September 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Big military parade in Bejing today. Kim Jung Un, Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi were in attendance with Xi Jinping. Their effort was to show solidarity. Putin still stringing President Trump along about Ukraine. When will Trump do something? Chicago has a crime problem, but should soldiers be sent? What about military patrolling the streets of USA? Also, the President wants to know the truth about covid vaccines.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
All right, here we go. Everybody back to work. Summer. Well,
I know summer's not technically over, but after Labor Day,
it's kind of like here comes fall. Welcome to the
Big Podcast. It is Tuesday. Today is the second day
of September, Year of Our Ward, twenty twenty five. My
(00:43):
name is Tom Sullivan, and well, I mean, I've got
the lady. They've got a big military parade going on
in China today. They've got a bunch of world leaders
are there trying to establish that they are the leader
of the world. Ukraine. Will get you an update on
what's going on with Ukraine because it's been pretty quiet Chicago.
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President's still talking about Chicago being full of crime. The
people in Chicago are pushing back vaccines, a lot of
pushback on the vaccine policies coming out of Health and
Human Services. So get to all of that. Power Ball
is over a billion dollars and if we can, we'll
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get some phone calls as well today. But let's get
started with Mark Stewart. He's in Beijing talking about what's
going on in China because they've got President She is
hosting Vladimir Putin and Kim Jongan and President Modi of
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India and the whole thing about India. There was a
great background over the weekend that I read that basically
Modi of India is losing patients with President Trump. And
the reason why is because President Trump has been saying
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repeatedly and publicly that he solved the military conflict between
India and Pakistan. And this is they've been going at
each other for seventy five years, but they are both
nuclear powers. And during a phone call on June seventeenth,
the President, President Trump brought it up again, saying how
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proud he was of any the military escalation, and he
basically mentioned there would be nice if India have supported
a nomination for him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He's
openly campaigning for it, and apparently that really ticked off
President and he told President Trump that the US involvement
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had nothing to do with the recent ceasefire. It had
been settled directly between India and Pakistan. But President Trump
brushed off Mody's comments, and so he's not happy. President
Trump's not happy with Moti because Modi refuses to nominate
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him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Modi he's upset
at Trump because of the fact that in India he's
just like here, he's a populist leader and he has
to be strong, and he has to be the guy
who solves all the nation's problems and he doesn't want
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to farm it out to anybody else, especially an American president.
So the people in India looked to Modi as being
strong and the leader. And Modi's not gonna say, yeah, really,
you got to give some credit to the United States
and President Trump not gonna happen. So it wasn't that
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long ago that Mody called Donald Trump a true friend.
But it's like friendships, they can go sideways over little stuff.
And this is about two egos that are clashing with
each other. So back to Mark Stewart, who is at
the parade or about the parade ready to start in China.
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Gives us kind of a rundown.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We are really being prepared to be overwhelmed with optics
in the sense that we will have all of these
world leaders here with Chinese leader Shijin Ping as a
unified front almost against the West. Let's talk briefly about
this meeting mesaw earlier today with Chijin Ping and Vladimir
Putin these two men have shared what's been described as
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this no limits friendship. Once again today the kinship was
very strong. Remember, China has not condemned Russia for its
invasion of Ukraine. China continues to be the top buyer
of Russian oil. In fact, a deal was announced today
about the creation of a new gas pipeline that certainly
could help benefit China. And then we heard from Putin
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very warm words about his relationship with China and Shijiping,
and all of this is leading up to tomorrow morning's
big military parade through the streets of Beijing that will
cross through Tiananmen Square in front of Tianaman Square, and
there we will see Shijin Ping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim
Jung un all standing together as this united front against
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the United States. We have China and we have Russia,
which are nuclear powers. And then of course we've talked
a lot about the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong un.
It's really a story where symbolism is going to be
the big dominating theme, not so much any kind of
agreements or announcements, but the fact that they are all together.
It's going to send a strong message or at least
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China does to the rest of the world that it
is a force.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, that's all about the fact that China wants respect.
That is what they've been looking for for a long time.
But again, a president she, President Putin, Kim Jong un,
and a President Modi of India all there for a
big celebration. Ukraine been kind of quiet. What is President
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Trump doing now? He gave Russia two weeks we're counting
down to that. Do you think anything is going to
change with Russia? The man to respond to that, obviously
is General Jack Keene.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, I think it has to change. I mean the
President Trump has exhibited tremendous patience in trying to work
with Putin, and certainly the Alaska summit was case in point.
But Putin keeps promising that he's interested in peace and
promising that he's willing to talk some more, even talk
to Zelensky one on one at a trilateral meeting with
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the three of them, the three presidents, And now he
has a spokesman as of yesterday saying there was never
any agreement to meet with Zelensky or to have a
trilateral meeting. So promises made and the promises are not kept.
That's been in a pattern of behavior here for months.
And the fact is we have yet to demonstrate to
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putin that continuing the war is no longer a reasonable
objective as of right now. He thinks continuing the war
is the best means for him to achieve what his
strategic objectives, and that is take control of Ukraine and
expand into Europe. Until such times we take him off
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that path, He's going to continue to pursue that objective,
and that's why he won't go to a ceasefire. I
think he looks at the ceasefire, is he loses all
his leverage, and why is he escalate the war. He
escalated the war principally against civilians to put additional pressure
on Zelensky's government to make major concessions, and I think
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also to put pressure on the United States and Western
Europe as well to make concessions to end the war
because of such a desperate situation. That's the ploy that
we've been washing unfold. And I think we're arriving at
decision time by the administration obviously to have lots of options,
but to take some action here now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So Generalkeeen obviously is in favor of taking some action,
and he's long been in favor of trying to crush
the Russian economy using severe sanctions. Here's Scott Besant, the
Treasury Secretary, talking about that over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
President Putin, since the historic meeting and anchoraged sense of
phone call when the European leaders and President Zelensky were
at the White House the following Monday, has done the
opposite of following through on what he indicated he wanted
to do. I think with President Trump, all options around
the table, and I think we'll be examining those very
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closely this week.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So joal Matein, what would you recommend that the president do?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, I think the economic is one thing, and it
certainly needs to be done. That's their major revenue source,
China and India and other countries certly buying that oil.
And there's other things we can do. Take them out
of the swift business, you know, in terms of financial transactions,
and we've got to push back on that economy that
he's gone to a war footing, and his defense industrial
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base is able to build all these materials to stay
in the war. If we take that away from him,
he doesn't have much choice but to stop. The second
thing is increase the military assistance to Ukraine so they
can shut down Russia's offensive operation inside of Ukraine and
also give them some capability to retake some territory that's possible,
and then give them the deep attack weapons that they
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need to pile into Russia's logistical infrastructure that's sustaining the war.
Those are military bona fide targets and they should not
have a sanctuary inside of Russia to permit them to
do that with US, with Ukraine not being able to
attack them. Doing those things military and economic pressure is
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part of the peace process, in my judgment, and it
has I think a motivation then to bring Putin into
the peace process and to be willing to make some aggression,
some concessions and agreements with Zelenski. It's part of the process.
We shouldn't see it as something outside of it. After all,
the President succeeded in doing the very same thing with
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Zelensky when he wanted the conditions prior to a ceasefire.
Now he's removed those conditions and he's willing to go
to immediate ceasefire, as are the people of Ukraine. As
we all know, there's only one person here who doesn't
want to doesn't want to peace deal that Putin.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So the eyes are I think on President Trump, what
are you going to do because Putin is just bringing
them along. I mean you can see that from ten
miles away. What else Chicago, Let's get let's get back
here to the US where the President keeps talking about
the fact that Chicago has a crime problem. He wrote
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today on True Social He said, at least fifty four
people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. Eight people
were killed. The last two weekends were similar. Chicago is
the worst and most dangerous city in the world by far.
Pritzker needs help badly. He just doesn't know it yet.
I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I
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did in DC. Chicago will be safe again and soon
make America great again. So that's not true Social today. Actually,
Chicago doesn't have the worst crime but they've got a
crime problem. There's no question about it. There are other
cities with higher crime rates on a per capita basis,
some cities with a worse crime rate than Chicago, Detroit,
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especially when it comes to homicides, Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans,
Little Rock, Arkansas, Baton, Rouge, Louisiana, Saint Louis and Jackson, Mississippi.
So there are other cities, but he's got his eyes
on Chicago. I still go back to listen. I'm all
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for Shakanaw. I'm all for a surge of going in
and helping out with the local police and doing what
they can to try to stop the crime rate. But
those soldiers are going to leave, and then what do
you do? And then there's a problem with the posse
commatatis law, which says that you can't use the military
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on American soil. The thing that the president can do
is if a governor invites the president to nationalize national Guard,
that can be done. It's been done in Los Angeles
years ago, and federally, the president has all the authority
in the world in Washington, d C. But not in
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Chicago or Memphis or LA or any place else. In fact,
a judge has ruled last night that the use of
the military in Los Angeles was illegal. I don't know
what's going to come of that, but there's a whole
bunch of cases that were filed over the weekend and judges,
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as usual are ruling against President Trump. So as far
as is there a problem in Chicago. Absolutely. There is
the man by the name of Sam Sanchez. He owns
a business in Chicago, and this is his take on it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
The city's not safe.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
For the mayor and the governor to go on TV
and use us as statics, as numbers, I mean, we're
human beings. We're talking abo real time. We have to
our extra security, private security out on the street. They
have to make sure that we advise all our patrons
when they go home and check the over people can't
even walk their dogs. I mean, this isn't to believe
that the city is safe. The way they made a
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sound in the press conference, it is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
There's another Chicago and cadacrosses her name and she's a
resident of Chicago. She says, oh yeah, they've got a
huge crime problem.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Well, first of all, this has been a very violent
weekend in the city of Chicago. As a matter of fact,
the last several weekends in Chicago have been very violent.
And so when where Mayor Johnson stands there and talks
about taking over the city and not letting troops come in,
it's as opposed to what as opposed to the high
crime that is here, as opposed to the murders and
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the violence that's going on, as opposed to businesses being
afraid to open their doors because they're constantly being grabbed.
What's the point in this?
Speaker 8 (14:57):
You know?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The fact of the matter is this Mayor Johnson has
a dismal approval rating, and so going against President Trump
probably in his mind, seems like the right thing to do.
He has never listened to the people and what we
really want since he's been in office and is trying.
What is really happening here is I feel that the
mayor is probably deflecting. He's deflecting from the fact that
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he mismanaged the city's money by supporting the migrant crisis,
and he asked the Board of Education to take out
a junk loan for the city to cover costs. That's
basically what the loan is for. So now that the
Border of Education has refused, most of the measures that
he's really tried to push in this city have been
turned down because they've been things that have not been beneficial.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
To the people here.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
So of course he's going to go against whatever pre
measures President puts in place.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And here's a pastor who works in one of the
high crime areas. His name is Corey Brooks.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
They are individuals who are dying every single day. As
you can see over the weekend, the the rash of murders,
the shootings, they're still going on.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
You know.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Governor Prisker said the National Guard should never come in
unless there is an emergency. This is an emergency anytime
we're continuing to lose lives on the south sides and
west sides of Chicago. To those of us who live
in the community, we deem that as an emergency.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So back to Catatrosz, who was asked very simple question, better,
are you opposed to the National Guard coming in? Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It may help him, considering the fact that his approval
rating is at a dismal one digit. It might be
something that can help him. But the fact of the
matter is it really doesn't matter about what Brandon Johnson says.
It doesn't matter about his politics. What matters is the
people and the people here in Chicago don't feel safe.
The people here in Chicago want the help that President
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Trump is trying to send here, So regardless of what
the mayor says, we want the help.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
When it comes to Poland, the President has consistently been
latest polls, fifty three percent of people survey to approve
of the work that President Trump is doing on crime,
and eighty one percent say large city crime is definitely
a problem. Former federal prosecutor responding to the judges ruling
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today that the president's use of the National Guard federalizing
them in Los Angeles was illegal, here's what the former
federal prosecutor had to say.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Well, the judges reasoning is fairly straightforward. He says that
the Posse Commatatus Act prevents the deployment of the military
on US soil for normal law enforcement operations. And he held,
after conducting a trial on this matter, that the National
Guard was deployed in California for normal law enforcement operations, arrests, searches, stops,
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helping execute search warrants and things like that. And he
said that this is illegal. And one thing I would
point out that may get lost in the shuffle is
as we cover this, it is not really going to
be relevant, given the President runs the Justice Department effectively.
But violations of the Possecommatatus Act are a crime under
ordinary circumstances, a low level crime, but a crime. Nonetheless,
I don't expect the Justice Decrimement to do anything about this,
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since it's the trunk Justice Department. Well respeck to the
civil on the civil side, though, you're right that most
of the National Guard members have are gone, but the
judge said that there's still some remaining here. So even
if it's in the low hundreds, his order requires them
essentially to leave or to stop engaging in the conduct.
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That was that issue here.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So if you want to play lawyer, you can look
up the Posse Combatatus Actives in eighteen seventy eight, and
it to generally prohibits to use some federal military forces
to enforce domestic laws. It does have exceptions when Congress
expressly authorizes it, but Congress hasn't set a p in
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all of this. The federal law prevents military involvement in
civilian law enforcement to protect democracy at individual liberty, though
its application is complicated by exceptions and loopholes and ongoing
debates about all of this. So that's where they passed
this law in eighteen seventy eight, and I think one
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of the exceptions was regarding insurrections. And then you get
into definitions, and that's for a law class and like
the lawyer said, he doesn't expect the Justice depart we'll
do anything about this. But that's one thing about what
he did in Los Angeles where he protected the federal property.
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And also it's a different story in DC where it's
federal property versus Chicago. So we'll see what happens. So far,
nothing other than people are using the bully pulpit back
and forth. Speaking of bully pulpits. The Secretary Area of
Health Human Services r if Kate Junior, is going to
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be testifying on Thursday before a committee in Congress. They
are concerned about the vaccines and the rules that are
coming out of Health and Human Services. One of them
came out over the weekend was that COVID shots are
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not available unless you're sixty five plus or you have
some condition that a doctor will say is important for
you to have the latest COVID vaccine. You get into vaccine,
you want to start an argument, starting to start talking
about vaccines with people and people since since the pandemic.
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Take this, I mean, it's it's fighting words. Here's my
only thing about vaccines. I take my vaccines. I'm not
anti vax I'm right up to date with all of
my vaccines. I believe them. I know that some people
get hurt by them. They always have a little thing
you got to sign saying you know there could be
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a problem. So far, knock on wood, I haven't had
a problem from vaccines, but maybe you have, or maybe
you just don't want to take the chance. And the
way I look at this is very libertarian. If you
are afraid of vaccines or your anti vaccine for whatever
your reason, just don't get the vaccine. But for people
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like me who do want to get the vaccine because
they do believe in the science, they should be allowed to.
So I don't understand why they came out and said
if you're below sixty five years, the baseay essentially said
you can't get the vaccine. But if you look into
the material that's come out, and doctor Marty McCarey, who's
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the head of the FDA now put a piece out
in the Wall Street Journal that I thought I'll hit
a couple of the high points that he made in
his comments of getting vaccines. So doctor McCarey essentially wrote
it's in the Wall Street Journal today in the op
ed section, he said the Food and Drug Administration last
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week approved COVID nineteen vaccines for adults sixty five and
over and for people six months and older who have
one or more risk factors that makes them at high
risk of severe COVID. Said. It brings us in line
with France, where they have recommended for people over eighty,
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the UK for people over seventy five, And he says
the world has moved on to a risk tiered approach,
which some in the American medical establishment are maintaining their
blind faith in a strategy of boosters for all in perpetuity.
So when you look at it, he makes some points,
and he says the FDA number one, can approve products
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only if we believe there's a substantial certainty that the
benefits outweigh the risk. Currently, we don't have that confidence
for say a seventh COVID shot for a healthy twelve
year old girl. Second, if your doctor deems you need
COVID vaccine, you can still get one. In other words,
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go see your doctor if you want to. Third, as
part of our approval, he writes, the FDI is demanding
all companies run a clinical study assessing whether the new
COVID shots improve outcomes in healthy subjects. Fourth, some argue
that COVID shots are needed for those who live with
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or take care of munal compromised or elderly people. He writes,
no company has ever submitted data to the FDA to
prove that COVID shots, which do not halt transmission, prevent
caregivers from infecting vulnerable people. Fifth, he writes, some claim
that COVID shots mean kids are less likely to miss school,
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adults adults more likely to go to work. No vaccine
manufacturer has ever submitted data to the FDA to validate
these claims. And sixth, FDA's new framework essentially ends mandates.
So for a lot of people, fire departments, police departments,
even the military, you were mandated you must have this
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or you can't come to work. People lost their jobs,
so vaccines. There are people, though, that are absolutely solid
on this, And like doctor McCarry, Doctor Marty McCarry wrote,
was that some in the American medical establishment are maintaining
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their blind faith in a strategy of boosters for all
in perpetuity. One of those is former CDC director doctor
Richard Besser. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
This is a call to action, and it's a call
to action to a number of different groups. One of
our big goals is that we're hoping that by keeping
attention on this issue that Congress will do its job.
Congress plays a really important oversight function when it comes
to the actions of the administration, and they've been missing
in action, and there's a lot that they can do
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to call this Secretary in and ask questions as to
why he is dismantling a critical piece of our health
security in America. It's also a call to action to
medical societies that are sharing to make recommendations that we
can trust in place of some of the recommendations that
the Secretary is making that aren't based on science and evidence.
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Senator Cassidy is critical in this situation. I was really
pleased to see him put out a call for the
committee that advises the CDC on vaccines. They're supposed to
hold a meeting in a couple of weeks. He said
that meeting should not take place, and the.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Reason for that is that Secretary Kennedy removed all the
experts from that committee and brought in quite a number
of anti vaccine advocates to who who agree with his
take on vaccination, but are not the people who should
be making recommendations to the to the country. I hope
that in those hearings that that Senator Cassidy asked some
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hard questions and and that we understand why the Secretary
is so so intent on destroying the centers for disease control. Yeah,
you know, Secretary Kennedy is one of the nations leading
anti vaccine advocates, and so I wouldn't look to him
for for for evidence, you know, I you know, I
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would agree with the President when he said that that
Warp Speed was one of the crowning achievements of his administration.
The fact that within a year of a new infectious
agent plaguing the world, we had multiple highly effective and
safe vaccines was was absolutely unthinkable. And the reason we
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got there was that for more than two decades, the
National Institutes of Health had been investing in the science
and the technology.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All Right, So who you're going to believe? Well, Brethident
Trump wrote on True Social Today. He said the heading
was about Operation War Speed. He says it's very important
that the drug companies justify the success of their various
COVID drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that
saved millions of lives. Others disagree with CDC being ripped
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apart over this question. I want the answer, and I
want it now. I have been showing information from Pfizer
and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem to
show those results to the public. Why not they go
off on the next hunt and let everyone rip themselves apart,
including Bobby Kennedy Junior and CDC trying to figure out
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the success or failure of the drug company's COVID work.
They show me great numbers and results, but they don't
seem to be showing them to many others. I want
them to show them now to CDC and the public
and clear up this mess one way or the other.
I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many
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say it was. If not, we all want to know
about it, and why. Thank you for your attention to
this very important matter. President DJT. So Donald Trump's going,
what's the answer? He doesn't know who to believe. He's
got doctors and scientists telling him one thing, and he's
got his Health and Human Services secretary saying just the opposite.
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So I don't have the answer, but I hope that
the President's able to get the answer in soon, So
the vaccine fight continues. In the meantime. Have you bought
your powerball ticket?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I haven't. Well, what is one point three billion dollars
something like that? Is that for tonight? I'm not even
sure tonight. Hold on, let me look, No, it's it's
the thing tonight is the Mega Millions. That's only a
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paltry three hundred and two million dollar prize. But tomorrow night,
Wednesday It's Powerball is one billion, three hundred million. So
by the time we get to tomorrow'll be bigger than that.
So Harry Enton, the statistician over at CNN, has the
lowdown on your chances.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
The chance of winning the powerball jackpot. The odds have
become longer. You know, back in nineteen hundred and ninety
two it was one in fifty five million, then in
two thousand and nine it was one hundred ninety five million,
and now it's one and two hundred and ninety two million. Why,
they've added more balls, and that does mean that it's
harder to but it also means that there are longer odds.
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By adding the more balls, they've made it more difficult
to win. And now a one in nine hundred and
two hundred and ninety two million compared to one in
fifty five million. I think the ball's common got Cape
Baldwin a little bit, as he should talk about billion
dollars jackpots. But remember that's the thirty year annuity. Most
we're talking lum sums as well here, and Powerball lum
sums have been losing ground because what happens is with
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the annuity, you put it in the bonds and essentially
the treasury yels for annuities are up. So you talk
about last night's jackpot, right, initially was one point one
billion dollars, but the lump sum was only four hundred
and ninety eight million dollars compared like to October of
twenty twenty one, when it was a four hundred and
ninety six million, but the annuity was seven hundred million.
So in fact, the annuity is making it seem like
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there's these much bigger jackpots. But here's the key thing.
It's really the lump sum. You should be talking about. Why,
because what have the winners taken? Fifty five out of
the fifty five Powerball biggest winners, they all took the
lump sun. I don't care about the dollars. I care
about the lump sun and that's still in the million dollar.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, he's right. Nobody takes the aduity. You don't want
to be paid out over thirty years. You want your
money now. So it's in the high four hundred millions
that you get if you take the cash. But then
out of that you've got to pay taxes, and they'll
take the taxes out of that, so you probably wind
up with three hundred million, which would get your month
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going pretty well. I think for most people, three hundred
million in the bank all of a sudden. So it's
the thing about this. I know the odds are astronomical,
but there is a chance somebody has to win, and
that keeps that keeps people coming back. All right, let's
check some of the phone calls we've had lately. Start
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with one from A Sharon, the public health nurse in
Tennessee talking about the shooting they had at Minneapolis church
last week.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
Neighborhood puffat help nurse Sharon and Tennessee calling about this
school shooting. You know in the past, you've talked about
this in the past, about not naming the individual. My
husband and I were talking about that dast kind in
this morning. I think that there should be a law
that the news media cannot publish the person's name or
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talk about him, you know, give specifics as far as
his name and stuff, because that just gives somebody else
nepetus to go out and do this. Half the time,
people with a screw loose want to go out blazon
with their name. Everybody will know their name.
Speaker 14 (32:41):
Well, if it was the law that you couldn't say
that person's name that they were involved in a killing,
then maybe there wouldn't be so many people wouldn't be
trying to get glory because they wouldn't get any because
the oldbody would.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Know their name. They'd be anonymous.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
Now, I know there's a flip side to that when
you talk about freedom of speech, but I personally am
going to do some research and reach out to some
experts in that area, and I'm going to write every
single Congressman and senator not just from my state, but
that sit in the Senate and a House of Representative
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and tell them somebody needs to start this, and they
need to figure out how to make it happen, and
they need to make it cedal because we don't want
it nearly nowly this state does and the state doesn't.
It needs to be a federal law. Not sure how
that would work with the freedom of speech, but I
think freedom of fine to get rid people like this
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that are doing harm to people, especially young children. Tennysons
that are in church sang it. It just makes me sick.
It makes my heart hurt so much, and I think
this would.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Be a step.
Speaker 13 (33:52):
You can't take away people's guns. There are hunters. People
haven't like to out guns. I love to target practice.
I'm not a hunter, but I'm pretty good and I
like to shoot. But I think if we.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Did this, if we didn't.
Speaker 13 (34:06):
Celebrate the people that do this by advertising their name,
I think it would have a lot of them would
think twice because they're not going to get anything out
of it. It's just my opinion, you know that, and
something else. Everybody had one thanks here, Tom love the podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Well there's a lot in that phone call. Thank you, Sharon.
First of all, freedom of the First Amendment, freedom of speech,
but it's also freedom of the press. Then instead of
writing to members of Congress, right to the media place
that is giving out the person's name with this one,
wasn't so much about the name. I don't remember the
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I never mentioned the person's last name. The issue was
about the fact that it's a trans person kind of
who said he was getting tired of being trans. But
it was so that's why I use he. But he
changed his name from Robert to Robin, and that's why
the name, the first name was used extensively. But the
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thing that I saw over and over and over and
over were photos of the dude, and that I think
is wrong because that does add to exactly what you're
talking about. And I don't think you'll get anywhere in
Congress for lots of reasons. But if a media house
doesn't respond, then start writing to their advertisers. That is
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the fastest way to get a response is the advertisers,
big corporations that advertise on the media. They get all
nervous when somebody gets upset with them about anything. So
write the advertisers at the media place that you're talking about,
and that would I think that would go further. Laurie
(35:47):
the comment line Lady had a comment about the shooting
as well.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
They'll never be able to explain this latest attack on
the school children in Minnesota. Evil doesn't need to and
it only needs an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, I put evil is a side bar from mental
illness that develops for some people evil thoughts. But we'll
end the phone calls on a much happier note. Well
I'm not sure if it's happier, but it certainly may
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make you smile from Laurie.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Bill Belichick and his girlfriend have filed to trademark the
word gold digger. So was the word vulture already taken?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah? I think it was. By the way, did you
see Bill Belichick's first game in college football? They got trounced.
The score was forty one to something.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
It was.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
It was terrible. So I don't know if the girlfriend's
going to hang around with him much longer if he
keeps losing football games. At the last, but not least
to day is v Jay Day. It's the celebration eightieth
anniversary of the end of World War Two, and it's
a little confusing because the formal announcement of the surrender
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by Japan was made by President Truman on August fourteenth
of nineteen forty five, so a couple of weeks ago,
eighty years ago, and then they had another day that
was involved in their August fifteenth, because of the fact
that's observed in the United Kingdom, and also when Japan
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is the formal end of the war, but the official
end of the war where the Japanese were aboard the
USS Missouri and signed this rendered documents was on this day,
September two eighty years ago, nineteen forty five. And on
Wall Street today, the market at its low point, where
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the dow down over six hundred points, started off down
five hundred, crept down to minus six hundred, worked its
way partially back a dow finished down two hundred and
forty nine to close it forty five thousand and two
ninety five. Starting off the new month, you get some
of the window dressing that was done before the end
(38:19):
of August, and some of that gets reversed today. Same
on the SMP it was down forty four NAT's back
down one hundred and seventy five. Big day for gold,
This is a new I believe a record for gold,
up eighty two dollars gold at thirty three thousand, five
hundred and ninety eight, and oil took a big boost
(38:40):
today as well, up abuck sixty at sixty almost sixty
six dollars now for one barrel of oil. That's it
for today. Thank you for coming by, and we will
be here again tomorrow. Hope to see you then.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
He
All right, here we go. Everybody back to work. Summer. Well,
I know summer's not technically over, but after Labor Day,
it's kind of like here comes fall. Welcome to the
Big Podcast. It is Tuesday. Today is the second day
of September, Year of Our Ward, twenty twenty five. My
(00:43):
name is Tom Sullivan, and well, I mean, I've got
the lady. They've got a big military parade going on
in China today. They've got a bunch of world leaders
are there trying to establish that they are the leader
of the world. Ukraine. Will get you an update on
what's going on with Ukraine because it's been pretty quiet Chicago.
(01:06):
President's still talking about Chicago being full of crime. The
people in Chicago are pushing back vaccines, a lot of
pushback on the vaccine policies coming out of Health and
Human Services. So get to all of that. Power Ball
is over a billion dollars and if we can, we'll
(01:30):
get some phone calls as well today. But let's get
started with Mark Stewart. He's in Beijing talking about what's
going on in China because they've got President She is
hosting Vladimir Putin and Kim Jongan and President Modi of
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India and the whole thing about India. There was a
great background over the weekend that I read that basically
Modi of India is losing patients with President Trump. And
the reason why is because President Trump has been saying
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repeatedly and publicly that he solved the military conflict between
India and Pakistan. And this is they've been going at
each other for seventy five years, but they are both
nuclear powers. And during a phone call on June seventeenth,
the President, President Trump brought it up again, saying how
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proud he was of any the military escalation, and he
basically mentioned there would be nice if India have supported
a nomination for him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He's
openly campaigning for it, and apparently that really ticked off
President and he told President Trump that the US involvement
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had nothing to do with the recent ceasefire. It had
been settled directly between India and Pakistan. But President Trump
brushed off Mody's comments, and so he's not happy. President
Trump's not happy with Moti because Modi refuses to nominate
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him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Modi he's upset
at Trump because of the fact that in India he's
just like here, he's a populist leader and he has
to be strong, and he has to be the guy
who solves all the nation's problems and he doesn't want
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to farm it out to anybody else, especially an American president.
So the people in India looked to Modi as being
strong and the leader. And Modi's not gonna say, yeah, really,
you got to give some credit to the United States
and President Trump not gonna happen. So it wasn't that
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long ago that Mody called Donald Trump a true friend.
But it's like friendships, they can go sideways over little stuff.
And this is about two egos that are clashing with
each other. So back to Mark Stewart, who is at
the parade or about the parade ready to start in China.
(04:33):
Gives us kind of a rundown.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We are really being prepared to be overwhelmed with optics
in the sense that we will have all of these
world leaders here with Chinese leader Shijin Ping as a
unified front almost against the West. Let's talk briefly about
this meeting mesaw earlier today with Chijin Ping and Vladimir
Putin these two men have shared what's been described as
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this no limits friendship. Once again today the kinship was
very strong. Remember, China has not condemned Russia for its
invasion of Ukraine. China continues to be the top buyer
of Russian oil. In fact, a deal was announced today
about the creation of a new gas pipeline that certainly
could help benefit China. And then we heard from Putin
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very warm words about his relationship with China and Shijiping,
and all of this is leading up to tomorrow morning's
big military parade through the streets of Beijing that will
cross through Tiananmen Square in front of Tianaman Square, and
there we will see Shijin Ping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim
Jung un all standing together as this united front against
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the United States. We have China and we have Russia,
which are nuclear powers. And then of course we've talked
a lot about the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong un.
It's really a story where symbolism is going to be
the big dominating theme, not so much any kind of
agreements or announcements, but the fact that they are all together.
It's going to send a strong message or at least
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China does to the rest of the world that it
is a force.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, that's all about the fact that China wants respect.
That is what they've been looking for for a long time.
But again, a president she, President Putin, Kim Jong un,
and a President Modi of India all there for a
big celebration. Ukraine been kind of quiet. What is President
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Trump doing now? He gave Russia two weeks we're counting
down to that. Do you think anything is going to
change with Russia? The man to respond to that, obviously
is General Jack Keene.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, I think it has to change. I mean the
President Trump has exhibited tremendous patience in trying to work
with Putin, and certainly the Alaska summit was case in point.
But Putin keeps promising that he's interested in peace and
promising that he's willing to talk some more, even talk
to Zelensky one on one at a trilateral meeting with
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the three of them, the three presidents, And now he
has a spokesman as of yesterday saying there was never
any agreement to meet with Zelensky or to have a
trilateral meeting. So promises made and the promises are not kept.
That's been in a pattern of behavior here for months.
And the fact is we have yet to demonstrate to
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putin that continuing the war is no longer a reasonable
objective as of right now. He thinks continuing the war
is the best means for him to achieve what his
strategic objectives, and that is take control of Ukraine and
expand into Europe. Until such times we take him off
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that path, He's going to continue to pursue that objective,
and that's why he won't go to a ceasefire. I
think he looks at the ceasefire, is he loses all
his leverage, and why is he escalate the war. He
escalated the war principally against civilians to put additional pressure
on Zelensky's government to make major concessions, and I think
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also to put pressure on the United States and Western
Europe as well to make concessions to end the war
because of such a desperate situation. That's the ploy that
we've been washing unfold. And I think we're arriving at
decision time by the administration obviously to have lots of options,
but to take some action here now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So Generalkeeen obviously is in favor of taking some action,
and he's long been in favor of trying to crush
the Russian economy using severe sanctions. Here's Scott Besant, the
Treasury Secretary, talking about that over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
President Putin, since the historic meeting and anchoraged sense of
phone call when the European leaders and President Zelensky were
at the White House the following Monday, has done the
opposite of following through on what he indicated he wanted
to do. I think with President Trump, all options around
the table, and I think we'll be examining those very
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closely this week.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So joal Matein, what would you recommend that the president do?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, I think the economic is one thing, and it
certainly needs to be done. That's their major revenue source,
China and India and other countries certly buying that oil.
And there's other things we can do. Take them out
of the swift business, you know, in terms of financial transactions,
and we've got to push back on that economy that
he's gone to a war footing, and his defense industrial
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base is able to build all these materials to stay
in the war. If we take that away from him,
he doesn't have much choice but to stop. The second
thing is increase the military assistance to Ukraine so they
can shut down Russia's offensive operation inside of Ukraine and
also give them some capability to retake some territory that's possible,
and then give them the deep attack weapons that they
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need to pile into Russia's logistical infrastructure that's sustaining the war.
Those are military bona fide targets and they should not
have a sanctuary inside of Russia to permit them to
do that with US, with Ukraine not being able to
attack them. Doing those things military and economic pressure is
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part of the peace process, in my judgment, and it
has I think a motivation then to bring Putin into
the peace process and to be willing to make some aggression,
some concessions and agreements with Zelenski. It's part of the process.
We shouldn't see it as something outside of it. After all,
the President succeeded in doing the very same thing with
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Zelensky when he wanted the conditions prior to a ceasefire.
Now he's removed those conditions and he's willing to go
to immediate ceasefire, as are the people of Ukraine. As
we all know, there's only one person here who doesn't
want to doesn't want to peace deal that Putin.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So the eyes are I think on President Trump, what
are you going to do because Putin is just bringing
them along. I mean you can see that from ten
miles away. What else Chicago, Let's get let's get back
here to the US where the President keeps talking about
the fact that Chicago has a crime problem. He wrote
(11:21):
today on True Social He said, at least fifty four
people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. Eight people
were killed. The last two weekends were similar. Chicago is
the worst and most dangerous city in the world by far.
Pritzker needs help badly. He just doesn't know it yet.
I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I
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did in DC. Chicago will be safe again and soon
make America great again. So that's not true Social today. Actually,
Chicago doesn't have the worst crime but they've got a
crime problem. There's no question about it. There are other
cities with higher crime rates on a per capita basis,
some cities with a worse crime rate than Chicago, Detroit,
(12:06):
especially when it comes to homicides, Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans,
Little Rock, Arkansas, Baton, Rouge, Louisiana, Saint Louis and Jackson, Mississippi.
So there are other cities, but he's got his eyes
on Chicago. I still go back to listen. I'm all
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for Shakanaw. I'm all for a surge of going in
and helping out with the local police and doing what
they can to try to stop the crime rate. But
those soldiers are going to leave, and then what do
you do? And then there's a problem with the posse
commatatis law, which says that you can't use the military
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on American soil. The thing that the president can do
is if a governor invites the president to nationalize national Guard,
that can be done. It's been done in Los Angeles
years ago, and federally, the president has all the authority
in the world in Washington, d C. But not in
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Chicago or Memphis or LA or any place else. In fact,
a judge has ruled last night that the use of
the military in Los Angeles was illegal. I don't know
what's going to come of that, but there's a whole
bunch of cases that were filed over the weekend and judges,
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as usual are ruling against President Trump. So as far
as is there a problem in Chicago. Absolutely. There is
the man by the name of Sam Sanchez. He owns
a business in Chicago, and this is his take on it.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
The city's not safe.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
For the mayor and the governor to go on TV
and use us as statics, as numbers, I mean, we're
human beings. We're talking abo real time. We have to
our extra security, private security out on the street. They
have to make sure that we advise all our patrons
when they go home and check the over people can't
even walk their dogs. I mean, this isn't to believe
that the city is safe. The way they made a
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sound in the press conference, it is wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
There's another Chicago and cadacrosses her name and she's a
resident of Chicago. She says, oh yeah, they've got a
huge crime problem.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Well, first of all, this has been a very violent
weekend in the city of Chicago. As a matter of fact,
the last several weekends in Chicago have been very violent.
And so when where Mayor Johnson stands there and talks
about taking over the city and not letting troops come in,
it's as opposed to what as opposed to the high
crime that is here, as opposed to the murders and
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the violence that's going on, as opposed to businesses being
afraid to open their doors because they're constantly being grabbed.
What's the point in this?
Speaker 8 (14:57):
You know?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The fact of the matter is this Mayor Johnson has
a dismal approval rating, and so going against President Trump
probably in his mind, seems like the right thing to do.
He has never listened to the people and what we
really want since he's been in office and is trying.
What is really happening here is I feel that the
mayor is probably deflecting. He's deflecting from the fact that
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he mismanaged the city's money by supporting the migrant crisis,
and he asked the Board of Education to take out
a junk loan for the city to cover costs. That's
basically what the loan is for. So now that the
Border of Education has refused, most of the measures that
he's really tried to push in this city have been
turned down because they've been things that have not been beneficial.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
To the people here.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
So of course he's going to go against whatever pre
measures President puts in place.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
And here's a pastor who works in one of the
high crime areas. His name is Corey Brooks.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
They are individuals who are dying every single day. As
you can see over the weekend, the the rash of murders,
the shootings, they're still going on.
Speaker 10 (16:05):
You know.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Governor Prisker said the National Guard should never come in
unless there is an emergency. This is an emergency anytime
we're continuing to lose lives on the south sides and
west sides of Chicago. To those of us who live
in the community, we deem that as an emergency.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So back to Catatrosz, who was asked very simple question, better,
are you opposed to the National Guard coming in? Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
It may help him, considering the fact that his approval
rating is at a dismal one digit. It might be
something that can help him. But the fact of the
matter is it really doesn't matter about what Brandon Johnson says.
It doesn't matter about his politics. What matters is the
people and the people here in Chicago don't feel safe.
The people here in Chicago want the help that President
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Trump is trying to send here, So regardless of what
the mayor says, we want the help.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
When it comes to Poland, the President has consistently been
latest polls, fifty three percent of people survey to approve
of the work that President Trump is doing on crime,
and eighty one percent say large city crime is definitely
a problem. Former federal prosecutor responding to the judges ruling
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today that the president's use of the National Guard federalizing
them in Los Angeles was illegal, here's what the former
federal prosecutor had to say.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Well, the judges reasoning is fairly straightforward. He says that
the Posse Commatatus Act prevents the deployment of the military
on US soil for normal law enforcement operations. And he held,
after conducting a trial on this matter, that the National
Guard was deployed in California for normal law enforcement operations, arrests, searches, stops,
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helping execute search warrants and things like that. And he
said that this is illegal. And one thing I would
point out that may get lost in the shuffle is
as we cover this, it is not really going to
be relevant, given the President runs the Justice Department effectively.
But violations of the Possecommatatus Act are a crime under
ordinary circumstances, a low level crime, but a crime. Nonetheless,
I don't expect the Justice Decrimement to do anything about this,
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since it's the trunk Justice Department. Well respeck to the
civil on the civil side, though, you're right that most
of the National Guard members have are gone, but the
judge said that there's still some remaining here. So even
if it's in the low hundreds, his order requires them
essentially to leave or to stop engaging in the conduct.
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That was that issue here.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So if you want to play lawyer, you can look
up the Posse Combatatus Actives in eighteen seventy eight, and
it to generally prohibits to use some federal military forces
to enforce domestic laws. It does have exceptions when Congress
expressly authorizes it, but Congress hasn't set a p in
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all of this. The federal law prevents military involvement in
civilian law enforcement to protect democracy at individual liberty, though
its application is complicated by exceptions and loopholes and ongoing
debates about all of this. So that's where they passed
this law in eighteen seventy eight, and I think one
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of the exceptions was regarding insurrections. And then you get
into definitions, and that's for a law class and like
the lawyer said, he doesn't expect the Justice depart we'll
do anything about this. But that's one thing about what
he did in Los Angeles where he protected the federal property.
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And also it's a different story in DC where it's
federal property versus Chicago. So we'll see what happens. So far,
nothing other than people are using the bully pulpit back
and forth. Speaking of bully pulpits. The Secretary Area of
Health Human Services r if Kate Junior, is going to
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be testifying on Thursday before a committee in Congress. They
are concerned about the vaccines and the rules that are
coming out of Health and Human Services. One of them
came out over the weekend was that COVID shots are
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not available unless you're sixty five plus or you have
some condition that a doctor will say is important for
you to have the latest COVID vaccine. You get into vaccine,
you want to start an argument, starting to start talking
about vaccines with people and people since since the pandemic.
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Take this, I mean, it's it's fighting words. Here's my
only thing about vaccines. I take my vaccines. I'm not
anti vax I'm right up to date with all of
my vaccines. I believe them. I know that some people
get hurt by them. They always have a little thing
you got to sign saying you know there could be
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a problem. So far, knock on wood, I haven't had
a problem from vaccines, but maybe you have, or maybe
you just don't want to take the chance. And the
way I look at this is very libertarian. If you
are afraid of vaccines or your anti vaccine for whatever
your reason, just don't get the vaccine. But for people
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like me who do want to get the vaccine because
they do believe in the science, they should be allowed to.
So I don't understand why they came out and said
if you're below sixty five years, the baseay essentially said
you can't get the vaccine. But if you look into
the material that's come out, and doctor Marty McCarey, who's
(21:49):
the head of the FDA now put a piece out
in the Wall Street Journal that I thought I'll hit
a couple of the high points that he made in
his comments of getting vaccines. So doctor McCarey essentially wrote
it's in the Wall Street Journal today in the op
ed section, he said the Food and Drug Administration last
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week approved COVID nineteen vaccines for adults sixty five and
over and for people six months and older who have
one or more risk factors that makes them at high
risk of severe COVID. Said. It brings us in line
with France, where they have recommended for people over eighty,
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the UK for people over seventy five, And he says
the world has moved on to a risk tiered approach,
which some in the American medical establishment are maintaining their
blind faith in a strategy of boosters for all in perpetuity.
So when you look at it, he makes some points,
and he says the FDA number one, can approve products
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only if we believe there's a substantial certainty that the
benefits outweigh the risk. Currently, we don't have that confidence
for say a seventh COVID shot for a healthy twelve
year old girl. Second, if your doctor deems you need
COVID vaccine, you can still get one. In other words,
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go see your doctor if you want to. Third, as
part of our approval, he writes, the FDI is demanding
all companies run a clinical study assessing whether the new
COVID shots improve outcomes in healthy subjects. Fourth, some argue
that COVID shots are needed for those who live with
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or take care of munal compromised or elderly people. He writes,
no company has ever submitted data to the FDA to
prove that COVID shots, which do not halt transmission, prevent
caregivers from infecting vulnerable people. Fifth, he writes, some claim
that COVID shots mean kids are less likely to miss school,
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adults adults more likely to go to work. No vaccine
manufacturer has ever submitted data to the FDA to validate
these claims. And sixth, FDA's new framework essentially ends mandates.
So for a lot of people, fire departments, police departments,
even the military, you were mandated you must have this
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or you can't come to work. People lost their jobs,
so vaccines. There are people, though, that are absolutely solid
on this, And like doctor McCarry, Doctor Marty McCarry wrote,
was that some in the American medical establishment are maintaining
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their blind faith in a strategy of boosters for all
in perpetuity. One of those is former CDC director doctor
Richard Besser. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
This is a call to action, and it's a call
to action to a number of different groups. One of
our big goals is that we're hoping that by keeping
attention on this issue that Congress will do its job.
Congress plays a really important oversight function when it comes
to the actions of the administration, and they've been missing
in action, and there's a lot that they can do
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to call this Secretary in and ask questions as to
why he is dismantling a critical piece of our health
security in America. It's also a call to action to
medical societies that are sharing to make recommendations that we
can trust in place of some of the recommendations that
the Secretary is making that aren't based on science and evidence.
(25:40):
Senator Cassidy is critical in this situation. I was really
pleased to see him put out a call for the
committee that advises the CDC on vaccines. They're supposed to
hold a meeting in a couple of weeks. He said
that meeting should not take place, and the.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
Reason for that is that Secretary Kennedy removed all the
experts from that committee and brought in quite a number
of anti vaccine advocates to who who agree with his
take on vaccination, but are not the people who should
be making recommendations to the to the country. I hope
that in those hearings that that Senator Cassidy asked some
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hard questions and and that we understand why the Secretary
is so so intent on destroying the centers for disease control. Yeah,
you know, Secretary Kennedy is one of the nations leading
anti vaccine advocates, and so I wouldn't look to him
for for for evidence, you know, I you know, I
(26:40):
would agree with the President when he said that that
Warp Speed was one of the crowning achievements of his administration.
The fact that within a year of a new infectious
agent plaguing the world, we had multiple highly effective and
safe vaccines was was absolutely unthinkable. And the reason we
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got there was that for more than two decades, the
National Institutes of Health had been investing in the science
and the technology.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
All Right, So who you're going to believe? Well, Brethident
Trump wrote on True Social Today. He said the heading
was about Operation War Speed. He says it's very important
that the drug companies justify the success of their various
COVID drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that
saved millions of lives. Others disagree with CDC being ripped
(27:34):
apart over this question. I want the answer, and I
want it now. I have been showing information from Pfizer
and others that is extraordinary, but they never seem to
show those results to the public. Why not they go
off on the next hunt and let everyone rip themselves apart,
including Bobby Kennedy Junior and CDC trying to figure out
(27:55):
the success or failure of the drug company's COVID work.
They show me great numbers and results, but they don't
seem to be showing them to many others. I want
them to show them now to CDC and the public
and clear up this mess one way or the other.
I hope Operation Warp Speed was as brilliant as many
(28:16):
say it was. If not, we all want to know
about it, and why. Thank you for your attention to
this very important matter. President DJT. So Donald Trump's going,
what's the answer? He doesn't know who to believe. He's
got doctors and scientists telling him one thing, and he's
got his Health and Human Services secretary saying just the opposite.
(28:41):
So I don't have the answer, but I hope that
the President's able to get the answer in soon, So
the vaccine fight continues. In the meantime. Have you bought
your powerball ticket?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I haven't. Well, what is one point three billion dollars
something like that? Is that for tonight? I'm not even
sure tonight. Hold on, let me look, No, it's it's
the thing tonight is the Mega Millions. That's only a
(29:21):
paltry three hundred and two million dollar prize. But tomorrow night,
Wednesday It's Powerball is one billion, three hundred million. So
by the time we get to tomorrow'll be bigger than that.
So Harry Enton, the statistician over at CNN, has the
lowdown on your chances.
Speaker 10 (29:41):
The chance of winning the powerball jackpot. The odds have
become longer. You know, back in nineteen hundred and ninety
two it was one in fifty five million, then in
two thousand and nine it was one hundred ninety five million,
and now it's one and two hundred and ninety two million. Why,
they've added more balls, and that does mean that it's
harder to but it also means that there are longer odds.
(30:03):
By adding the more balls, they've made it more difficult
to win. And now a one in nine hundred and
two hundred and ninety two million compared to one in
fifty five million. I think the ball's common got Cape
Baldwin a little bit, as he should talk about billion
dollars jackpots. But remember that's the thirty year annuity. Most
we're talking lum sums as well here, and Powerball lum
sums have been losing ground because what happens is with
(30:25):
the annuity, you put it in the bonds and essentially
the treasury yels for annuities are up. So you talk
about last night's jackpot, right, initially was one point one
billion dollars, but the lump sum was only four hundred
and ninety eight million dollars compared like to October of
twenty twenty one, when it was a four hundred and
ninety six million, but the annuity was seven hundred million.
So in fact, the annuity is making it seem like
(30:46):
there's these much bigger jackpots. But here's the key thing.
It's really the lump sum. You should be talking about. Why,
because what have the winners taken? Fifty five out of
the fifty five Powerball biggest winners, they all took the
lump sun. I don't care about the dollars. I care
about the lump sun and that's still in the million dollar.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, he's right. Nobody takes the aduity. You don't want
to be paid out over thirty years. You want your
money now. So it's in the high four hundred millions
that you get if you take the cash. But then
out of that you've got to pay taxes, and they'll
take the taxes out of that, so you probably wind
up with three hundred million, which would get your month
(31:28):
going pretty well. I think for most people, three hundred
million in the bank all of a sudden. So it's
the thing about this. I know the odds are astronomical,
but there is a chance somebody has to win, and
that keeps that keeps people coming back. All right, let's
check some of the phone calls we've had lately. Start
(31:50):
with one from A Sharon, the public health nurse in
Tennessee talking about the shooting they had at Minneapolis church
last week.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
Neighborhood puffat help nurse Sharon and Tennessee calling about this
school shooting. You know in the past, you've talked about
this in the past, about not naming the individual. My
husband and I were talking about that dast kind in
this morning. I think that there should be a law
that the news media cannot publish the person's name or
(32:26):
talk about him, you know, give specifics as far as
his name and stuff, because that just gives somebody else
nepetus to go out and do this. Half the time,
people with a screw loose want to go out blazon
with their name. Everybody will know their name.
Speaker 14 (32:41):
Well, if it was the law that you couldn't say
that person's name that they were involved in a killing,
then maybe there wouldn't be so many people wouldn't be
trying to get glory because they wouldn't get any because
the oldbody would.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Know their name. They'd be anonymous.
Speaker 13 (32:56):
Now, I know there's a flip side to that when
you talk about freedom of speech, but I personally am
going to do some research and reach out to some
experts in that area, and I'm going to write every
single Congressman and senator not just from my state, but
that sit in the Senate and a House of Representative
(33:18):
and tell them somebody needs to start this, and they
need to figure out how to make it happen, and
they need to make it cedal because we don't want
it nearly nowly this state does and the state doesn't.
It needs to be a federal law. Not sure how
that would work with the freedom of speech, but I
think freedom of fine to get rid people like this
(33:39):
that are doing harm to people, especially young children. Tennysons
that are in church sang it. It just makes me sick.
It makes my heart hurt so much, and I think
this would.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Be a step.
Speaker 13 (33:52):
You can't take away people's guns. There are hunters. People
haven't like to out guns. I love to target practice.
I'm not a hunter, but I'm pretty good and I
like to shoot. But I think if we.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Did this, if we didn't.
Speaker 13 (34:06):
Celebrate the people that do this by advertising their name,
I think it would have a lot of them would
think twice because they're not going to get anything out
of it. It's just my opinion, you know that, and
something else. Everybody had one thanks here, Tom love the podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Well there's a lot in that phone call. Thank you, Sharon.
First of all, freedom of the First Amendment, freedom of speech,
but it's also freedom of the press. Then instead of
writing to members of Congress, right to the media place
that is giving out the person's name with this one,
wasn't so much about the name. I don't remember the
(34:43):
I never mentioned the person's last name. The issue was
about the fact that it's a trans person kind of
who said he was getting tired of being trans. But
it was so that's why I use he. But he
changed his name from Robert to Robin, and that's why
the name, the first name was used extensively. But the
(35:04):
thing that I saw over and over and over and
over were photos of the dude, and that I think
is wrong because that does add to exactly what you're
talking about. And I don't think you'll get anywhere in
Congress for lots of reasons. But if a media house
doesn't respond, then start writing to their advertisers. That is
(35:26):
the fastest way to get a response is the advertisers,
big corporations that advertise on the media. They get all
nervous when somebody gets upset with them about anything. So
write the advertisers at the media place that you're talking about,
and that would I think that would go further. Laurie
(35:47):
the comment line Lady had a comment about the shooting
as well.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
They'll never be able to explain this latest attack on
the school children in Minnesota. Evil doesn't need to and
it only needs an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, I put evil is a side bar from mental
illness that develops for some people evil thoughts. But we'll
end the phone calls on a much happier note. Well
I'm not sure if it's happier, but it certainly may
(36:23):
make you smile from Laurie.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Bill Belichick and his girlfriend have filed to trademark the
word gold digger. So was the word vulture already taken?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah? I think it was. By the way, did you
see Bill Belichick's first game in college football? They got trounced.
The score was forty one to something.
Speaker 13 (36:49):
It was.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
It was terrible. So I don't know if the girlfriend's
going to hang around with him much longer if he
keeps losing football games. At the last, but not least
to day is v Jay Day. It's the celebration eightieth
anniversary of the end of World War Two, and it's
a little confusing because the formal announcement of the surrender
(37:14):
by Japan was made by President Truman on August fourteenth
of nineteen forty five, so a couple of weeks ago,
eighty years ago, and then they had another day that
was involved in their August fifteenth, because of the fact
that's observed in the United Kingdom, and also when Japan
(37:36):
is the formal end of the war, but the official
end of the war where the Japanese were aboard the
USS Missouri and signed this rendered documents was on this day,
September two eighty years ago, nineteen forty five. And on
Wall Street today, the market at its low point, where
(37:59):
the dow down over six hundred points, started off down
five hundred, crept down to minus six hundred, worked its
way partially back a dow finished down two hundred and
forty nine to close it forty five thousand and two
ninety five. Starting off the new month, you get some
of the window dressing that was done before the end
(38:19):
of August, and some of that gets reversed today. Same
on the SMP it was down forty four NAT's back
down one hundred and seventy five. Big day for gold,
This is a new I believe a record for gold,
up eighty two dollars gold at thirty three thousand, five
hundred and ninety eight, and oil took a big boost
(38:40):
today as well, up abuck sixty at sixty almost sixty
six dollars now for one barrel of oil. That's it
for today. Thank you for coming by, and we will
be here again tomorrow. Hope to see you then.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
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