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- 0:07Speaker 1: It's 6 Eastern. It's 3 o'clock Pacific.
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- 0:16Speaker 2: If he says he's serious about something, he means it.
- 0:19Speaker 1: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Wow, what a week. You had Ilhan Omar that had
- 0:27Speaker 2: a raid of her house in Washington, D.C., You had
- 0:31Speaker 2: a new press secretary that was in and out of
- 0:34Speaker 2: there faster than Anthony Scaramucci. And Kimberly Guilfoyle was no
- 0:38Speaker 2: longer the ambassador in Greece. Matt, it seems like every
- 0:42Speaker 2: week is crazy. It seems like we start the show
- 0:45Speaker 2: like that every week, but it is crazy, isn't it?
- 0:48Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Trump, I don't know what he was
- 0:51Speaker 3: thinking with this press secretary in particular. From what I
- 0:55Speaker 3: had read, it seemed like he was just getting kind
- 0:58Speaker 3: of frustrated with the slow pace in replacing Carr than
- 1:00Speaker 3: leave it and just kind of went with this to
- 1:03Speaker 3: have at least someone up there on the podium permanently,
- 1:06Speaker 3: but obviously not the best pick. But, you know, the
- 1:09Speaker 3: thing about the high turnover we saw or that we'll
- 1:13Speaker 3: often see in Trump's administrations is actually a good thing
- 1:16Speaker 3: because it means people who are not up for the
- 1:19Speaker 3: job or good at the job are getting fired. Normally,
- 1:21Speaker 3: the problem with government is we have horrible people and
- 1:25Speaker 3: they stay there forever. So, Yes, I mean, I'm sure
- 1:28Speaker 3: MSNBC and CNN love to gloat over, you know, whenever
- 1:31Speaker 3: there's a firing in the Trump administration or a rearrangement.
- 1:34Speaker 3: But the fact of the matter is, if you believe
- 1:36Speaker 3: in Trump's agenda and want him to achieve his goals,
- 1:38Speaker 3: if people are not performing, they should be replaced. So great. Yeah.
- 1:44Speaker 3: She's half a Scaramucci, by the way.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Right. Scaramucci, by the way, was in the Trump administration
- 1:49Speaker 2: when he was president, 45, and he was there for
- 1:52Speaker 2: 10 days. Katie Zachariah. She made it five days. So
- 1:57Speaker 2: let's listen to her. And she tells at the beginning
- 2:00Speaker 2: of the week about her weekend and how the process
- 2:04Speaker 2: went for hiring her.
- 2:05Speaker 4: I was given the offer last Wednesday. I got a
- 2:09Speaker 4: phone call last Wednesday. I flew out to D.C. on Thursday.
- 2:13Speaker 4: I had a meeting on Friday, was offered the job,
- 2:16Speaker 4: flew home to California on Saturday, flew back to Washington
- 2:21Speaker 4: on Sunday, was asked to start on Monday, Sean, which is...
- 2:24Speaker 4: Columbus Day. And so it's a federal holiday and have
- 2:28Speaker 4: a press briefing at 930 in the morning on Tuesday.
- 2:31Speaker 4: So what I feel is I really stepped up and
- 2:35Speaker 4: to the plate to do the press conference, Sean, with
- 2:38Speaker 4: very little prep time. I received briefing materials in the
- 2:40Speaker 4: morning of Tuesday and I went to deliver all of
- 2:46Speaker 4: the great results that President Trump is delivering for the
- 2:48Speaker 4: American people that are not often spread in the national media.
- 2:52Speaker 4: So I took it as an opportunity so people would
- 2:55Speaker 4: know what he's doing for Americans and how hard he's working?
- 3:01Speaker 2: Let me say, Matt, it's a hard job.
- 3:03Speaker 3: It's got to be one of the worst.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a hard job. And, you know, even
- 3:08Speaker 2: Jen Psaki, that was the press secretary for Joe Biden,
- 3:13Speaker 2: she was good. You know, you didn't like the things
- 3:15Speaker 2: that she was saying, but she was doing a good job.
- 3:18Speaker 2: And it really makes you appreciate those that have worked
- 3:20Speaker 2: for Donald Trump and his administration in the past that
- 3:23Speaker 2: were good because She just couldn't handle the job, and
- 3:26Speaker 2: at least they noticed it in less than five days.
- 3:30Speaker 3: This is our Corrine Jean-Pierre, and we got rid of it.
- 3:34Speaker 3: We nipped it in the bud. I mean, I thought
- 3:38Speaker 3: maybe they'd give her another one press conference, but I
- 3:41Speaker 3: think they probably knew the odds of it going well
- 3:44Speaker 3: were very low. Listen, I obviously wanted her to succeed, but...
- 3:49Speaker 3: it just watching the one press conference she did do,
- 3:53Speaker 3: it was very hard to picture a scenario where someone
- 3:57Speaker 3: is arguing with her and she shuts them down in
- 3:59Speaker 3: the way that someone like Kayla McGann and me or,
- 4:01Speaker 3: or Carolyn Leavitt would, there are, you know, a very
- 4:03Speaker 3: rare talent. It's extremely hard to find those people, but
- 4:05Speaker 3: I think Scott Jennings would have been a good pick
- 4:09Speaker 3: as well. And maybe he will be back in the,
- 4:11Speaker 3: in the running. It seems like he, he does want it.
- 4:13Speaker 3: So we talked.
- 4:15Speaker 2: About him in the past. We, when they were looking
- 4:17Speaker 2: for Katie Zachariah. A lot of the questions that came
- 4:21Speaker 2: up were about her being a lawyer or an attorney.
- 4:24Speaker 2: She went to Pepperdine, and I've got a video of that.
- 4:27Speaker 2: We'll get to that in just a minute. But let's
- 4:29Speaker 2: take a look at about 45 seconds of her only
- 4:32Speaker 2: press conference, the only press conference for Katie Zachariah as
- 4:36Speaker 2: the White House press secretary.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Shows that I know I'm capable of being able to
- 4:42Speaker 4: step up to that. So thank you for that question.
- 4:44Speaker 4: In fact, I am going to end it because President
- 4:46Speaker 4: Trump is heading out to Marine One for our historic
- 4:49Speaker 4: trip to Alaska, and we can ask him all of
- 4:53Speaker 4: the questions out there. So thank you so much.
- 5:07Speaker 2: She only let three people ask questions. The entire thing
- 5:11Speaker 2: lasted 14 minutes. You could tell that this was not
- 5:14Speaker 2: going to be a job for her. She went on
- 5:16Speaker 2: Sean Hannity and she answered the question about the attorneys,
- 5:21Speaker 2: about her posting as an attorney. 15 times she did.
- 5:25Speaker 2: I've got the video. Let's watch that and we'll talk
- 5:27Speaker 2: about it.
- 5:28Speaker 5: And you called it a conspiracy theory as it relates
- 5:30Speaker 5: to the issue of being a lawyer. Now, you did
- 5:34Speaker 5: go to Pepperdine. Pepperdine is a good school, no doubt
- 5:37Speaker 5: about it. You took the bar exam, but you didn't
- 5:41Speaker 5: pass the bar exam, correct?
- 5:43Speaker 6: Yes, Sean.
- 5:46Speaker 5: OK, did you ever take it a second time?
- 5:48Speaker 4: So for background, I graduated Pepperdine, got married in the
- 5:53Speaker 4: same week, and we had all intent to move out
- 5:57Speaker 4: to China. I had already pre-registered for the bar exam
- 6:01Speaker 4: and during basically during the summer, I knew I would
- 6:05Speaker 4: be living in China and the results of the bar
- 6:08Speaker 4: were inconsequential. And I sat for it because I didn't
- 6:11Speaker 4: want to have a withdrawal status. And then I moved
- 6:14Speaker 4: over to China and where I did get a job
- 6:16Speaker 4: in an international practice of a Chinese law.
- 6:19Speaker 2: OK, so there's that stuff. I think she tried to
- 6:22Speaker 2: answer that pretty well. But she's out that quick. What
- 6:25Speaker 2: was it, five days? Five days, and she's gone.
- 6:28Speaker 3: She almost got exactly 15 minutes of fame by podium time.
- 6:32Speaker 3: She's owed a minute or two, so that's coming.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Well, there's another person in the Trump administration in the sphere.
- 6:40Speaker 2: That would be Kimberly Guilfoyle. She's got some drama going on.
- 6:45Speaker 2: We almost talked about this last week because Eric Dieters
- 6:48Speaker 2: was in the news last week with Kimberly Guilfoyle. over $ 100, 000
- 6:53Speaker 2: that he says that he doesn't owe her. And she
- 6:57Speaker 2: was trying to get him to pay her American express
- 6:59Speaker 2: bill for $ 100, 000 right there at the time that she
- 7:03Speaker 2: was being confirmed for the Senate to become the ambassador
- 7:06Speaker 2: in Greece.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's one of the big flaws with
- 7:10Speaker 3: diplomatic immunity is you can be a legal criminal for, uh,
- 7:14Speaker 3: over many years here in office, big loophole there, a
- 7:17Speaker 3: big flaw there, I suppose. Um, It was amusing how
- 7:22Speaker 3: quickly Trump distanced himself from her in addressing it. And
- 7:26Speaker 3: he was like, yeah, I guess she dated my son
- 7:28Speaker 3: at one point. She's just some woman who we exiled
- 7:31Speaker 3: to Greece to get away from. But that was actually
- 7:33Speaker 3: one of the few things we did learn from that
- 7:35Speaker 3: press conference that news that got broke was that she
- 7:38Speaker 3: was asked to resign. But yeah, obviously, it's a very
- 7:41Speaker 3: bad look to obviously have us doing corruption in a,
- 7:44Speaker 3: or alleged corruption, I should say, in the Balkans.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Dieter said that He paid her three times,
- 7:52Speaker 2: and it was $ 100, 000 per appearance that he had agreed
- 7:54Speaker 2: to pay her, and he had paid her. But evidently,
- 7:57Speaker 2: there was a question over this fourth appearance, and she
- 8:00Speaker 2: wanted him to pay the $ 100, 000 American Express bill. And again,
- 8:04Speaker 2: she was engaged to Donald Trump Jr., not just a girlfriend. Right.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was kind of repeating myself for a second.
- 8:13Speaker 3: That was the joke. The breakup was so bad, they
- 8:15Speaker 3: had to exile her to Greece to– Keep a distance. Well,
- 8:19Speaker 3: that's what it looked like. Yeah, it is pretty much.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I mean, the good news here is these ambassadorships aren't
- 8:24Speaker 3: even real jobs. Realistically, there's really not much at stake
- 8:30Speaker 3: here with a lot of these, so it's not like
- 8:32Speaker 3: it's a great crisis or anything, but it is just
- 8:35Speaker 3: a bad look to have this kind of behavior.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Did you question Dieter's timing on this at all? He's
- 8:42Speaker 2: a big Republican donor, and suddenly he comes out with
- 8:46Speaker 2: all this negativity. right here before the midterm well what
- 8:49Speaker 2: do we have three weeks before the midterm and a
- 8:52Speaker 2: big republican donor is coming out and he's coming out strong.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Yeah well he has to pretend he's not someone that
- 8:59Speaker 3: was himself engaging in pay for play he has to
- 9:02Speaker 3: be the one who's like yeah sure i was paying
- 9:04Speaker 3: someone off but actually she's the criminal not me and
- 9:07Speaker 3: it's like he's also compulsive in this as well so
- 9:10Speaker 3: he has no moral standing here.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Yeah let's uh have a listen to eric deeter's He
- 9:15Speaker 2: is a retired attorney from the state of Kentucky and
- 9:18Speaker 2: a big Republican donor.
- 9:19Speaker 7: Might just bring down the entire Trump administration.
- 9:25Speaker 8: It also may end the J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio ticket
- 9:32Speaker 8: after you hear the phone call.
- 9:34Speaker 2: That I'm going to play tomorrow. So that gets back
- 9:37Speaker 2: to my question, Matt. What is up with him and
- 9:40Speaker 2: his timing? Why is he trying to railroad the administration down? J.D.
- 9:44Speaker 2: Vance and Marco Rubio. You got any idea there? Any thoughts?
- 9:48Speaker 3: No, I've got to look more into this guy to
- 9:49Speaker 3: figure out what the real motive is here. Yeah, it
- 9:53Speaker 3: doesn't make up. The timing is horrible. And then what,
- 9:55Speaker 3: why would he want to take down the entire administration?
- 9:59Speaker 3: Because Kimberly Guilfoyle hounded him over a couple of hundred grand.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:03Speaker 3: It's very bizarre situation. Um, it's the first I ever
- 10:08Speaker 3: heard of this guy. So I just don't know what
- 10:09Speaker 3: other kind of interests he might have that could be causing.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Well, he has run for office unsuccessfully, but who's behind this.
- 10:16Speaker 2: Is it him or, Or is somebody else behind this?
- 10:19Speaker 2: I think you have to ask that question.
- 10:21Speaker 3: Good question.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Let's keep listening.
- 10:23Speaker 8: By the end of tomorrow, I am going to play
- 10:27Speaker 8: for you a phone recording that is the most explosive,
- 10:33Speaker 8: most devastating information about Kimberly Guilfoyle to date.
- 10:40Speaker 3: No one in the media has it.
- 10:42Speaker 8: Mail Online doesn't have it. Wall Street Journal doesn't have it.
- 10:46Speaker 8: And I am going to play for you a 16-minute
- 10:50Speaker 8: phone conversation I had from Greece.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Now, isn't that illegal? Doesn't the other person have to
- 10:58Speaker 2: know that they are being recorded in a phone call?
- 11:01Speaker 3: I don't know what the laws are in Greece. But
- 11:03Speaker 3: in Kentucky.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Where he would be. I know in Florida you can't
- 11:07Speaker 2: do that without letting the other person know.
- 11:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. And I don't know what the
- 11:12Speaker 3: international implications are as well. in terms of that.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Again, I've got to wonder, what is this guy's motivation?
- 11:19Speaker 2: Because he's come on strong.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Next week, we'll probably have some better insight on that. Yeah,
- 11:24Speaker 3: very odd. He's like, he's deliberately in front of the
- 11:29Speaker 3: cross with the American flag to try to convey, hey, Republicans,
- 11:33Speaker 3: I'm one of you. I'm on your side.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Believe me.
- 11:36Speaker 3: I don't know. Very weird situation.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Here's a little more.
- 11:38Speaker 8: It's my opinion that I have brought down the Greek ambassador.
- 11:48Speaker 7: It's my opinion that Susie Wiles is going to go.
- 11:52Speaker 7: And it's my opinion that this is going to be
- 11:56Speaker 7: the Jack McCall, without the violence, the Jack McCall of
- 12:01Speaker 7: the Trump administration.
- 12:04Speaker 2: And he says, go look up Jack McCall. Do you
- 12:06Speaker 2: have any idea who Jack McCall is?
- 12:08Speaker 8: No.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Any idea?
- 12:09Speaker 3: I'm too young.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Even I'm too young for that one. It was the
- 12:14Speaker 2: guy who shot Bill Hickok. Oh, right.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:19Speaker 2: He says without the violence, though.
- 12:20Speaker 3: Was that the poker player, Bill Hickok?
- 12:23Speaker 2: Bill Hickok. No, he was like a Western politician. Yeah, yeah.
- 12:27Speaker 2: He was a Western politician.
- 12:28Speaker 9: Oh, no, no.
- 12:29Speaker 3: He was the, yeah, yeah, never mind. Stupid comment.
- 12:34Speaker 2: What about Ilhan Omar? She got raided this week. Is
- 12:38Speaker 2: she going to be in any trouble here?
- 12:40Speaker 3: So I, on another show I do, which I will
- 12:42Speaker 3: never name, obviously, for, you know, keep all the viewers here.
- 12:48Speaker 3: We had on a woman who has been investigating Ilhan
- 12:50Speaker 3: Omar and doing FOIA requests, requests from DHS for documents.
- 12:54Speaker 3: And she found an earlier birth date for Ilhan Omar
- 13:01Speaker 3: and had tried to question, you know, which was her
- 13:06Speaker 3: real birth date. And like, places where it was published
- 13:10Speaker 3: as this older date, or I guess earlier date, meaning
- 13:15Speaker 3: she would be older, scrubbed it from their websites without
- 13:19Speaker 3: explaining anything, explaining why. And the reason this is relevant
- 13:22Speaker 3: is because She claims to have been naturalized as a U.S.
- 13:27Speaker 3: citizen through her father becoming a citizen. Now, if you
- 13:30Speaker 3: are not an adult, you're a 17-year-old and your parent
- 13:33Speaker 3: becomes an American citizen, you derive citizenship from that. If
- 13:38Speaker 3: you're an adult, you do not get that benefit. So
- 13:41Speaker 3: if this earlier birth date, meaning she would be older,
- 13:44Speaker 3: is correct... it would mean it was not possible for
- 13:48Speaker 3: her to derive citizenship from her father, in which case
- 13:50Speaker 3: she would actually not be a U.S. citizen. She had
- 13:53Speaker 3: also did a FOIA for requests on Ilhan Omar's father's naturalization.
- 13:59Speaker 3: And USCIS wrote back, they've searched the name and every
- 14:04Speaker 3: possible alias, and they cannot find any records of him
- 14:07Speaker 3: being naturalized. So now, to be fair... There is a
- 14:12Speaker 3: possibility it's just government incompetence and searching through the databases,
- 14:16Speaker 3: they missed an alias, they had a typo or something.
- 14:19Speaker 3: But those two things independently are both very, very interesting,
- 14:22Speaker 3: and both point to the fact that she may not
- 14:25Speaker 3: even be a citizen. So forget the whole marrying her
- 14:28Speaker 3: brother stuff, forget all the fraud, forget X, Y, and Z,
- 14:32Speaker 3: the feeding our future stuff. She might not even be
- 14:34Speaker 3: a citizen in the first place, and that's like the
- 14:37Speaker 3: first level of all the scandals, the earliest possible one
- 14:41Speaker 3: in her whole life story is her faking being a citizen. Now,
- 14:44Speaker 3: we don't know if that's 100% true, but this one
- 14:47Speaker 3: we spoke to, her name is AJ.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Shit, I forgot the actual name. She's been on Alpha News,
- 14:58Speaker 3: and I'll actually look up the name.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Yeah, think about it, and we'll go through what they
- 15:03Speaker 2: took from her house. They took cell phone, personal laptops, passport,
- 15:07Speaker 2: and notebooks from there. And as Matt was saying, the
- 15:11Speaker 2: allegations are that she was not an adult when... or
- 15:16Speaker 2: she was an adult actually instead of a child when
- 15:19Speaker 2: her father became a citizen, which would not make her
- 15:22Speaker 2: a citizen, which would also not make her brother a
- 15:24Speaker 2: citizen because she allegedly married her brother to make him
- 15:28Speaker 2: a citizen because she was a citizen.
- 15:30Speaker 3: A.J. Kern is the reporter. A.J., I'm sorry for forgetting
- 15:34Speaker 3: your name, but I learned you existed four days ago,
- 15:37Speaker 3: so it's my excuse. Anyway, we're all good.
- 15:40Speaker 2: You always have an excuse, man.
- 15:41Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I'm better than our press secretary. I have
- 15:44Speaker 3: one ready to go.
- 15:45Speaker 2: However, a federal judge has placed restrictions on how the
- 15:49Speaker 2: Justice Department can go through those files that were seized
- 15:53Speaker 2: in the home of Ilhan Omar. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh of
- 15:57Speaker 2: the D.C. District Court did find probable cause to sign
- 16:01Speaker 2: off on the initial search warrant, but he rejected the
- 16:04Speaker 2: DOJ's request for broad, unfettered access to the materials. There
- 16:09Speaker 2: is some protections there for members of Congress.
- 16:14Speaker 3: I just hope that this ends with a deportation or
- 16:17Speaker 3: a denaturalization. Although the thing is, we can't denaturalize her
- 16:21Speaker 3: if she's not a citizen in the first place.
- 16:23Speaker 2: So I guess it's just... We just deport her. Yeah,
- 16:26Speaker 2: we just get rid of her. And a lot of
- 16:27Speaker 2: people want that, don't they? And speaking of Ilhan Omar
- 16:31Speaker 2: and her brother, look at this. Have you seen this?
- 16:35Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to kind of... I chuckle, but
- 16:38Speaker 3: he is embracing the meme. To anyone who doesn't get
- 16:40Speaker 3: the reference of I'm the host now... Omar Fats is
- 16:44Speaker 3: a spitting image of the Somali pirate from the Captain
- 16:47Speaker 3: Phillips movie who very iconically says to Tom Hanks, I
- 16:52Speaker 3: am the captain now. So it's objectively a funny reference.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Everyone in this photo should be deported, but it is funny.
- 17:01Speaker 2: So the guy that became a citizen because he married
- 17:04Speaker 2: his sister, allegedly, Ilhan Omar, who now may not be
- 17:08Speaker 2: a citizen, which would not make him a citizen, They
- 17:11Speaker 2: are going to be on a podcast October 26th with
- 17:14Speaker 2: our buddy Hassan Piker there, the socialist and the leftist
- 17:19Speaker 2: that is attached at the hip to El-Sayed in Michigan.
- 17:24Speaker 3: Did you see, too, with El-Sayed, has he been denying
- 17:28Speaker 3: that any of his family members had any Muslim brotherhood
- 17:30Speaker 3: ties or support? And people found tweets from his sister from,
- 17:34Speaker 3: I think it was 2012 or 2014, where she was
- 17:37Speaker 3: saying she supports the Muslim Brotherhood and all of her
- 17:39Speaker 3: family does as well. And El-Sayed was asked about it
- 17:44Speaker 3: and then just got angry and did the whole, you're
- 17:47Speaker 3: asking me about this when affordability is such a problem
- 17:51Speaker 3: and blah, blah, blah, Trump. And of course, we're not
- 17:53Speaker 3: addressing this. He possibly, he really can't. And then on
- 17:56Speaker 3: a second note, Trump started copying what we did on
- 18:00Speaker 3: this show and calling El-Sayed a, Mohammed bin Mohammed, Mohammed, whatever.
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- 19:24Speaker 2: Let's talk about El-Sayed then, because, you know, if you
- 19:28Speaker 2: go back into his history, he kind of tells you
- 19:30Speaker 2: what his plan is, and that's to take away your guns.
- 19:35Speaker 2: He said this. This was one of his tweets or
- 19:38Speaker 2: posts on X that no longer exist. What if we
- 19:41Speaker 2: tweaked the Constitution, amended the Second Amendment, and instead of
- 19:45Speaker 2: a right to bear arms, we change it to the
- 19:48Speaker 2: right to have health care? okay that's what he.
- 19:50Speaker 3: Said here's the thing um you do have a right
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- 19:57Speaker 3: think there's a right to bear arms and people like
- 19:59Speaker 3: him who think there's a right to health care which
- 20:02Speaker 3: obviously there is is We don't think it's the government's
- 20:06Speaker 3: job to use tax dollars to buy everyone a gun.
- 20:09Speaker 3: We say you have a right to buy one. If
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- 20:14Speaker 3: cannot deny healthcare because they can't pay. We can't even
- 20:17Speaker 3: deny illegals healthcare. Someone's like, we have so much healthcare
- 20:21Speaker 3: around in this country. We have like... phantom healthcare providers
- 20:25Speaker 3: giving healthcare to people who don't even exist. That's how
- 20:27Speaker 3: much healthcare we got in this country. It's a distribution
- 20:30Speaker 3: problem in that, yes, we have 30 million illegals who
- 20:34Speaker 3: are getting it for free, and that displaces healthcare that
- 20:38Speaker 3: can be spent on other people or makes it more
- 20:40Speaker 3: expensive for everyone else. We also have, and this is
- 20:44Speaker 3: not something I even have any idea what the solution
- 20:46Speaker 3: could be, but we do spend an overwhelmingly disproportionate share
- 20:51Speaker 3: of healthcare in people's last month or so of life. Now,
- 20:56Speaker 3: it's not really something we can scale back because we
- 20:58Speaker 3: don't know when people are going to die with certainty.
- 21:01Speaker 3: But if there's any way we could ever somehow keep
- 21:06Speaker 3: the quality of care the same or keep the reduction
- 21:09Speaker 3: in suffering the same but do it more cheaply, I
- 21:12Speaker 3: don't know if AI could maybe help with that in
- 21:13Speaker 3: the future. This is probably many, many decades out. But
- 21:15Speaker 3: there's a lot of things we can do with healthcare
- 21:17Speaker 3: where we can just move a few things around and
- 21:19Speaker 3: make sure everyone gets covered because... We spend about a
- 21:21Speaker 3: fifth of our economy on health care. Most European countries do,
- 21:25Speaker 3: maybe 10% to 15%. And the thing, too, that liberals
- 21:28Speaker 3: don't understand, though, despite me saying they're spending less, is...
- 21:32Speaker 3: Under socialized medicine, it's not like you just walk into
- 21:35Speaker 3: a hospital and get whatever service you want. There are
- 21:39Speaker 3: people in other countries that have quote-unquote free healthcare that
- 21:42Speaker 3: have to go to the U.S. or somewhere else and
- 21:45Speaker 3: pay out of pocket at a private hospital to get
- 21:47Speaker 3: what they want. Medical bankruptcy, believe it or not, is
- 21:50Speaker 3: not non-existent in countries with so-called free universal healthcare. It's
- 21:56Speaker 3: really just a universal rationing scheme where it's okay, these
- 21:59Speaker 3: things are covered for everyone, and you're going to have
- 22:02Speaker 3: to wait longer, the quality is going to be lower,
- 22:04Speaker 3: but you're not going to get a bill out of pocket.
- 22:05Speaker 3: I mean, these are all the trade-offs. And listen, we're
- 22:09Speaker 3: in a country where we know how the government tends
- 22:11Speaker 3: to run things, and even if we were to say, hey,
- 22:15Speaker 3: it works in X, Y, and Z country, we don't
- 22:18Speaker 3: really have great precedent for that kind of thing working
- 22:20Speaker 3: here at all. Actually, I should sit back a second
- 22:22Speaker 3: and say, the VA is the biggest socialized medicine system
- 22:26Speaker 3: in the entire world, not really known for its great outcomes.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Well, speaking of gun and grabbing guns by the Democrats
- 22:35Speaker 2: at El Sayed, I think the shooting in Bend, Oregon,
- 22:38Speaker 2: which we haven't talked about yet, three children and a
- 22:41Speaker 2: teacher were killed in the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary
- 22:46Speaker 2: in Bend, Oregon. That took place on Thursday. You've probably
- 22:48Speaker 2: heard of that. The children were the ages of 5, 8,
- 22:51Speaker 2: and 11. Two other people, A seven-year-old and another teacher
- 22:56Speaker 2: were also critically injured in that. Now, the person who
- 23:00Speaker 2: did the shooting was 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, 16
- 23:04Speaker 2: years old. He also is a resident of Bend, Oregon.
- 23:08Speaker 2: And the reason why I want to bring this up, Matt,
- 23:11Speaker 2: is because of who stopped the guy I just talked
- 23:15Speaker 2: about with the long gun that was doing the shooting.
- 23:18Speaker 2: It was someone with a gun, and Oregon is a
- 23:21Speaker 2: liberal state, but he had a gun, and that's also
- 23:25Speaker 2: an argument for those of us who love the second
- 23:28Speaker 2: amendment and think it's our right to have a gun
- 23:31Speaker 2: is it was someone with a gun that is a
- 23:34Speaker 2: law abiding citizen that stopped more death in this case.
- 23:39Speaker 3: Yeah. From what I saw, he was just driving to
- 23:41Speaker 3: grab lunch and saw a kid trying to get into
- 23:44Speaker 3: a school with a gun and had the good sense
- 23:46Speaker 3: to realize as I think anyone would.
- 23:48Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 23:49Speaker 3: Something's probably off here. This cannot end well. There's no
- 23:51Speaker 3: scenario in which that is happening. Um, And, you know,
- 23:55Speaker 3: kudos to that guy. Like, I've had that thought of, like, what,
- 23:58Speaker 3: you know, if I was someone with a concealed carry,
- 24:01Speaker 3: which is not, you know, the most possible thing in
- 24:03Speaker 3: New Jersey where I am, but if I was in
- 24:05Speaker 3: that kind of situation, like, would I even recognize the
- 24:08Speaker 3: threat is real if it happened? Or would there be
- 24:10Speaker 3: that doubt in my head that's like, oh, it's an
- 24:12Speaker 3: off-duty cop. It's a movie. It's just so, you know,
- 24:17Speaker 3: it's a one-in-a-million kind of thing. So, you know, the
- 24:20Speaker 3: fact that people, that these gun owners... can recognize the
- 24:24Speaker 3: threat so well, you know, good for them.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Speaking of New Jersey, did you see your assistant attorney
- 24:32Speaker 2: general there in the state? He was arrested for child porn.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Did you see that? Do you have anything on that?
- 24:39Speaker 3: I didn't realize we have hundreds of assistant AGs in
- 24:42Speaker 3: our state.
- 24:43Speaker 2: His name is Brian Fitzpatrick.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think I did see that one. Yeah,
- 24:47Speaker 3: I haven't read too much into it, but yeah, obviously
- 24:49Speaker 3: it's a good thing he's gone. I mean, we should
- 24:51Speaker 3: probably recheck any of his cases that involve children or
- 24:54Speaker 3: anything to make sure he's going after people adequately. There's
- 24:59Speaker 3: obviously reason for doubt there.
- 25:01Speaker 2: Let's go back to Michigan and let's talk about Mike
- 25:03Speaker 2: Rogers and El Sayed. We've been talking about them really
- 25:07Speaker 2: for months. And back to the Wisconsin primary when the
- 25:12Speaker 2: big-time socialist communist was running. And at that time, I
- 25:17Speaker 2: said that that governor's race and Michigan Senate race are
- 25:20Speaker 2: going to be a big indication on where America is.
- 25:23Speaker 2: How far into socialism and communism have we gone? How
- 25:27Speaker 2: far left and radical have the Democrat party gone? And, uh,
- 25:32Speaker 2: you know, the, the one in Wisconsin, she lost the
- 25:34Speaker 2: primary Crowley is going against Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin. It's
- 25:39Speaker 2: a very close race. Tiffany is within about three points there.
- 25:42Speaker 2: And then you have Michigan, which is a toss up
- 25:44Speaker 2: and could be a win for the Republicans. and gain
- 25:47Speaker 2: a seat in the Senate.
- 25:48Speaker 3: That would be so cool.
- 25:49Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 25:49Speaker 2: The problem is there hasn't been a Republican win a
- 25:53Speaker 2: Senate race in Michigan since 1994. And that was one
- 25:58Speaker 2: six-year term, lost the seat, and it's been Democrat ever since.
- 26:01Speaker 2: And before 94, you have to go back to 1972.
- 26:04Speaker 2: So it's just really difficult to win in the state
- 26:08Speaker 2: of Michigan. And coming up on the other side of
- 26:10Speaker 2: the break here in just a few minutes, We're going
- 26:13Speaker 2: to have a greater conversation about turnout. It is something
- 26:17Speaker 2: that Matt and I have talked about probably most of
- 26:20Speaker 2: this year. You have to go out and vote. But
- 26:23Speaker 2: that's not what we have seen. We haven't seen that
- 26:25Speaker 2: in race after race all the way back to New
- 26:28Speaker 2: Jersey and Virginia last year in November.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Yeah, no, unfortunately, the early voting, you know, in place
- 26:34Speaker 3: of the track it by party or people are getting
- 26:36Speaker 3: it from exit polls. It seems to be Republican turnout
- 26:40Speaker 3: is down. Democrat turnout is up. The margin by which
- 26:43Speaker 3: Democrat ballots are being sent back versus Republican from yelling
- 26:47Speaker 3: ballots is much higher for Democrats. The ratio is more
- 26:50Speaker 3: than the two to one it normally is. And I
- 26:55Speaker 3: know that at least the GOP where I am. and
- 26:58Speaker 3: I think others should follow their lead, I didn't actually
- 27:01Speaker 3: realize this until I learned this last night, they know
- 27:04Speaker 3: who and who has not returned a ballot. So if
- 27:08Speaker 3: you're a Republican Party local head, you have a list,
- 27:12Speaker 3: or at least should, of every single ballot that has
- 27:15Speaker 3: gone out and has not yet been returned, and you
- 27:17Speaker 3: should be sending people to their house, sending mailers, texting them,
- 27:21Speaker 3: doing everything you can to get those people to turn out.
- 27:23Speaker 3: That is... literally votes just sitting in someone's house. All
- 27:27Speaker 3: you have to do is contact them and remind them
- 27:29Speaker 3: or something. So hopefully they mobilize a mail-in voting among
- 27:32Speaker 3: those who do it. God, let's hope the same-day turnout
- 27:36Speaker 3: is higher. But it unfortunately does look pretty bleak right now.
- 27:40Speaker 3: I think you and I have agreed it'll be 220,
- 27:42Speaker 3: 230 House seats for Democrats. But I think Republicans will
- 27:46Speaker 3: hold the Senate or maybe even potentially pick up a seat,
- 27:49Speaker 3: which would be pretty cool.
- 27:50Speaker 2: I'm not so optimistic about the Senate. I think the
- 27:53Speaker 2: Republicans will keep it. I just don't think they're going
- 27:55Speaker 2: to be at 54, for instance. I think more like
- 27:58Speaker 2: 51 or 52. It's interesting to me what Donald Trump
- 28:58Speaker 2: is doing here and where he's having these rallies. You
- 29:01Speaker 2: wouldn't expect him to have to go to Montana and Alabama.
- 29:05Speaker 2: But I think that's an indication of a little bit
- 29:06Speaker 2: about what we were talking about a few minutes ago,
- 29:09Speaker 2: that things aren't going as well as the Republicans would like.
- 29:13Speaker 2: And do you know who Data Republican is? on social media. Yeah,
- 29:17Speaker 2: Jessica Pounds.
- 29:19Speaker 3: I think she was working for Doge for a while.
- 29:22Speaker 3: She was some sort of special government employee. I think
- 29:25Speaker 3: it was Doge-related. But yeah, she's known for doing very
- 29:28Speaker 3: lengthy data analysis-related posts on social media where she shows
- 29:34Speaker 3: links between Soros money or some NGO and where it
- 29:37Speaker 3: all goes and breaks it all down in a very
- 29:39Speaker 3: easy way. I think I'm quoted in her new book,
- 29:42Speaker 3: but I have to see.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Oh, really?
- 29:44Speaker 3: Congratulations. Yeah, she requested a copy of my book on
- 29:47Speaker 3: Alex Soros as part of her project, so I sent
- 29:50Speaker 3: her one maybe a year ago or.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Whenever that was.
- 29:54Speaker 2: That would be the book The Air, which was released
- 29:56Speaker 2: about a year ago.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Available wherever books are sold.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Well, we take a chance to sell a book every
- 30:02Speaker 2: once in a while. Between us, we have written 12 books.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Yes.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Matt has written 11. So I've written the only one
- 30:09Speaker 2: I ever will.
- 30:10Speaker 3: You know how good my editing skills are? So I
- 30:13Speaker 3: finally got a manuscript in the last book I've been
- 30:15Speaker 3: writing for a year or so done. I've edited it
- 30:18Speaker 3: through four times. And I thought, like, hey, I definitely
- 30:21Speaker 3: missed stuff. Let's try one of these AI programs. Let's
- 30:25Speaker 3: see if we can do a comprehensive book review or
- 30:28Speaker 3: manuscript review and make a list of anything I need
- 30:30Speaker 3: to change. So it spits me back a list of 1,300
- 30:34Speaker 3: things to fix. And I figured it's got to be
- 30:38Speaker 3: the most pedantic stuff ever, like word choice. It wants
- 30:41Speaker 3: me to use a synonym for a word. Nope, they're
- 30:43Speaker 3: all typos. Every single one. I must be blind or something.
- 30:48Speaker 3: Good job editing, man. Thank you. I'm the worst editor
- 30:51Speaker 3: on the planet.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go through this from Data Republican. Go ahead
- 30:54Speaker 2: and take this one on because you were talking about
- 30:56Speaker 2: this before the break.
- 30:57Speaker 9: Yes.
- 31:15Speaker 3: It's her grammar that's wrong, not me. I'm not a literate.
- 31:17Speaker 2: No, well, we were just talking about your editing ability,
- 31:20Speaker 2: so maybe it's the way you read things.
- 31:21Speaker 3: It is where the real signal starts. I've done nothing wrong.
- 31:26Speaker 3: It started, and it's bad for Republicans. The data Republican
- 31:29Speaker 3: North Carolina map now defaults to all early voting, male
- 31:33Speaker 3: plus in person, against the same point in 2022. It
- 31:37Speaker 3: updates every morning. I think she means compares, not defaults.
- 31:42Speaker 3: Let's benchmark it first. So at this point in 2022,
- 31:46Speaker 3: the early vote was Democrat plus 13. It then ended
- 31:49Speaker 3: up where Democrats won plus seven overall, and Republicans still
- 31:54Speaker 3: won every statewide race. A Democratic lead in the early
- 31:58Speaker 3: vote is normal. What matters is how big the lead
- 32:01Speaker 3: is compared to 2022. Correct. Let's find out.
- 32:05Speaker 2: And I think that's one thing some people miss. You
- 32:07Speaker 2: have to compare these to midterms. Midterm turnout, go back
- 32:11Speaker 2: to 2018.
- 32:11Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 32:11Speaker 2: 49% of all registered voters voted. That's it. That's how
- 32:18Speaker 2: bad midterm turnout is, regardless of who's running. And that's everybody.
- 32:23Speaker 2: That's Democrat, Independent, and Republican. Anybody that is registered to vote,
- 32:27Speaker 2: 49% voted in 2018. And then in 2022, the last midterm,
- 32:30Speaker 2: that number was 46%. So it went down. Less than
- 32:33Speaker 2: half of the people registered to vote actually go and
- 32:41Speaker 2: vote in these midterm elections. That's why it's so important
- 32:44Speaker 2: for you to go out and make sure that you
- 32:46Speaker 2: vote coming up in the midterm election. And by the way,
- 32:49Speaker 2: in most states, early voting is going on. Now, let's
- 32:51Speaker 2: keep going with this, Matt. Let's talk about the benchmarks
- 32:55Speaker 2: that she was talking about.
- 32:56Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 32:56Speaker 3: All right. Oh, Jesus. So this year, the early vote
- 33:01Speaker 3: so far is Democrat plus 27.6%. compared to D plus
- 33:06Speaker 3: six in 2022. And then in 2024 is D plus 1.5,
- 33:11Speaker 3: a 21.6 point shift towards Democrat. Um, so that's, you know,
- 33:16Speaker 3: and the reason to kind of read it, what you
- 33:18Speaker 3: were saying, the benchmark is important is because we can
- 33:21Speaker 3: look at this and say, well, the early vote is
- 33:23Speaker 3: always Democrat. Well, yes, but it's 20 points more Democrat
- 33:26Speaker 3: than normal. Um, so oral early voting so far, male
- 33:31Speaker 3: plus in person against the same point in 2022. with
- 33:35Speaker 3: 19 days remaining to the election. The Republicans share, and
- 33:39Speaker 3: I assume she means as a percentage of all ballots,
- 33:42Speaker 3: is down nine points. Democrats up five, independent ballots up four.
- 33:47Speaker 3: And we don't know how the independents are breaking, but
- 33:49Speaker 3: even if they all went Republican, Republicans are still, you know.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Underwater by quite a bit.
- 33:55Speaker 3: So the raw margin by those numbers is a 14
- 33:58Speaker 3: and change shift towards Democrats and If independents are split evenly,
- 34:03Speaker 3: it's plus 22.2, which is not great. So as for
- 34:05Speaker 3: the raw vote totals, a little over 46,000 Republicans versus 54,000
- 34:06Speaker 3: in 2022. So we lost almost 8,000. Democrats have gained
- 34:09Speaker 3: over 30,000. Independents are up as well.
- 34:10Speaker 9: So....
- 34:26Speaker 3: I'm a little, I'm not unsure of the part at
- 34:29Speaker 3: the end where she said independence-leaning Republican, independence-leaning Democrat, what
- 34:32Speaker 3: she meant by that, or how she would know that.
- 34:35Speaker 3: But either way, the things are trending kind of catastrophically here. Yeah,
- 34:39Speaker 3: and that's where I want to get to.
- 34:41Speaker 2: Because when you look at the House of Representatives, you
- 34:43Speaker 2: and I both have said really all year, especially when
- 34:47Speaker 2: you look at the predictive markets, cowshee or polymarket, that
- 34:51Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to win the House of Representatives.
- 34:53Speaker 2: And that's what we were going to have to face
- 34:55Speaker 2: unless we get out there and vote. And some miracle happens.
- 34:58Speaker 2: But let's just assume for a moment that we don't.
- 35:00Speaker 2: We're going to see impeachments. We're going to see investigations.
- 35:04Speaker 2: That's what we have to look forward to. So use
- 35:07Speaker 2: that as motivation to get out there and vote while
- 35:09Speaker 2: you still can. And especially on November 3rd, if you
- 35:12Speaker 2: haven't voted at that point. But you put that together
- 35:15Speaker 2: with Donald Trump's approval rating, which is down around 35%.
- 35:19Speaker 2: It's not a good story. And, Matt, right now I
- 35:22Speaker 2: have this thing at about 226 to 209 in Democrats
- 35:27Speaker 2: over Republicans. As I mentioned earlier, the Senate, I believe,
- 35:31Speaker 2: you know, it's going to be 51-52. If you put
- 35:34Speaker 2: a gun to my head right now, I would say
- 35:36Speaker 2: the over-under has to be about 51 Republicans hold. Which
- 35:40Speaker 2: Republicans do you think will lose seats if– I think
- 35:43Speaker 2: Alaska Dan Sullivan is.
- 35:45Speaker 3: Oh, that unfortunately is probably... Well, the thing too that's
- 35:48Speaker 3: screwing him is there's a spoiler in the race as well.
- 35:51Speaker 3: There's a second Dan Sullivan. And I think I mentioned
- 35:54Speaker 3: this in a prior episode. There is like... I don't
- 35:57Speaker 3: know what his relevance was, why they even quoted him.
- 35:59Speaker 3: I think he was like a high school principal or someone,
- 36:02Speaker 3: not even a political person, but he was named Dan
- 36:04Speaker 3: Sullivan and he endorsed one of the Dan Sullivans. So
- 36:08Speaker 3: the headline was Dan Sullivan endorses Dan Sullivan over Dan Sullivan,
- 36:12Speaker 3: which was... A funny headline, but anyway. So that could
- 36:16Speaker 3: hurt him. I mean, I think Collins should be an
- 36:20Speaker 3: easy win.
- 36:20Speaker 2: I think Collins is secure, yeah.
- 36:22Speaker 3: I think she's secure. Texas, I didn't realize how unpopular
- 36:26Speaker 3: Paxton is among a lot of people, but Talafrico is,
- 36:30Speaker 3: as the name says, just a little too weird, I think,
- 36:32Speaker 3: for most people. Like, Like, normally, for instance, Hispanics, you know,
- 36:36Speaker 3: generally lean Democrat, you know, might go 60 or 70
- 36:38Speaker 3: percent in that direction. But they hate, like, a lot
- 36:42Speaker 3: of the social stuff that Tallarico is pushing. So that
- 36:45Speaker 3: could turn a lot of them off. They hated that
- 36:47Speaker 3: with Harris as well. So we'll see.
- 36:50Speaker 2: I think you have to look at Iowa and consider Iowa.
- 36:53Speaker 2: I don't think that's a done deal for Henson, the Republican.
- 36:57Speaker 2: They just had a debate this past week. And I think,
- 37:01Speaker 2: you know, we talked about Minnesota last week with Michelle Tafoya.
- 37:04Speaker 2: You know, maybe she comes in there and does something
- 37:06Speaker 2: and flips Minnesota. I doubt that's going to happen. I
- 37:09Speaker 2: really do.
- 37:10Speaker 3: Her polling is, it's weird, but her polling is the
- 37:13Speaker 3: best of all the head-to-heads. She's within the margin of error.
- 37:17Speaker 3: I think she was behind by a point or two
- 37:18Speaker 3: last week when we talked about it. But in the
- 37:20Speaker 3: betting odds, she's the least likely to win. So is
- 37:24Speaker 3: there someone... Plays in bets that knows something about the
- 37:27Speaker 3: polls that we don't. I don't know. Or is it
- 37:29Speaker 3: just dumb money?
- 37:30Speaker 2: Who knows?
- 37:30Speaker 3: But I guess if you believe the polls over the markets,
- 37:33Speaker 3: you can make a lot of money betting in one way.
- 37:35Speaker 2: But I would not recommend that. Well, North Carolina, that's lost.
- 37:39Speaker 2: You know, you have Cooper, who used to be a
- 37:42Speaker 2: governor there. He's never lost a statewide race in North Carolina.
- 37:46Speaker 2: That is a flip. That's going from Republican to Democrat there.
- 37:49Speaker 2: You have Tom Tillis. You're not missing anything with Tom Tillis.
- 37:53Speaker 2: going out of the senate for the republicans he has
- 37:55Speaker 2: been no help at all so that will be a
- 37:58Speaker 2: flip to answer your question who did i have alaska
- 38:01Speaker 2: iowa is a possibility you know texas you and i
- 38:04Speaker 2: both think that paxton will end up winning but people
- 38:06Speaker 2: say that's a possibility and then michigan would not be
- 38:10Speaker 2: a flip because gary peters is a democrat and else
- 38:13Speaker 2: i add if he is to win uh that's not
- 38:16Speaker 2: going to change that number for the Muslim brotherhood, but yeah.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Husted in Ohio. That's another one. You have shared Brown,
- 38:24Speaker 2: the Democrat that has been a Senator before and Husted
- 38:27Speaker 2: who was appointed by DeWine, the governor in Ohio to
- 38:32Speaker 2: replace JD Vance. This is the first time he has
- 38:34Speaker 2: run for a statewide office. That one right now he's trailing.
- 38:37Speaker 2: So that's another loss for the Republicans. So I think
- 38:41Speaker 2: they're there and it really comes down as it always
- 38:43Speaker 2: does to any election. But especially in the midterm, it
- 38:46Speaker 2: comes down to who comes out and who votes, what
- 38:49Speaker 2: the turnout is going to be. And as we just
- 38:51Speaker 2: showed you there with North Carolina, as an example, the
- 38:55Speaker 2: Democrats are energized to come vote and go vote in
- 38:58Speaker 2: this midterm. And that's not a good indicator there for
- 39:02Speaker 2: the Republicans.
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- 39:49Speaker 2: While you were talking, I was looking back through a
- 39:52Speaker 2: post that I made on Thursday of this week about
- 39:56Speaker 2: the things you're talking about. What exactly is the problem
- 39:58Speaker 2: with Donald Trump? What is it? Listen to this. During
- 40:01Speaker 2: Joe Biden's four years as president, Americans' wages grew 19.9%
- 40:05Speaker 2: while inflation grew 21.5% or negative 1.6% through those four years.
- 40:08Speaker 2: It was probably really worse. Yeah, it probably is. And
- 40:10Speaker 2: I got questioned on it. But again, the government number
- 40:19Speaker 2: shows about 19% as wage growth. But let's use the
- 40:24Speaker 2: numbers the government uses, because then no one can really
- 40:27Speaker 2: argue with you. Okay, so it's negative 1.6% wage growth
- 40:33Speaker 2: with the 21.5% inflation during Biden's four-year term. In Trump's
- 40:37Speaker 2: first term, wage growth outpaced inflation by 1.8% annualized, or 7.2%
- 40:44Speaker 2: cumulatively in Trump's second term. Even with the Iran conflict
- 40:49Speaker 2: that you were talking about and the gas prices, Trump's
- 40:52Speaker 2: wage growth has been 3.7, and average inflation over the
- 40:57Speaker 2: last 20 months or so is 2.4%. Over four years
- 41:02Speaker 2: of Trump's second term, that will be plus 5.2 or
- 41:06Speaker 2: plus 6.8% greater than Joe Biden's four years. And I
- 41:10Speaker 2: think that's sort of what you were talking about.
- 41:14Speaker 3: Yeah, and when it comes to the inflation numbers, the
- 41:17Speaker 3: consensus among economists, before COVID at least, used to be
- 41:23Speaker 3: that the consumer price index, which is like the headline
- 41:26Speaker 3: inflation number we hear.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Just had to come out.
- 41:29Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 41:30Speaker 3: The consensus was that it would actually understate inflation. And
- 41:33Speaker 3: the logic was supposed to be that, well, hey, suppose
- 41:37Speaker 3: there's an item you buy and there's a substitute for it.
- 41:39Speaker 3: So I don't know. An item you buy at the supermarket.
- 41:44Speaker 3: That's a regular premium brand versus the cheaper store brand version. Well,
- 41:49Speaker 3: if the premium brand goes up, people might be more
- 41:52Speaker 3: likely to buy the cheaper brand. Therefore, because there's a
- 41:56Speaker 3: substitution effect, even though inflation is up, people aren't fully
- 42:01Speaker 3: experiencing it because they're buying cheaper. cheaper product. And I
- 42:04Speaker 3: always thought that was a little silly because, well, yes,
- 42:07Speaker 3: you're buying a cheaper product, but it's an inferior product
- 42:10Speaker 3: you're only buying because of inflation. So why would you
- 42:13Speaker 3: then discount that? But anyway, my point being that this
- 42:16Speaker 3: is completely flipped since COVID in that if you look
- 42:20Speaker 3: at how the CPI has been calculated during the Biden years,
- 42:24Speaker 3: they have different components of the economy. They take a
- 42:27Speaker 3: weighted average to figure out what is the average inflation
- 42:30Speaker 3: being experienced. So No one is actually experiencing the headline number.
- 42:35Speaker 3: Some are below, some are above. But with COVID, the
- 42:42Speaker 3: proportion of the CPI that has to do with health
- 42:45Speaker 3: care costs, it was in the calculations was negative, meaning
- 42:52Speaker 3: they were claiming in the calculation that health care was
- 42:55Speaker 3: going down in cost every year under Biden. Now, I
- 42:59Speaker 3: don't think there's a single person in the entire country
- 43:02Speaker 3: paying a healthcare premium that had their costs go down.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Mine went up probably 50%. Healthcare, as I said earlier,
- 43:10Speaker 3: is 20% or so of the economy. So if part
- 43:13Speaker 3: of that inflation calculation... that is 20% of the economy,
- 43:17Speaker 3: and their calculation is going down when I know for
- 43:21Speaker 3: me it's up 50%, obviously that whole equation then becomes worthless.
- 43:25Speaker 3: So I think under Biden, they were deliberately somehow... Well,
- 43:30Speaker 3: I shouldn't even say somehow. I just explained it. They
- 43:31Speaker 3: were deliberately toying with the numbers to try to understate
- 43:34Speaker 3: inflation because they were telling us, yeah, inflation is 20%,
- 43:38Speaker 3: and I'm going, but everything I buy is like 50
- 43:41Speaker 3: to 100. So what are the things that are going
- 43:45Speaker 3: down to average that down to 20%? Nothing. It was
- 43:48Speaker 3: all made up.
- 43:49Speaker 2: And I don't think the Republicans have effectively messaged on
- 43:53Speaker 2: the big, beautiful bill and what they did because the
- 43:57Speaker 2: best thing they did in that legislation was was extend
- 44:01Speaker 2: the tax cut that Donald Trump did in his first term.
- 44:04Speaker 2: And the difference is, you know, what the Republicans, I
- 44:06Speaker 2: see Scott Bassett, he'll be on Fox Business, he's talking
- 44:09Speaker 2: about it. The American people got $ 3, 400 on their refund. Well,
- 44:13Speaker 2: my first thinking is, well, what did they get last year? Well,
- 44:17Speaker 2: last year they got $ 3, 100. It was an 11% increase.
- 44:20Speaker 2: That's nice. But here's the part that they have not
- 44:24Speaker 2: messaged at all. The Democrats had two years when they
- 44:28Speaker 2: had power, they had everything. And they could have extended
- 44:31Speaker 2: that tax cut themselves. But instead, they were all prepared
- 44:36Speaker 2: to let that tax cut sunset. And it would have
- 44:39Speaker 2: this year. And that would have cost every American family
- 44:43Speaker 2: of four $ 6, 000 more than what they were paying. And
- 44:47Speaker 2: you don't hear any Republicans talking about that. I think
- 44:50Speaker 2: it's a missed opportunity.
- 44:51Speaker 3: The tough thing with the messaging on affordability is, and
- 44:55Speaker 3: we've talked about this before, everyone expects, you know, hey,
- 44:58Speaker 3: I paid $ 1 for this thing last year. Now it's $ 1. 50.
- 45:01Speaker 3: I want it to be $ 1 again. Listen, the money
- 45:04Speaker 3: supply is always going up. Things are not overall going
- 45:09Speaker 3: to come down in price. I mean, yes, there are
- 45:11Speaker 3: things here and there in the economy that you can
- 45:13Speaker 3: target and reduce the price of. But in aggregate, prices
- 45:17Speaker 3: are always going to go up. So it has to be, well,
- 45:20Speaker 3: if prices are going up 1%, hey, we want wages
- 45:23Speaker 3: up 5% because then everything in terms of– you know,
- 45:28Speaker 3: what you're getting per hour of your pay. Well, you
- 45:30Speaker 3: just got 4% richer, even though inflation went up. And
- 45:34Speaker 3: the problem is though, like you just, there's no real
- 45:37Speaker 3: effective way to market to people and say, Hey, the
- 45:41Speaker 3: ratio of your grocery bill to wages, uh, just decreased
- 45:45Speaker 3: last year. No one really thinks in these terms. Um,
- 45:49Speaker 3: and you know, as some, I studied finance and economics
- 45:52Speaker 3: in college, and I think half the people I was
- 45:55Speaker 3: with were economically illiterate. So I don't think people would
- 45:59Speaker 3: really respond very well to that kind of messaging, even
- 46:02Speaker 3: though it is quite literally true.
- 46:04Speaker 2: But I think they do respond to, we saved you $ 6, 000.
- 46:08Speaker 2: And nobody said that. And that's what they did. It
- 46:12Speaker 2: would have been the highest tax increase in American history
- 46:15Speaker 2: had they not made those tax cuts permanent. And they
- 46:18Speaker 2: missed an opportunity with that. That's $ 500 a month more
- 46:22Speaker 2: than an American family would have been paying had they
- 46:25Speaker 2: not passed the big, beautiful bill. And the only thing
- 46:27Speaker 2: they talk about it is no tax on tips. Social
- 46:30Speaker 2: Security gets a break, a tax credit. And what was
- 46:34Speaker 2: the other one? No tax on tips and overtime. Yeah, overtime.
- 46:39Speaker 2: No tax on overtime. So let's move on to Bank
- 46:42Speaker 2: of America being fined $ 1. 2 billion for laundering money for
- 46:48Speaker 2: China is what they did. And I don't even know
- 46:50Speaker 2: if $ 1. 2 billion is enough here, Matt.
- 46:53Speaker 3: No, it's crazy. It's a very common story. You'll see
- 46:56Speaker 3: a story where it's like this bank made a billion
- 46:59Speaker 3: dollars from fraud. They were punished with a hefty $ 20
- 47:02Speaker 3: million fine. So it's just a business at this point.
- 47:06Speaker 3: It's a, it's a, it's an income statement item fee
- 47:09Speaker 3: for fraud. All right. We still netted a nine 80. No,
- 47:12Speaker 3: this is crazy stuff. And it's, I don't know how
- 47:15Speaker 3: anyone thinks they're going to get away with this kind
- 47:17Speaker 3: of crime on this scale. All these transactions are monitored.
- 47:21Speaker 3: The IRS sees all this. They have algorithms that look
- 47:25Speaker 3: into this kind of stuff. You're going to get caught.
- 47:27Speaker 3: Not like I think anyone watching this was going to
- 47:29Speaker 3: launder billions of dollars, but not a wise crime.
- 47:33Speaker 2: Well, Scott Besant said, when a bank of this size
- 47:36Speaker 2: fails to meet its anti-Mundi borrowing and sanctions obligations. The
- 47:41Speaker 2: consequences extend far beyond its own walls, exposing the entire U.S.
- 47:47Speaker 2: financial system to significant illicit finance risks. And the Treasury
- 47:53Speaker 2: said the Bank of America also reached an $ 11. 6 million
- 47:57Speaker 2: settlement with the Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control over
- 48:01Speaker 2: apparent violations of numerous sanctions programs, including on Iran, Russia, narcotics,
- 48:09Speaker 2: and global terrorism. And they get a $ 1. 2 billion fine,
- 48:14Speaker 2: which was the largest this organization had ever put out.
- 48:17Speaker 2: But still, it's $ 1. 2 billion.
- 48:20Speaker 3: The stock is down 11% this past week. So it
- 48:22Speaker 3: did take a hit from this. Although the current market
- 48:26Speaker 3: value of Bank of America is $ 358 billion. That's all?
- 48:30Speaker 3: I think they'll live to see another day.
- 48:36Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.
- 48:37Speaker 8: No.
- 48:38Speaker 2: What about Jack Smith? He was in the news this week, too.
- 48:42Speaker 2: The investigation, which was Arctic Frost, reveals that they investigated you.
- 48:48Speaker 2: If you have a MAGA hat, they looked at you.
- 48:51Speaker 2: If you donated as little as a dollar, I think
- 48:54Speaker 2: in total there were 639,000 people that Jack Smith and
- 48:59Speaker 2: the Department of Justice under Joe Biden went after or
- 49:02Speaker 2: looked at. They have all the spreadsheets, 148,000 pages of
- 49:08Speaker 2: spreadsheets that show Republican donors and who donated information, who
- 49:13Speaker 2: donated things that goes from 2005 to 2021. So if
- 49:15Speaker 2: you voted for a conservative candidate during that time, well,
- 49:22Speaker 2: guess what? Jack Smith knows where you are, knows where
- 49:24Speaker 2: you live, and probably knows everything about you.
- 49:28Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably one of multiple watch lists I'm on.
- 49:32Speaker 3: So it's great to learn of another one. Well, you know,
- 49:38Speaker 3: I came across this story. We're getting close to Halloween.
- 49:40Speaker 2: We're also coming up toward the end of the hour.
- 49:43Speaker 2: What do you think about this guy? What about that face?
- 49:51Speaker 3: Was he killed or he was the killer? Yeah, he
- 49:54Speaker 3: was the killer. I totally believe that, yeah.
- 49:57Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like he may be a killer.
- 49:58Speaker 3: He looks like a killer in a movie, which is crazy.
- 50:01Speaker 2: Well, he killed his aunt, who was a hairdresser, and
- 50:06Speaker 2: Then he also killed the aunt's mother. I guess that
- 50:08Speaker 2: would be his grandmother. And he did it in their house.
- 50:13Speaker 2: Guess what he did it with?
- 50:15Speaker 3: Any idea? I would have to guess it's a chainsaw.
- 50:19Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
- 50:20Speaker 3: It was a chainsaw.
- 50:21Speaker 2: It's on the screen.
- 50:22Speaker 1: Oh, it is?
- 50:22Speaker 2: I see that. Look at that. I tell you what.
- 50:31Speaker 3: Good job, Matt. You got it right. See, I'm the
- 50:35Speaker 3: worst editor ever, but I can catch stuff like that.
- 50:37Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks. You should have caught that before the show, maybe.
- 50:40Speaker 2: That would have helped. Oh, well. That's right. Let's stay
- 50:44Speaker 2: in Indiana. What about this lady? Her name is Jamie West.
- 50:50Speaker 3: Oh, she rocks. I love her.
- 50:52Speaker 2: She's running for county government in Indiana.
- 50:56Speaker 11: That's what I have to say about that.
- 50:58Speaker 2: Okay.
- 50:59Speaker 5: And our last question of the night is.
- 51:02Speaker 3: It's a little low. Let me tell you. I know
- 51:04Speaker 3: she probably wants to kill us, but she's so funny
- 51:07Speaker 3: with the delivery. I can't even be mad.
- 51:09Speaker 2: Is she drunk? What is she?
- 51:12Speaker 3: If not drunk, she's on some kind of drug. But
- 51:16Speaker 3: she delivers it like a bit, what she's going to say.
- 51:18Speaker 3: If you haven't heard this, it's the craziest thing you're
- 51:20Speaker 3: going to see all week, and I'm not exaggerating.
- 51:22Speaker 2: It's like something from Saturday Night Live. That's what I
- 51:25Speaker 2: felt like I was watching.
- 51:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 51:27Speaker 2: But to set this up a little bit, she's in
- 51:29Speaker 2: an interview with someone. And by the way, as I
- 51:32Speaker 2: play this and watch it, look at the desk that
- 51:35Speaker 2: she's sitting at at this television studio. The desk is
- 51:40Speaker 2: all scratched up. It's awful for a set. But here
- 51:44Speaker 2: she goes. This is probably all she should have said.
- 51:47Speaker 2: But she kept going, obviously.
- 51:49Speaker 11: And that's what I have to say about that.
- 51:50Speaker 2: Okay.
- 51:51Speaker 9: Okay. And our last question of the night is, if elected,
- 51:55Speaker 9: what is one decision that you expect to make that
- 51:58Speaker 9: may be unpopular with some voters, but you believe ultimately
- 52:01Speaker 9: would be in the best interest of Fayette County?
- 52:06Speaker 11: I wouldn't raise your taxes. What is the one decision
- 52:11Speaker 11: that I would make?
- 52:14Speaker 2: You would think, Matt, that this would be one you
- 52:18Speaker 2: rehearsed before you showed up at the television station.
- 52:21Speaker 3: It's a question, though, you can't answer honestly, because if
- 52:24Speaker 3: you do, no one votes for you. He does answer honestly.
- 52:27Speaker 3: He does answer honestly, but I would give a BS answer,
- 52:33Speaker 3: and I would pick something really popular that I know
- 52:35Speaker 3: everyone agrees with and be like, You know, no, it's
- 52:38Speaker 3: not popular, but I would have to support that I
- 52:40Speaker 3: would just say whatever the most popular, obvious thing is.
- 52:43Speaker 3: Because if I went up there and I was like,
- 52:46Speaker 3: people are hysterical about data centers. They're a good thing.
- 52:49Speaker 3: No one's going to vote for me. No one's going
- 52:51Speaker 3: to go, wow, you're really speaking truth to power, even
- 52:53Speaker 3: though I disagree. No, people hate you. So it's a horrible,
- 52:56Speaker 3: it's a question you can't actually answer, honestly. But she does,
- 52:59Speaker 3: and it goes well for comedic purposes.
- 53:03Speaker 2: But don't you have an answer prepared?
- 53:06Speaker 3: You should, yeah, for everything.
- 53:08Speaker 2: I mean, this is a layup question. What are you
- 53:11Speaker 2: running for? What do you stand for? What is one
- 53:13Speaker 2: thing you will do?
- 53:14Speaker 9: In the best interest of Fayette County.
- 53:16Speaker 8: Hmm.
- 53:18Speaker 11: I wouldn't raise your taxes. What is the one decision
- 53:23Speaker 11: that I would make?
- 53:24Speaker 5: Hmm.
- 53:28Speaker 11: Repeat that again. What is the one decision that I
- 53:30Speaker 11: would make that might not be popular?
- 53:32Speaker 9: Right. That may be unpopular with some voters.
- 53:34Speaker 11: Unpopular with some voters.
- 53:35Speaker 9: But is in the best interest of the county.
- 53:37Speaker 3: Here we go.
- 53:41Speaker 11: Firing all Republicans.
- 53:43Speaker 10: I wouldn't let them. I mean, I.
- 53:47Speaker 11: Don't even talk to them. I don't like them. I mean,
- 53:49Speaker 11: they voted against our own state representative voted against her
- 53:55Speaker 11: own party.
- 53:56Speaker 1: I mean.
- 53:57Speaker 9: What?
- 53:58Speaker 3: Your own party?
- 53:59Speaker 11: What do you want me to say?
- 54:01Speaker 3: I don't like being around.
- 54:02Speaker 2: I want you to tell us how much you've.
- 54:03Speaker 5: Had to drink.
- 54:04Speaker 11: Y'all did this to us. You all voted for us.
- 54:06Speaker 11: You made this happen. This ice coming into our communities,
- 54:11Speaker 11: stealing people's jobs.
- 54:14Speaker 8: I mean.
- 54:14Speaker 3: Mace is stealing jobs?
- 54:16Speaker 2: Yeah. Someone will vote for her. We'll have to keep
- 54:21Speaker 2: an eye on her. Her name is Jamie West. I'm
- 54:23Speaker 2: going to keep playing this because.
- 54:30Speaker 11: I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA,
- 54:36Speaker 11: we'll call them.
- 54:37Speaker 6: Because there's Republicans.
- 54:40Speaker 11: Who actually get it. You know, there are good Republicans
- 54:45Speaker 11: out there. But then there's these MAGAs who are just
- 54:48Speaker 11: racist and aren't very intelligent at all.
- 54:54Speaker 2: Uh-oh. Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? I
- 54:59Speaker 2: guarantee you she came from a two-for-one happy hour somewhere.
- 55:04Speaker 3: I think it was way more than that.
- 55:06Speaker 2: More than two? She used the.
- 55:09Speaker 3: Happy hour ten times, yeah.
- 55:13Speaker 2: She is gone.
- 55:13Speaker 3: She's wasted.
- 55:14Speaker 11: They call you names. You don't share a nephew trying
- 55:19Speaker 11: to blow my head off. But, you know, what are
- 55:22Speaker 11: you going to do?
- 55:23Speaker 9: Well, that brings us to your opportunity to say just
- 55:28Speaker 9: a few last words to the voters.
- 55:31Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
- 55:34Speaker 11: We have guns, too.
- 55:37Speaker 9: All right. Well, as a reminder, the general election is
- 55:40Speaker 9: November 3rd. Early voting began October 6th. You can vote
- 55:44Speaker 9: Monday through Friday from 8 p.m.
- 55:46Speaker 2: We have guns, too.
- 55:48Speaker 3: When I first saw that, I was like, Is AI
- 55:51Speaker 3: this advanced now or is this a sketch from 10
- 55:54Speaker 3: years ago and it's just going viral now? No, that
- 55:59Speaker 3: is a real video. You can find the original video
- 56:01Speaker 3: on YouTube of whatever this was. Incredible stuff.
- 56:05Speaker 2: I would almost vote for and then go to the
- 56:08Speaker 2: city council member council meetings so I can watch it.
- 56:12Speaker 2: It would be very entertaining.
- 56:14Speaker 3: If she's in a district, I don't know which one
- 56:16Speaker 3: she's in, it's going to be blue anyway. Well, I
- 56:19Speaker 3: don't know if it's like deep. I imagine it's a
- 56:21Speaker 3: Democrat district. But if a Democrat's going to win anyway,
- 56:25Speaker 3: she would be the funniest pick. Although, you probably can't
- 56:29Speaker 3: drink on the job, so it'll be less entertaining with
- 56:31Speaker 3: her sober.
- 56:32Speaker 2: Are you sure?
- 56:33Speaker 1: There is only one truth. You've been listening to The
- 56:37Speaker 1: Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.