August 6, 2026 • 28 mins
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Senators voted today to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for taking the Fifth. President Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2BIL in federal contracts. Lawmakers call for the Pentagon to probe the Trump family backed companies. You will now start to see advertising in your car. Airlines push back against ICE enforcement at airports.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints kf I AM six forty. The bill
handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f kf I
AM six forty bill handle here. It is a Thursday morning,
August sixth oh Man. A lot going on to say.
The least big story is Abdul al said. Now the
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front runner are now the Democratic nominee for the Senate
seat in Michigan. Huge story because this is he is
very left wing, very much a progressive, and now it
looks like the party, the Democratic Party is splitting, and
how influential going to be the progressive It reminds me
of George McGovern running against Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy
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two when the liberal progressive part of the party put
George McGovern in there and it didn't work out so well.
Nixon won every single electoral vote but Massachusetts, every single state,
it was forty nine to one. So we'll see what
happens in the general election. Not good news, I think
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for the Democrats in terms of winning the seat. Just saying, okay,
now what happened yesterday and what happened this morning. The
committee that was questioning Anthony Fauci has voted and What
a shocker to hold him in contempt of Congress for
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failure to answer the questions that the Republicans have asked me.
Fauci took the fifth over one hundred times and it
was well, let me give you a little backstory. There's
been a lot of controversy regarding the way doctor Fauci
ran the government's response to the pandemic. He was really conservative,
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I mean saying kids should not go to school, and
there should be a lot of remote intercourse, social intercourse
as well as working. Everybody keeps separate, and the masking
and vaccine mandates, just all of it. And it turned
out that it didn't have to be that way, kids
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going to school and losing a year's worth of education,
and it turns out kids had tremendous resilience to the
to the pandemic, to the virus. Okay, So Fauci has
been hit pretty hard by this and the accusations. And
the big one is where did that virus come from?
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And there are two schools of thought. One is that
it came from the meat market, that wet market in Wuhan,
and the other one is it came out of a
lab in Wuhan. And it either accidentally came out of
that lab or purposely came out of that lab in China.
And so the conspira folks or the pro conspiracy folks
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insist that it was China that had nothing to do
with that wet market. Fauci said, it's the wet market,
and most scientists agree that it was most but there
were plenty that didn't. Okay. So with that being said,
what happens Investigating what doctor Fauchi was about. They find
out through his entries into his diary that he actually
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had some doubts as to where that virus came from,
and he said there is some evidence that it came
from the lab and not from the market. And that's
pretty important because if it came from the lab, the
United States government actually funded part of that lab, and
that was a huge deal. And actually there's not a
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huge story on that one because it was one of
the scientists that was funded by the US government, by
the NIH And that happens all over the world, and
it's been going on for years when scientists are work
in conjunction with other scientists and their lab overseas, and
it's been happening with China forever. So that in and
of itself is not a big story. Okay, So now
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here we go. He is in front of this committee,
the Senate committee, and he said that it was rand Paul,
who in fact was chair of the committee, was out
to get him. Paranoia, right, Rand Paul has said over
and over again Fauci should be in jail, he should
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be behind bars. Fauci and his opening statement said, that's
all this is about. You are questioning me just so
you can get anything I say that will tag me
with perjury, any mistaken comment. I've already been twenty one
hours in front of committees, and you're trying to get
me for the smallest possible contradiction. And that's what the
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government does. So let's talk about these committee hearings for
a moment. We are a complete fiasco. These are quote
investigative committees, which are anything other than investigative. You know,
these committees have investigators, all of them do. And what
they do is the investigators are tasks with going out
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and getting to the bottom of whatever controversy or point
that the committee wants to find out. For example, in
this case, let's go through the diaries. Let's find out
what's going on. Oh no, no, no, no, Well they
did that. But in addition, let's get Fauci in front
of us, and it's going to be a televised hearing,
so we know that it's going to be a lot
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of publicity, and let's see if we can nail them.
Have you noticed that whenever you hear of these committees,
it is about ninety percent the legislator doing a DIA tribe,
either a anti DIA tribe with whatever agency is being represented,
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whatever the witness is being questioned about. It's either you
are the greatest, you are the best thing that ever
happened to the United States. We all should be very
grateful to you. That's a Democrat talking to someone appointed
by the Democrats or a liberal within government. Now you
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are a thief, You are a horrible human being, doctor Fauci.
You are a liar. That's the Republican side of it,
and that's what you get. And let's not forget it's
ninety percent diatribe. They just talk and talk. If it's Republicans, literally,
it's how great the president is and how great the
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administration is, and then throw some softball questions if it's
someone conservative on the other side or an appointee of
the president, and it goes the other way. Of course
when it and by both sides do this, it's all ridiculous.
There's nothing investigative about it. It's fifteen minutes of fame.
It's getting your face in front of the TV cameras
and that's all this is. And it's a waste of time.
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It is strictly to embarrass who's ever in front of
the committee. It is hopefully to toss that person in jail,
find some contradiction. And Fauci took the Fifth over one
hundred times. Now he could have said I'm going to
take the Fifth no matter what question you asked me,
and okay, conversation over, oh no, no, no, let's go
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through every single possible question. So we're forcing you to
take the Fifth over one hundred times, over hours. Fauci
took the Fifth Amendment, took the Fifth Amendment protection over
one hundred times. And one of the Republicans, it was
Josh Holly, screaming at him, saying, we all know when
you take the Fifth you're admitting guilt. You are guilty,
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just straight out and that's absolutely not true. If I
was Fauci's lawyer, I would say the same thing, you
take the fifth because all they want to do is
tag you are not interested in investigating anything. And so
he said, okay, So how does this contempt hearing take place? Well,
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the argument is his statement that he made. Every witness
gets to make a statement before the questioning starts. The
argument is, was his statement a waiver of the fifth Amendment?
A quick word about the law. If a witness answers
one question, he's waived the Fifth Amendment? Which is why
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I think it was Josh Holly saying what color tie
are you wearing? I respectfully take the Fifth Amendment? What
time is it? I respectfully take the fifth Amendment? Because
he can't answer because then he waves the fifth Amendment.
So here's Josh Holly embarrassing him. Just the whole thing
is a fiasco. And so now the vote was because
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he refuse to answer questions? Is that he that he's
being was in the vote was that he's in contempt
of Congress, which means it is going to be turned
over to the Justice Department almost immediately. And you think
the Justice Department is going to go forward with the
case against him for failure or contempt of Congress. Of course,
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of course they are. This is all political. This is
nothing to do with figuring out what happened. Nothing, and
so Fauci is now in another battle, and this one
fighting is contempt of Congress. Keep in mind also that
he has been pardoned, preemptively pardoned by President Biden, which
can be done, and that is exactly what happened, saying
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he has pardoned for anything he did, anything, even if
it don't specify it, anything relating to the pandemic. He
has pardoned for his actions. That's what Biden did. Okay,
there is a story that was the Washington Post broke
this story that there are fifteen companies with the investment
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from President Trump's sons, and these fifteen companies have gotten
three point two billion dollars in federal contracts, federal investments, loans,
the vast majority coming after the president took office for
the second time. And so there's a letter from Senator
Elizabeth Warren, Shocker, Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth. These are senators
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represented Robert Garcia, all Democrats, asking for an inquiry into
these contracts that are affiliated with two sons, Eric and
Donald Trump Junior. And excluding SpaceX and Anderill two companies,
these fifteen companies have gained more than three times the
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number of government contracts than they did before the president
second son now second term. Now you know, I've got
a question about this, and that is when is too
much too much? You know, the president has made over
two billion dollars he and his family since he became
he started his second term. He did not put his
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holdings into a blind trust. He put his holdings into
a trust controlled by his sons. And he has nothing
to do with it. He said. He doesn't talk to
them about it, He doesn't call anybody. He doesn't pay
attention to investments at all. Donald Trump does not pay
attention to anything financial. And I guess there's no limit.
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The president is using the presidency as his personal piggy pink.
It's that simple. And Republicans are not offended by this,
not in a little bit. Can you imagine if a
Democrat did this, I mean, the uproar would be incredible.
I mean, is there a limit at all? So he's
made two billion dollars, What if he made ten billion
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dollars in his presidency? Twenty billion dollars? Is there a limit?
Is there a line? No, no, there is not. The
White House spokesperson said, there are no conflicts of interest.
And this is the same tired narrative that Democrats have
pushed against the president and his administration for a decade,
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and it is here. Is what the sons say is
that they are passive investors. You know, I'll buy that.
They have nothing to do with the management. They're not
on the board of anything. Okay, you know, I don't
doubt that. But do these companies do they know that
the Trump's sons are part of the investment pool? Does
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the government know that the sons have invested in these companies?
And interesting that these companies have gotten more contracts than
any other companies other than Space accidentill they have exploded
and have made ane. Remember the crypto business that's where
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Trump made over a billion dollars the family. Remember those
crazy ass Trump coins that's in the hundreds of millions
of dollars. I mean, people are nuts and you can't
use them for anything. I don't understand it. For the
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life of me, I don't understand it. I know what
am I missing here? What am I missing? When I
actually thought that the presidency was not to make as
much money as possible or part of it. All right,
So just you know, I could go on and on,
but I'm not going to go on and on because
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you know, I get all pissed off. Oh and by
the way, I know that I get a lot of
hassle about about being anti Trump. But for those of
you that are portrait for Trump in favor of Donald Trump,
and let me ask you a question, I'd love for
you to answer it. Do you have any problem with
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the president making billions of dollars during his presidency and
he was anti crypto until he and his son started
where they started a crypto company and the president went
the other way. Okay, crypto is good. That's an official position.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Isn't he just making money from his fame? It's not
what he's doing underhanded deals.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I mean, maybe he is, Well how about the how
about the contracts? They're not underhanded, they're just straight out
in the open. Hey, this is he's himself, that's correct,
But it is a he's using the presidency and you
know at some point his public service have anything to
do with it. And then the White House comes back
and says, this is all a bunch of crap. The
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president puts the country above everything. It's no. Making money
is pretty important to the president for him and his family.
It's an and the issue of the deal he cut
himself where it's gross. But yeah, oh no, the court
and you know, the court said that it's that this
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is wrong, but it doesn't matter. Executive the executive privilege
goes through and it's I gotta tell you, I'm offended.
I'm offended. Is it legal? Yeah, I think it is legal.
I mean is he going to go to jail? Is
going to impeach? No? Are the Sun's going to be charged? No?
But you remember when Hunter Biden sat on the board
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of Barisma and he got five hundred thousand dollars a
year from Borisma being the gas company, the official governmental
gas company of Ukraine. Five hundred thousand dollars a year,
got nailed for it. He should go to jail. Let's
do an investigation. This is theft. Half a million dollars
a year, not billions. Half a million dollars a year.
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By the way, sleezball, Oh you bet, oh you it
was sleazy because.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
That a little doesn't that doesn't that look like using
the presidency? Yes? Yes, No, it doesn't look like it is.
It is using the presidency.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But why is it that Hunter Biden should go to Jao,
go to prison for doing this, but the Trump sons
should not. There's no conflict with the president and the
Trump sons chochkes to fans. Uh they are. I'm not
arguing that it's not you know, doing illegal shady thing. No,
it's not I doing that. I am simply saying that
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at some point there is a limit. That's all. That's
all I'm saying. All right, get out of here, Neil.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, a story in the Atlantic about BMW's and I
just I had one, got rid of it. I leased
that one. My lease is over, so I picked up
Alexis Actually and I didn't know this, but then again,
I had a BMW that well, I don't understand the
technology of it at all. I never used ninety nine
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percent of the technology. But here's what's going on. You
tap on the screen, the touchscreen, and you can play
Pac Man. You can let the car park itself. I
mean all of that. Last week BMW added a new feature.
You start up the car and you are greeted with
the following message Spider Man. Oh surprise, Spider Man just
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dropped on your BMW and ad for the new Spider
Man move. You click on the prompt appears in most
BMW's after twenty twenty. The screen is taken over by
a commercial for the new Spider Man movie, and it's
accompanied by blinking lights inside the car. Now, you can
choose to skip the ad. Now, but it's an app.
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You touch the screen and there it comes up. And
drivers are not thrilled by this uninvited pitch. In an email,
BMW spokesman said that the ad is part of a
broader partnership between BMW and Marvel. Really now, the animation
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is available for only a limited time. It's a pilot program. Yeah,
tell me that's not going to go on. It's Stilantis,
which makes Dodge and Jeep has attempted in car advertising
before in the US, but never a luxury brand like BMW.
And believe me, your car is next. Because, to use
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a cliche that's used over and over again, cars are
becoming smartphones on wheels, and anything involving the Internet, I
don't care what it is, involves pop up ads. Pop
Up ads have become part and parcel of the Internet.
If you search anything automatically, the algorithm reads what you're searching,
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and every ad in the world comes up. Look for
a new couch. All of a sudden, you'll get furniture
stores within your geographical area giving you sales for couches
and please come in. If you look at a pizza
just you know, Domino's Pizza, right you're looking at You're
just doing a search seeing you know what kind of
pizzas they offer, boom the ads. The pop ups come
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in like crazy. So in car advertisements are obviously coming next.
And here is the problem. You're already spending money. For example,
on Star communications system Tesla, drivers pay ten dollars a
month for premium connectivity to access Spotify or Netflix through
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the touchscreen. And you're already paying for those services outside
the car. Right, I have Spotify, I have Serious Radio.
Serious Radio costs me probably two hundred and thirty dollars
a month. And can you imagine paying an additional fee
(20:33):
listening to Serious on your car on your smartphone, especially
through your car. I mean, it is crazy. And why
are they doing that? Well, here's the reason, and it
makes sense. The Atlantic carried an article by this car experts.
New car prices have reached an average of nearly fifty
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thousand dollars, and Americans are close to reaching the breaking point.
Auto companies tariffs, Chinese competition, are there even computer memories shortages?
So they're paying a whole lot more money the car
manufacturer for the chips. So let's figure out a way
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to try to keep the prices as low as possible
with cars if you can imagine as low as possible
the cost of cars today, and to do that is ads.
We sell ads, and here they come on your screen
in your car, and you get to pay for the
privilege of that. I mean, you know, we've reached the
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point where it's doesn't matter what, who where when you're
going to get ads. Remember the Internet, when it first started,
there were no ads. Do you remember movie theaters were
the only ads you ever got, or I ever got.
When I started watching movies when I was a kid,
was for the La Times. That was the partnership. Is
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the La Times gave movies advertising, movies gave La Time advertising.
And now you have thirty minutes of commercials before the
movie starts. Next step midway through the movie, you'll get commercials. Well,
listen to a podcast today. I mean, one of the
reasons people love podcasts is commercial free. And then okay,
(22:23):
you got a commercial at the beginning and the end
of the podcast. Now they're breaking it up like a broadcast.
And the fastest growing subscription TV platforms are free if
you listen to a bunch of ads. And when Netflix
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went and started commercials on the Netflix platform, and I
got Netflix because there were no commercials, And now the
premium I pay and it is expensive. It used to
be five six bucks a month. Huh. Okay, maybe just
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watch a movie on Netflix that works. You know, I
was gonna drive itself. It's gonna get in a car
accident by itself because the other driver is also going
to be watching a movie and the car is gonna
go off by itself. And you're it's gonna some glitch
is gonna happen and you're gonna die. All right, So
it's not the end of the world. I mean, there's
always a silver lining somewhere there. Okay. Now, let me
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tell you a story quickly about one of Lindsay's best friends,
her son l Salvadoran who married to an American citizen
application for green car pending, was on his way to
and he was a photographer, is a photographer on his
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way to matter of fact, Texas for a job. And
so he is at the airport. He is at the
TSA checkpoint they would you please go over there, and
goes into an office and there's the TSA agent arresting
him and they deport him. He lives in El Salvador
and his wife and his family are there because he
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just can't come back. What airlines are doing here? They're
getting a little pissed off at ICE because ICE is
literally picking up people in the skyway on the way
to the airplane, on the way to the door. Now,
ICE is having a bad rap because, oh, I don't know,
they use people for target practice occasionally, and that has
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gotten American citizens, the electorate a little angry. You know,
Trump got elected on his anti immigration platform, and I've
never understood why people are so angry at immigrants coming in.
Illegal immigrants. They don't get any benefits. They pay taxes
and they don't get anything back, so they have to
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come up with some fake social Security number and so
it goes to the government, and the government just keeps
the money. Jobs. When is the last time your job
was taken by an illegal immigrant? So I don't understand
how a big idea. I'm sorry, apparently a photographer who understood. Yeah. Yeah,
(25:20):
by the way, you gotta mute. I think it's an
and are you muting? No, No, I don't know who
it is in any case. Okay, but all right, I'll
buy that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And you say they don't get benefits. How can you
say that with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
What kind of benefits do they get? School? Hospital? Not
hospital unless they're hospital the only hospital. I'll get it. School. Yeah,
school is a benefit. Okay, I'll take that one back.
But I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
About we need immigrants personally, but I think this is
a bad way to do it, and it is costly.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it doesn't. And by the way, I do take
that back because You're right. School is free. Hospitals are
not unless you are too poor and you have absolutely
no money, and so you go to the hospital like
anybody else. I think they're paid crap and they're treated poorly.
And that's not the argument. The argument is how horrific
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they are to the US, and I don't think they
are my opinion. And if they are horrific to the
US or negative, I think is a very small number,
and you can argue both sides at that coin. The
problem is, look, what ICE is doing is arresting people.
I mean, you know, at airports, at court when they
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come in when they're arguing immigration matters, ICE agents are
waiting for them. And the reason all this is happening
because very quietly, do you know that the government is
still mandating two thousand arrests a day. ICE has to
come up with two thousand arrests a day, and they're
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told by the administration you have to come up with
the arrests. And now they're pretty quiet about it. They're
certainly not shooting people anymore, and they're trying to keep
it as private as possible. You know, they're you're not
gonna be you don't see entire families being picked up
in uh out in the open where the video where
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everybody is videoing it. But I think it's way too
big a deal being made. Uh, it's just not that
important relative to everything else. It's there are other things
that are more important in life. That's all there is
to it. For example, the reflecting pool, which is a
national issue of huge import It's just uh, it's well,
(27:44):
the war in Iran is second to the reflecting pool.
I get that, Okay. Neil is a dick. Okay, remember
that coming up? Uh, a offshoot of the Iran war.
And we haven't talked about that. If you're gonna take
(28:05):
a river cruise in Europe, you're gonna walk, And I'll
share what's going on with that as a result of
climate change, which doesn't exist. Kf I am six forty.
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AM six forty bill handle here. It is a Thursday morning,
August sixth oh Man. A lot going on to say.
The least big story is Abdul al said. Now the
(00:25):
front runner are now the Democratic nominee for the Senate
seat in Michigan. Huge story because this is he is
very left wing, very much a progressive, and now it
looks like the party, the Democratic Party is splitting, and
how influential going to be the progressive It reminds me
of George McGovern running against Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy
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two when the liberal progressive part of the party put
George McGovern in there and it didn't work out so well.
Nixon won every single electoral vote but Massachusetts, every single state,
it was forty nine to one. So we'll see what
happens in the general election. Not good news, I think
(01:10):
for the Democrats in terms of winning the seat. Just saying, okay,
now what happened yesterday and what happened this morning. The
committee that was questioning Anthony Fauci has voted and What
a shocker to hold him in contempt of Congress for
(01:33):
failure to answer the questions that the Republicans have asked me.
Fauci took the fifth over one hundred times and it
was well, let me give you a little backstory. There's
been a lot of controversy regarding the way doctor Fauci
ran the government's response to the pandemic. He was really conservative,
(01:56):
I mean saying kids should not go to school, and
there should be a lot of remote intercourse, social intercourse
as well as working. Everybody keeps separate, and the masking
and vaccine mandates, just all of it. And it turned
out that it didn't have to be that way, kids
(02:19):
going to school and losing a year's worth of education,
and it turns out kids had tremendous resilience to the
to the pandemic, to the virus. Okay, So Fauci has
been hit pretty hard by this and the accusations. And
the big one is where did that virus come from?
(02:39):
And there are two schools of thought. One is that
it came from the meat market, that wet market in Wuhan,
and the other one is it came out of a
lab in Wuhan. And it either accidentally came out of
that lab or purposely came out of that lab in China.
And so the conspira folks or the pro conspiracy folks
(03:02):
insist that it was China that had nothing to do
with that wet market. Fauci said, it's the wet market,
and most scientists agree that it was most but there
were plenty that didn't. Okay. So with that being said,
what happens Investigating what doctor Fauchi was about. They find
out through his entries into his diary that he actually
(03:23):
had some doubts as to where that virus came from,
and he said there is some evidence that it came
from the lab and not from the market. And that's
pretty important because if it came from the lab, the
United States government actually funded part of that lab, and
that was a huge deal. And actually there's not a
(03:44):
huge story on that one because it was one of
the scientists that was funded by the US government, by
the NIH And that happens all over the world, and
it's been going on for years when scientists are work
in conjunction with other scientists and their lab overseas, and
it's been happening with China forever. So that in and
of itself is not a big story. Okay, So now
(04:08):
here we go. He is in front of this committee,
the Senate committee, and he said that it was rand Paul,
who in fact was chair of the committee, was out
to get him. Paranoia, right, Rand Paul has said over
and over again Fauci should be in jail, he should
(04:31):
be behind bars. Fauci and his opening statement said, that's
all this is about. You are questioning me just so
you can get anything I say that will tag me
with perjury, any mistaken comment. I've already been twenty one
hours in front of committees, and you're trying to get
me for the smallest possible contradiction. And that's what the
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government does. So let's talk about these committee hearings for
a moment. We are a complete fiasco. These are quote
investigative committees, which are anything other than investigative. You know,
these committees have investigators, all of them do. And what
they do is the investigators are tasks with going out
(05:15):
and getting to the bottom of whatever controversy or point
that the committee wants to find out. For example, in
this case, let's go through the diaries. Let's find out
what's going on. Oh no, no, no, no, Well they
did that. But in addition, let's get Fauci in front
of us, and it's going to be a televised hearing,
so we know that it's going to be a lot
(05:35):
of publicity, and let's see if we can nail them.
Have you noticed that whenever you hear of these committees,
it is about ninety percent the legislator doing a DIA tribe,
either a anti DIA tribe with whatever agency is being represented,
(05:56):
whatever the witness is being questioned about. It's either you
are the greatest, you are the best thing that ever
happened to the United States. We all should be very
grateful to you. That's a Democrat talking to someone appointed
by the Democrats or a liberal within government. Now you
(06:17):
are a thief, You are a horrible human being, doctor Fauci.
You are a liar. That's the Republican side of it,
and that's what you get. And let's not forget it's
ninety percent diatribe. They just talk and talk. If it's Republicans, literally,
it's how great the president is and how great the
(06:38):
administration is, and then throw some softball questions if it's
someone conservative on the other side or an appointee of
the president, and it goes the other way. Of course
when it and by both sides do this, it's all ridiculous.
There's nothing investigative about it. It's fifteen minutes of fame.
It's getting your face in front of the TV cameras
and that's all this is. And it's a waste of time.
(07:01):
It is strictly to embarrass who's ever in front of
the committee. It is hopefully to toss that person in jail,
find some contradiction. And Fauci took the Fifth over one
hundred times. Now he could have said I'm going to
take the Fifth no matter what question you asked me,
and okay, conversation over, oh no, no, no, let's go
(07:25):
through every single possible question. So we're forcing you to
take the Fifth over one hundred times, over hours. Fauci
took the Fifth Amendment, took the Fifth Amendment protection over
one hundred times. And one of the Republicans, it was
Josh Holly, screaming at him, saying, we all know when
you take the Fifth you're admitting guilt. You are guilty,
(07:49):
just straight out and that's absolutely not true. If I
was Fauci's lawyer, I would say the same thing, you
take the fifth because all they want to do is
tag you are not interested in investigating anything. And so
he said, okay, So how does this contempt hearing take place? Well,
(08:09):
the argument is his statement that he made. Every witness
gets to make a statement before the questioning starts. The
argument is, was his statement a waiver of the fifth Amendment?
A quick word about the law. If a witness answers
one question, he's waived the Fifth Amendment? Which is why
(08:31):
I think it was Josh Holly saying what color tie
are you wearing? I respectfully take the Fifth Amendment? What
time is it? I respectfully take the fifth Amendment? Because
he can't answer because then he waves the fifth Amendment.
So here's Josh Holly embarrassing him. Just the whole thing
is a fiasco. And so now the vote was because
(08:52):
he refuse to answer questions? Is that he that he's
being was in the vote was that he's in contempt
of Congress, which means it is going to be turned
over to the Justice Department almost immediately. And you think
the Justice Department is going to go forward with the
case against him for failure or contempt of Congress. Of course,
(09:13):
of course they are. This is all political. This is
nothing to do with figuring out what happened. Nothing, and
so Fauci is now in another battle, and this one
fighting is contempt of Congress. Keep in mind also that
he has been pardoned, preemptively pardoned by President Biden, which
can be done, and that is exactly what happened, saying
(09:37):
he has pardoned for anything he did, anything, even if
it don't specify it, anything relating to the pandemic. He
has pardoned for his actions. That's what Biden did. Okay,
there is a story that was the Washington Post broke
this story that there are fifteen companies with the investment
(10:01):
from President Trump's sons, and these fifteen companies have gotten
three point two billion dollars in federal contracts, federal investments, loans,
the vast majority coming after the president took office for
the second time. And so there's a letter from Senator
Elizabeth Warren, Shocker, Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth. These are senators
(10:23):
represented Robert Garcia, all Democrats, asking for an inquiry into
these contracts that are affiliated with two sons, Eric and
Donald Trump Junior. And excluding SpaceX and Anderill two companies,
these fifteen companies have gained more than three times the
(10:45):
number of government contracts than they did before the president
second son now second term. Now you know, I've got
a question about this, and that is when is too
much too much? You know, the president has made over
two billion dollars he and his family since he became
he started his second term. He did not put his
(11:08):
holdings into a blind trust. He put his holdings into
a trust controlled by his sons. And he has nothing
to do with it. He said. He doesn't talk to
them about it, He doesn't call anybody. He doesn't pay
attention to investments at all. Donald Trump does not pay
attention to anything financial. And I guess there's no limit.
(11:31):
The president is using the presidency as his personal piggy pink.
It's that simple. And Republicans are not offended by this,
not in a little bit. Can you imagine if a
Democrat did this, I mean, the uproar would be incredible.
I mean, is there a limit at all? So he's
made two billion dollars, What if he made ten billion
(11:53):
dollars in his presidency? Twenty billion dollars? Is there a limit?
Is there a line? No, no, there is not. The
White House spokesperson said, there are no conflicts of interest.
And this is the same tired narrative that Democrats have
pushed against the president and his administration for a decade,
(12:16):
and it is here. Is what the sons say is
that they are passive investors. You know, I'll buy that.
They have nothing to do with the management. They're not
on the board of anything. Okay, you know, I don't
doubt that. But do these companies do they know that
the Trump's sons are part of the investment pool? Does
(12:39):
the government know that the sons have invested in these companies?
And interesting that these companies have gotten more contracts than
any other companies other than Space accidentill they have exploded
and have made ane. Remember the crypto business that's where
(13:03):
Trump made over a billion dollars the family. Remember those
crazy ass Trump coins that's in the hundreds of millions
of dollars. I mean, people are nuts and you can't
use them for anything. I don't understand it. For the
(13:23):
life of me, I don't understand it. I know what
am I missing here? What am I missing? When I
actually thought that the presidency was not to make as
much money as possible or part of it. All right,
So just you know, I could go on and on,
but I'm not going to go on and on because
(13:44):
you know, I get all pissed off. Oh and by
the way, I know that I get a lot of
hassle about about being anti Trump. But for those of
you that are portrait for Trump in favor of Donald Trump,
and let me ask you a question, I'd love for
you to answer it. Do you have any problem with
(14:05):
the president making billions of dollars during his presidency and
he was anti crypto until he and his son started
where they started a crypto company and the president went
the other way. Okay, crypto is good. That's an official position.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Isn't he just making money from his fame? It's not
what he's doing underhanded deals.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I mean, maybe he is, Well how about the how
about the contracts? They're not underhanded, they're just straight out
in the open. Hey, this is he's himself, that's correct,
But it is a he's using the presidency and you
know at some point his public service have anything to
do with it. And then the White House comes back
and says, this is all a bunch of crap. The
(14:51):
president puts the country above everything. It's no. Making money
is pretty important to the president for him and his family.
It's an and the issue of the deal he cut
himself where it's gross. But yeah, oh no, the court
and you know, the court said that it's that this
(15:12):
is wrong, but it doesn't matter. Executive the executive privilege
goes through and it's I gotta tell you, I'm offended.
I'm offended. Is it legal? Yeah, I think it is legal.
I mean is he going to go to jail? Is
going to impeach? No? Are the Sun's going to be charged? No?
But you remember when Hunter Biden sat on the board
(15:34):
of Barisma and he got five hundred thousand dollars a
year from Borisma being the gas company, the official governmental
gas company of Ukraine. Five hundred thousand dollars a year,
got nailed for it. He should go to jail. Let's
do an investigation. This is theft. Half a million dollars
a year, not billions. Half a million dollars a year.
(15:56):
By the way, sleezball, Oh you bet, oh you it
was sleazy because.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
That a little doesn't that doesn't that look like using
the presidency? Yes? Yes, No, it doesn't look like it is.
It is using the presidency.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
But why is it that Hunter Biden should go to Jao,
go to prison for doing this, but the Trump sons
should not. There's no conflict with the president and the
Trump sons chochkes to fans. Uh they are. I'm not
arguing that it's not you know, doing illegal shady thing. No,
it's not I doing that. I am simply saying that
(16:40):
at some point there is a limit. That's all. That's
all I'm saying. All right, get out of here, Neil.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, a story in the Atlantic about BMW's and I
just I had one, got rid of it. I leased
that one. My lease is over, so I picked up
Alexis Actually and I didn't know this, but then again,
I had a BMW that well, I don't understand the
technology of it at all. I never used ninety nine
(17:33):
percent of the technology. But here's what's going on. You
tap on the screen, the touchscreen, and you can play
Pac Man. You can let the car park itself. I
mean all of that. Last week BMW added a new feature.
You start up the car and you are greeted with
the following message Spider Man. Oh surprise, Spider Man just
(17:56):
dropped on your BMW and ad for the new Spider
Man move. You click on the prompt appears in most
BMW's after twenty twenty. The screen is taken over by
a commercial for the new Spider Man movie, and it's
accompanied by blinking lights inside the car. Now, you can
choose to skip the ad. Now, but it's an app.
(18:19):
You touch the screen and there it comes up. And
drivers are not thrilled by this uninvited pitch. In an email,
BMW spokesman said that the ad is part of a
broader partnership between BMW and Marvel. Really now, the animation
(18:40):
is available for only a limited time. It's a pilot program. Yeah,
tell me that's not going to go on. It's Stilantis,
which makes Dodge and Jeep has attempted in car advertising
before in the US, but never a luxury brand like BMW.
And believe me, your car is next. Because, to use
(19:02):
a cliche that's used over and over again, cars are
becoming smartphones on wheels, and anything involving the Internet, I
don't care what it is, involves pop up ads. Pop
Up ads have become part and parcel of the Internet.
If you search anything automatically, the algorithm reads what you're searching,
(19:27):
and every ad in the world comes up. Look for
a new couch. All of a sudden, you'll get furniture
stores within your geographical area giving you sales for couches
and please come in. If you look at a pizza
just you know, Domino's Pizza, right you're looking at You're
just doing a search seeing you know what kind of
pizzas they offer, boom the ads. The pop ups come
(19:50):
in like crazy. So in car advertisements are obviously coming next.
And here is the problem. You're already spending money. For example,
on Star communications system Tesla, drivers pay ten dollars a
month for premium connectivity to access Spotify or Netflix through
(20:13):
the touchscreen. And you're already paying for those services outside
the car. Right, I have Spotify, I have Serious Radio.
Serious Radio costs me probably two hundred and thirty dollars
a month. And can you imagine paying an additional fee
(20:33):
listening to Serious on your car on your smartphone, especially
through your car. I mean, it is crazy. And why
are they doing that? Well, here's the reason, and it
makes sense. The Atlantic carried an article by this car experts.
New car prices have reached an average of nearly fifty
(20:55):
thousand dollars, and Americans are close to reaching the breaking point.
Auto companies tariffs, Chinese competition, are there even computer memories shortages?
So they're paying a whole lot more money the car
manufacturer for the chips. So let's figure out a way
(21:16):
to try to keep the prices as low as possible
with cars if you can imagine as low as possible
the cost of cars today, and to do that is ads.
We sell ads, and here they come on your screen
in your car, and you get to pay for the
privilege of that. I mean, you know, we've reached the
(21:39):
point where it's doesn't matter what, who where when you're
going to get ads. Remember the Internet, when it first started,
there were no ads. Do you remember movie theaters were
the only ads you ever got, or I ever got.
When I started watching movies when I was a kid,
was for the La Times. That was the partnership. Is
(22:00):
the La Times gave movies advertising, movies gave La Time advertising.
And now you have thirty minutes of commercials before the
movie starts. Next step midway through the movie, you'll get commercials. Well,
listen to a podcast today. I mean, one of the
reasons people love podcasts is commercial free. And then okay,
(22:23):
you got a commercial at the beginning and the end
of the podcast. Now they're breaking it up like a broadcast.
And the fastest growing subscription TV platforms are free if
you listen to a bunch of ads. And when Netflix
(22:44):
went and started commercials on the Netflix platform, and I
got Netflix because there were no commercials, And now the
premium I pay and it is expensive. It used to
be five six bucks a month. Huh. Okay, maybe just
(23:04):
watch a movie on Netflix that works. You know, I
was gonna drive itself. It's gonna get in a car
accident by itself because the other driver is also going
to be watching a movie and the car is gonna
go off by itself. And you're it's gonna some glitch
is gonna happen and you're gonna die. All right, So
it's not the end of the world. I mean, there's
always a silver lining somewhere there. Okay. Now, let me
(23:28):
tell you a story quickly about one of Lindsay's best friends,
her son l Salvadoran who married to an American citizen
application for green car pending, was on his way to
and he was a photographer, is a photographer on his
(23:49):
way to matter of fact, Texas for a job. And
so he is at the airport. He is at the
TSA checkpoint they would you please go over there, and
goes into an office and there's the TSA agent arresting
him and they deport him. He lives in El Salvador
and his wife and his family are there because he
(24:11):
just can't come back. What airlines are doing here? They're
getting a little pissed off at ICE because ICE is
literally picking up people in the skyway on the way
to the airplane, on the way to the door. Now,
ICE is having a bad rap because, oh, I don't know,
they use people for target practice occasionally, and that has
(24:35):
gotten American citizens, the electorate a little angry. You know,
Trump got elected on his anti immigration platform, and I've
never understood why people are so angry at immigrants coming in.
Illegal immigrants. They don't get any benefits. They pay taxes
and they don't get anything back, so they have to
(24:57):
come up with some fake social Security number and so
it goes to the government, and the government just keeps
the money. Jobs. When is the last time your job
was taken by an illegal immigrant? So I don't understand
how a big idea. I'm sorry, apparently a photographer who understood. Yeah. Yeah,
(25:20):
by the way, you gotta mute. I think it's an
and are you muting? No, No, I don't know who
it is in any case. Okay, but all right, I'll
buy that.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And you say they don't get benefits. How can you
say that with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
What kind of benefits do they get? School? Hospital? Not
hospital unless they're hospital the only hospital. I'll get it. School. Yeah,
school is a benefit. Okay, I'll take that one back.
But I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
About we need immigrants personally, but I think this is
a bad way to do it, and it is costly.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it doesn't. And by the way, I do take
that back because You're right. School is free. Hospitals are
not unless you are too poor and you have absolutely
no money, and so you go to the hospital like
anybody else. I think they're paid crap and they're treated poorly.
And that's not the argument. The argument is how horrific
(26:16):
they are to the US, and I don't think they
are my opinion. And if they are horrific to the
US or negative, I think is a very small number,
and you can argue both sides at that coin. The
problem is, look, what ICE is doing is arresting people.
I mean, you know, at airports, at court when they
(26:37):
come in when they're arguing immigration matters, ICE agents are
waiting for them. And the reason all this is happening
because very quietly, do you know that the government is
still mandating two thousand arrests a day. ICE has to
come up with two thousand arrests a day, and they're
(26:58):
told by the administration you have to come up with
the arrests. And now they're pretty quiet about it. They're
certainly not shooting people anymore, and they're trying to keep
it as private as possible. You know, they're you're not
gonna be you don't see entire families being picked up
in uh out in the open where the video where
(27:20):
everybody is videoing it. But I think it's way too
big a deal being made. Uh, it's just not that
important relative to everything else. It's there are other things
that are more important in life. That's all there is
to it. For example, the reflecting pool, which is a
national issue of huge import It's just uh, it's well,
(27:44):
the war in Iran is second to the reflecting pool.
I get that, Okay. Neil is a dick. Okay, remember
that coming up? Uh, a offshoot of the Iran war.
And we haven't talked about that. If you're gonna take
(28:05):
a river cruise in Europe, you're gonna walk, And I'll
share what's going on with that as a result of
climate change, which doesn't exist. Kf I am six forty.
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