July 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Move to live & being sedentary
- Illegal immigrant deportations & criminals arrested
- The Russia/Ukraine conflict & Trump's feelings on Putin
- TikTok "trends"
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong and Katty and
he Armstrong and Getty. He goes jeep to center.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Dominican dominance comes to an end. The Big Dumper
is your home run derby champion for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hmm, that's a bad nickname.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So this guy, cal Raley, he's a catcher for the
Seattle Mariners and toils and obscurity because he's not a
you know in New York, Chicago or La won the
home run derby last night. I don't Yeah, I agree.
I don't know about the nickname the Big Dumper. I
think I would say, hey, sports writers, can I I have.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A second take on my nickname?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Ah, you don't get to choose your own nickname. But
that's a bad one. I wonder how he got it.
I'd hate to know in the locker room. And he's
got a bit of a reputation. Yeah, none of that.
I forgot the home run derby was yesterday. I'd have watched.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, so here's the exciting news from this giant news
study they did about staying alive ah, staying alive. Any
activity is so much better than none. It's a crime
to not do it. Being sedentary is horrible for you. Now,
(01:43):
I have never been sedentary. I don't take any credit
for that. I just I'm not built that way.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It just it would make me insane. So I've never
been sedentary in my entire life. But I've known people
that were. I had a roommate in college, I remember
after college, so we were he's probably twenty three as
twenty five, something like.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That, and he would he'd.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Get up in the morning and he'd PLoP down on
the couch, you know, and have some breakfast watching TV.
Then he'd walk to his car, go to work, walk
into the building, work all day, walk back to his car,
come back home, PLoP down on the couch again. And
he did that every day, and he probably is still
doing that every day if he's still alive. And it
was the first person like I'd ever really been around
that was sedentary like that, and I just it was
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it made my legs hurt to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But that again, that's just the way I built. It's
not a.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But the biggest leap you can make in terms of
helping your health is from sedentary.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
About twenty inches. Sedentary biggest leap I can make to
any activity. That leap gets huge gains in terms of
staying alive.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The headline is, with all due respect to.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The American Art Association recommends for forty five minutes of
rigorous exercise five days. That's fine, that's good, it's worth knowing.
But that which you just said should be universally life stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, I think we do more harm than good with
all the the wouldn't it be great if we all
level standards because you just think I can't, so I'm
not gonna do anything right.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Obviously people think, nah, I don't think I can reach
that right. Don't worry about it. It's the journey of
a thousand steps. I mean, maybe someday you'll end up
at that upper recommendation, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What matters is the first step.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I still haven't even done the headline, which I should do.
The headline staying consistently active throughout adulthood cuts all cause
death risk just dying in general by forty percent, especially
heart disease forty percent. By being just somewhat active consistently
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throughout your adulthood as opposed to not. Wow, people who
increase their activity from inactive too active saw the biggest
benefits and it's never too late to start to get
the advantage.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, So I can be lazy for another decade or so.
Oh no, no, because I might croak in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right, I gotta believe that going from inactive for a
long time to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Active is really hard to do. I'll bet that's really
really hard to do.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, although again the single step thing, you know, just
some activity, light activity, you know, do it walking instead
of sitting on the couch is anything.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And to your point, even activity below recommended guidelines provide
meaningful protection. Moving from sedentary to moderately active delivers the
biggest gains of all. That should be the headline, and
they should tell that in every school like ten times
a year, any exercise.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
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If you missed Last Hour, it was a blockbuster. Subscribe
to a podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand back to you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Those who maintain exercise routines of any kind really specifically
reduced their chances of dying from heart disease, which is
the number one killer of all of us by thirty
to forty percent compared to sedentary peers. This is really
an interesting study. It's the biggest one ever done international.
Rather than asking people about their exercise habits once and
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checking back years later, which is normally what has done,
this analysis focused on research that monitored exercise patterns at
multiple points throughout people's lives for a very long time. Obviously,
you can't do a study like this quickly. Is you
got to follow people from the twenties through the thirties, forties, fifties, whatever.
Then scientists broke people into distinct groups, people who stayed
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consistently active, those who increased their activity, those who decreased it,
and those who remained inactive throughout the study periods.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And then you got the results we just talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I know my dad, my mom and dad were big
walkers up until just recently, and they're both in the
well into their eighties now, but they started I suppose
my dad was early forties, my mom was around forty.
But my dad said, prior to that, so that's arounly
like nineteen eighty, he said, prior to that, just nobody
even thought about exercising.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Really, it just doesn't remember.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Articles like in Time magazine about the jogging trend. Yeah,
and it was mostly mocked by people like my dad
and it's friends.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The kind of person would go out and jog, but
like people just didn't exercise it just.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, nobody'd ever really thought about it unless they
did it accidentally while they were doing something they enjoy. Oh,
that reminds me, do you have more because I have
something directly related to that I thought was great.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Let me hit you with just a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Consistently active showed a twenty nine percent lower risk of
death from any cause compared to those who stayed inactive.
Being consistent over time is really really huge. But all
kinds of numbers that are good for you can start
at anytime. Like if you're listening right now and you're
forty five and you haven't really exercised since you're twenty five,
you could start today even with anything. Go out and
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walk around the block. Like Joe said, the journal journey
starts with a few steps. Let me see, it seems
like there's one more thing I wanted to get on here.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
One of the studies' most practical discoveries and discoveries involved
how much exercise provides how much benefit. Researchers found that
the biggest mortality reductions occurred when people met basic physical
Active guidelines, which recommended one hundred and fifty to three
hundred minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week one hundred
and fifty spread out over a week, two and a
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half hours spread out over a week. I think that's doable,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I mean it's not like easily doable for a lot
of people, depending on their lives and their schedules, but
it's it's not insane.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, well I will, I will speak to the man
when you get you know, when you're writ in the
thick of like raising kids and you got a job
and all the stuff that's going on, it ain't the
most compelling thing to do the end of the day,
and you're tired to think, Okay, put on the old
exercise shoes and get out there, right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Although again, just if you fall off the wagon or
you're having trouble or just do something, do a little something,
You've done yourself enormous good.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So this is frustrating.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I have this great thing from the daily Mail, but
it it resets if you don't like go to the
tab and just to the front page after a while,
which is odd. But this article, which I wish I
had in front of me, it was a major study
on what exercise program works the best, and the headline
was great. It was science determines the perfect exercise program
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And the conclusion they got was the one you in
joy the most or hate the least.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Over and over.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Again, they would measure people's, you know, a level of exercise,
their life blah blah blah, and and what they thought
of what they did generally, and it was just clear cut.
If you're reasonably amused, entertained, enjoy it, don't hate it,
that's the one for you.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, it's funny that fits in with a couple other examples.
Which sunscreen is the best, the one that you're wanting
you reapply, the one you're willing to reapply, Which diet
is the best, the one you'll actually stick to, and
so which exercise the best, the one you like because
you'll keep doing it. That makes sense, ye like, yeah,
because there are various exercise I hate and uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, like going for a long walk, I like, I
hate running. I like riding a bike. I like lifting
weights other things I hate. I was gonna ask.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Katie about this. Uh, let me find it real quick.
I had just become aware of this recently. Le gear
lageir are you famil you're with this exercise thing?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No, ligier sounds fancy. Maybe I'm saying it's.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A little bougie for my take, fancy, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It does sound bougie, but I don't think it is.
Do you mean leisure? They're failing of our nation's government schools?
That is very, very funny, Michael. Yes, leisure.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It includes having a recliner and a television with a
large package of Netflix and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'll dig it up. L A g R e E.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't actually know how you pronounce it, because somebody
was texting me about free agree. Maybe that is the
way you say it, so I was saying it wrong,
so you didn't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh, it's super hardcore. It's like pilates. It's Pilates on steroids. Yeah,
a lot of people say that it's pilates.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If you got a a former drill sergeant from the
Marines running it just like and there are machines for it.
But it's supposed to be just a crazy ass kicker.
But people that are into it are getting tremendous results.
See that's an example of an exercise I would not
stick to.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I won't even try that. Yeah, I don't. I don't.
I don't need to be yelled at.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Enough of that my life like like a baby version
of it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Like you know, lagree for the week and the week
in low and motivation.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Agree for those who don't want to be yelled at first.
Have you ever done exercise where they yell at ye?
Maybe that would work. I mean it worked for me
in high school. The coach yell and they come on,
you can do it, go go go, But asn't a
dolt would be like, f you, I'm paying you don't
talk to me like that.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, I haven't been yelled at since I don't need
to be yelling at. How about I yell at you, idiot?
You want to say you want to see my w two?
What are you yelling at me? For a pe coach
would yell as he smoked. There you go stand there
and smoking, yellow you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So it's the point of the article, which Katie helpfully
found and sent to me and maybe we'll talk about
it next hour. It's you personality that influences what sort
of exercise is going to work for you, And you
don't have to deny that there's more to it than
that I'm doing a poor job mclinning and stay tuned.
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We got a bunch of new zy headline the stuff
to give to But we'll get back to health and
that sort of thing next hour, at least for a bit.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Trump's big announcement about helping out Ukraine. How big announcement
was it? What did he say? We got a little
bit of that and a little annoulysi so among other
things on the way, stay here, armstrong.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Hey, Jetty I says.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Those who are arrested include thirty two people convicted of
child sex offenses, nine convicted of homicide related offenses, and
sixteen documented members of a transnational gang or drug cartel.
They identified some of the detainees. They include A Dermis
Wilson Gonzales from Cuba, who officials say was convicted in
two thousand and three of hijacking an airplane traveling from
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Cuba to Key West, Florida. Lewis Pablo Vasquez Estolano from Mexico,
who they say was convicted of Homa Side aggravated robbery
and drug possession. And Javier Escobar Gonzales, also from Mexico,
whose charges include sexual indecency with a minor man.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wish we could figure out a way to handle this.
He got millions and millions and millions of people here illegally,
and then you got the whole well, you're gonna boot
them out. They've been here for years, hard working, blah
blah blah, which is all true. Then you got seven
hundred thousand convicted criminals that are here illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Those all should go. Nobody's against it but lunatics.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then is there a simple way to separate those
two and the people that are here and hardworking and
all that, They're still here illegally until you change the law.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So what do we do about it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
These are great questions which will probably not be answered,
so good luck. A couple of quick immigration headlines. First
of all, dovetailing off that story Immigrations and Customs in
I'm sorry Immigration Enforcement operations, so ICE officers arrested nearly
fourteen hundred criminal aliens criminals in the Houston area in
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June keep it up fellas again, thirty two child predators,
nine murderers, one hijacker, and sixteen cartel or gang members.
Another statistic I found very interesting. According to our friends
at CIS dot org Center for Immigration Studies, sanctuary states
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released more than twenty five thousand criminal illegals back into
the population without alerting immigration officials from October of last
year to February of this year.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's insane. The fact that that goes on is absolutely
flipping insane. In a five month period, twenty five thousand
criminal illegals back into the population knew they were criminals,
knew their illegals in most cases, instead not a word
to the Feds because they're Thankstuary Stay. You're so California
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by far the worst defender, along with Illinois, Massachusetts as
a you're so blinded by ideology, you're insane. You've got
a criminal on your hands that's here illegally in addition
to that, but you want to protect them, you're.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Not, and like, go ahead, politically.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I don't want you to go ahead, because it's awful
for because they go out there and they rape and
murder and steal and do all the things that they
were convicted of in the first place. But as a
political issue, keep it up, you morons. That sounds like
a ninety five to five issue. So another headline World
of immigration.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Trump administration is attempting to make millions of immigrants living
in the country illegally ineligible to be released from detention
on bond as they fight their deportation cases.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
According to an administration official.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So you're there illegally, you're you're up for deportation, you're
having a deportation case. Judges would turn you loose on
bond to just go keep living your life while it
bounds through the process weeks, months, years in many cases.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But now the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Trump administration is trying to stay. No, you're going to
stay in detention the whole time. Here's the interesting part,
which we'll set jack.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Off on everybody. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I think everybody should be surrounded by alligators everywhere. Alligators
entirely optional, but not out of the question. The move
marks a significant departure from decades of practice when immigration
judges had the latitude to release someone from detention on
a bond if they weren't deemed a flight risk. Immigration
law states that all immigrants in the country illegally must
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be detained while their fates are decided. But with limited
beds available in ice jails, the government had considered the
law effectively impossible to enforce. So for decades we have
ignored the law because it just it would be a pain.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But we haven't changed the law.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Which other laws am I allowed to ignore? Can we
start with tax law? And final note, we don't really have.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Time to flesh this out, but the the protest movement
in La, the antis protest movement, they're settling in for
the long haul. We can talk about their strategies later
on hope you can stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Trump said some interesting stuff about US funding and arming Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Will break that down for you. Armstrong and Getty, two.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Defense officials telling ABC used the Pentagon's still working on
what military age is going to be approved, but many
here underwhelmed. One Ukrainian analyst comparing it to giving morphine
to a dying patient.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, Ian panel, I think that that's an outlier opinion
from all the news I took in over the last
twenty four hours. Anyway, you know, one analyst said, Okay.
One Twitter person said, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I do want to be aware of the whole
giving them just enough to keep them in the fight
syndrom as opposed to giving them enough to seriously push
Russia back.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Sure, but I think the biggest problem was Trump teased
a big announcement three days then his surrogence went out there,
especially Lindsey Graham, saying well, you know, I'm not gonna
get ahead of the president here and tell you what,
but this is going to be big. And then it
was kind of like just his the way he dribbled
it out was just so unenthusiastic. They're in the Oval Office.
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The possible sanctions fifty days from now that he talked
about Lindsey Graham led me to believe that Trump's going
to come out and say that sanction package that would
be the strongest sanctions the United States has ever levied
on anyone, and eighty senators have said they will vote for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It, right three five coast, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I mean that is something I thought Trump would
come out and say, pass it, send it to my desk,
I'll sign it this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he did.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He said fifty days, to which immediately a reporter asked,
why fifty days? So let's hear that, why are.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You giving fifty more days?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I did the Well, I think it's a period of time.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I think, don't forget.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I've just really been involved in this and not very long,
and it wasn't initial focus. This is again, this is
a Biden war, this is a Democrat. We're not a
Republican or Trump war. This is a war that would
have never happened. It shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A lot of people being killed.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
When the final numbers come in, you're going to see
a lot more people have been killed in this war
than than you think, than you've been writing about.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I don't know. People have been writing very very
large numbers for a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And then yeah, go ahead, Well I just if you're
done with that thought. I was going to say, I
appreciate the positives, but the three hundred or more billion
dollars in Russian assets held in the West, not only
are we not going to spend those, seize them and
spend them for Ukraine, or we're not even going to
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use the interest that they've earned or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It didn't even mention that. No, it seemed very tepid.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Our European allies have been pushing pretty hard for that
using that money. And I feel like, well, based on
this clip right here, let's play the next one here
what Trump said, And then I think it makes the
fifty day pause seem even stranger any.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Review that Vladimir Putin's could not clarify his intention to
a peace steal.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
And what happens now in the next phase is there.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
We're going to go for a period of time, maybe
you'll start negotia.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And I think we.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Felt I felt I don't know about you, Mark, but
I felt that we had a deal about four times.
And here we are still talking about it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So Trump says, I thought we had a deal four times. Putin,
you know, turns out to be a liar, he's just
a BS artist. And then you say, here's fifty more days, right.
I don't think those two things fit together.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Sergei Lavrov, who's about health piece for Putin and has
been forever and is a paid liar, I mean, like
literally a paid liar. He was asked about the fifty
day tariff thing, and you know, how worried are you
about it? And he said, there used to be twenty
four hours, then there was one hundred days. We've been
through all this.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So that was his response, openly calling Trump out as
a blowhard, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Be afraid of him. He makes all sorts of promises. Well,
he's essentially said taco right, Trump always chickens out, which
is not true.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, that is ballsy.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I thought at least he'd say this pause will give
us time to work seriously toward a peace proposal, because
that's the usual Russian playbook at really any that sort
of regime playbook for stringing you along.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He didn't even bother. He is like, yeah, whatever, shut up,
twenty four hours on hundred days. We've heard this before.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yipes. Maybe that was just so discord here in the
United States. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Now there are weapons systems going to Ukraine. Trump talked
about that.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Will these be Patriot missiles specifically, or Patriot batteries that
you're planning and when you when.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's a full compliment with the batteries, Well, we're gonna
have some come very soon within days.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Actually, So within days, Ukraine is going to get the
best missile defense system on Earth, the Patriot system.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, the Euros are going to give them theirs and
we'll backfill the Euros.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't know what the whole what happened to the
we're at a quarter of capacity thing that heg Zeth
was apparently worried about when we did the pause. Did
we fix that problem or are we ignoring that problem?
I don't know. I hope somebody has a challenge now.
I want to I want to get this on again.
We played it late in the show yesterday because it
had just happened. But this is more of a little
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more insight into the way Trump sees Putin or is
waking up to Uton or whatever.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done,
and I always hang up and say, well, that was
a nice phone call. And then missiles launched into Kiev
as some other city.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I said, strange.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
And after that happens three or four times, you say
the talk doesn't mean anything. My conversations with him are
always very pleasant. I say, he's not a very lovely conversation,
and then the missiles go off. That night, I go home,
I tell the first lady and I spoke to Vladimir today.
We had a wonderful conversation. She said, oh really, Uh
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another city was just hit. So it's like, look, he's uh,
I don't want to say he's an assassin, but he's
a tough guy. It's been proven over the years. He's
fooled a lot of people. He fooled Bush, He fooled
a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He did for me what he didn't?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, he didn't. You're just coming to the realization that
Putin's full of.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Crap, and you thought you had a deal four times
and he broke it. But he didn't fool you. Who
is he trying to convince.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
And not to stick it to him? You're gonna give
him fifty days for all?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I got it first, I am, I am mystified. I
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
There have been some statements in support though at least
of these moves that I want to get to this
is Ambassador Matt Whittaker eighty four.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Michael, these secondary sanctions are really a game changer. Ultimately,
you know, President Trump wants this war to end, but
at the same time he sees that India and China,
especially buying Russian oil through the Shadow Fleet, is what's
enabling the war to continue. At the end of the day,
President Trump holds all the cards worldwide and globally as
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it relates to these disputes. He's playing a card right now,
giving Vladimir Putin fifty days to come to the table and
get a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Part of that is giving time to India and Brazil
and other places that will be hit by these secondary
sanctions or secondary tariffs, if you want to call him that,
for doing business with Russia. We will punish people for
doing business with Russia if they want to trade with
the United States. That could be why he gave a
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little extra time, now that I think about it. Mark
Ruta is the NATO Secretary General. He is the smartest
one and the best one I've seen. He did an
extended interview with Brett Baher last night on Special Reports.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He's actually making the rounds in general. Pardon me, I
wish i'd seen that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, he's a very, very smart he. If you're going
to be a cynic, you'd say he flatters Trump a lot.
If you're going to be a realist, you would say
he understands that Trump the United States is not only
the big dog in NATO, we're a big elephant at
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like a terrier circuit.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
ACKed.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, yeah, the Euro's matter, but we are enormous. Well,
the secretary general is always an American, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
No, it's not. I thought the person in charge was
always an American. Well, you got your.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Secretary general, then you got your commander, NATO commander. Maybe
that's what I'm thinking anyway, And he said he actually said,
and I don't think we have that clip, but he said,
the United States military is bigger than the every other
NATO member combined.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, And he recognizes that and is no longer acting like, yeah,
the US is lucky to have France's help or Spain's. No,
the guys are realist and I like the cut of
his jib. Eighty five Michael.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
This is really significant. So last Thursday I got a
call from President Trump. He said, hey, Mark, we really
want to ramp up the support for Ukraine when it
comes to weapons. And then this morning I was in
the White House preparing for the meeting with him, and
he said, when it comes to the sanctions, clearly we
have to take the next step now, and he can
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only dialogue once, so he has to take this step
by step. I totally understand that, but he was really
I think irritated with last phone call with Putin, who
is not serious. It seems about getting in two piece
deals at two peace negotiations.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So now and then the next clip, Michael, here he
is on the lead.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
The thing for President Trump announced is a real smart
way to move forward because what it basically says to India,
to China and to Brazil. So country is still buying
from Russia. Hey, pick up the phone, goll Vladimir Putin
and tell him he has got to get serious on
peace negotiations. And if he doesn't, then we will be targeted.
Of course Russia itself, but also all these countries still
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buying from Russia. So I think it is a very
smart move.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, to what I was saying the second, the supreme
Allied Commander, the person in charge of the actual troops,
and what we're going to do is always an American,
always since the beginning of NATO. And I mean that
tells you everything you need to know about our role.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, this guy's the administrative head. But he's slick, he's good,
and I love the idea of NATO.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And he praised Trump.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The New York Times and the Washington Post and the
USA Today ought to be forced to print this guy's
words he said, Trump single handedly turned NATO into a
real alliance, no doubt. And he was talking about, yeah,
nobody was even paying their two percent. Now we're all
going for five except Spain, and well, Spain is Spain.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What are you gonna do? Uh, it was funny you
practically said that, but he said, no.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Now we're a real alliance and we're all working toward
five percent, which, by the way, the US needs a
little work to get to, just because we have a
giant economy.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
But it's it's great.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Trump's occasionally to me overly abusive description of the problems
with NATO unequivocally undeniably a gigantic win for peace and prosperity.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
His method is always like he'll you know, he would
walk into the bedroom say I want a divorce. What
as a starting point to get your attention to fix
a much smaller problem. That's the way he does things.
That's the way he do with NATO. So he's doing
it with tear raps. That's what he does with everything. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sired to meet Loaf. Okay, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, all right, Yeah, it's it's I don't know that
it's always productive. But you know, if you judge my
dad used to say on occasion, Joe, there's no arguing
with success if you want to just weigh it in
terms of the success of it, you know, or nitpicking.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I don't get the fifty day pause. Maybe your explanation
is right. Then why didn't he say that out loud,
giving India time to figure out their gas situation, but
they got to quit buy an oil from Russia.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, the only thing I can think of is that
he didn't want to call them out by name.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Having Lavrov say, okay, it was twenty four hours with
one hundred days, now it's fifty days.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Whatever, shut up is not good.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, Trump, surely somebody is bringing that to Trump's attention.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I would think I am.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Bothered by the effect, by the extent to which Trump
being annoyed or butt hurt drives American foreign policy. But
that was not only a real slap, but Lavrov, who's
you know, Putin's mouthpiece in the Foreign minister, he speaks
for the Kremlin, and him saying we don't care what
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the Americans say, we don't care what they think, we
don't care about their stupid little timetable. That is a
that is an unmistakable message that needs to be heart god, I'd.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Say, okay, we got another really dumb We got a
couple of dumb TikTok crazes. I can't believe these things
actually work or catch on, But got a couple of
those for you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Other stuff stay here.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
In New York City, four kids were spotted by police
drones riding on top of train cars, a dangerous trend
known as subway surfing. Two of the boys are only
twelve years old. Police boarded that train and all four
kids were taken into custody.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Okay, so you're twelve years old and you're riding on
top of a subway. Subway surfing or train surving. It
has been around forever TikTok trends.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I guess it's the peer pressure. Is do you feel
peer pressure from TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Or maybe it just looks like fun. That's pretty bold
for a twelve year old, By the way, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I'd want to see somebody else do it first and
come back with their heads still attached.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, and train out on the tracks on the countryside
is different than in a subway where you're going through
tunnels all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, anyway, here's another dumb TikTok trend.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I saw a.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Girl and her use a sharpie like a lipstick, and
I must try it. She used pink, but I think
it was a little lighter than the pink that I got.
Really went to the store bought a sharpie because of
this video. Oh god, oh oh wait, wait, is that
actually not bad at all?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Sharpie?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Give us some more ranges of pink.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Using a sharpie as slipstick? Do you know anything about this, Katie,
you're a woman. I don't wear lipstick. I don't I
don't know anything about using bar as you know.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
No, I don't use I've not heard of putting a
sharpie on your lips.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
For this black one is eyeliner.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
No, the the chemicals, the editing of a lot of
the TikTok clips because we can't handle the quarter second
pause between phrases right anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh, it's the video to be added like that.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
But it's what it's the it's the video limit time.
So I think on TikTok it's a minute.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That they have.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, I think it's also the creates a sense of
speed and urgency thing that seems to be so popular.
You know, Elon says, our brains can handle a much
faster speed.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
We just have to get used to it. His brain can.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I've started listening to audio books at one point two
as opposed to just one, and it's a little but
once you get once I got used to it, I
forget that. I've got it on the faster speed, and
it cuts your time down by a lot. I mean,
you can do the matter pretty easy, but if you've
got a thirty hour book, you can shave off a
hell of a lot of time by listening at one
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point two. And but man, you got to pay attention.
You can't be like just daydreaming at that speed. Yeah,
Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Saying, oh, our minds can work much faster. It's like
I don't know, yo yo ma saying anybody can be
a musical genius. No, you don't get to say. I
got to ask a.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Dullard that question. Huh. And then I had one other
thing I wanted to get too, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh, but go ahead, I would say, use use those sharpies.
In fact, if you want a different eye color, forget
that expensive fairly dangerous operation. You get that procedure, just
take a sharpie and draw blue right on your corner. Yeah,
it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I mean seriously, Oh, I know, I was going to say,
so those TikTok trends. Anybody have any idea where we
are with TikTok and that hole. The Congress said it
was against the law, and then Trump has just ignored
that for whatever reason, and then Congress has not forced
the issue.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So I don't know what's going on with that. Well,
there was a court case recently. They said, yeah, shut
it down.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But that leads me into taco, which, for all I know,
one person said at once and it got turned into
a giant talking point across the nation. Trump always chickens out.
New York Times yesterday on taco said it's no bluff.
The terriffrate is soaring under Trump. The president has earned
a reputation for bluffing on tariffs because you started that reputation,
(34:58):
but has steadily and dramatic raised US tariff's transforming global trade.
That's not being talked about enough. These tariffs are way
higher than we had before all around the world, and.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's having an effect just beginning to have an effect. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Also coming up next hour and much stupider. If you're
gonna go for a witch hunt on a witch hunt,
do it on Etsy. The witches of Etsy, What
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty arm Strong and Katty and
he Armstrong and Getty. He goes jeep to center.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Dominican dominance comes to an end. The Big Dumper
is your home run derby champion for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hmm, that's a bad nickname.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So this guy, cal Raley, he's a catcher for the
Seattle Mariners and toils and obscurity because he's not a
you know in New York, Chicago or La won the
home run derby last night. I don't Yeah, I agree.
I don't know about the nickname the Big Dumper. I
think I would say, hey, sports writers, can I I have.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A second take on my nickname?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Ah, you don't get to choose your own nickname. But
that's a bad one. I wonder how he got it.
I'd hate to know in the locker room. And he's
got a bit of a reputation. Yeah, none of that.
I forgot the home run derby was yesterday. I'd have watched.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Well, so here's the exciting news from this giant news
study they did about staying alive ah, staying alive. Any
activity is so much better than none. It's a crime
to not do it. Being sedentary is horrible for you. Now,
(01:43):
I have never been sedentary. I don't take any credit
for that. I just I'm not built that way.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It just it would make me insane. So I've never
been sedentary in my entire life. But I've known people
that were. I had a roommate in college, I remember
after college, so we were he's probably twenty three as
twenty five, something like.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That, and he would he'd.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Get up in the morning and he'd PLoP down on
the couch, you know, and have some breakfast watching TV.
Then he'd walk to his car, go to work, walk
into the building, work all day, walk back to his car,
come back home, PLoP down on the couch again. And
he did that every day, and he probably is still
doing that every day if he's still alive. And it
was the first person like I'd ever really been around
that was sedentary like that, and I just it was
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it made my legs hurt to watch.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But that again, that's just the way I built. It's
not a.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But the biggest leap you can make in terms of
helping your health is from sedentary.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
About twenty inches. Sedentary biggest leap I can make to
any activity. That leap gets huge gains in terms of
staying alive.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The headline is, with all due respect to.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The American Art Association recommends for forty five minutes of
rigorous exercise five days. That's fine, that's good, it's worth knowing.
But that which you just said should be universally life stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, I think we do more harm than good with
all the the wouldn't it be great if we all
level standards because you just think I can't, so I'm
not gonna do anything right.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Obviously people think, nah, I don't think I can reach
that right. Don't worry about it. It's the journey of
a thousand steps. I mean, maybe someday you'll end up
at that upper recommendation, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What matters is the first step.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I still haven't even done the headline, which I should do.
The headline staying consistently active throughout adulthood cuts all cause
death risk just dying in general by forty percent, especially
heart disease forty percent. By being just somewhat active consistently
(03:57):
throughout your adulthood as opposed to not. Wow, people who
increase their activity from inactive too active saw the biggest
benefits and it's never too late to start to get
the advantage.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Wow, So I can be lazy for another decade or so.
Oh no, no, because I might croak in the meantime.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right, I gotta believe that going from inactive for a
long time to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Active is really hard to do. I'll bet that's really
really hard to do.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, although again the single step thing, you know, just
some activity, light activity, you know, do it walking instead
of sitting on the couch is anything.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And to your point, even activity below recommended guidelines provide
meaningful protection. Moving from sedentary to moderately active delivers the
biggest gains of all. That should be the headline, and
they should tell that in every school like ten times
a year, any exercise.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Is teaching radical gender theory. Check as we discussed last hour.
If you missed Last Hour, it was a blockbuster. Subscribe
to a podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand back to you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Those who maintain exercise routines of any kind really specifically
reduced their chances of dying from heart disease, which is
the number one killer of all of us by thirty
to forty percent compared to sedentary peers. This is really
an interesting study. It's the biggest one ever done international.
Rather than asking people about their exercise habits once and
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checking back years later, which is normally what has done,
this analysis focused on research that monitored exercise patterns at
multiple points throughout people's lives for a very long time. Obviously,
you can't do a study like this quickly. Is you
got to follow people from the twenties through the thirties, forties, fifties, whatever.
Then scientists broke people into distinct groups, people who stayed
(05:53):
consistently active, those who increased their activity, those who decreased it,
and those who remained inactive throughout the study periods.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And then you got the results we just talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I know my dad, my mom and dad were big
walkers up until just recently, and they're both in the
well into their eighties now, but they started I suppose
my dad was early forties, my mom was around forty.
But my dad said, prior to that, so that's arounly
like nineteen eighty, he said, prior to that, just nobody
even thought about exercising.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Really, it just doesn't remember.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Articles like in Time magazine about the jogging trend. Yeah,
and it was mostly mocked by people like my dad
and it's friends.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
The kind of person would go out and jog, but
like people just didn't exercise it just.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, nobody'd ever really thought about it unless they
did it accidentally while they were doing something they enjoy. Oh,
that reminds me, do you have more because I have
something directly related to that I thought was great.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Let me hit you with just a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Consistently active showed a twenty nine percent lower risk of
death from any cause compared to those who stayed inactive.
Being consistent over time is really really huge. But all
kinds of numbers that are good for you can start
at anytime. Like if you're listening right now and you're
forty five and you haven't really exercised since you're twenty five,
you could start today even with anything. Go out and
(07:13):
walk around the block. Like Joe said, the journal journey
starts with a few steps. Let me see, it seems
like there's one more thing I wanted to get on here.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
One of the studies' most practical discoveries and discoveries involved
how much exercise provides how much benefit. Researchers found that
the biggest mortality reductions occurred when people met basic physical
Active guidelines, which recommended one hundred and fifty to three
hundred minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week one hundred
and fifty spread out over a week, two and a
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half hours spread out over a week. I think that's doable,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I mean it's not like easily doable for a lot
of people, depending on their lives and their schedules, but
it's it's not insane.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, well I will, I will speak to the man
when you get you know, when you're writ in the
thick of like raising kids and you got a job
and all the stuff that's going on, it ain't the
most compelling thing to do the end of the day,
and you're tired to think, Okay, put on the old
exercise shoes and get out there, right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Although again, just if you fall off the wagon or
you're having trouble or just do something, do a little something,
You've done yourself enormous good.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So this is frustrating.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I have this great thing from the daily Mail, but
it it resets if you don't like go to the
tab and just to the front page after a while,
which is odd. But this article, which I wish I
had in front of me, it was a major study
on what exercise program works the best, and the headline
was great. It was science determines the perfect exercise program
(08:56):
And the conclusion they got was the one you in
joy the most or hate the least.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Over and over.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Again, they would measure people's, you know, a level of exercise,
their life blah blah blah, and and what they thought
of what they did generally, and it was just clear cut.
If you're reasonably amused, entertained, enjoy it, don't hate it,
that's the one for you.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, it's funny that fits in with a couple other examples.
Which sunscreen is the best, the one that you're wanting
you reapply, the one you're willing to reapply, Which diet
is the best, the one you'll actually stick to, and
so which exercise the best, the one you like because
you'll keep doing it. That makes sense, ye like, yeah,
because there are various exercise I hate and uh.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Well, like going for a long walk, I like, I
hate running. I like riding a bike. I like lifting
weights other things I hate. I was gonna ask.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Katie about this. Uh, let me find it real quick.
I had just become aware of this recently. Le gear
lageir are you famil you're with this exercise thing?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No, ligier sounds fancy. Maybe I'm saying it's.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A little bougie for my take, fancy, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It does sound bougie, but I don't think it is.
Do you mean leisure? They're failing of our nation's government schools?
That is very, very funny, Michael. Yes, leisure.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It includes having a recliner and a television with a
large package of Netflix and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'll dig it up. L A g R e E.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't actually know how you pronounce it, because somebody
was texting me about free agree. Maybe that is the
way you say it, so I was saying it wrong,
so you didn't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Uh, it's super hardcore. It's like pilates. It's Pilates on steroids. Yeah,
a lot of people say that it's pilates.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If you got a a former drill sergeant from the
Marines running it just like and there are machines for it.
But it's supposed to be just a crazy ass kicker.
But people that are into it are getting tremendous results.
See that's an example of an exercise I would not
stick to.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I won't even try that. Yeah, I don't. I don't.
I don't need to be yelled at.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Enough of that my life like like a baby version
of it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Like you know, lagree for the week and the week
in low and motivation.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Agree for those who don't want to be yelled at first.
Have you ever done exercise where they yell at ye?
Maybe that would work. I mean it worked for me
in high school. The coach yell and they come on,
you can do it, go go go, But asn't a
dolt would be like, f you, I'm paying you don't
talk to me like that.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, I haven't been yelled at since I don't need
to be yelling at. How about I yell at you, idiot?
You want to say you want to see my w two?
What are you yelling at me? For a pe coach
would yell as he smoked. There you go stand there
and smoking, yellow you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So it's the point of the article, which Katie helpfully
found and sent to me and maybe we'll talk about
it next hour. It's you personality that influences what sort
of exercise is going to work for you, And you
don't have to deny that there's more to it than
that I'm doing a poor job mclinning and stay tuned.
(12:12):
We got a bunch of new zy headline the stuff
to give to But we'll get back to health and
that sort of thing next hour, at least for a bit.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Trump's big announcement about helping out Ukraine. How big announcement
was it? What did he say? We got a little
bit of that and a little annoulysi so among other
things on the way, stay here, armstrong.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Hey, Jetty I says.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Those who are arrested include thirty two people convicted of
child sex offenses, nine convicted of homicide related offenses, and
sixteen documented members of a transnational gang or drug cartel.
They identified some of the detainees. They include A Dermis
Wilson Gonzales from Cuba, who officials say was convicted in
two thousand and three of hijacking an airplane traveling from
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Cuba to Key West, Florida. Lewis Pablo Vasquez Estolano from Mexico,
who they say was convicted of Homa Side aggravated robbery
and drug possession. And Javier Escobar Gonzales, also from Mexico,
whose charges include sexual indecency with a minor man.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I wish we could figure out a way to handle this.
He got millions and millions and millions of people here illegally,
and then you got the whole well, you're gonna boot
them out. They've been here for years, hard working, blah
blah blah, which is all true. Then you got seven
hundred thousand convicted criminals that are here illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Those all should go. Nobody's against it but lunatics.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then is there a simple way to separate those
two and the people that are here and hardworking and
all that, They're still here illegally until you change the law.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So what do we do about it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
These are great questions which will probably not be answered,
so good luck. A couple of quick immigration headlines. First
of all, dovetailing off that story Immigrations and Customs in
I'm sorry Immigration Enforcement operations, so ICE officers arrested nearly
fourteen hundred criminal aliens criminals in the Houston area in
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June keep it up fellas again, thirty two child predators,
nine murderers, one hijacker, and sixteen cartel or gang members.
Another statistic I found very interesting. According to our friends
at CIS dot org Center for Immigration Studies, sanctuary states
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released more than twenty five thousand criminal illegals back into
the population without alerting immigration officials from October of last
year to February of this year.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's insane. The fact that that goes on is absolutely
flipping insane. In a five month period, twenty five thousand
criminal illegals back into the population knew they were criminals,
knew their illegals in most cases, instead not a word
to the Feds because they're Thankstuary Stay. You're so California
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by far the worst defender, along with Illinois, Massachusetts as
a you're so blinded by ideology, you're insane. You've got
a criminal on your hands that's here illegally in addition
to that, but you want to protect them, you're.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Not, and like, go ahead, politically.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I don't want you to go ahead, because it's awful
for because they go out there and they rape and
murder and steal and do all the things that they
were convicted of in the first place. But as a
political issue, keep it up, you morons. That sounds like
a ninety five to five issue. So another headline World
of immigration.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Trump administration is attempting to make millions of immigrants living
in the country illegally ineligible to be released from detention
on bond as they fight their deportation cases.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
According to an administration official.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So you're there illegally, you're you're up for deportation, you're
having a deportation case. Judges would turn you loose on
bond to just go keep living your life while it
bounds through the process weeks, months, years in many cases.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But now the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Trump administration is trying to stay. No, you're going to
stay in detention the whole time. Here's the interesting part,
which we'll set jack.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Off on everybody. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I think everybody should be surrounded by alligators everywhere. Alligators
entirely optional, but not out of the question. The move
marks a significant departure from decades of practice when immigration
judges had the latitude to release someone from detention on
a bond if they weren't deemed a flight risk. Immigration
law states that all immigrants in the country illegally must
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be detained while their fates are decided. But with limited
beds available in ice jails, the government had considered the
law effectively impossible to enforce. So for decades we have
ignored the law because it just it would be a pain.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But we haven't changed the law.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Which other laws am I allowed to ignore? Can we
start with tax law? And final note, we don't really have.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Time to flesh this out, but the the protest movement
in La, the antis protest movement, they're settling in for
the long haul. We can talk about their strategies later
on hope you can stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Trump said some interesting stuff about US funding and arming Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Will break that down for you. Armstrong and Getty, two.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Defense officials telling ABC used the Pentagon's still working on
what military age is going to be approved, but many
here underwhelmed. One Ukrainian analyst comparing it to giving morphine
to a dying patient.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, Ian panel, I think that that's an outlier opinion
from all the news I took in over the last
twenty four hours. Anyway, you know, one analyst said, Okay.
One Twitter person said, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I do want to be aware of the whole
giving them just enough to keep them in the fight
syndrom as opposed to giving them enough to seriously push
Russia back.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Sure, but I think the biggest problem was Trump teased
a big announcement three days then his surrogence went out there,
especially Lindsey Graham, saying well, you know, I'm not gonna
get ahead of the president here and tell you what,
but this is going to be big. And then it
was kind of like just his the way he dribbled
it out was just so unenthusiastic. They're in the Oval Office.
(18:17):
The possible sanctions fifty days from now that he talked
about Lindsey Graham led me to believe that Trump's going
to come out and say that sanction package that would
be the strongest sanctions the United States has ever levied
on anyone, and eighty senators have said they will vote for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
It, right three five coast, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I mean that is something I thought Trump would
come out and say, pass it, send it to my desk,
I'll sign it this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
But he did.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He said fifty days, to which immediately a reporter asked,
why fifty days? So let's hear that, why are.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You giving fifty more days?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I did the Well, I think it's a period of time.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I think, don't forget.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I've just really been involved in this and not very long,
and it wasn't initial focus. This is again, this is
a Biden war, this is a Democrat. We're not a
Republican or Trump war. This is a war that would
have never happened. It shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A lot of people being killed.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
When the final numbers come in, you're going to see
a lot more people have been killed in this war
than than you think, than you've been writing about.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I don't know. People have been writing very very
large numbers for a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And then yeah, go ahead, Well I just if you're
done with that thought. I was going to say, I
appreciate the positives, but the three hundred or more billion
dollars in Russian assets held in the West, not only
are we not going to spend those, seize them and
spend them for Ukraine, or we're not even going to
(19:56):
use the interest that they've earned or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It didn't even mention that. No, it seemed very tepid.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Our European allies have been pushing pretty hard for that
using that money. And I feel like, well, based on
this clip right here, let's play the next one here
what Trump said, And then I think it makes the
fifty day pause seem even stranger any.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Review that Vladimir Putin's could not clarify his intention to
a peace steal.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
And what happens now in the next phase is there.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
We're going to go for a period of time, maybe
you'll start negotia.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And I think we.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Felt I felt I don't know about you, Mark, but
I felt that we had a deal about four times.
And here we are still talking about it.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So Trump says, I thought we had a deal four times. Putin,
you know, turns out to be a liar, he's just
a BS artist. And then you say, here's fifty more days, right.
I don't think those two things fit together.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Sergei Lavrov, who's about health piece for Putin and has
been forever and is a paid liar, I mean, like
literally a paid liar. He was asked about the fifty
day tariff thing, and you know, how worried are you
about it? And he said, there used to be twenty
four hours, then there was one hundred days. We've been
through all this.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So that was his response, openly calling Trump out as
a blowhard, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Be afraid of him. He makes all sorts of promises. Well,
he's essentially said taco right, Trump always chickens out, which
is not true.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, that is ballsy.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I thought at least he'd say this pause will give
us time to work seriously toward a peace proposal, because
that's the usual Russian playbook at really any that sort
of regime playbook for stringing you along.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
He didn't even bother. He is like, yeah, whatever, shut up,
twenty four hours on hundred days. We've heard this before.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yipes. Maybe that was just so discord here in the
United States. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Now there are weapons systems going to Ukraine. Trump talked
about that.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Will these be Patriot missiles specifically, or Patriot batteries that
you're planning and when you when.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's a full compliment with the batteries, Well, we're gonna
have some come very soon within days.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Actually, So within days, Ukraine is going to get the
best missile defense system on Earth, the Patriot system.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, the Euros are going to give them theirs and
we'll backfill the Euros.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I don't know what the whole what happened to the
we're at a quarter of capacity thing that heg Zeth
was apparently worried about when we did the pause. Did
we fix that problem or are we ignoring that problem?
I don't know. I hope somebody has a challenge now.
I want to I want to get this on again.
We played it late in the show yesterday because it
had just happened. But this is more of a little
(22:56):
more insight into the way Trump sees Putin or is
waking up to Uton or whatever.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done,
and I always hang up and say, well, that was
a nice phone call. And then missiles launched into Kiev
as some other city.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I said, strange.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
And after that happens three or four times, you say
the talk doesn't mean anything. My conversations with him are
always very pleasant. I say, he's not a very lovely conversation,
and then the missiles go off. That night, I go home,
I tell the first lady and I spoke to Vladimir today.
We had a wonderful conversation. She said, oh really, Uh
(23:35):
another city was just hit. So it's like, look, he's uh,
I don't want to say he's an assassin, but he's
a tough guy. It's been proven over the years. He's
fooled a lot of people. He fooled Bush, He fooled
a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
He did for me what he didn't?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, he didn't. You're just coming to the realization that
Putin's full of.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Crap, and you thought you had a deal four times
and he broke it. But he didn't fool you. Who
is he trying to convince.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
And not to stick it to him? You're gonna give
him fifty days for all?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I got it first, I am, I am mystified. I
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
There have been some statements in support though at least
of these moves that I want to get to this
is Ambassador Matt Whittaker eighty four.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Michael, these secondary sanctions are really a game changer. Ultimately,
you know, President Trump wants this war to end, but
at the same time he sees that India and China,
especially buying Russian oil through the Shadow Fleet, is what's
enabling the war to continue. At the end of the day,
President Trump holds all the cards worldwide and globally as
(24:47):
it relates to these disputes. He's playing a card right now,
giving Vladimir Putin fifty days to come to the table and
get a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Part of that is giving time to India and Brazil
and other places that will be hit by these secondary
sanctions or secondary tariffs, if you want to call him that,
for doing business with Russia. We will punish people for
doing business with Russia if they want to trade with
the United States. That could be why he gave a
(25:16):
little extra time, now that I think about it. Mark
Ruta is the NATO Secretary General. He is the smartest
one and the best one I've seen. He did an
extended interview with Brett Baher last night on Special Reports.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He's actually making the rounds in general. Pardon me, I
wish i'd seen that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, he's a very, very smart he. If you're going
to be a cynic, you'd say he flatters Trump a lot.
If you're going to be a realist, you would say
he understands that Trump the United States is not only
the big dog in NATO, we're a big elephant at
(25:57):
like a terrier circuit.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
ACKed.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, yeah, the Euro's matter, but we are enormous. Well,
the secretary general is always an American, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
No, it's not. I thought the person in charge was
always an American. Well, you got your.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Secretary general, then you got your commander, NATO commander. Maybe
that's what I'm thinking anyway, And he said he actually said,
and I don't think we have that clip, but he said,
the United States military is bigger than the every other
NATO member combined.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, And he recognizes that and is no longer acting like, yeah,
the US is lucky to have France's help or Spain's. No,
the guys are realist and I like the cut of
his jib. Eighty five Michael.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
This is really significant. So last Thursday I got a
call from President Trump. He said, hey, Mark, we really
want to ramp up the support for Ukraine when it
comes to weapons. And then this morning I was in
the White House preparing for the meeting with him, and
he said, when it comes to the sanctions, clearly we
have to take the next step now, and he can
(27:07):
only dialogue once, so he has to take this step
by step. I totally understand that, but he was really
I think irritated with last phone call with Putin, who
is not serious. It seems about getting in two piece
deals at two peace negotiations.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So now and then the next clip, Michael, here he
is on the lead.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
The thing for President Trump announced is a real smart
way to move forward because what it basically says to India,
to China and to Brazil. So country is still buying
from Russia. Hey, pick up the phone, goll Vladimir Putin
and tell him he has got to get serious on
peace negotiations. And if he doesn't, then we will be targeted.
Of course Russia itself, but also all these countries still
(27:47):
buying from Russia. So I think it is a very
smart move.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, to what I was saying the second, the supreme
Allied Commander, the person in charge of the actual troops,
and what we're going to do is always an American,
always since the beginning of NATO. And I mean that
tells you everything you need to know about our role.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, this guy's the administrative head. But he's slick, he's good,
and I love the idea of NATO.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
And he praised Trump.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The New York Times and the Washington Post and the
USA Today ought to be forced to print this guy's
words he said, Trump single handedly turned NATO into a
real alliance, no doubt. And he was talking about, yeah,
nobody was even paying their two percent. Now we're all
going for five except Spain, and well, Spain is Spain.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What are you gonna do? Uh, it was funny you
practically said that, but he said, no.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Now we're a real alliance and we're all working toward
five percent, which, by the way, the US needs a
little work to get to, just because we have a
giant economy.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
But it's it's great.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Trump's occasionally to me overly abusive description of the problems
with NATO unequivocally undeniably a gigantic win for peace and prosperity.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
His method is always like he'll you know, he would
walk into the bedroom say I want a divorce. What
as a starting point to get your attention to fix
a much smaller problem. That's the way he does things.
That's the way he do with NATO. So he's doing
it with tear raps. That's what he does with everything. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sired to meet Loaf. Okay, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, all right, Yeah, it's it's I don't know that
it's always productive. But you know, if you judge my
dad used to say on occasion, Joe, there's no arguing
with success if you want to just weigh it in
terms of the success of it, you know, or nitpicking.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
I don't get the fifty day pause. Maybe your explanation
is right. Then why didn't he say that out loud,
giving India time to figure out their gas situation, but
they got to quit buy an oil from Russia.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, the only thing I can think of is that
he didn't want to call them out by name.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Having Lavrov say, okay, it was twenty four hours with
one hundred days, now it's fifty days.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Whatever, shut up is not good.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, Trump, surely somebody is bringing that to Trump's attention.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I would think I am.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Bothered by the effect, by the extent to which Trump
being annoyed or butt hurt drives American foreign policy. But
that was not only a real slap, but Lavrov, who's
you know, Putin's mouthpiece in the Foreign minister, he speaks
for the Kremlin, and him saying we don't care what
(30:39):
the Americans say, we don't care what they think, we
don't care about their stupid little timetable. That is a
that is an unmistakable message that needs to be heart god, I'd.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Say, okay, we got another really dumb We got a
couple of dumb TikTok crazes. I can't believe these things
actually work or catch on, But got a couple of
those for you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Other stuff stay here.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
In New York City, four kids were spotted by police
drones riding on top of train cars, a dangerous trend
known as subway surfing. Two of the boys are only
twelve years old. Police boarded that train and all four
kids were taken into custody.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Okay, so you're twelve years old and you're riding on
top of a subway. Subway surfing or train surving. It
has been around forever TikTok trends.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
I guess it's the peer pressure. Is do you feel
peer pressure from TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Or maybe it just looks like fun. That's pretty bold
for a twelve year old, By the way, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I'd want to see somebody else do it first and
come back with their heads still attached.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, and train out on the tracks on the countryside
is different than in a subway where you're going through
tunnels all the time.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, anyway, here's another dumb TikTok trend.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
I saw a.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Girl and her use a sharpie like a lipstick, and
I must try it. She used pink, but I think
it was a little lighter than the pink that I got.
Really went to the store bought a sharpie because of
this video. Oh god, oh oh wait, wait, is that
actually not bad at all?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Sharpie?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Give us some more ranges of pink.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Using a sharpie as slipstick? Do you know anything about this, Katie,
you're a woman. I don't wear lipstick. I don't I
don't know anything about using bar as you know.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
No, I don't use I've not heard of putting a
sharpie on your lips.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
For this black one is eyeliner.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
No, the the chemicals, the editing of a lot of
the TikTok clips because we can't handle the quarter second
pause between phrases right anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh, it's the video to be added like that.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
But it's what it's the it's the video limit time.
So I think on TikTok it's a minute.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
That they have.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, I think it's also the creates a sense of
speed and urgency thing that seems to be so popular.
You know, Elon says, our brains can handle a much
faster speed.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
We just have to get used to it. His brain can.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I've started listening to audio books at one point two
as opposed to just one, and it's a little but
once you get once I got used to it, I
forget that. I've got it on the faster speed, and
it cuts your time down by a lot. I mean,
you can do the matter pretty easy, but if you've
got a thirty hour book, you can shave off a
hell of a lot of time by listening at one
(33:40):
point two. And but man, you got to pay attention.
You can't be like just daydreaming at that speed. Yeah,
Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Saying, oh, our minds can work much faster. It's like
I don't know, yo yo ma saying anybody can be
a musical genius. No, you don't get to say. I
got to ask a.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Dullard that question. Huh. And then I had one other
thing I wanted to get too, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh, but go ahead, I would say, use use those sharpies.
In fact, if you want a different eye color, forget
that expensive fairly dangerous operation. You get that procedure, just
take a sharpie and draw blue right on your corner. Yeah,
it's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I mean seriously, Oh, I know, I was going to say,
so those TikTok trends. Anybody have any idea where we
are with TikTok and that hole. The Congress said it
was against the law, and then Trump has just ignored
that for whatever reason, and then Congress has not forced
the issue.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So I don't know what's going on with that. Well,
there was a court case recently. They said, yeah, shut
it down.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But that leads me into taco, which, for all I know,
one person said at once and it got turned into
a giant talking point across the nation. Trump always chickens out.
New York Times yesterday on taco said it's no bluff.
The terriffrate is soaring under Trump. The president has earned
a reputation for bluffing on tariffs because you started that reputation,
(34:58):
but has steadily and dramatic raised US tariff's transforming global trade.
That's not being talked about enough. These tariffs are way
higher than we had before all around the world, and.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's having an effect just beginning to have an effect. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Also coming up next hour and much stupider. If you're
gonna go for a witch hunt on a witch hunt,
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