean, there's a lot of things that are happening,
some of it behind the scenes, some of it very overt,
like Trump's saying that we're gonna find some rarest materials
with allies in South America. I mean, they are on
warp speed drive to get that rare earth problem solved,
and by that I simply mean lessen the dependency significantly
on China. But there's other parts of this that are

(33:12):
also important for United States. For example, soybean buying by
the Chinese. They put a kebash on that. Well, I
can tell you, you know, hailing as my family does
from northeast Kansas. Hey, the soybean farmers, many of them
didn't even have contracts for this year's harvest because of
the Chinese essentially boycott.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
So there's a lot of elements to this that are important.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Well, I'm glad you mentioned the soybean thing. I was
about to mention it next, because that was a real
thing that happened. I mean, in other words, some of
this is posturing that I think you make such a
great point. You know, the the rare earth mineral boycott
essentially and the one taraf them. You can say that's
posturing to get a deal. But the soybean thing that happened,

(33:55):
China cut off its all its business are soybean farmers,
as you know. I'm that wasn't for just this year.
This is forever, is what they were saying. Now, apparently
this deal does have some soybean stuff in it, so
maybe again that's been walked back, but the lines of
supply have already been established in Brazil and then in Argentina.
And in Argentina, we just threw forty billion dollars at

(34:17):
the Argentinian economy because there are hedge fund managers who
are very much linked to Scott Bessant and this administration
who are heavily invested in Argentina. That's why we America
are investing all this money, forty billion dollars in Argentina.
So why do I mention it in relation to the soybeans,
Because that has allowed the soybean products in Argentina to

(34:41):
be discounted even further to China. And when I say
even further, they're now cheaper than the soybean products coming
out of the United States. So the real effects of
this gary are already in the works in the trade
game worldwide.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
Yeah, and this this thing is so complex, Mark, I mean,
now you've got a word out of the White House
that on Thursday, Trump plans to really pressure g on
jumping on board some.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Of these Russian shanks and is related to Ukraine. So
there are so many aspects of this.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
As Zech we used to say at the Kennedy School,
I mean, you have to prioritize your negotiating points because
you may have ten, fifteen, or even twenty of them.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Trump is a negotiator who's about a personal relationship. I mean,
I think he's pretty much as close to a mobster
as we've ever seen. Maybe you could give me the
history of politics. I was going to certainly we've ever
seen it in the presidency, but in that way that
you know, there's a relationship. We have a relationship here,

(35:46):
we have an understanding, and he likes me and I
like him, and everything's going to be fine. I think
beyond that's some of the stuff you talk about is
handled by the functionaries. For Trump, isn't that right?

Speaker 7 (35:59):
Oh yeah, well, and of course this is typical, right.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
I mean, what's gonna happen on Thursday is there will
be I have no doubt there's gonna be some eye
eye between Trump and g But ninety percent of these
agreements are always worked out in advance. The last thing
you want is to have the two heads of steak
you get together and have what happened last time with
Putin and Trump. Basically nothing came out of this. I mean,

(36:22):
both sides end up looking bad. There's another piece of this.
This Asia trip for Trump is very, very significant, and
we may not have time to get into it today,
but it's the whole national defense aspect of it. I mean,
shoring up our allies in that part of the world
in the South China Sea for Pacific Waterway transit of goods,

(36:44):
along with our allies in Australia and Great Britain and
even India.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
This is hugely important.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
And much of I think the behind the scenes of
what's happening when Trump's now in Japan today, much of
this is ensuring our Pacific rim allies. Hey you know, yeah, okay,
we're focused on South America or focused on Europe, Ukraine,
et cetera, Middle East, but we haven't forgotten the Pacific
Rim and it's vital importance in prey.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Such a great point, such a great point. Indeed, I
wanted to bring you back home and Tony, we're gonna
play what were we gonna play for Gary? I believe
I was gonna play a little bit of the the
Adam Schiff video first and then I'll get to Newsom.
Now I'll get to new Some's announcement in a moment.
But it was Trump talking about Adam Schiff in the

(37:35):
fact that he didn't really know if the Justice Department
is going after Adam Shiff. You know, I barely met
Adam Shift. I barely know Adam Shift. I barely know
of him. Vondy, whatever she's doing, play a little bit
of it. This is the distinguished President of the United States.

Speaker 11 (37:51):
Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum
I've ever dealt with in politics. He's a horrible human being,
very dishonest person.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
I have no idea what's going on. You tell me
that he's going to be in dieted. I don't know.
You could ask Pam.

Speaker 11 (38:05):
I don't know. If she's she could say it. Probably
you are allowed to say it, But I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Know about that.

Speaker 11 (38:11):
I can only tell you he's a very he's a
very bad I think he's actually a sick person.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Do you want to talk about that.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
We're not going to comment on any grand jury that's open.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
We can't legally.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, So there you have it. And uh, I don't know.
The discourse from the Executive Office has not particularly been
elevated during this administration.

Speaker 8 (38:35):
Well, I think we're gonna have a lot of unanimous
agreement about that far. I mean, even including people on
the GOP side. You know what's so interesting about all
that stuff and all the bullying and all the talk
and just you know what's weird about it is, you
know either're talking about even on this Asian trip. I mean,
people really want to be on the right side of

(38:56):
Trump for obvious reasons, right, I mean, on a personal level,
as you pointed out a couple of minutes ago, and
on a policy level, you don't want to get on
this guy's bad set and case one a Adam shift.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
I mean, you know, he's a guy.

Speaker 8 (39:09):
There's no redemption going on there in that relationship by
all accounts.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I will just say this, I really wanted to. Maybe
you can touch on just the way in which there
does seem to be an expressed enemies list. I mean,
it may not literally be a list, but doesn't need
to be. It's constantly reiterated by this president. Adam Shiff
is scum, Adam Shift's a liar, Adam shiff Is, you know,
he's broken the law. Adam Shift, you know, needs to
be dealt with, et cetera. But there is a sense

(39:38):
that I'm sure there are those who very much feel
as though there's a courage associated with going up against
this president. With Adam Shift's Gavin Newsom. Maybe it's party specific,
it would seem so far. But for just the reasons
that you've said, they may turn the Justice Department on you,
They're gonna they could be ruinous in what they may
do to you. But for all those and more, you

(40:00):
feel the responsibility and a certain courageousness associated with going
up against the president.

Speaker 8 (40:05):
Well, you know, and look, we have to be honest.
Politics is almost always a mixed motivation, Mark, I mean,
there's just no getting around that. I don't care pick
the political figure you can show well that was kind
of weasel list right here, you know. I mean, Adam
Schiff had his motivations for being anti Trump as well.

Speaker 7 (40:22):
It did.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
There's no question that it helped elevate his profile nationally
and in California, helped him gain that state US Senate seat.
I mean, that's just the reality of it, right, And
and so you could say he was courageous on one hand,
and also there's a certain political advantage.

Speaker 7 (40:36):
For him, you know, in his own party, et cetera.
And so there's that, you know.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
I think it's also really interesting if you talk to
the legal scholars on this, which of course says, you know,
I'm not.

Speaker 7 (40:47):
I made a decided.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
Point of not venturing down the other side of Harvard
Square to Harvard Law School because I didn't want to
be working on what's the definition of is is it
really is?

Speaker 7 (40:57):
To quote our former president Clinton.

Speaker 8 (40:59):
So but my point, Mark is simply, there's a lot
of people who say, you know, what Trump should even
even if you really wanted to get out go after ship,
see him and dieted and see him convicted, He's not
helping that cause by continuing to go up to him publicly.
Because defense counsel is going to say, see, it's just
a vendetta. There's nothing really, you know, legal points of

(41:20):
interest here. It's just a cause celeb for Trump. But
you know that doesn't seem to stop him, even though
it would be efficacious legally.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
No. Well, I mean there, and we've even seen the
fact that those prosecutors who are MAGA prosecutors, some of
them very much in the Trump camp. Historically they have
come to the President or in one way or another
through bonding, and said there's just no case here, we
can't bring it, and they're fired. And they bring in
somebody who, in this case most recently was an insurance lawyer,

(41:48):
never had prosecuted a case, and they let her prosecute it.
And so that's kind of the state of things. But
I wanted to move on to Gavin Newsom and then
I'm going to get to Venezuela. Gavin Newsem, and you'll
really I was talking over the weekend about this. Maybe
it was earlier today. The days run together, Gary, but
the idea is that I said to someone, I want
to talk to Dietrich about this. He'll have a great

(42:10):
take on it. So this is the moment, Gary, Gavin
Newsom's asked about political aspirations, just had to run it
if you would, please, Tony.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
You're not afraid to go into red states.

Speaker 12 (42:20):
No, when I saw you slinging shots behind the coffee bar,
I thought this guy might run for president.

Speaker 13 (42:26):
The idea, the idea that a guy who've got nine
to six down his sat that still struggles to read scripts,
that was always in the back of the classroom. The
idea that you even throw that out is in and
of itself extraorda. Who the hell knows? I'm looking forward
to who presents themselves in twenty twenty eight and who

(42:47):
meets that moment. And that's the question for the American people.

Speaker 12 (42:50):
There to say after the twenty twenty six midterms, you're
going to give it serious thought.

Speaker 13 (42:55):
Yeah, I'd be lying. Otherwise I'd just be lying, And
I can't do that.

Speaker 12 (43:01):
Governor, you have long said that if you ever run
for the White House, you need a compelling why, a reason.
Are you moving closer to figuring out your own why
and your own decision?

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (43:12):
And he just said, if you compelling why, you can
endure anyhow. And so I don't think. I think the
biggest challenge for anyone who runs for any office is
people see right through you. If you don't have that,
why you're doing it for the wrong reasons. And so look,
well that will, that faith will determine that.

Speaker 12 (43:31):
You certainly seem to like being on the ground in
South Carolina. I have to say that seeing you up close,
you were having a good time.

Speaker 13 (43:36):
I happen to and thank God I'm in the right business.
I love people, actually love people.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
So tell me why. Maybe he's just responding to a question.
The thing I wanted to ask you about specifically was why,
if you're a Gavin Newsom, and not even specific to
Gavin Newsom, why the hell would you want to express
presidential aspirations this early in the run. I mean, it's

(44:04):
just there's there's so much real estate between now and there. Uh,
explain to me the political calculus there.

Speaker 7 (44:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
Well, first off, with all due respect to my CBS
colleague Robert Cossa, it's the notion that Gavin Newsom's gonna
wait until after next year's midterms to seriously consider a
White House candidacy.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
Come on, that's that's.

Speaker 8 (44:31):
Like saying you're gonna, you know, I don't know, get
authentic diamonds off of timu I mean it's you know,
it's it's like you're and and you're and you're and
you're and you're sitting here. I mean, people who have
been listening to the first part of the segment, go
back and you'll understand the reference. All Right, here, here's
the thing. Mark, South Carolina, Oh, I don't know. I
just randomly, me and my team throw darts and it

(44:53):
happens to, oh, I don't know, be the first primary
state last time around. We just happened to go there
and want to go behind a barista bar and pull shots.
I mean, you know, it's just I have to just say,
you know, with all due respect to Robbery, he's a
great guy and a great you know, a great journalist,

(45:13):
but of course he's running for president.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
I mean, good, it's just absurd at this notion.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
No, we know, we've known he's running for for years.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
But the matter is the point of the matter is
Mark uh he was running for Here was my fight,
big tip off. Okay, this is going to happen when
I was down at that Reagan Library for the Republican
presidential uh candidate debate. Okay, during the primaries. All right,
and Gavin Knewsom showed up in the spin room unannounced, uninvited,

(45:46):
with his full four big guys in the security team.

Speaker 7 (45:49):
I said, nobody.

Speaker 8 (45:50):
I ever, I've never seen anybody from the opposing party
show up in a opposing parties presidential candidate spin room.
I said, this game on. I mean, he is full
on going for the White House. Now, why is he
going out so early? I think it's quite I think
it's quite simple. Mark in this cycle is no, this
is you know, this isn't company surprise anybody. There is

(46:12):
a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Okay,
the the schism, the disappointment over last time around, and
he's been very vocal about that, and you know, elbow
is not so unsharp towards the former vice president and
all that, who may well be a competitor this time around.
I think posturing now and trying to present oneself as

(46:34):
the de facto leader of the party.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
You know, normally, normally it would be.

Speaker 8 (46:38):
Your most recent president, maybe your most recent vice president.
I mean, the closest the Democrats have now is a guy,
Barack Obama, who's been quite a ways out of the
White House.

Speaker 7 (46:49):
And he is still seen as the closer I mean,
he's the.

Speaker 8 (46:51):
Guy on Saturday that was in New Jersey and Virginia
for the Democratic GiB Nantoyle candis Bill Clinton. You know,
I think most people on his body saying his day
is coming past. So my point is simply, Mark, I
think you get out early. The other thing that that does,
it begins to He's already taken off staff, by the way,
from the former vice president's campaigns, So you scoop up

(47:13):
valued staff people, You get in early on the endorsement process,
You start gathering kits in key states like yes, South Carolina.

Speaker 7 (47:21):
And you look to line up the big money.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
Donors and say, you know what, right now, this guy
may be our best shot.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
That makes perfect sense. Thank you. That's exactly the drill
down that I wanted. So let me get to Venezuela.
This really looks as though it is a war that
Donald Trump wants. I'm seeing, you know, huge ships being
sent there, right. I mean, I think the largest aircraft
carrier in the fleet.

Speaker 7 (47:46):
Is yet is headed into the golf you out.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, I mean with all of these support vessels as well,
it looks as though there is a serious threat of
regime change. At least an express desire to change the
regime in Venezuela, and there is support for it. It would
seem also among some high profile GOP folk play a

(48:11):
little bit of Lindsey Graham. This is him Yesterday, Fascination.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Satan, Good Morning.

Speaker 14 (48:18):
On Friday, Defense Secretary he Sith ordered the deployment of
the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford, to
Latin America. President Trump was asked if he planned to
ask Congress for declaration of war. Take a listen.

Speaker 11 (48:34):
I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a
declaration of war.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I think we're just.

Speaker 11 (48:38):
Going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay,
we're going to kill them. You know, they're going to
be like dead.

Speaker 14 (48:47):
You don't need an aircraft carrier to hit drug boats.
Our land strikes planned.

Speaker 15 (48:52):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's a real possibility. I think
President Trump's made a decision that Maduro, the leader of Venezuela,
is an indicted drug trafficker, that is time for him
to go. That Venezuela and Colombia have been safe havens
for NARCO terrorists for too long, and President Trump told

(49:14):
me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress
when he gets back from Asia about future potential military
operations against Venezuela and Colombia. So there will be a
congressional briefing about potential expanding from the sea to the land.
I support that idea, but I think has all the

(49:35):
authority he needs. Senator Diego on another network accused President
Trump and our military committing murder by attacking these drug boats.
To our many women in uniform, You're not murdering anybody.
You're making America safer by going after a narco terrorist.
You're following lawful orders. When President Bush forty one took

(49:58):
Ortega out in past im Reagan went into Grenada to
deal with a Cuban influence from Grenada in our backyard.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Has all the authority in the world.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
This is not murder.

Speaker 15 (50:09):
This is protecting America from being poisoned by narco terrorists
coming from Venezuela and Colombia.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Well, so that's the flex I mean. I would argue
that those things to achieves referred were also violations of
constitutionally mandated requirement. But again, it seems to be the
way we are prosecuting wars these days. So let's leave
that aside and just get to this policy. It seems

(50:37):
this president who kind of wrote in on I'm going
to end all wars wouldn't be picking a fight in Venezuela.
I smell Marco Rubio on this. I wonder if you
can just give me your thoughts on this.

Speaker 8 (50:49):
Yeah, I think here's I think the thing people would
be shocked about.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Mark.

Speaker 8 (50:55):
I really at disjuncture, nobody in Congress is expecting to
hear a.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
Brief that includes American boots.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
On the ground.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
I think it's going to be far more strategic than that,
far more in some ways demonstrative in terms of just look,
you guys have a chance. You leaders of these nations.
You know we're done playing around. Yes we can catch
the boats coming across, but we know where they're coming from.
And there's a lot of tracking and tracy that goes
on with this whole drug industry of course for decades.

(51:24):
They know where the drugs are being assembled or put together,
they know where they're being packaged, they know where they're
coming from. I think what we're likely to see market
it looks like at this point, unless and it's hard
to see why you send the Gerald R. Ford for
another reason. But some strategic strikes on drug production facilities
is probably the next step. Could that be on the

(51:47):
soil in Colombia and Venezuela.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
It may well be.

Speaker 8 (51:50):
But the notion that we're going to actually have a
declaration of war and see you know, navies and armies
and air forces go at each other, I think that's
this juncture at least highly unlikely.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
All right now, I have a personal question to ask you.
We're going to a wedding in a place I've always
wanted to go. I wanted to go to this place
for forty years, and that is Columbia. I've never been.
It's a beautiful country, the people are beautiful, and we're
going to this wedding and we're going next week. Yeah,
and all of a sudden and we're not going on

(52:24):
the gerald R Ford. We're going just on you know,
an American Airlines flight.

Speaker 7 (52:28):
Yeah, you can get the invite for the gerald R four.

Speaker 11 (52:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah, that's not really the way I wanted to see it.
I kind of just want so your advice, well.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
I mean, farbe it's from me to be you know,
putting you in your and your delightful significant other and
harms way Mark Okay, I will tell you this from
an official perspective, and I tell this.

Speaker 7 (52:47):
To people all the time.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
From an official perspective, you are well served to check
the US State Department's website. I mean that is considered
the definitive source, and they're quite detailed. Sometimes talking about
you know, this region of this country would be okay.
But over here where it's concerned, because that's their job, right,
and they do a pretty good job with that, they're

(53:10):
all furloughed. Well, I'm not sure how let's put it
this way. I'm not sure how much this has changed
in the last week or two. But I will say
this more broadly, and I think you're well served marked
to consider this part of it carefully. There there are
even places like you know, heavily American tourists in spots
like Kabo, San Lucas, where where drug cartels are now

(53:31):
reportedly very overtly saying look, you know, because they're feeling
the heat, right and they are in Mexico as well.
The drug cartels are feeling the heat from the Trump administration.
There's no doubt about it, to the degree to which
they want to make a statement against Americans, you know
who are in their countries.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
That's something to be aware of. That's all I can say.

Speaker 8 (53:53):
You know, I don't know the specific your spot you're
gonna be at, probably well not to say so, and
but I would, I would do your best to simply
check with official sources the best you can to ascertain
whether that particular locale is one that is safe. You know, Mark,
You're a smart guy. I sadly, I have met several

(54:13):
Americans in the last year or two who seem wildly
naive about going to other countries as Americans and that somehow,
you know, the US military, if they get in a
bad spot, are just gonna swoop in, you know, and
rescue them. And sadly, for the most part, that is
just not possible.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Right well, if I were, if I were taken, they
would sweep my social media. I realized that I'm not
a maga guy, and I'd be I'd be left. I'm
telling you, man, that's the way the New America is. Well.
But yeah, on a.

Speaker 8 (54:44):
Personal note, Mark, I simply wish you god speed, seriously
and safety whatever you guys decide to do, and you
will be certainly in my thoughts in prayers until you, Oh.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
My God, I'm getting I'm getting more frightened. I'm I'm
meeting thought and prayers.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
This is scary. I'm telling you.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
Yeah, listen, I mean, I'm serious.

Speaker 8 (55:05):
We are in a place now in South America, come on,
where we haven't been in a long time.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
I mean, when you're sending the when you're sending the.

Speaker 8 (55:12):
Most advanced, you know, navy ship in the world to
that region, and you're talking about potential strikes on land,
I mean.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
What you know that that's not nothing, as we say
in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
All right, Well, with that we wrap up. Gary, love
your take. Thank you. You're so generous with your time
and with your opinions, and I think you kind of
kind of redirect us to magnetic North. How long for
this shutdown of government? When do you see it lifting?

Speaker 13 (55:43):
Well?

Speaker 7 (55:43):
I thought it was interesting, Marky.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Yesterday the largest federal employees union came out specifically endorsing
the continuing resolution, which is you know, has already been
passed by the House. Now the House and Senate Republicans
saying well, let's just extend it to the end of
year because now we're getting close to THANKSGI didn't gave
that it was I think the pressure is going to
grow on both sides to do that. You know, it's

(56:05):
just been common in the past. You kick the can
down at the end of the year. You have a
continuing resolution to at least take the pressure off now
as be handing to the holidays. I think that's probably
going growing increasingly likely.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
So the political damage is kind of shared at this point.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
Yeah, I would say it probably is.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, Yeah, good stuff, pal, Thank you so much. We'll
see you next Monday. All right, Gary Dietrick, everybody, thank you,
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(57:05):
and thank you everybody. I'm just looking at comments. I'll
try to get to Sala. The shoemaker says, got to
make this bigger.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
I can't see him because I wasn't aware of The
Dems brought a bill that would have paid all federal
workers during the shutdown, and the RS voted it down.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Didn't Yeah, both both sides have done that. Both sides
have have done that. Both sides have brought bills and
the other the other side has voted them down. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
the Dems did absolutely bring a bill saying, let's pay
for those who are federal employees who have been you know,
were out of work during this time during the government shutdown.

Speaker 9 (57:46):
So both of Jill Fish sal the shoemaker, Jill Box
and little Anthony.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Thank you sell the shoemaker for we get paying people.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Wasn't there that Trump named the person that came forward
with one hundred and thirty million dollars to fund the
military member salaries.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Yeah, there's more that is laughable about that, but yeah,
he's a major donor to the Trump Timothy Mellon is
his name. He's this billionaire financial backer of Trump, and
he was the anonymous private donor who gave one hundred
and thirty million to the US government to help pay
the troops. The reason I say it's laughable. Is I

(58:24):
don't think that's nearly enough money. I don't know. I mean,
it's a weird thing. But you know this just in
the amount of money required to pay those troops is
well in excess of one hundred and thirty million. I
think it comes out if you pencil it out to
like ninety dollars per person. Isn't that right, Kim? I

(58:45):
think that's what I read. I I know, but Mellon
lives in Wyoming, keeps a low pro He's a significant
supporter of RFK Junior, and he donated millions to RFK
Junior's presidential campaign. Also given him money for that anti
vaccine group, Children's Health Defense it's called so he's he's

(59:09):
heavy into what's being wrapped by this administration. The donation,
they say at the Pentagon, if you believe anything that
comes out of the Pentagon these days, was made to
offset the cost to service members of the shutdown. But again,
I think it just doesn't quite pencil out. Mark Your

(59:32):
knowledge is vast. When do you sleep? Richard doanterass Well,
First of all, thank you in a big shout out
for recognizing how brilliant I big, yes. But the reality
is I don't sleep and that's the problem, and that's
why I am concerned about my health. Did Mark just
mention a fall winter Mark Thompson Show meetup? I mentioned

(59:59):
the long sleeve teas coming out. I didn't mention a meetup,
but I'd love to do one. It's a question of
organizing it. Tony is mission critical, believe it or not,
because Tony has to, you know, bring everybody in and
keep it going smooth. And I have to kind of
clear whatever dates I have with Tony first, right, we

(01:00:22):
had a date scheduled and then we back burnered it.
I'm terribly sorry, but we'll we'll get it back way overdue.
And Kim, I don't know why you can't make it happen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
I blame you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
I just don't understand why you can't make sure that
we get a meetup done. Kim.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I blame you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Tack on organizing that to my list of duties.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Oh my gosh, Tony, Kim has so much to do
on this show. Kim, how are you all right? Unbelievable?
What's going on? I also wanted to mention, in addition
to the revelation around that Timothy Mellon, the reclusive billionaire
who donated money, a kind of Bay Area you know.

(01:01:04):
We came out of a Bay Area radio station originally
KGO Radio, and a Bay Area figure of sorts. I
think I used to see her around Half Moon Bay
and stuff. June Lockhart, the beloved mother figure from Lassie
and Lost in Space to classic television shows. She passed
away over the weekend at one hundred. She or at

(01:01:28):
least the news came out over the weekend. I think
she died on Thursday. And she was Ruth Martin on
Lassie that was in the late fifties and early to
mid sixties. Then she jumped on board as the mom

(01:01:48):
on the Robinson Family Tripped through Space, Lost in Space,
and she said that she was nothing like the woman
she portrayed. She said, I love going to rock and roll,
going to concerts. I've driven army tanks and flown in

(01:02:09):
hot air balloons. I go plane gliding, the ones with
no motors. I do a lot of things that don't
go with my image. It's called to this quiet, warm mom.
She she did a lot of acting, of course, and
she shifted to television after movies, and again I think

(01:02:32):
she was the third woman, they note here to play
the female lead in Lassie. Are you familiar with Lassie,
Tony or it's a show about a dog? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Yes, and all that right to come home.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
But look how beautiful an actress she was as a
young woman, and then she became this always beautiful till
the very end. But she kind of became more the
look of the mom. And then she started her show
business career at eight years old, dancing in a children's
valet at the Metropolitan Opera House. She was in the

(01:03:10):
nineteen thirty eight production of a Christmas Carol, playing the
daughter of Bob Cratchett and his wife, and Bob Cratchett
and his wife in that production, played by her parents.
She was married and divorced twice to John Maloney, a
physician and father of her daughters, and then she married

(01:03:33):
architect John Lindsay. And she talked about Lassie, and she said,
even though I sometimes mocked the show, how wonderful that
in a career there is one role for which you
are known. Many actors work all their lives and never

(01:03:54):
have one part that is really theirs. June Lockhart, one
hundred years old, passes away. The other news of the weekend.
I thought was, let me see if I can find
it here. Now, there's just so much here. I don't

(01:04:16):
even here it is. It comes to us in a
special edition of Law and Disorder, Tony, can you do it?
This is a special turbo edition follow up of Law
and Disorder.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
In the criminal justice system, the people.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Keeps, addicts, thieves, bums, linus, girls who can't.

Speaker 11 (01:04:38):
Keep on address, and men who.

Speaker 13 (01:04:39):
Don't care are represented by two separate and equally important groups.

Speaker 16 (01:04:43):
Copp of flat Foot, a bullet Dick, John Law, You're
the fuzz, the heat, You're poison, your trouble, your bad news.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
These are their stories. It was a brazen robbery of
the jewelry out of the Louver. Talked about the nature
of that jewelry, how historically significant it was and is
the nature of the emeralds and the jewelry that encrusted

(01:05:12):
the crown and these other things that were key to
that Louver Gallery heist. They came in with the maintenance
man vests. They came in on that conveyor along the
side of the building. This heist, it was so ballsy

(01:05:36):
to do it during the day, during the morning, on
a Sunday morning, they did it, They got in and out.
What do we say, seventeen minutes? Is that what it was?
Kim something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
It was really fat.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
I think it was seven seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Yeah, I think it was seven seven minutes, yeah, seven minutes. Anyway,
two suspects arrested in connection with this theft. Oh, all right,
and arrest. The two suspects were arrested on Saturday evening.

(01:06:08):
They were taken into custody and one of the men
was preparing to leave the country from the Paris Charles
de Gaul airport.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I mean that sounds smart. Is not what you would do.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I might stay away from where they're like official people
checking stuff. But yeah, they apparently got this guy. They're
not able to tell us much because I think they're
building cases and they you know. But the two men
are in their thirties, both were known to the cops.

(01:06:46):
And remember we talked about this when we first broke
the story along with everybody else. We didn't break it
like any kind of you know, the story first broke,
I should say. And again one of these guys trying
to go to Algeria's where he was headed, was busted
at the airport and one of the suspects identified through
DNA traces, So these guys have some kind of track

(01:07:08):
record with the law, otherwise they wouldn't have the DNA.
They had one hundred and fifty different samples at the scene.
Now as they build a case, the suspects can be
held in police custody in France up to ninety six hours. Again,
they stole over one hundred million dollars worth of jewelry

(01:07:30):
from the Louver, the world's most visited museum, and this
basket lift they used, they forced to open a window,
They smashed display cases and they fled. They left behind
that one piece, right, that one crown was left behind
by another.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
On the way out, they dropped one on the way out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
That was it, right, they dropped it on the way out.
Thank you. Yeah. A special police unit in charge of
armed robberies and serious burglaries and art thefts made these
arrests and that's how this whole thing went down.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
And they're still looking for other suspects in.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
This There were more than two involved. In fact, one
of the things that the French police are all the
gendarmes are saying is that all this leak of information
associated with the Louver heist is not helping them, Like,
while they're trying to get this investigation done, their little

(01:08:32):
drips and drabs of information coming out. Who they might
be looking for, what relationship that person might have to
the Louver Museum, that kind of thing. So again, some
of France's crown jewels and historians compare it to the
burning of the Notre Dame Cathedral in twenty nineteen, like
that level of damage. They are beginning the process of

(01:08:57):
recovering this, I would think. So they took an emerald necklace,
earrings tied to Empress Marie Louise, who was in Napoleon
Bonaparte's second wife, A brooch, corsage bou brooch. When was
the last time you wore a large corsage bow brooch?

Speaker 8 (01:09:17):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Do you wear those?

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Timid?

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
It seems like it's falling out of style, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
In the eighties we used to wear large brooches at
the top of our buttoned large shirts.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
The eighteen eighties or the yeah, yeah, it's really anyway.
The update is two arrested. There's still more on the loose,
that is law and disorder. Tune in again next time.
Four more law and disorder. I'm a Mark Thompson show.
All right, that's it. Let's roll. Hey, let's be careful

(01:09:54):
on right on. Smash the like button if you just
joined us, glad to have you here at helps us
in the world of YouTube to have the thumbs up
in relation to the number of views you have. I
saw a good heist movie, says Melafidian, called Flawless with
Michael Kaine and Demi Moore. A lot of fun. I

(01:10:15):
don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Flawless huh, very cool. Congratulations on heist and heist. Yeah,
I'll get to that Columbia thing in a second. So
China is giving him what he wants, says Whardon June.
It feels like it's a win win maybe. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. Hit the thumbs up

(01:10:37):
and then subscribe. That's right, says Ricky Obert. Thank you,
Ricky Obert. One appreciate that. There it is Michael Kaine,
Michael Kaine and Demimour flawless. Well, and apparently it's gotten
at least a good review here on the show. I
think the movie has been out a while, right, it's
been probably a decade or a two thousand and seven. Yeah,

(01:10:58):
there you go. But there's some right heist movies. I
love a good heist movie. Man, that's just it's just,
you know, Maduro's fascist regimes collapsing, Venezuelan's are going to
overthrow Maduro. Well, this won't happen, I mean, won't help. Antifa,
Carl says this. But you're right. I mean there is
with your iron Maybe they'll smash it with their iron rod.

(01:11:18):
I don't know. But the point is that I think
you're right Antifa, Carl. I think that Maduro is a
teetering but this is a scary time. And you know,
I can't believe we're going to Columbia. I mean, this
is a big thing for us, as we're going to
see our friend's wedding and and I've always wanted to
go to Columbia. So Gary said, go to the State

(01:11:39):
Department website and they'll tell you what the situation is
in Colombia and you can decide whether or not you
want to go. It's usually pretty good information. So did
you find it? To Tony? So this is Colombia.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
And reconsidered travel?

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Oh? Oh, reconsidered travel? Wow? Yeah, this is a.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Snapping or hostage taking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Oh goodness, well, I don't know how comfortable I am
with you going Actually.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Wow, this is really brutal. Yeah, you're right, reconsider travel.
It says crime, terrorism, unrest, and kidnapping or hostage taking.
Do not travel to these places. Columbia of Venezuela border region, crime, kidnapping.
I'm not going to be at the border region. Violent

(01:12:27):
crime is common in many areas in Colombia. This includes murder, assault,
and robbery. That would really kill my buzz man any
one of those. Are you going to be at a
resort major hotel? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Are you going to be traveling around like seeing things?
Or can you just stay at the resort.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
I mean we had planned on traveling around seeing things,
but now I don't know. Oh my god, maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
You should just hang tight at the resort.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Yeah, we could do that. I mean, I have no
problem doing that. I mean, it's really to see friends
that I haven't seen in so long. Bay area friends
actually from the centransco By area. Really really sucks. I
don't know. Well, thank you for that. I'm that's a
cold slap in the face on my plan. Stay at

(01:13:12):
the hotel, says Shadow producer Calvin Major resorts are pretty safe.
Or go with groups. Yeah, I always feel like I
can run faster than Courtney, so I know they can
get her. No, I'm just saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Who is having that conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
I'm not having the conversation. I'm just having the thought.
Will we have a meetup? We have concepts of a
Mark Thompson Show meetups.

Speaker 8 (01:13:39):
JS, so just yes or no.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
I still do not have a plan.

Speaker 11 (01:13:43):
I have concepts of a plan.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Yeah, there is no kidnapping going on in Columbia. That's
full of bull Mark. Don't believe the hypes. Is chaplain Fred?
I don't know. You've got to believe a chaplain. Thank
you for the super chat chaplain Fred, Well, I don't know.
I'm scared, but you know, I'm scared of everything all
the time, so maybe it'll just kind of, you know,

(01:14:05):
melt into the other stuff I'm scared of. When we
come back. I want to play you a little of
the back and forth from someone who I think really
isn't just smack talking for the sake of smack talking
back to the President of the United States. I'm talking
about JB. Pritzker. He said some really important stuff penetrating stuff,

(01:14:26):
good stuff, and I want you to hear it, and
we'll play it for you when we come back. Kim's
News is next before I get to Kim's News, because
I do like to delay in one way or another.
By the way, did you notice I was wearing my
new credibility glasses to the Timothy Snyder thing I try
to Yeah, I tried to really show my credibility. That's

(01:14:49):
what I try to do. I wanted to give you
one little piece of something that if you're annoyed about
it like I am, you'll appreciate this. So let me
just do that. The Martins, there is the thing you
always wanted. I know when you looked at Washington, when
you thought, oh, the government is doing some things for me,

(01:15:12):
but it's not doing enough for me in the way
of giving me in Washington a big, expensive ballroom. And
so this president is finally hearing the voice of the people.
We're going to have a big ballroom. And I will
tell you this right up front. And I don't know
if you'll hear this from many people, but there's no

(01:15:33):
way that you pay what was to have been two
hundred million, then it's three hundred million. Then it's three
hundred and fifty million dollars to build a ballroom. This
is more than a ballroom. This is a lot more
than a ballroom. Now, I don't know if they're building
a bunker underneath it. I don't know if there are

(01:15:54):
certain ways in which they are doing things associated with
this that are not sort of pure ballroom related. But
there is no way that you spend three hundred and
fifty million dollars on a ballroom.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
It just doesn't happen, doesn't It also now have to
include a whole new East wing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Well it may, but that also doesn't require that kind
of money. There is grift on a level. Everything is grift,
Everything is a transaction. With this administration, everything and everyone
is corrupt, but most of all the very top. So
I promise you, in this new construction, at minimum, there

(01:16:32):
is massive corruption and grift and skimming right off the top.
But let's just get back to the ballroom for a moment. So, okay,
well there's skimming. Who cares? That's corrupt everybody? Okay, Apparently
there is this embarrassing flaws emerge in Trump's new White

(01:16:56):
House design. The controversial White House design apparently is full
of flaws, Kim. Architects have looked at this design and
they see many issues with it. That's right. It doesn't
pencil out, you know. They look at these blueprints and

(01:17:20):
they see, I don't know what people were thinking here.
They see a slap shot job. And I know what
you're thinking, a slap shot job, something that doesn't really
pencil out, something that seems as though it was just
thrown together, that doesn't seem like it's Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
He would seem like they're cutting corners.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
I mean exactly. So it's hard to believe you could
lay out that kind of dough and still run into
these sorts of problems. But these sorts of problems have
indeed emerged, and I will share with you a couple
of the comments of architects. A staircase leading up from
the south lawn directly into a brick wall and at

(01:18:02):
least two woefully misaligned windows that appear to open out
onto one another. Demolition of the existing structure, which began Monday,
has prompted fierce outcries noted here as cranes and back
hoes were seen tearing down sections of the exterior cladding

(01:18:24):
and ripping windows off their hinges at one of the
most instantly recognizable historic sites on the planet. The scale
of destruction is now even visible from space. Tony was
just showing you some of those pictures on the satellite.
The White House can't seem to decide how many guests
the new ballroom will actually accommodatetim Come on, they said

(01:18:48):
six hundred and fifty, but now they're saying thirteen hundred
and fifty. Once Trump has flattened the old East Wing,
he is toyed with naming this three hundred million dollar
new venue after himself. Yes, it's a what. Yeah, the

(01:19:08):
plans were of first announced months ago. Backlash to the
start of construction has been swift, but it has moved
on a pace. They are cranking it up to take
a literal wrecking ball to the White House. It's gro tesque,
just so grow tesque, said that morning Joe host, Joe

(01:19:31):
whatever his name is, Scarborough. It's not yours, mister president.
You rent it from the American people for four years.
Oh wow, you really get the memo slowly, Joe. You
should go back down to mar Lago and talk to
Donald Trump. The The rest of the criticism is the

(01:19:54):
kind of criticism that you're used to seeing. I thought
the notable criticism was that from architects, Trump has not
followed established procedure for renovations on the White House grounds
by essentially just going ahead, bypassing the usual reviews from
federal groups like the National Capital Planning Commission. He's just

(01:20:16):
gone ahead with the construction. And now the size of
this endeavor, which is already massive, has grown, and the
time of construction now is being suggested as twenty twenty nine.

(01:20:38):
This is being talked about and viewed as the creation
of a presidential palace, and so many have a huge
issue with this. But of course there are the Maga
crew and the apologists for Donald Trump, like Maga, Mike
Johnson and beyond, who say, ah, there's always been constructions

(01:21:00):
into the White House one thing or another. We talked
about the basketball court that's being talked about. Obama put
in a basketball Obama didn't put. Obama put in like
a portable basketball thing that mog kelly was talking about
last week on the show. It was like a thousand dollars. Okay,
come on, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
I saw a meme over the weekend that was made
me laugh that people seem to be more upset about
the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they are
about the ripping down of the East wing of the
White House. It's like, if you're really nostalgic for history.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Yeah, that's a great that's a great, great take, a great,
great take. Yeah, all of this is being done, you know,
under cover of darkness. He can hold up pictures and
plans or the rest. But I mean this money that's
being privately funded and that's paraded around like it's a
good thing. I mean privately funded means that there's a

(01:21:54):
quid pro quo. Google contributes twenty five million dollars, Palanteer
contributes twenty five million. Meta. These are all companies with
business before the American government. You think that they're just
they're just excited about a new ballroom when they come
to visit Washington. No, they they expect something for that money.

(01:22:14):
So the whole deal is dirty. But I promise you
the money as it continues to grow two hundred then
three hundred million, then three hundred and fifty million. There's
grift here on a major scale. And the Donald Trump
Incorporated world of the Trump family is part of that
grift as well. But most of concern to me is

(01:22:34):
that they can focus on that while the government has closed,
while those who are recipients of snap and snap payments
they lose out on those. It's a it's an abomination.
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On the Mark Thompson Show. I'm Kim McAllister. As Mark
mentioned the news sponsored by Coachella Valleycoffee dot Com. President
Trump is in Japan today on the latest leg of
his Asia diplomacy tour. He met earlier with the Japanese
Emperor at Tokyo's Imperial Palace. You know, just getting new
palatial ideas for Washington, DC. Later tonight, he'll be meeting

(01:24:56):
with the country's new Prime minister as he continues to
focus on trey investment and defense spending. Later this week,
President Trump is set to meet with the Chinese leader
Xi Jimping in South Korea with a US envoy saying
trade talks with China are getting very close now to
an agreement. A US warship is now docked in Trinidad

(01:25:17):
and Tobago as tensions increase in the Caribbean. The USS
gravely arrived in port of Spain on Sunday and will
remain there until Thursday. This comes as the aircraft carrier
the USS Gerald R. Ford, moves closer to Venezuela. Venezuelan
President Nicholas Maduro is criticizing the carrier's movement, saying the

(01:25:37):
United States is preparing for what he called a new
eternal war against his country. The United States has recently
carried out several strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
Crazy Hurricane Melissa nearing Jamaica, expected to make landfall as
an extremely dangerous Category five storm. Forecasters are warning the

(01:25:59):
storm will cause traphic flash flooding and landslides, triggering up
to forty inches of rain. The hurricane is expected to
make landfall in Jamaica early Tuesday, packing wins of more
than one hundred and sixty miles per hour. The Senate
returning today no new votes scheduled, though, but the government
shut down now in its twenty seventh day, Democrats and

(01:26:20):
Republicans remain deadlocked over the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which
are set to expire at the end of December. Meanwhile,
government funding for food assistants will run out for about
forty two million people come November first. Happy Thanksgiving to
the poor people, unreal. President Trump did not rule out
the possibility of running for a third term in twenty

(01:26:42):
twenty eight, but he did dismiss the idea of running
as a candidate for the vice presidency. The President said
he would love to do it when asked about another
bid for president, but also redirected attention to who he
referred to as very good people in the Republican partying
Rubio Advance. There's a new poll out today showing the

(01:27:04):
race for the New York City mayor tightening, but just
over a week to go until election day. Suffolk University
out of Boston says Governor Andrew Cuomo has cut Zoran
mam Dami's lead in half in their latest poll. Mam
Dami now leading by ten points over Cuomo, forty four
percent to thirty four percent. Republican Curtis Sliwa holding eleven

(01:27:26):
percent of the vote. In this poll, seven percent remaining undecided.
I do hug and kiss people casually.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
That's the only reason I hope Como does well, because
we have that drop. That's the only reason.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
There is another new poll suggesting California's Proposition fifty will pass.
A new Emerson College survey of California voters finds fifty
seven percent support for the redistricting measure, while thirty seven
percent oppose it. While factoring in undecided voters, support for
Prop fifty jumps to sixty percent with forty a post.

(01:27:59):
So looks it's in good shape. Speaking of which, Governor
Gavin Newsom warning about ice agents potentially showing up at
polling places. He is wondering if that could discourage Latino
voters in California. This comes with a little more than
a week to go until the special election to decide
Prop fifty. Last week, Governor Newsom said the Trump administration

(01:28:20):
could send immigration agents to polling places to try to
intimidate voters and soften the turnout. In September, the Latino
Community Foundation surveyed twelve hundred Latino registered voters. Fifty three
percent they said they planned to vote in person. More
than half said they would vote on election day on
November fourth. In Indiana, the Governor Mike Braun pushing for

(01:28:42):
the state's congressional maps to be redrawn. Braun issuing a
statement today announcing a special legislative session to protect Hoosiers
from efforts in other states that seek to diminish their
voice in Washington and ensure their representation in Congress is fair.
The White House is lobbied for the Who's Your State
to redraw its congressional lines, with Vice President Vance traveling

(01:29:04):
to the state twice. President Trump speaking with lawmakers directly
about redistricting earlier this month.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
It's interesting too, on the redistricting thing. They are running
into some problems with redistricting plans in red states. There
are a couple of them. So even as you're talking
about that, the redistricting article I was seeing and I'm
just trying to find it now, is the one I

(01:29:30):
was reading earlier suggested that both is this in Indiana
and Kansas, even as they're talking about this jerrymandering. Was
this your point and I was looking at the same
time you were doing the story. Uh, the idea was
that there are there are problems with the votes. They

(01:29:50):
just don't have the votes essentially to make it happen.
And so as as you know, this is a this
is a contagion that has taken over American politics now.
The read districting and jerrymandering that is aggressively being done
started in Texas. California's got the answer, and now you
see it in other states, the Carolinas, etc. In Indiana
and Kansas, where Republican lawmakers don't have sufficient votes to

(01:30:14):
pass these GOP friendly congressional maps, there may be problems.
In Indiana, more than a dozen Senate Republicans oppose this effort.
They cite potential strategic drawbacks to these mid cycle redistricting
efforts and their fairness concerns believe it or not being
expressed by some GOP members. In Indiana Kansas they have

(01:30:35):
a similar problem struggle to secure enough votes for a
special session with moderate Republicans and some party members resisting
this push to redistrict. So not every state, even red state,
is on board with this plan. I was just reading
about this earlier, and so I'm glad you brought it
up because I wanted to integrate it into the conversation.

(01:30:57):
So again we'll see where it all pencils out. But
there are at least a couple of spots in America
where there now is sufficient pushback or insufficient votes, if
you want to think of it that way, such that
it may not happen.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
First Lady Milania Trump may not be in support of
the President's new ballroom construction. According to The Wall Street Journal,
the First Lady privately raised concerns about demolishing the East
wing of the White House, which has traditionally been home
to the First Lady's office and her staff.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
She's like, hey, wait a minute, when are you doing
what That's right? I mean they wrecked her stuff first,
didn't they.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Citing administration officials, the Journal reported the First Lady distanced
herself from the move, telling associates, this is not my project.
The White House has faced backlash from critics over the demolition,
including from historians and the president's political opponents, who argue
the plan was not carried out in a transparent manner.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
They didn't follow any protocol processes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
One day they were saying we're not touching the building,
and the next day it's leveled.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
So yeah, exactly, literally one day or right the day after,
they say we're not touching it. It's boom. Yeah, that's
just right, big news.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
There is a penny shortage affecting retailers nationwide. Who knew
pennies were so important?

Speaker 1 (01:32:15):
I thought Trump is getting rid of the penny. That
was yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Truth. The Treasury Department halted penny production in May, and
the US Mint cranked out its last batch of pennies
in August. Now, a growing number of convenience stores and
major chains, including Kroger and Home Depot, are reporting issues.
The American Banking Association says about two hundred and fifty
billion pennies are still in circulation, but there's some localized

(01:32:41):
supply issues. I don't understand why that's a big deal.
Doesn't everyone pay with a debit card anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
Or Oh well that's the thing though, Kim. I mean,
you're right, there seems to be like a move to
a cashless economy. But I don't even know that that's
so good. You know, I'm not necessarily a fan of that.
I but that said, I didn't realize that the pennies
were so integral, and I don't think anybody else did
any of them, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Sadly, the leave a penny take a penny. Spot is empty?

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Oh it is? Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
More big news. Shack's custom range Rover has been stolen.
You can't just drive around in anything. You've got to
have a lot of leg room, right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
Yeah, he's a big man.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Shaquille O'Neil's one hundred and eighty thousand dollars Range Rover
reportedly stolen while being transported from Southern California. Authority say
this twenty twenty five land rover was being sent to
Louisiana when it was taken stolen. The suv sold to
the former laker at Effortless Motors and Riverside. The auto

(01:33:43):
transport company said it was targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack.
Effortless Motors now offering a ten thousand dollars reward for
information leading to the recovery Shacks Range Rover.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
I'd like to know a little bit more about how
that happened. It feels like an inside job, doesn't it, Tony?
I mean, how to say, you know, all of a sudden,
these guys who are charged with transporting shacks special custom automobile,
they they lose it on way. Doesn't that sound questionable?

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
And it's like it's made for Shack. It's like, how
are you gonna get any money for it other than
saying this is Shacks.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
No, exactly, collection you're caught exactly. It's so true. I
don't get it. But yeah, last time, I'm guessing it's
not his only car. All right now he's down at
three hundred and forty cars.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Lastly, today marks the sports Equinox. You know what that is?

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
It is when all four major professional sports leagues are
in action on the same day.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Wow, this is the hoax.

Speaker 11 (01:34:54):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Eleven NBA games, two NHL games, along with Monday Night
Football and Game three the World Series.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
I've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
What I know, it's a big deal. Today marks the
thirty second sports Equinox since the first one happened back
in nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
So many ways to lose money. If you're a gambler,
I mean, you're a busy week. Yeah, this is the
sports Equinox.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
I'll bet on this game.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Wow, that is really. That's not fake, that's real. Okay,
look at that. Yeah, October twenty seventh. Here we are
on Monday, October twenty seventh, the sports Equinox.

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at before I get to President Trump's health, I want
to take a look at some If you do a meetup,
I just might go, says Angel the bay Area. Wow,
that's exciting. I know, I know once the word gets
out that Angel the Bay Area is going to be there,
I expect a lot of people if something happens to Mark,

(01:39:47):
can Moe Kelly take over? Yes? I fully endorse that.
Richard Delamator asks the question that we are all asking,
is mo available to take over the show? I mean,
if I go to Columbia and I'm taken, you should
keep the show going, you know, I mean, you know,
keep my name on it for a little while, just
to be polite, and then you'll change it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
If you do get kidnapped. I mean, I guess we
should consider putting a GoFundMe together for a ransom.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
That would be nice. That would be nice to just saying.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
I mean, if you do get cat we're going to
grift the hell out of that, right, I mean, I
would hope for the show, yeah exactly. I mean, if
you don't, I don't know. I'm both joking and also
legitimately frightened. But you know, if all's well, that ends.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Well, they won't kidnap you. If you get kidnapped, just
keep talking. Eventually they'll let you go. Oh that's right,
you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
Yeah, don't certain insurance companies have their own investigations too
for these kinds of jewels, at least they do in
the movies. Yeah, it's true. Debbie asks the question that
is a good one on the Louver heist and also
even on shore thing. Don't the insurance companies have way
they investigate these things? I think Tony they do. Is

(01:41:05):
my recollection t.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
Show have been based on such an investigation?

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
Right, Yeah, thank you Debbie for the superchat. You're absolutely right.
I think that's something that should be considered. Luis, for
the five dollars superchat, says that description of areas of
Columbia sounds much safer than Trump's description of San Francisco.
And you have no problem going there, so you know,
you know a problem going there to San Francisco, then
you should have a problem going to Columbia, Lol City

(01:41:34):
and Fuego. Yeah. Yeah, Luis's a Los Angeles Dodgers look dominant.
We'll see series is all tied up. I think the
buildings should have his name. Debbie says the destruction and
now design is a perfect metaphor for him, and lots
of home depot gold painted ceilings flowers, et cetera, says Debbie. Yeah,

(01:41:56):
I really don't think it's as I say. There's grift
at minimum, and I think there's more going on than
just the building of a ballroom. But I don't know again,
is it a bunker? Is it some kind of other
meeting place where he, you know, Miller, Peter, Thiele Bondi,

(01:42:17):
you know, Cash, Patel, all the rest of them, can
you know, hang out while the bad stuff goes to
I don't know, but I do know that it's hard
for me to conceive that it's a ballroom for three
hundred and fifty million dollars. So wish I saw the
White House before twenty sixteen. I hope the actual Declaration

(01:42:37):
of Independence and Constitution will not end up in a
mar Lago outhouse, says Scott Ridenberg. Yeah, you know what
I mean. If he wanted he could put the actual
Declaration of Independence. He could. He has control over all
these documents, put him into anywhere he wants. So I'll
get to h. JB. Pritzker in a moment. Who's talking
about other stuff. The ballroom is a russ, says cousin

(01:42:58):
Eerie eight. He will need a fancy new bunker to
rule from ballroom designs aren't even real. They will do
everything they can to prevent reporting on what's happening. Well,
I kind of agree, I mean with some of that,
I don't really buy the the whole thing. It's all
happening so fast, and I'm sorry, it's a and it's

(01:43:18):
embarrassing that the Congress is so completely mia on this.
And I'm really talking about his party, the GOP. You know,
it's disgusting. You're all originalists when it comes to the Constitution,
whatever the hell that means. The original Constitution made provisions
for amendments, the original document. All you originalists, it actually

(01:43:40):
hill hows for changes. That's the whole idea. And so anyway,
you're originalists, you're not so original when it comes to
tearing down the White House and building some gaudy, garish ballroom.
I mean, you know, Trump wants to turn the White
House into a Saudi whorehouse, and you guys aren't even

(01:44:03):
at all bothered by it. Did you check with anything
to anybody looking at any plans, and anybody check out
the archivist, the historians, I mean, they're all Trump appointees.
Go ahead, at least have them approve it. Nope, let's
bring in that uh, the skip, the skiploaders, and the
wrecking ball. Here's the state integrity, says Harry Magnum. Red

(01:44:26):
state integrity says Texas could learn the lesson. Yeah, I
was talking about those red states who can't quite get
the votes for the extreme jerrymandering, and Harry's saying, yeah,
you take it to you know, take a page from that.
I want to share with you something I saw also. Okay,

(01:44:50):
I want to share with you a little something I
saw from JB. Pritzker, who kind of states it straight.
Let's just get to it. It's about the uh, the
the ice, and it's about the way in which the
Trump administration is leaning in to so many different cities.
Here's Pritzkirk. Go ahead, I go.

Speaker 16 (01:45:09):
I mean, I'm talking about if you have brown skin
or black skin, you are literally afraid that you are
going to get pulled over or detained walking down the
street just for being brown or black.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
I mean, that is not a.

Speaker 16 (01:45:22):
World that I have ever lived in, at least since
I was born, and is certainly not legal and allowed
since well until now. I guess because you heard that
Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court essentially said that's fine,
you can use, you know, racial profiling as a reason

(01:45:43):
to detain somebody. So I'm very concerned about the people
that I represent in the state that I represent in
the city of Chicago, and are people here, And also
I will add for undocumented people who are here, because yeah,
they can be detained and they could be deported, but
very importantly, their rights are also being abridged and taken away.

(01:46:06):
There are rights for people who are in the United States,
whether you're here because you cross the border without papers,
or you overstayed your visa or whatever. But remember that
Donald Trump said that he was using customs and border
patrol and ice to go after the worst of the worst.
And listen, I would love it if they would go

(01:46:27):
arrest the actual gang members who are committing violent crimes.
They'd actually go after criminals. That's not what they're doing.
They're literally stopping the ubuelas and you know, little kids
and zip tying them. They're attacking a building in the
middle of the night in a way that they said
they were going after Trendelle Arragua, but actually there were

(01:46:49):
only two or three people that they could identify that
fit that and in the one hundred and thirty other people,
many of whom were US citizens, were detained for hours
put into U Haul's little Kids Zip Tide, and they
used Blackhawk helicopters, repelling out of the helicopters, and they
set up dozens of cameras before they attacked this building

(01:47:12):
so that they could show it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:13):
All on social media. And I don't know, act like
tough guys.

Speaker 16 (01:47:18):
And Gregory Bavino, who runs the operation here and ran
the operation for them in Los Angeles, is somebody who
loves social media.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
Go look at his account.

Speaker 16 (01:47:29):
And so this is the world we're living in, and
it's frightening for so many people. So my job every
day is to make sure that I can lessen the
fear that people are experiencing or stand in the way
of ICE breaking the law.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
Yeah, I think he's so right. I'm so glad he
mentioned the performance aspect to it, because yeah, there's a
real sense of wanting to show the power of ICE
and the military and to intimidate and to intimidate the
local population. And the other thing I will see and
then I'll get to a second JB. Pritzker cut, is

(01:48:04):
that part of the Venezuela move with the gerald Ford
and with all of the hardware that is the US military,
and of course Pete Hegseth can't wait to show this
stuff off. This is his big thing, right, He's chinned forward.
He puts his drink down, and he makes some orders,
and he signs some stuff, and he's got this big
Venezuela thing going. So that is also designed to remind

(01:48:27):
the local population Americans of the strength that the government has.
That is part of this. Also, this is all constructed
with on some level a message to Americans. Our government
is powerful. Now you might say, well, that's a good thing.

(01:48:48):
I want a powerful government. That's also designed to remind
you that you're not to run a foul of this government.
You're not to criticize this government. Here's JB. Pritzker cut too.

Speaker 16 (01:49:00):
The challenges is that federal agents enjoy federal immunity, and
typically and throughout history, federal agents are held responsible by
Inspectors General or by their supervisors by US attorneys. Right,
these are all federal officials who are responsible for following

(01:49:21):
the law. Well, guess what's happening. They're not following the law,
and the people who are overseeing them are not following
the law, they're not following the constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
So we have only one.

Speaker 16 (01:49:30):
Recourse really if we want to hold them accountable. Well,
I would say two.

Speaker 1 (01:49:34):
Really.

Speaker 16 (01:49:34):
One is we're taking them to court, and so far
mostly we're winning, but not on everything. And frankly, you know,
that's allowed them to do a lot of things that
we don't want them to do. But there's a second
thing that we're doing, and that's making a record of
what they're doing, a contemporaneous record. I've asked people all

(01:49:58):
over the city of Chicago and used also our state
resources to video as many things as we see that
ICE are doing and that CBP is doing to the
people of Chicago that we think are illegal, and making
a record and actually, you know, asking for people to
submit testimony about that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
You know why.

Speaker 16 (01:50:20):
It's not that we think that Donald Trump is going
to hold them accountable now, but he will not be
in office forever, and the Congress won't always be in
maga Republican hands where they're just saying hands off whatever
the president wants. There will be a moment when these
folks are held accountable, and they can be held accountable
by the Congress being hauled in front of them, but

(01:50:40):
also potentially held accountable later for criminal activity that they're
committing now or by their supervisors in one fashion or
another in terms of their jobs and whether they'll continue
to have their job. So I've reminded them of that
the federal agents that you won't always you know, have

(01:51:02):
the situation you've got now where people are turning a
blind eye at the federal level to what you're doing,
and so you better be careful because it may not
be very long before you are.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
In fact health account I don't think these ICE agents
and those who are doing the dirty bidding of this
administration and Stephen Miller care too much. I mean, I
think that they don't really do the arithmetic, but it
is worth noting, and I'm so glad he did that.
You know, some of the charges that can be brought,

(01:51:33):
they may be charges that you can't be pardoned from.
They may be state charges like in Illinois. In Chicago.
I mean, that's the guy who could pardon you in Illinois,
J B. Pritzgorne. You can see he's not in any
way sympathetic. So I like the fact, and maybe it's
just delusional that someday there will be a reckoning for

(01:51:53):
some of what's going on. But the true terrorizing of
these innocent family which is primarily what was happening and
is happening. I mean, these detention centers are overwhelmingly filled
with people who are perfectly innocent, have done nothing. They
work in professions that are challenging, to say the least,

(01:52:14):
like the agricultural field to the grotesque. In the slaughterhouses,
they were doing things like showing up for their court
appointed immigration hearing and they're arrested. Families are broken up,
kids never know whether they're going to see their parents again.
It's horrifying, it's awful, but that's the express policy. So

(01:52:35):
maybe it is a false hope, but it's the hope
I have. And that's why I think Pritzker, you know,
makes a compelling kind of argument, which is I'm encouraging
people to keep contemporaneous notes, any documentation that you possibly
can have to on some level, on some day in

(01:52:56):
the future, be able to hold people who are involved
in all of these efforts accountable for what they did.
That's one of the reasons that they're masked and that
they have no badge numbers. And all the rest, right,
so they can get away with this. It really is
so un American, and yet that's where we are. So

(01:53:17):
all right, I'm did I leave anything out Kim that
I wanted to get to that I can quickly get to.
Kim is either muted or she's taken a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
You left a lot of things on the table. I
think we did play for Gary Dietrich, the Lindsey Graham thing.
But did you see that that Malay was successful in Argentina?

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Yeah? He did win. That's right. This is the this
is the guy who the Trump people are trying to
to prop up the La Libertade. Alvansa won over forty

(01:54:05):
percent of the votes in the national elections.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
So the other thing I would mention is that, I mean,
I don't have much hope for a real investigation, but
Trump is still hung up on the big lie, right,
and so he is now saying that he wants his
DOJ to investigate the big lie again. Multiple investigations have

(01:54:29):
shown that he lost the twenty twenty election, but now
his DOJ he wants them to look into it because
I guess he wants a different outcome.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
These guys will produce whatever document he wants, so maybe
he does want it. Well, now I want these guys
to look at it, because these guys are my guys. Yeah,
I mean really my guys though, like though I can
draft it and they'll just sign it. So I think
that you're right. I mean, I fully expect it. He's
so obsessed with this because he knows bullshit, but he's
so obsessed with it that I have fully expected when

(01:54:59):
he comes out of these China talks to go. She
was talking about how the mail in voting is it's
it's gamed, it's he said, I can't believe you in
America US mail in voting. I can't believe how they
stole that election from you in twenty twenty. So I

(01:55:21):
agree his obsession is crazy. I mean, if they restarted
producing pennies from the US meant, if he restarted that,
you know, I'm sure the new pennies would say twenty
twenty elections stolen. Trump was actually it was like, yes, dude, stop,
it's you know again so patently absurd, but again now

(01:55:43):
he will encourage his Justice Department to go over And
by the way, this costs you money. I mean, you know,
we say to look at it again. It's not like going, hey, Bob,
take a look at that twenty twenty election again. No,
they it's a big thing and has to be wrapped
in officialdom. It costs money. They spent two million dollars.
I forget the What did he said? Wait a minute,

(01:56:05):
And in twenty sixteen he said in the election with Hillary,
he was he won that election, okay, And he said
that two million voters voted in the main election. Wasn't
it Maine or Vermont? You have to go back and
help me with the details. Illegally that they were dropping
off bus loads of two million, two million voters in Maine.

(01:56:30):
I mean, it was just like these weird, wild things.
So it was kind of knocked down and debunked right away.
And he then president, remember he'd won the election, actually
assigned the task force to investigate that. I mean, it's crazy.
It's like investigating whether or not the moon is made
of cheese. I mean, it's like, well, the president wants

(01:56:53):
us to investigate, but it's it's it's ridiculous. Yeah yeah,
but I know, well, you know that's your opinion. That's ridiculous,
the president, you know, it's but this is where we
live in this kind of a wonderland. So anyway, they'll
investigate the twenty twenty election.

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
Why yeah, rewriting history.

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
Yeah, I did see this, and I'll leave you with
this because I often talk about the power of these
tech bros and how they've now surrounded Donald Trump. They've
successfully removed regulatory structures around crypto, They've successfully removed a

(01:57:37):
lot of regulatory structures around social media, and even who's
ending up controlling all the media and America seems to
be again something that very much is tech bro centric.
The TikTok example is the latest four big tech executives

(01:57:58):
the Army directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels with no
military background, will not recuse themselves from business dealings with
the Department of Defense while they are lieutenant colonels. Wait,
what as the Pentagon, in particular, the Army cozies up

(01:58:18):
to Silicon Valley. They have commissioned four big tech executives
to be lieutenant colonels.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
How is that legal?

Speaker 8 (01:58:30):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
Legal? That's such a quaint idea. Earlier this month, the
Army announced Detachment two to one, the name being a
reference for the newly commissioned executives. Of Pallanteer, Meta and
open ai Wow. The new formation is set to recruit
tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the

(01:58:52):
service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do. Instead,
they focus on recruiting talent and creating around the talent
they create. They're not making acquisition decisions, it is said
and find an Army spokesman. They're not senior decision makers.

(01:59:12):
But what oversight mechanisms are in place over the new
unit quote, it's not in our interest to show any
favoritism to a company. That would be the exact opposite
of what we're trying to do. Right. What we want
is competition. That's what we're looking for. These guys will
help us think about that. The four include Shiam Sankar,
the chief technology officer for Pallenteer, Andrew Bosworth, the chief

(01:59:35):
tech officer for Meta, Kevin Wild, chief product officer of
open Ai, and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab
and former chief researcher for open Ai. They'll take part
in an extremely accelerated two week training course to familiarize
them with the Army. Some of that will be online training.

(01:59:56):
They won't even have to show up for it. The
rest will be at Ford betting Joy and they are
immediately vaulted to these top positions again, they'll be lieutenant
colonel's welcome to the service.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
It's a cash grab, free for all.

Speaker 1 (02:00:18):
Unreal. Yeah, so we'll see. The cozying up of the
American government to a lot of these companies involves data
of Americans. That's where I've become particularly sensitive to it,
and payoffs of all sorts. But that story jumped out
of me because it is truly crazy. Mark, don't go

(02:00:43):
to Columbia, says Vicky, and Salsolito. Yes, I we're reconsidering,
but I am it's my good friend whose son is
getting married. No, no, I've always dreamt of going, and
I can't believe that that this situation exists. There is

(02:01:06):
Tony again with Columbia on the State Department website and
a level three. So there are four levels? Is that it?

Speaker 2 (02:01:14):
I think I thought there were five, but maybe.

Speaker 1 (02:01:22):
I don't know. Find that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:23):
Let me see if I can GOOFY find out.

Speaker 1 (02:01:24):
I mean, so, so this level four is, uh, I guess,
don't go. But level three is where we are. Yeah,
and and what they're saying, is overall it's level three,
but there are level four parts of Columbia.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
Right noway away from the force.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
Yeah, wow, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
A fine, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Kim wants to camp. Can't wait till she'll have the show. Kim,
how are you? She's getting sick of that after party thing.
She wants to just do this show.

Speaker 6 (02:02:09):
Okayo is the last because Afghanistan and Russia are level four.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Okay now, but there are aspects of Columbia that are
level four also, right, that's the idea. It's just overall,
it's number three. It's level three areas. You see that
Brown go back to go back to that map of
Latin America and you can see there are Yeah, there

(02:02:34):
are level four parts. Man.

Speaker 2 (02:02:38):
Yeah, aircraft carriers nearby if you needed assistance. America is
in the region.

Speaker 1 (02:02:45):
So yeah, I don't know. The wedding party should pay
for your ransom. That's a that's a very it's a
wild idea. But just like if anybody's taken, you'll be yeah. Yeah,
if something happens, you could not save Auto Warmbier. Yeah,

(02:03:06):
it's true, we don't. I think it's gonna be. It's tough.
Mexico is broken up by state. Also, yeah, I think
that's what that's what happens. So it's only level three,
You'll be fine, says the Surface means okay, uh, there's
probably level four here in the US, as Gilsey. Yeah,

(02:03:26):
that is exactly right.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
I mean, don't be such a baby. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
This this show is level four on some days, you
know what I mean? Are you with me on that?
I don't know. Well, I's almost a al as I
say in Spanish. Right, we'll see the day Tomorrow brings
the great David K. Johnston on. Yeah, and I'm looking
forward to with that conversation. We will talk more about

(02:03:53):
what's Uh. Tony will come and get you in Columbia
if anything happens. So that's yeah, I love it. I
love it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:01):
We have an AI risk expert on the show tomorrow.
His name is Rock wool Tower.

Speaker 1 (02:04:05):
Oh yeah, that'll be great. I'm really anxious to talk
to him. That's super super cool. Air.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
Michael Danielle coming tomorrow as well.

Speaker 1 (02:04:12):
Michael daniel the Doctor. I love it, the actual er doctor. Wow.
So we talk AI with an AI specialist, We talk
medicine with an actual er doctor, and we talked Trump
and American policy with a brilliant public intellectual of David K. Johnston.
All of that is tomorrow, share the show. Thank you
for being here, and now the Great Shadow. I'm Cheldow
of Stephens for the Mark Johnson Show. Bye bye. I

(02:04:35):
think it's Shadow's birthday today. Maybe it's next week all right, Yeah,
it's next week, next Monday. All right, until tomorrow. Bye
Mi

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