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  It's time for the truth be told with Booker Scott.
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  The art of the deal may be running out in the Middle East for Donald Trump.
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  In a lot of ways, it seems like we were just here two weeks ago.
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  We had a 48-hour ultimatum then.
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  And we have one of those now.
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  Tomorrow night, Tuesday night, eight o'clock Eastern time.
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  That is when all hell will break loose, according to Donald Trump on Easter Sunday morning.
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  I'm Booker.
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  This is The Truth Be Told.
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  It is a Monday night, and because of that, we have Matt Palumbo.
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  He always joins us here for Mondays with Matt.
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  Matt, it was a busy week.
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  We have another one ahead of us.
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  It looks like things are a little bit crazy, and we're going to get into the Iran stuff a little bit later.
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  How was your Easter?
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  Uh, I guess we'll start on a positive note with Easter.
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  Uh had a very good Easter as a family.
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  Um it was a nice, you know, break from the uh chaos of the news, even if it was just for a day.
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  But uh, I had a very good Easter and hope you did.
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  I know it wasn't his own.
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  I I did.
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  I did, and as I was coming out of church Sunday morning, I get a text message, and it's from you, and it happens to be just what President Trump put out Sunday morning at about eight o'clock about this deadline and what is coming on Tuesday night.
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  That's what we're gonna talk about here in just a little bit.
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  But before we do, I want to talk about some good news because there was some good news in last week and over the weekend.
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  Artemis too lifted off on the way to the moon.
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  It's almost there, and it's really an incredible story when you look at Orion.
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  They've had some problems with it.
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  Everything is going well now with the exception of the toilet.
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  And I think they may have what's the problem with the toilets?
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  We have the uh Gerald R.
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  Ford aircraft carrier.
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  The the toilets are messed up on it, and now we have Artemis too with uh a mess up there.
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  But it's great to see America leading again, going to a place that no human has ever been, and that's on the dark side of the moon.
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  Yeah, I think it's awesome.
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  And liberals, and this is actually also true during the first moon landing.
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  The the reaction from the left was one of why are we wasting money on stuff like this when we could be feeding the poor?
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  It's it's any advancement, any show of greatness is just reduced to well, why couldn't we sp instead just wait have the government waste the money?
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  And I don't know, it's just to me is such a uh loser-ish kind of view.
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  It's it's uh, you know, if we all had that mindset, there would never be any scientific advancement, quite frankly, ever.
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  Um and you know, to make the obvious point, the problem with the poor in this country is actually they eat too much, so that they're not being fed.
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  So I don't know, just as a lot, it's just bizarre to see that kind of demoralization in response to what is such an amazing sea of humanity.
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  I was watching over the weekend.
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  It seems that on the back side of the moon, the dark side of the moon from uh uh the earth.
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  Yeah, that it is an album too by Eric Clapton.
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  I had it.
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  It was I had it on cassette back in 1984, I believe.
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  Uh the Dark Side of the Moon, Eric Clapton.
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  Look it up.
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  Some good songs on that album.
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  But there are a lot of craters on the backside of the moon because it sort of works as a shield to prevent Earth from being hit by asteroids in space.
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  And it is that that they want to take a look at for building uh uh, you know, to go to Mars to build a space station there on the moon in the future.
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  When it comes to exploration, I think that's the way humans are built.
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  We're always looking for the next thing for future.
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  If we hadn't, America wouldn't even be here.
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  People hadn't looked for a new world.
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  It's just in our nature.
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  It's not gonna stop.
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  So whether you're left or right, uh conservative or liberal, it really doesn't matter.
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  That's human nature, it doesn't have anything to do with politics.
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  Yeah, and the thing too, but scientific advancement is you don't know what you're gonna discover until you discover it.
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  Like the fruits of space exploration are things that are probably beyond like are just things that we're never going to be able to imagine you and I sitting here, but for people a hundred years from now are gonna be things that are taken for granted.
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  Take it for granted.
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  So no, it's an awesome thing, and uh you know, good to see some uh good good news uh last week.
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  Yeah, it was it was it was a good news.
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  I I'm a guy that grew up with Apollo.
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  I was uh a little kid when Mercury was going on and and Apollo as well, but I remember my mom taking me to see a Mercury space capsule that had gone to uh or uh, you know, orbit the earth and splash down, and I got to see it in person and it made a huge impression on me.
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  And I saw him walk on the moon the last time.
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  So, you know, it's a part of my life.
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  I think that people my age are sort of uh space generation because we grew up with it.
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  And it was great to see Artemis to blast off, show American power, ingenuity, because in reality, that is one of America's greatest resources.
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  Our dollar doesn't have to be backed by gold or anything else when we have incredible resources and ingenuity, and that was what was on display last week with Artemis, and we'll continue to watch that as they come back to the earth here.
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  But incredible pictures, too, of the earth.
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  It's uh for those flat earthers out there.
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  You know, you can't look at you can't look at that picture and really believe that there is a flat earth.
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  And by the way, what about this mission missing uh uh general out in uh Nevada?
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  Have you seen that at all?
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  This guy that was involved with the uh aliens at uh in Nevada for years.
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  No, no, but I was gonna comment on the flat earth conspiracy.
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  Like no, no one's ever explained what the government has in it for them by covering it up.
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  Like, what what what is like what is the what would the government be protecting by hiding the fact that we have a flat earth?
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  I think we've been explained, it's very bizarre.
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  I think people just love conspiracy theories and this missing uh general out there.
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  He's retired now, but he was heavily involved in aliens at Area 51 for all of these years.
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  Now the conspiracy theorists on uh on that side of things that believe that there are aliens, they think that he was abducted or something, or he was uh they someone took him because they were uh he was gonna release information.
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  His wife has come out and said, uh, well, he left his glasses here, he left his wallet, and he uh took a 30, he took a 38 with him.
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  So he was he was leaving.
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  I was gonna say uh it sounds like an alien abduction, based on that.
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  Yeah, I don't think so.
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  No, no, no.
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  But let's stay here.
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  Let's stay here with some good.
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  Yeah, let's stay here with some good news because uh Friday uh uh F-15E was shot down in Iran in the conflict there, and quickly in within hours, the pilot was recovered, but then we had for 48 hours the colonel that was sitting behind the pilot.
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  He was the weapons specialist there on that that uh F-15.
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  He was missing for 48 hours, and we had an incredible rescue over the weekend.
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  Uh, yes, and the fact too that like Iran couldn't get to a guy like that in their own country within two days of you know having time to try to take him out, does also test to the fact that they really have no standing in the war.
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  They have no real ability to play back against us.
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  So I guess it's good news there, although you know, we're gonna have to trans um uh you know, uh transition into discussing the fact that the conflict is going on quite a bit longer than I think any of us expected, and the costs are getting to pile up to the fact where I think it is gonna be damaging to us, uh fortunately.
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  The exact circumstances of the rescue, it they still remain unclear.
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  Evidently he was injured somehow, but he also managed to get up about 7,000 feet onto a mountain, and there were hundreds of American troops that went in, a lot of planes, helicopters that went in to rescue him.
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  We did lose a C-135 transport plane there.
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  The American troops that were on the ground inside Iran, which this actually happened a lot further in in Iran than they thought.
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  It was Western Iran, close to Iraq, but yet it was a little bit further east than where everybody thought it was gonna be.
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  And there were hundreds of special forces as well as dozens of U.S.
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  fighter jets, helicopters.
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  They were all involved on that.
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  And we got the news early Sunday morning.
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  President Donald Trump, he goes to social media and he says, we have rescued the seriously wounded, is the words that he used.
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  And really brave F-15 crew member officer from deep inside the mountains of Iran.
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  And like I said, we don't know exactly how he's going to be as he uh how injured he was, but we're gonna find out over the next few days.
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  But really, an incredible rescue mission, some good news there, I believe, as we start this hour.
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  We've got Artemis, and we've got that, but I think again, it it shows the military force and capabilities.
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  The CIA was involved here in rescuing this uh uh weapons specialist from the F-15.
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  So another good news story here coming out of the weekend.
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  Um yes, and uh, and now for some bad news.
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  Well, we we have to talk about it.
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  I, you know, I I mentioned that coming out of church Sunday, you sent me a text, and you sent me the text that Donald Trump put out at about the same time that the women would have been at the tomb of Jesus 1,993 years ago.
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  Exactly.
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  I heard on Good Friday in our sermon on Good Friday that uh, according to the calendars and research and a couple of guys that have done uh research on it and written a book that it was actually April 3rd, which was Friday, and April 5th.
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  Uh Easter would have been uh the day that the tomb was empty.
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  So at about the same time the women were there, uh, you know, discovering that Jesus was gone, Donald Trump puts out that post.
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  And I have to tell you, when you sent that to me, you didn't say anything.
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  You just sent a screenshot of the post.
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  No, I said, oh man.
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  Oh, you did, yeah.
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  And uh I read it probably three or four times, and it really bothered me.
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  I have to say it bothered me a lot.
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  It um you know, there are times Trump says things where I'm like, all right, it's just gonna be a challenge to defend, but I'm up for the task.
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  This one is uh definitely a little more challenging than average.
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  Uh I don't know if you wants to want to read it first, and and just to be clear, this is not like a parody thing.
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  He actually send this.
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  Hey, Matt, I have this from Jake Tapper in CNN, and I want to warn everybody listening that if you have children around, I did not edit this.
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  This they're gonna be the words of the president of the United States who put this out 8 a.m.
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  on Easter Sunday.
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  Here is the piece from CNN.
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  Children are watching, be warned.
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  The president did not use polite language.
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  Quote Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran.
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  There will be nothing like it.
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  Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
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  Just watch.
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  We should note that destroying civilian power infrastructure is generally considered to constitute a war crime under international law, though.
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  The president could argue that the infrastructure has dual use and also is utilized by Iran's military.
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  And we kind of talked about that last week, Matt, if he does go after these targets.
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  I think this points to something else, though.
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  I to me it looks like desperation.
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  You know, is the art of the deal working with these people that have an ideology that only believe in putting fear in people and killing people, and they're doing it for a higher power, which by the way, Jake Tapper didn't read this, but Donald Trump put at the end of that post, all praise Allah.
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  Which what the hell was that?
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  Yeah.
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  Not smart, I would say, Matt.
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  That's how I would say it.
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  Not smart at all because they take their religion very seriously, to the point of chanting death to America for 47 years.
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  Not only that, but it's very disrespectful to the Arab nations that happen to be our allies right now, because they take that religion very seriously as well.
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  I was not happy about it at all.
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  I think Donald Trump is desperate here.
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  He doesn't know how to get out of this.
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  You mentioned earlier that we thought this was going to last four to six weeks.
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  I still believe it's going to be over pretty quickly.
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  I I really do, Matt.
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  But what's going to be left?
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  What is going to be left?
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  Because now everybody in the world is paying attention to Donald Trump and America and what we're going to do.
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  If we leave quickly, the Strait of Hormuz is going to open.
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  Would you agree with that?
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  I mean, if we get out of the way, it's going to open.
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  To be fair to Trump, when I saw gas prices today, I I repeated what he said instead of open up the F and Strait Army was already so I I uh see where he's coming from there.
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  Um yeah, I mean, I I I agree.
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  It would uh open up then, but no, I'm not really sure what the strategy is supposed to be.
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  And I think it was on this show we were talking about when Trump pushed back the deadline.
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  Um was that because you know they're making progress, they have to iron out the details, or was he bluffing the first time and now we're trying to come up with something else and I guess maybe there's more points to the the second, unfortunately.
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  Yeah, you may be right, but I hope I'm not right.
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  Yeah, well, I don't I don't know.
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  I I sense that uh Donald Trump wants out.
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  He knows that he needs to get out uh for gas prices for the midterm election because he knows he's going to be impeached if things don't uh uh don't turn out right, and we'll talk about the midterm election later in this hour.
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  But I think he needs to get out, and I think he knows that.
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  However, if you do not finish the job at this point in American history and world history, and you leave that regime there in charge, what they have learned, I believe what they have learned is that they have more power in the Strait of Hormuz for the global economy than they would ever have with one or two nuclear weapons.
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  They now know that all they have to do is shut down the Strait of Hormuz and the entire world gets rocked with their global economy.
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  What do you think about that?
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  Um yeah, that is uh the unfortunate reality.
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  And uh, you know, it is uh Trump really does then have to use force to like you know, at least make their consequences for them doing that.
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  So um thank God I'm not in charge of foreign policy in this country.
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  Right.
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  It'll be screwed.
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  It would be bad.
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  And I think the regime has to be gone, and I think that that would have to come from the people of Iran.
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  I've talked about that a lot.
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  That's how it has to happen.
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  But if that is not done, if that is not a consequence of what America has done and what Donald Trump has done here in this action, then nothing is going to change.
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  They can shut down the Strait of Hormouths whenever they want to.
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  By the way, uh the spot oil last week, Brent was up to 140.
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  Uh spot is uh about a two to three week delivery.
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  It's already on a tanker somewhere, it's waiting to find out where it needs to go.
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  It's 140 for Brent.
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  West Texas was at about 112, 115.
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  So our prices are not coming down for a while, regardless of what happens here and when it happens.
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  It's it's gonna be a while.
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  And as you said, you said the same thing Donald Trump did when you filled up gas.
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  Gas is over $4 a gallon now.
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  And that is and not only that, but I was having a conversation with a brother-in-law over Easter.
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  We were having uh dinner, and he's a contractor, and he was talking about filling his gas up in his truck every day.
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  It's costing $200.
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  But the price of a two by four has gone from $2.75 to $420.
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  So inflation in everything is gonna start coming up as a result of the higher gas prices.
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  Donald Trump knows this, and everything that he's been working for economically is in trouble as long as this continues.
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  I think he is looking for a way out.
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  I just don't think he knows how to right now.
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  What do you think?
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  I'm holding out hope he has a strategy, or at least those around him do.
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  Um, but yeah, I saw doing a bad.
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  Yeah.
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  And I again, I I don't want people to think that I'm blackpilling.
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  It's just as a Christian looking at that text that you sent me, walking out of church on Sunday morning, it really bothered me.
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  It really bothered me that the president of the United States put that post out.
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  It bothered me as a Christian.
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  It bothered me for our allies there in the Gulf Arab Nations.
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  And I started this hour with the art of the deal.
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  I think Donald Trump has always bullied people to get his way, and that is the art of his deal.
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  You have to have the leverage to negotiate.
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  I don't understand why we have ever offered to negotiate with these people to begin with.
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  We don't negotiate with terrorists as been our motto forever, and since 1984, Iran has been a state sponsor of terrorism.
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  Every president agrees with that.
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  And so why do you think you can bully Iran at this point?
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  Because that they lie.
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  That's what they do.
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  And it was very frustrating to see.
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  But one more.
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  I'm gonna play one more clip going before we go into the break, because this was Leland Veterard with of all people, John Bolton is their expert on Iran.
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  And I know John Bolton has 18 counts against him for stealing classified information and then transferring that classified information by email.
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  That's John Bolton.
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  He's waiting for a trial, and he's going to prison, but yet I guess news nation sees him as a credible voice.
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  Anyway, he he makes a point here, and let's listen to Leland Vedder and John Bolton.
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  Trump National Security Advisor during Trump 1.0, Ambassador John Bolton.
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  Welcome back to the program, sir.
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  Thank you.
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  As President Trump describes it, the U.S.
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  military can do whatever it's what it wants.
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  Basically, we've achieved victory uh over the Iranian military.
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  Is that good enough?
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  Well, I don't think it is with the Strait of Hormuz closed.
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  I think the the evidence that this threat, long time threat of closing the strait, closing the Gulf itself to maritime traffic, uh when you see the real effect of it, the dramatic uh impact on the global economy.
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  This tells the Ayatollahs and the revolutionary guard in Tehran that they can do that any time they want.
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  And something else that's happening here is Iran is being watched by Russia and China.
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  They are going to see what happens here, what Donald Trump does at the end of this conflict is he gonna see it through and finish it because they're paying attention to it because of Taiwan and because of Ukraine.
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  So it has many more implications than just getting out of there.
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  Donald Trump, I think, has to do what he says he's gonna do.
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  The bluff is not gonna work.
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  So we'll wait until Tuesday night to see that.
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  Something else Jake Tapper said uh a few minutes ago that when I played that clip, he talked about the illegal acts that it could be in blowing up the infrastructure.
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  And of course, he said that Donald Trump could make the argument that it has dual purposes, and I think you made the same argument last week.
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  However, we have Pete Heggseth that has fired 12 generals lately in the Pentagon, and this goes back to taking illegal orders.
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  I have seen talking heads over the weekend that said, well, maybe.
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  There'll be some generals that say, we're not doing that.
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  We're not going to blow up the bridges.
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  We're not going to blow up the electrical grid because that is against international law.
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  And we're not going to do that.
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  And then that gets me back to what I've talked about for months now that the seditious six and they did the video about uh, you know, don't follow illegal orders.
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  I believe that's the impeachment play for Donald Trump coming up after the midterms and after January next year.
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  We're gonna have more of this conversation coming up in minutes.
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  Thank you when it's falling because it brings a crane in a little bit of money.
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  We put it back in the plate, I guess.
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  Welcome back to the truth.
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  Be told.
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  That oral argument took place last week.
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  It was interesting.
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  We're going to talk about that.
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  But before we do, let's talk about Pam Bondy, because it's something that we have talked about for a long time, probably a year.
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  I know I've talked about it really since the name was mentioned by Donald Trump.
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  I never thought she would get the job done.
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  She didn't get the job done.
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  What are you reading into this?
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  Thank God it's happening.
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  It's uh uh should have been here quite a long time ago.
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  I mean, the second she lied about the whole Epstein files in my desk and did that whole stunt where she gave binders the influencers and told them to hold them up and uh you know, we were supposed to suppose he had the impression the files have been released.
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  Um I mean, just that stuff alone I thought was discrediting, and if she's gonna lie about something like that, what else is she gonna do?
• 24:07
  Um it seems that the straw that broke the camel's back here was that she had tipped off Eric Swalwell um to uh the investigation or or um the investigation to his associations with uh Feng Fang, the Chinese spy.
• 24:22
  So uh that I mean that that too is disqualifying if you're gonna help the other side for obvious reasons.
• 24:27
  And it is funny in that someone observed that's a work for Trump.
• 24:32
  You have to be like a bit of a sycophant, but you can't be too much of a sick event or else he loses all respect for you.
• 24:38
  And that basically perfectly describes the the downfall of Marshall Taylor Green and Pam Bondy.
• 24:43
  Yeah.
• 24:44
  Took it a little too far, and then we're also kind of betraying him at the same time with that public face.
• 24:48
  It's a bizarre combination to see from someone, but uh thank God they're both gone.
• 24:52
  Oh, something else that happened at the end of last week was Christy Gnome, who is another one that got shipped out of DHS.
• 25:00
  I I don't know what she's doing now.
• 25:01
  She's doing something in Central America, South America.
• 25:05
  Yeah, they absolutely did.
• 25:06
  And by the way, last week, Corey Lewendowski and her, they took a trip down there on a government plane.
• 25:12
  Lewandowski no longer a special government employee as he stretched that.
• 25:17
  You're only supposed to work 130 days a year.
• 25:19
  Evidently he was sneaking in in the car of Christy Gnome, and then uh uh, you know, uh going around checkpoints to get around those 130 hours.
• 25:29
  So Lewandowski is out.
• 25:30
  Christy Gnome is still in, sort of.
• 25:33
  Meanwhile, her husband is uh oh.
• 25:36
  Yeah, there's a big development here, folks.
• 25:42
  I'll let you do the honor for explaining what exactly happened.
• 25:45
  I'm not gonna do that.
• 25:46
  I I but it is uh what did you call it?
• 25:50
  A big what?
• 25:51
  It's a couple of big problems.
• 25:53
  Bimbocation.
• 25:54
  Yeah, bimbo vacation.
• 25:56
  I had never heard of that word.
• 25:57
  Evidently it's a fetish.
• 25:59
  And in the case of her husband, he spent about five thousand dollars with very large prosthetic breasts.
• 26:10
  He did this online with the girl that was charging him twenty dollars a minute.
• 26:15
  And you know who turned out to be like an illegal alien who I don't know how she knew that was Christy Gnome's husband.
• 26:22
  I don't he but she she turned she the revealed it to get revenge against Christy Noam for heading the DHS.
• 26:29
  So I don't like what I don't know the odds of some like online bimbo Spanish person knowing who he is.
• 26:37
  Like well, the odds about our even I didn't know who he was.
• 26:40
  No.
• 26:40
  So maybe I don't know if she just googles every client she has or if he somehow mentioned it or or what, but uh well it just dawned on me.
• 26:48
  Maybe she saw him in the hearing that Christy Gnome was in.
• 26:51
  Uh and he it was a few weeks ago, and he was behind her, and then maybe that's how she put it together.
• 26:57
  She said, Well, wait a minute.
• 26:59
  That's the guy with the big boobs.
• 27:01
  And there's really no other way to say it, unfortunately.
• 27:05
  But that's what he did.
• 27:06
  That's what he was into.
• 27:07
  And that you know, I I put this out on a post over the weekend.
• 27:11
  If you had this on your bingo card, that Christy Gnome's husband would have uh a better rack than she would, then you win it.
• 27:20
  You win all of the conspiracy theories because nobody saw that one coming.
• 27:24
  Let's get back a parlay on uh Christy Gnome's husband being into location and Trump praising Allah on Easter.
• 27:32
  So I want uh turn a dollar into 10 million dollars.
• 27:35
  I would imagine that would pay that kind of money.
• 27:37
  Praising Allah, our president, praising Allah.
• 27:40
  I don't know.
• 27:41
  I don't get me going back there.
• 27:42
  Because I did pretty good.
• 27:43
  I was uh I was hot about it Sunday on Easter, and I think I've calmed down a little bit the last time.
• 27:48
  Well, my dad was pretty bothered by it too.
• 27:51
  Was he really?
• 27:51
  Yeah, it was just uh very I don't know what the guy was thinking, but the trouble's like I and me either.
• 27:57
  I get the phone out of his hand sometimes.
• 28:01
  You know, this was uncalled for.
• 28:02
  But we're going back there.
• 28:03
  I want to stay here on Pam Bondy.
• 28:05
  That's where we're talking about things.
• 28:07
  Who's in?
• 28:08
  Who's gonna be the new attorney general?
• 28:10
  Right now, we have Todd Blanch, and Blanche has 210 days, is how long an acting attorney general can be in that job.
• 28:18
  Trump did this before when Jeff Sessions left.
• 28:20
  He named Matt Whittaker as a temporary before he got Bill Barr as the attorney general.
• 28:26
  Hope we don't get anybody like Bill Barr again.
• 28:28
  But we have Todd Blinch there now.
• 28:30
  We have Harmied Dillon, and uh one of the first names that pops up is Lee Zeldon, who is in the EPA.
• 28:37
  Yeah, I do too.
• 28:38
  But uh and I think he would be good.
• 28:41
  But the problem is he's done a hell of a job right where he is.
• 28:45
  The deregulation that he has done 10 to 1 in that uh agency is gonna make a huge difference.
• 28:52
  I think we're gonna start seeing it the back half of this year.
• 28:55
  He as a as a guy in administration, he's done a phenomenal job.
• 28:59
  He his experience as an attorney was a jag attorney in the reserves in the military for 20 years.
• 29:06
  I don't know if that translates to attorney general, but I I love Lee Zeldon.
• 29:10
  I think he did a great job in the house.
• 29:13
  I think he ran a great race against Hokel last time.
• 29:16
  He was within three points.
• 29:18
  It's unheard of in New York.
• 29:19
  In New York, and he also uh took along about five seats in the house when he ran such a good race in New York.
• 29:26
  So I like Lee Zeldon a lot.
• 29:28
  I just don't know.
• 29:29
  You know, the name that pops up for me is the name that I've mentioned for well over a year, and that's Andrew Bailey.
• 29:35
  And Andrew Bailey is the deputy director of the FBI now.
• 29:38
  He was the attorney general in Missouri that had incredible success in suing Joe Biden.
• 29:44
  If not for Andrew Bailey, so many of the things that Joe Biden was trying to accomplish would have been accomplished.
• 29:51
  But it was him.
• 29:52
  It was Andrew Bailey, and before him it was Eric Schmidt, who is now a senator out of the state of Missouri, and I don't think he's gonna uh
• 30:00
  Be considered for because he just won a race for six years two years ago, so he's got four years to go.
• 30:06
  I don't think he's gonna get out to to wrestle with that.
• 30:09
  But Andrew Bailey would be a good one, I think.
• 30:12
  What what are other names that you're considering or thought about?
• 30:15
  Has anything popped into your head?
• 30:16
  Yeah, my number one pick is uh Matt Gates, for sure.
• 30:20
  I uh he still has to get confirmed, you know.
• 30:23
  Yeah, no, never mind that.
• 30:24
  Uh yeah, well, think of acting for a hundred with 130 something days, that'll be good.
• 30:29
  Um, and I actually haven't given him very much thought, but whoever it is, like we need someone who's kind of like a nut job, or or at least is um but when I say nut job, like someone who is like rhetorically speaking about like locking up our enemies just to the left knows, like uh, they spent a decade doing it to us, so it needs to be some sort of pushback finally, and uh, we haven't really seen anything near as much as I think we actually want.
• 30:54
  Um, we're haven't really had the successes we want.
• 30:56
  So, like, yeah, I want a scorched earth kind of guy.
• 30:59
  We've had no success, Matt, when it comes to the Department of Justice, and I think that we are seeing that in all of these elections.
• 31:07
  I think Donald Trump's base is frustrated.
• 31:11
  Things have not gone like they thought they would.
• 31:13
  There is no accountability for John Bolton for John Brennan.
• 31:18
  Uh and by the way, those are still under investigation in the grand jury down in South Florida, Jack Smith and Arctic Frost, all of that is happening in South Florida in a grand jury, but something needs to happen before the midterm.
• 31:32
  Somebody needs to be perpedwalked and uh leg shackled, like uh Biden's uh uh DOJ did to Donald Trump's uh former um people like uh Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.
• 31:45
  That needs to happen because that will energize the base again for Donald Trump.
• 31:49
  I think he knew that, and I think that's part of the reason why Pam Bondy is gone at this point.
• 31:54
  I think he knew we've got to get some wins here.
• 31:56
  Nothing is working.
• 31:57
  Letitia James was a slam dunk, should have been easy, and it uh you know, wasn't James Comey was another one.
• 32:04
  It should have been easy, but it wasn't.
• 32:06
  There were missteps there by Pam Bondy with Halligan, Lindsay Halligan and appointing her.
• 32:11
  So I I think the base needs some wins here, and I think that a good attorney general, and I I don't know who it is.
• 32:18
  I think Andrew Bailey would be a good one.
• 32:20
  I thought when he went into the FBI, I thought maybe he was there as a placeholder for when Donald Trump got ready to do this.
• 32:28
  Evidently, Susie Wiles, you know, contrary to what had been reported, she was supportive of getting rid of Bondi a while ago.
• 32:36
  And and that that came out recently, and you remember her Vanity Fair interview.
• 32:42
  She put a lot of it on Pam Bondi just like we did with the Epstein Files.
• 32:46
  I really believe the Epstein files would not have been a noose around Trump's neck for the last year if it was not for Pam Bondy doing what she did on Fox News with John Roberts, and then what you talked about with uh the the influencers, the conservative influencers giving her a giving them binders of stuff everybody already knew.
• 33:05
  Yeah, it didn't help anything, and I think that the base needs some accountability.
• 33:12
  Speaking of the binders, Mike Cernovich um said he was part of that where like he got inflated and he was him in the binders, and he said they were told by Bondi there was no new information, even though they were all supposed to be giving this impression that it was.
• 33:28
  So it's just a bizarre thing to give them the binders and go, okay.
• 33:33
  By the way, I really summoned you here for no reason.
• 33:35
  There's no new information, but go ahead and pretend there is.
• 33:38
  I it was just a total disaster.
• 33:39
  And you know, now we're in this news cycle where if Trump, you know, attacks Iran, then the narrative becomes it's a distract from the Epstein files, and it's ironic because the Epstein files are becoming the distraction themselves.
• 33:52
  But I send you that meme of an F-15 that had been downed in the desert and it had the Epstein files stacked up.
• 34:00
  Okay, I wasn't sure if I sent that to you or not.
• 34:03
  Um Pam Bondy, by the way, she went to Stats Stets in Law in uh St.
• 34:08
  Petersburg, Florida, where I am, and local news here, they are going after Pam Bondy.
• 34:14
  They want Stetson Law to come out and denounce her.
• 34:17
  Here's a news story from Tampa Bay.
• 34:19
  Pam Bondy out as U.S.
• 34:21
  Attorney General.
• 34:22
  And now pressure continues to mount on the campus of Stetson Law in Gulfport, where Bondy earned her law degree in 1990.
• 34:29
  If we're going to invest in the long-term value of our degrees and the standing of our law school, the the uh the the dean of the law school needs to uh make a public comment at this point.
• 34:41
  They want a public comment from the dean at Stetson Law about Pam Bondi.
• 34:47
  It's sort of amazing.
• 34:48
  I I have my opinion about her.
• 34:50
  I have since the beginning, but it wouldn't go that far.
• 34:53
  What's the big deal about having uh an opinion from the dean at Stetson Law say anything about Pam Bondy?
• 35:00
  What does that do?
• 35:00
  Uh well, they're they're gonna try to get him to denouncer, and then if it doesn't, he becomes a target and he knows that, so he's incentivized to announcer, I guess, is the I don't know, the angle there from that.
• 35:11
  It's just like it's just like cultural revolution type stuff where you endlessly have to get people's opinions on things as a form of purity test.
• 35:19
  Well, you mentioned uh Eric Swalwell.
• 35:22
  I have a clip of him coming up here in just a minute, talking about how Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice, which is gold to me.
• 35:31
  And before we do, I want to play this meme.
• 35:34
  It's a short one, it's about 30 seconds, but this is Donald Trump singing about releasing Pam Bondi.
• 35:43
  Another one buys the dust.
• 35:48
  Another one buys the dust.
• 35:50
  Another one goes.
• 35:51
  Then another one goes.
• 35:52
  Another one buys the dust.
• 35:54
  Hey, another one buys the dust.
• 36:00
  But the Dow was over 50,000.
• 36:04
  You remember when she made that comment in the hearing?
• 36:06
  I thought that was funny.
• 36:08
  So Pam Bondi is gone.
• 36:09
  Donald Trump says she's moving on to private practice that will really help the administration.
• 36:15
  I think that's just being nice.
• 36:17
  But let's go to Eric Swalwell because he is talking about the weaponization that Donald Trump is doing with the DOJ.
• 36:24
  And it's not just all that's gonna come out on Epstein, it's all going to come out on how they've weaponized the Department of Justice against the president's political opponents.
• 36:33
  And so to the FBI agents who are being asked to break the law every single day.
• 36:38
  What we want to make clear, and I know this comes from Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, who will have the subpoena power next Congress.
• 36:46
  You will be protected if you come forward right now.
• 36:49
  If you do not come forward right now and you enable more corruption on Epstein or the weaponization, you will be before Congress, and it will all come out.
• 36:58
  How what evidence do you have that the FBI agents are being asked to do?
• 37:01
  Listen to this part every single day.
• 37:03
  Listen to his answer.
• 37:04
  Well, this Washington Post reporting and the New York Times reporting that they are being asked to essentially collude with the Chinese government to interfere in the California governor's race.
• 37:14
  Uh we've heard about uh the efforts to poll FBI to fire FBI agents.
• 37:21
  And Matt, that's been the damn problem with the Democrats ever since 2017 and the impeachments of Donald Trump.
• 37:28
  Their only evidence, and they did this January 6th, too.
• 37:31
  The only evidence they use is the New York Times of the Washington Post.
• 37:34
  They're not using real evidence that is corroborated.
• 37:37
  But here he is trying to find another Eric Cheramella to come forward and be protected at all costs to be a whistleblower to go against Donald Trump after the Democrats take power a year from now in January 2027.
• 37:52
  Uh yeah, and isn't he running for governor of California?
• 37:55
  He is correct.
• 37:56
  He is okay.
• 37:57
  Well, it it's um not to go off topic, but he he mentioned that.
• 38:00
  Um the way it works in California is they're having a primary right now, and the top two winners advance to the general election.
• 38:10
  But when they just when the California Democrats designed the system, they they kind of assumed you would always just be two Democrats that win the primary and then go face off against each other.
• 38:22
  So right now the the two front runners are actually Republicans, and they're only getting like 16 or 17% of the poll.
• 38:30
  There's 28 people running.
• 38:32
  You know, there's so many people running.
• 38:33
  Because it's like 10 people running.
• 38:35
  So the the Democrat vote is split, is so fractured that two Republicans are actually right now looking like their favorite to win with less than 20% of the vote each.
• 38:44
  And then you have a California governor's race where it's two Republicans against each other because California never made it.
• 38:50
  Um the primary is specific by uh like which party is first or second.
• 38:55
  So it it is possible that it's gonna be two Republicans versus like some right-off Democrat in that race.
• 39:01
  Uh, but to go back to his point, so that's a funny aside.
• 39:05
  Um, I you know, if Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice, God, I gotta hope Swallow's right that he is, because that is what we voted for.
• 39:13
  And as we're saying in the last segment, like, yeah, that's exactly what the base wants.
• 39:17
  Well, at this point, if he is weaponizing the Department of Justice, he sucks at it because nobody has been arrested.
• 39:25
  Nobody has been put in leg shackles, nobody has been convicted.
• 39:30
  So if that is the case, then he sucks at it.
• 39:33
  And uh getting back to that California race.
• 39:36
  Steve Hilton is leading uh Sheriff Chad Bianco is second right now.
• 39:41
  Those are the two Republicans that are leading the California primaries in the polls right now.
• 39:45
  It may not end that way.
• 39:47
  Eric Swalwell, we were just talking about him, he is in third right now in those same polls.
• 39:52
  We have more of the conversation coming up.
• 39:53
  We're gonna get into birthright citizenship.
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  Tonight at 9 o'clock, it is after dark with Rob and Andrew before that, the national security hour.
• 41:40
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• 41:45
  Booker Scott here with Matt Palumbo.
• 41:47
  Matt, we talked about birthright citizenship last week.
• 41:50
  We heard the oral arguments last week.
• 41:52
  What do you think coming out of that?
• 41:54
  What what are your what's your gut tell you?
• 41:56
  Well, I thought Trump's lawyers do get a job.
• 41:58
  I thought Katanji Brown Jackson once again made a fool of ourselves.
• 42:01
  I thought the ECLU lawyers clown themselves, but uh the consensus seems to be the opposite that based on the questions the judges were asking and the responses that they are going to uphold birthright citizenship.
• 42:14
  Um I mean, Amy Coney Barrett, which I thought was depressing, had concerns about you know how complicated it would be for people who are like how complicated it would be if you were born here to illegals, or if you were someone who was just born and got citizenship, how would that work out?
• 42:31
  And all these things that I think are kind of irrelevant to whether or not it should exist.
• 42:35
  Um then on poly market, it's basically right now 96% that birthright citizenship gets upheld, which is uh an insane percentage.
• 42:44
  So it's you know, very depressing because it is one of the most destructive policies we have in effect right now.
• 42:50
  And uh, you know, we we've talked about in the past why we don't think it's in the constitution.
• 42:55
  I mean, that the one of the men who crafted the 14th Amendment himself said that it's not um supposed to apply to people whose parents are not citizens, and uh I I don't know what the court's royalty is going to be when they went or if they uphold it.
• 43:10
  Well, there are a couple of things here, and I've said for a year that I did not think that this was gonna work.
• 43:16
  I thought that this would be one of the few, and it's interesting that it is one of the few that Donald Trump would lose because his record in the Supreme Court, 24 wins, four losses.
• 43:27
  That's pretty good.
• 43:28
  And I point that out because so many people get frustrated at uh judges like Bosberg and all these activist judges, and they think the judicial system is not working.
• 43:38
  I think it is working because that 24 and 4 record that Donald Trump has in the Supreme Court.
• 43:43
  Ultimately, the Supreme Court has to decide.
• 43:45
  Everything is not black and white in law, and I think people think that it is.
• 43:50
  If it were, you wouldn't need a Supreme Court if it was that simple, because there is interpretation.
• 43:54
  And I think the interesting part about this birthright citizenship argument is typically the conservative justices, they really rely on what the previous courts have said, the precedent.
• 44:06
  What has the precedent been?
• 44:08
  And the precedent in the court has been that they if you're born in America, you are an American.
• 44:14
  So you're gonna ask them to go against what they normally do, but also ironically, the liberal judges are going directly by the word of the 14th Amendment, which normally they stretch and go the opposite direction and create their own.
• 44:28
  So it's kind of weird that these justices are doing the opposite of or being asked to do the opposite of what they normally would do in this case.
• 44:36
  Yeah, it's you know, uh, I am gonna be curious to read the court's ruling to see like what did I miss if I got it wrong.
• 44:44
  I really just thought it was so clear cut, there's no way this could be upheld.
• 44:48
  But uh let's go to some sound.
• 44:50
  Let's listen to Justice Alito here.
• 44:52
  He's in this birthright citizenship oral argument, and here he is with the solicitor general, John Sauer of the White House.
• 45:00
  Now, normally you would think that a person who is subject to arrest at any time and removal could not establish domicile.
• 45:10
  But we have an unusual situation here because our immigration laws have been ineffectively and in some instances unenthusiastically enforced by federal officials.
• 45:27
  Uh so there are people who uh are subject to removal at any time if they are apprehended and they go through the proper procedures, but they have uh uh in their minds made a permanent home here and have established roots, and that raises a humanitarian problem.
• 45:52
  And I wonder if you could you could address that.
• 45:55
  If I may one legal and one humanitarian, the legal point is if you look at those cases, for example, part Carson against Reed, Park against Bar, this courts' decisions and Elkins and Toll against Marino.
• 46:04
  They talk about the legal capacity to you know to create a domicile, excluding someone who may have the subjective intent, which otherwise would be determinative as being excluded on the humanitarian point.
• 46:17
  I would point out, as I said at the beginning, Justice Alito, that the United States rule of nearly unrestricted birthright citizenship is an outlier among modern nations.
• 46:25
  It's a very small minority of nations that have that rule.
• 46:28
  For example, every every nation in Europe has a different rule, and the notion that they have a huge humanitarian crisis uh as a result of not having unrestricted birthright citizenship, I don't think is a strong argument.
• 46:40
  And I point out, obviously, for uh, you know, for for reliance-related reasons, this executive order applies only prospectively, and we ask the court to rule only prospectively.
• 46:50
  What do you make of that, Matt?
• 46:51
  What do you think of that argument?
• 46:53
  Uh well, what part, like the part where he's pointing out that it's um like not really seen anywhere else in the rest of the world or yeah, well, I mean, it's uh does that matter?
• 47:02
  Does it matter what the rest of the world does?
• 47:04
  Well, that is the thing is I mean, because they always do that on the left with guns, like you know, no one in Europe would uh would like the you know, it would have our gun laws, and I'm like, I I I don't care, we're not Europe.
• 47:14
  Um, it's uh you know, it is one of those cases where I am a hypocrite and that I do think that yes, we should be like Europe in that regard, but it's not because they're Europe, it's because I think the policy is just common sense and not a birthright citizenship, and um, and also this European countries recognize like they are and you also see this in like the the Scandinavian countries that are more like you know, quasi-socialists that have very big welfare states, they're actually very tough on immigration.
• 47:42
  Um, even the the social democrats in Denmark are deporting migrants, uh, and not only are they deporting migrants, they are um confiscating goods from migrants to fund the deportations.
• 47:56
  Well, unlike America, they know that they can't keep allowing them in and have their systems work and pay for it.
• 48:02
  Right.
• 48:03
  You know, because you know, these are countries where uh you know, for some reason, on the right, people will say, like, you know, those policies work in Scandinavia, but it's because they're small countries or homogeneous, blah, blah, blah.
• 48:15
  Um, I wouldn't say they work.
• 48:16
  I would say they're the best case scenario, but Sweden, for instance, is a country where the lowest tax bracket, or the lowest tax rate, and this applies to your first kroner of income, and they have no standard deduction.
• 48:28
  It's 32%.
• 48:30
  Uh, the sales tax in uh Norway, Sweden, and Denmark is 25%.
• 48:35
  So you can be a minimum wage worker and you're paying over half your income.
• 48:39
  Now, why this is relevant is because to fund the sort of cradle to gray welfare states they have in northern Europe, you don't have very much room for error.
• 48:47
  And that if you have a single migrant come in who, you know, pays a grand a year in taxes and takes 30 grand a year out of the system, it it the whole thing just collapses and they recognize that.
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  So I, you know, I do think we can learn from their um you know, accept as the fiscal reality because no one uh in our cone of the no one on the left in our country will acknowledge that.
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  It is people on the left in those countries will acknowledge it.
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  So that you know that is something we can learn, but you are correct when it comes to whether or not the Supreme Court should decide one way or another uh what Europe has to say doesn't really matter.
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  Yeah, I agree.
• 49:23
  I don't care what Europe has to say at all, because I want to talk about NATO too before this hour's up if we have enough time.
• 49:31
  Stay here on this birthright citizenship because another concern is China, and we talked about that uh case from 1898.
• 49:39
  It's something I've referenced for about a year now, and uh that was that ARC case.
• 49:44
  They brought it up many times in oral arguments, but there are many companies in China that are bringing people here to America to only have the babies, and they are becoming dual citizens.
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  So in my mind, I'm thinking, well,
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  China always plays the long game.
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  Are we going to have a president one day that has a dual citizenship in China and America?
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  I you know, 50 years from now, who knows?
• 50:10
  Well, yeah, that's the thing.
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  Maybe one way we can explain this to liberals, because it's not just China.
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  Russia and China are both known for doing the uh sort of birthright citizenship tourism, where they'll come here on vacation, eight months pregnant.
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  And I actually saw on Twitter the other day, someone posted a graph of it was births in America by like uh ethnicity.
• 50:30
  And Chinese births went down something like 50% during COVID.
• 50:36
  Well, for every other group, it was like 10 or 15 percent.
• 50:39
  Um, obviously this includes Chinese people that are in America legally as citizens giving birth, but uh you know, there must have been so many also coming along from China to cause a 50% decline during COVID.
• 50:51
  So yeah, these are major problems.
• 50:52
  And one of the other things I think we talked about on a different show was you know, if you and I got a work from home job or you know, did this show from another country.
• 51:04
  Um, we still have to pay taxes to America because we're U.S.
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  citizens, even if we move to France or something.
• 51:10
  You know, these these babies born here at first rate citizenship, who then go back to their their home countries, they're the real country.
• 51:17
  Uh are they paying tax to our you know, since of the U.S.
• 51:20
  and it's one of those things where basically every single one of them is probably committing some form of tax evasion that we'll never hold them accountable for.
• 51:27
  Yeah.
• 51:28
  In addition to all the other problems of references.
• 51:30
  Let's go to Justice Roberts Chief Justice Roberts.
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  He's talking about this again with the solicitor general, John Sauer.
• 51:38
  It's a great question.
• 51:38
  No one knows for sure.
• 51:39
  There's a March 9th letter from a number of members of Congress to DHS saying, do we have any information about this?
• 51:45
  The the the media reports indicate estimates could be over one point a million or 1.5 million from the People's Republic of China alone.
• 51:54
  The uh congressional report that we cited in our He's talking about babies born here in America.
• 51:59
  One million to 1.5 million from this.
• 52:03
  Let's keep going.
• 52:04
  Our brief talks about certain hot spots like Russian elites coming to Miami through these birth tourism companies.
• 52:10
  And I mean, here's here's here's the facts about it that I think is striking.
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  Media reported as early as 2015 that based on Chinese media reports, there are 500.
• 52:20
  500 birth tourism companies in the People's Republic of China whose what business is to bring people here to give birth and return to that nation.
• 52:30
  Uh, having said all that, yeah, you do agree that it has no impact on the legal analysis before us.
• 52:36
  I think it's uh I quote what Justice Scalia said in his Hamdan descent, where they had where like their interpretation has these implications that could not possibly have been approved by the 19th century framers of this amendment.
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  I think that uh uh shows that they've made a mess.
• 52:52
  Their interpretation has made a mess of the provision.
• 52:54
  Well, it certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century.
• 52:57
  No, but of course, we're we're in a new world now, as Alita pointed out to you where we're eight billion people are one plane right away from having a a child who's a U.S.
• 53:05
  citizen.
• 53:06
  Well, it's a new world, it's the same constitution.
• 53:08
  Bam.
• 53:09
  And I think that goes to what I said when we started talking about this.
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  The conservative justices usually go with court precedent, and that's what he's referencing there.
• 53:19
  Because of that, I think this is going to be a seven-two decision.
• 53:22
  I think you're gonna have Alito and Thomas sitting out and dissenting on this, and I think the rest of them, they're gonna uphold it and say you can't you can't do this executive action here, Donald Trump.
• 53:33
  What do you think?
• 53:34
  What do you think the number will be?
• 53:35
  Uh yeah, I mean seven-two is what I'm reading as well.
• 53:37
  And yes, the whole is a new world with the same constitution.
• 53:40
  I mean, you and I have probably said something very similar when it comes to liberals talking about the second amendment saying uh, oh, they never could have imagined the types of guns that would exist today, you know, as if founders you know wouldn't have realized that yes, guns get more advanced every year.
• 53:55
  I mean, I'm sure they they were able to witness that when they were alive.
• 53:58
  I I just I I really just never I really just don't believe that the Fourth Amendment is supposed to enable endless brother citizenship.
• 54:06
  So I don't know.
• 54:07
  It'll be interesting to see why I'm wrong if I am, or how I gotta do it.
• 54:11
  It'll be interesting to read it when it comes out.
• 54:13
  I agree with you.
• 54:15
  I would love to see this uh, you know, be approved for Donald Trump, but I just don't think that it is on the legal question.
• 54:23
  And sometimes we forget it's about a very narrow legal question.
• 54:27
  And then the other part of it is if they were to decide to go along with Donald Trump, what do they do for a 90-year-old that has been an American citizen that was born here 90 years ago, but his parents were from another country?
• 54:40
  He is now no longer an American citizen.
• 54:43
  How do you put that pace back in the tube?
• 54:45
  Well, I don't know if it would be retroactive or just apply to future growths.
• 54:50
  I I assumed I I assumed like for optics purposes, it would they wouldn't try to repeal it retroactively or might be a very good thing.
• 54:57
  But then you have 15 million that are in here illegal.
• 55:00
  Well, there's more than that, but just the last four years, you have 10 to 15 million illegal.
• 55:05
  And that's what this is all about, in addition to China and Russia.
• 55:09
  Real quick about go ahead, man.
• 55:11
  I was gonna say the the way to do it smart would just be to have a cutoff of if you were born here as an angry baby after such and such a year, and yeah, and you know, something that's uh sympathetic or something like yes, there's the problem is if there was one single anchor baby who's now 90 years old that got deported, that will be the number one media story for the next three year, you know, for the next year or whatever, it's all midterms, and uh it'll never shut up about it.
• 55:34
  Well, there needs to be legislation.
• 55:36
  That would be the answer to it.
• 55:37
  That is never gonna happen in this Congress.
• 55:40
  Real quick about NATO, though.
• 55:42
  I am fed up with NATO.
• 55:44
  They, you know, what do we need them for at this point?
• 55:48
  We are 60% of their budget.
• 55:50
  We are NATO.
• 55:50
  Yeah, we are NATO.
• 55:52
  We have a hundred thousand boots on the ground.
• 55:54
  Actually, someone corrected me and said, well, everybody's got two feet, it's 200,000.
• 55:58
  That's correct.
• 55:58
  There's two thousand two hundred thousand boots on the ground in Europe right now spending the night.
• 56:03
  Uh, you know, I just I'm done with NATO.
• 56:06
  I'm done with a lot of stuff right now, Matt.
• 56:08
  I really am.
• 56:09
  But let's pay attention to what happens in about 24 hours from right now, because that is the deadline Donald Trump put on Iran to come to the table.
• 56:18
  If they don't, palms away, bridges, infrastructure, electrical, uh, electrical grids.
• 56:25
  That's what's coming to us now, and we'll pay attention to that.
• 56:28
  We'll get together next week and talk about that.
• 56:30
  And uh, and also praise a lot.
• 56:32
  Now, just yeah, um, yeah.
• 56:34
  Praise Allah, great.
• 56:35
  Yeah.
• 56:35
  We'll we'll leave this hour with that.
• 56:37
  Praise Allah.
• 56:38
  That's the perfect way to end this hour.
• 56:40
  Matt, thank you so much.
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  Have a great week.
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  We'll see you next Monday night.
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  And don't forget, you were told two thousand years ago that you are the salt of the earth and salt without flavor, it has no value.
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  So whatever you do, keep being salty.
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  Have a great night.
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