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A highlight from JPMORGAN CHASE BLOCKS CRYPTO IN UK! SEC GARY GENSLER DELAYS BITCOIN SPOT ETF & HEARING!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, tomorrow's scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler, will be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee at 10 a .m. Eastern. So I definitely will be watching that. I'm hoping that he gets grilled, that he comes down on this clown because he has not been abiding by the law. He has made the SEC political. And there's many different topics that I hope the members of the financial committee go after him on. First, of course, the loss to Ripple in the XRP lawsuit, right where XRP was declared intrinsically not a security. So that is a total contrast to what Gary has been saying, that the rules are clear in 1933 -34 how we test for stocks and bonds. But it's like you buffoon digital assets exist on decentralized blockchains distributed globally. This is not a U .S. market. This thing is global and it's decentralized. So we need updated rules for this. And I'm not saying that every crypto asset is not a security. There are some that are. But how do we differentiate? That's the need for the updated rules. So the other aspect is Gary and the SEC took a big loss in the grayscale lawsuit. And the three judges went against the SEC and they said the denial of the grayscale Bitcoin's bond ETF was arbitrary and capricious. Gary's taking big losses in court here. Right. And obviously, Gary, going after the Coinbase folks is really bad, given that they greenlighted Coinbase to go public. The other aspect is Promethean, because since Gary was before this committee, a lot of stuff came out of a Promethean that they had they got the license, but they weren't even selling crypto and that this guy is clearly a plant by Gary Gensler and Elizabeth Warren. So I'm hoping they bring the heat on this buffoon and expose him. Last time they did a great job, but they got to keep the pressure on and expose him. Now, ahead of the hearing, Gary released his testimony. But it's the same old bullshit. Right. There's nothing new here. I don't even want to read anything. He just brings up the securities laws of 1933 and so on and so forth. Now, what also happened was a bunch of letters were sent to Gary Gensler and some other folks as well. So the first is a bipartisan letter was sent to Gary Gensler by GOP members and Democrats. So this is really great that it's bipartisan and they're urging the SEC to approve a Bitcoin spot ETF. The GOP members included Tom Emmer and Representative Mike Flood. The Democrats included Ritchie Torres and Representative Wiley Nickel. So this is really good. You know, they highlighted the grayscale lawsuit and how the court of appeals sided with grayscale. So I'm hoping that these folks bring the heat on Gary tomorrow. In addition, there was a letter sent to Gary Gensler and FINRA from Congressman Blaine stating his concern over the SEC's insufficient scrutiny of registered broker dealers with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, such as Prometheum, Webull and Moomoo app. Honestly, never heard of Moomoo app, but certainly Prometheum. We know, guys, that is a shady business and we will see what happens tomorrow. So they got to bring the heat and they got to keep putting the pressure. We have to use social media to our advantage. Folks, I want you all to be tweeting, sending emails to your representatives, making phone calls. We got to use the hashtag fire Gary Gensler. That stuff matters because I've said many times, optics play a big part in politics. I know we're not there in the capital, you know, forcing these folks to sign the bill or to fire Gary Gensler, but we can make our voices heard and we can amplify the facts and the truth and expose Gary Gensler for the corrupt scumbag that he is. And here, folks, the SEC has delayed the ARK Invest slash 21 shares Bitcoin spot ETF filing. They also delayed the global ex ETF application, which was due October 7th. So, you know, James Seyford is essentially saying, you know, will this mean that BlackRock, Bitwise, VanEck, all these folks are going to be delayed, too? You know, it wouldn't surprise me, Gary, I don't know what he's up to, but I hope the members call tomorrow him out on this. What are you doing? The courts clearly are saying you're not doing the right thing and they're siding with the crypto industry. So we once again, guys, are dealing with a corrupt scumbag regulator. He's a puppet on strings doing the bidding of his tradfi buddies and trying to slow this industry down, trying to kill crypto startups. So let's see what happens tomorrow. Now, speaking of Gary Gensler's tradfi puppet masters, Chase UK, yes, JP Morgan, Chase in the UK to block crypto payments, citing fraud and scams. Unbelievable, unbelievable, folks. And I'm going to give you the context of this. But let me give you the details of what they're trying to block. Banking giant Chase is banning crypto linked payments via debit card or by outgoing bank transfer for UK clients starting October 16th, according to an email to customers. If we think you're making a payment related to crypto assets will decline it, the email said, adding that the customers are free to use a different bank or provider to invest in crypto. However, finding a crypto friendly bank in the country may not be the easiest thing as UK credit institutions have a history of blocking or limited limiting customer access to crypto. The local financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, recently said it had facilitated discussions between banks and crypto firms because lenders have shown a reluctance to offer services to that industry. The fact that JP Morgan Chase is doing this is despicable. Why? Just today, just today, folks, JP Morgan agrees to pay seventy five million dollars settlement over ties to who? Jeffrey Epstein. Do I even need to say anything else about that name? Right, folks? These banks themselves are participating in a whole bunch of criminal scumbag activity, right? We've seen over the years. How many fines has JP Morgan gotten here? Kyle Schnapps, he highlighted this. He said JP Morgan Chase has paid nearly 40 billion dollars in fines for financial fraud and predatory practices since 2000.
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A highlight from Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money
"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cass Pianci, and I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, not of the criminal sort, Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you, Cass? I'm doing good. It's been busy. It's been a very busy week for both of us. But today's episode is going to be about SPF's parents, the Bankmans and the Freeds, and their what appears to be increasingly important role that they each played in the criminal elements of FTX and Alameda Research. They called it a family business. They accepted incredibly large salaries. His father was getting a million dollars after requesting it because he was only getting 250 ,000 before. Mom pushed and tried to ensure that any money getting sent to the charity arm of the company had two steps of separation, two degrees of separation. And just really shady, weird stuff going on over there with the Bankmans and the Freeds. But those are kind of vague descriptions of what's going on. Bennett, why don't you walk us through some of the seriously criminal elements and what is happening? There is a decent amount of allegations contained in this lawsuit from the FTX debtors in possession against Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried that at a high level alleges that they were involved in specific aspects of the business and were closely connected to various alleged criminal acts and criminal acts people have pled guilty to. Starting with Joseph Bankman, he was involved with Alameda Research as early as 2018, which is when it was founded, and stayed involved throughout the entire time. The first several years, this appears to have been relatively informal. He directed FTX towards their first law firm, suggested their first accounting firm, was involved in consultations for hiring of certain executives and things like that. But none of this was documented in any kind of formal way. Eventually, in January 2021, he decides that there should be some kind of piece of paper that describes his relationship with these entities. And so he creates a document that describes his work for Alameda Research and FTX and FTX US, saying he's doing a variety of pro bono legal work and consulting work for these entities. What's interesting, of course, is that he was the signatory for the FTX entities and for himself on this entity. Really has kind of vibes of that loan agreement between Bitfinex and Tether years ago, where JLVDV and Juan Carlo was signing for both entities. And so that was one moment that really struck me as I was going through that is that he felt the need to, after providing advice for several years, finally in 2021 documents it and says he's providing this pro bono legal advice. This did not stay pro bono for very long. Later in 2021, he would take a leave of absence from Stanford University. And after he took this leave of absence, he allegedly told an FTX US employee, I'm no longer getting paid by Stanford because I'm on leave, so you should have me on salary starting December 1st. In December 2021, this is when he finally entered into a formal employment agreement with FTX US, where his nominal title was Senior Advisor to the FTX Foundation. You said it was $250 ,000. It was actually $200 ,000 a year, plus bonuses he was supposed to be getting paid. And this is where we get to the fun part that you made an allusion to before. He went to FTX's head of administration after signing this employment agreement that clearly said $200 ,000, told this person that he was supposed to be getting $1 million a year starting in December, and then he sends an email over to Sam Bankmanfried, his son, that says, and I quote, Gee, Sam, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I've heard of the $200 ,000 a year salary putting Barbara on this, meaning he cc'd in Sam Bankmanfried's mother and his domestic partner to help him deal with this contract negotiations that happened after he signed that contract. And it worked. It worked. Within two weeks, Bankman and Fried were gifted $10 million in funds originating from Alameda. Within three months, they ended up getting their $16 million mansion in the Bahamas funded entirely by FTX. And over the period after they got that mansion, they were able to expense something like $90 ,000 in various other expenses. And before he signed that contract agreement in December 2021, I do want to make clear he was also provided with an option to purchase shares of FTX US and FTX trading in November 2021. Before he was even employed with FTX, he was getting large options of shares. So yeah, I think that kind of is a good initial overview and we can get into some of the details he was also involved in, but they were receiving a lot of this type of monetary compensation. Yeah, well, I want to specifically bring up here some things that really made a red flag go off for me were, for instance, how they were keen to keep the residencies, the properties that they were acquiring with these gifted funds and all this money that they were essentially taking from customers, to be clear on that, that they wanted to ensure that that money in those properties would be shielded from a bankruptcy. And I'm just wondering, like, why, if they're so confident in this business, if they're so confident in their son, if they're so sure this is the future of finance, and I get it, you want to shield your personal property from a bankruptcy, but you just got gifted $10 million. You have to know this isn't exactly personal property, right? Like, you have to know your son is giving this to you. Your son is making money from the company. How is he making all of this money? You haven't really nailed that down yet. And you still are just letting this all transpire. Nobody was asking any questions is kind of what I'm getting to. But the questions they were asking were about, like, ensuring that they were shielded from any problems in the future. Yeah. And we should clarify the timeline a little bit here. There's a 2021 email exchange where FTX's general counsel wants to set up a meeting with their law firm to discuss how assets, including primary residence, can be structured to be bankruptcy remote. And Bankman quickly kind of responds in this email chain the next day and says it would be great, all else equal, if we could have the founders put money into property in the Bahamas and sent them a link to a description of an offshore trust structure in the Bahamas. He then discusses this with a lawyer in the Bahamas, another Stanford law professor, and his brother -in -law, and then ends up saying something we might use when we buy property in the Bahamas. And the reason I'm belaboring this point is because it happens, I think, about a year before they actually end up getting the house. And then, five months before they get the house, there's another thing that happens, and that's that they apply for residency in the Bahamas, permanent residency in the Bahamas. In order for them to get that, there's a $15 ,000 fee. That's also paid by FTX. And so I think what that kind of shows is this kind of series of planning that went into them eventually getting this mansion. They started discussing how to structure this about a year before, and I don't think they ended up using those trusts, at least not at the time of bankruptcy. They had already gotten their residency months before they got the property, and then they got the property. They wanted to benefit from this. There's no doubt about that. I mean, there is no doubt. I just want to be clear, and we're going to link to the very thorough protest article that goes over all of this, but it is very obvious. I think before we get to the crux of this, I first want to delve into this a little bit more. So Stanford yesterday decided that they were going to return all of the donated funds from this family, which amounted to $5 .5 million, which is a lot. I mean, I know that they get a shit, a metric shit ton of cash every year, but the idea that they're getting $5 .5 million in a single year from one family, one company, you know, essentially one family. That's how you get your name on a building and stuff like that. So they were donating a ton of money to this educational institution. All I want to say is that I think Stanford is disgusting. I think we see this in a bunch of these higher education, these private institutions, probably equally common in great public universities as well, but the ones that we hear about are like MIT or Harvard or Stanford accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein or accepting money from these guys, and then, oh, okay, you're returning it. Great. Well, you know why you're returning it? Because you got caught. That's why you're returning it. You're not returning it because you thought it was the right thing to do. Now that it's all coming out in these court documents, Stanford's giving the money back. They didn't do it one minute before that happened, though. Isn't that interesting? And I, you know, I think you should get into kind of the details of those donations, which there were many over this period, but like, oh, what a nasty, nasty way for a university to operate. I think the elite private colleges are at a special risk for kind of this because so much of their, like, existing structure is based around taking in cash and converting it to some vague elite authority. Speaking specifically about the donations from FTX to Stanford that appear to have been directed by Joseph Bankman, there was one that came from Paperbird directly to Stanford University. And this one was interesting because there was a lot of discussion about which entity to use. And what Bankman ends up saying is that he thought it should come from Paperbird, which was one of the entities that Sam Bankman -Fried owned that held most of the stock for FTX that investors were buying into. The corporate structure of FTX is a mind fuck. But this shows Bankman was aware of parts of the mind fuck. He says Paperbird can use the deduction. And when he discusses alternatives, he says we can have another entity loan Paperbird money, but that requires some paperwork. Eventually they get it all sorted out. FTX transfers money to Paperbird into a newly set up bank account, which immediately sends that money on to Stanford. There was another four million dollar donation to a Stanford fund for pandemic preparedness that he described as pretty much a no brainer. Bitcoin were transferred from Alameda Research's FTX account eventually. There was another series of donations where it was proposed that they give 1 .5 million from the FTX Foundation to Stanford College. However, the initial 500 ,000 for this came from an Alameda Research bank account, and the second 500 ,000 came from an FTX US bank account. There was another donation they did for a Stanford blockchain conference so they could sponsor it. That one was only 10k. But again, it kind of points towards how Bankman saw these entities as interchangeable. He said 10k is so little it doesn't really matter. So if we think that having FTX US is easier or safer for some reason, we should just do that. And what's most interesting is you talked about your name on a building. And there was a Stanford University employee who provided comment as part of this lawsuit. And this Stanford University employee apparently says that internally in Stanford, these donations were categorized as directed by the Bankman -Frieds. And like when they specifically got the big $4 million pandemic preparedness donation from Alameda, this person even reached out, should this one be categorized like the rest as from you all? Or is this one somehow different? And so yeah, I think that those donations kind of point towards how they were specifically using these commingled customer and client funds from across all these different entities in this self -promotional activity of giving these donations. Yep, there's more to where this money went, how much was spent, why they were in control of this. But I think the question that everybody wants to ask and is wondering about is how are they not being criminally charged with anything yet? And will they? I think we should hold off on that question for just a moment, because I want to talk about how Joseph Bankman also made sure other people he was related to and friends with got paid while he was in this position, because I think that's kind of fun. They talk about one example where he got a Stanford law student a free trip to the French Grand Prix tickets to the race so they could go and visit that. But I think the more interesting one was a hackathon that they had planned that was run by his sister. Bankman freed Sam's aunt. They hired her at a rate of $14 ,000 a month to prepare the FTX million -dollar hackathon and crypto summit held at the Miami Heat Arena, which was the one they put their name on briefly. They spent a total of $2 .3 million on this event, which was attended by 1 ,200 people. They were spending crazy amounts. They said she was authorized to spend like without a budget, whatever it was needed to get this event done. There was so much of this kind of like self -enrichment here that we'll get to your question as to how are they not being criminally charged. That's just grift. Yeah, obviously. The other person we need to talk about, of course, is Barbara. Barbara Freed, Sam Bankman Freed's mother. In her specific role, she, as you alluded to at the very beginning of this episode, described herself as her son's partner in crime of the non -criminal sort. And Sam made sure to sing her praises to his team, making known to her that he intended to rely on her direction regarding who to give to, how much to give to, and how it should be disclosed and told them that it would be good for them to follow her advice as well. And what seems really interesting is she seemed to have a great deal of control. The lawsuit even alleges she was able to unilaterally commit funds of Sam Bankman Freed's to her political action committee, Mind the Gap, meaning without Sam's authorization, she was able to take Sam's money donated in Sam's name to her political action committee, which is a great deal of trust. And even inside her own committee, when she had to talk about some of these donations, she would say things like, I don't know exactly what interconnected entity he sent the money from, but the business is real and revenue -generating, which again, I think, points towards kind of the interchangeability of these entities for these folks. What I think really gets interesting is Nishad Singh, who has already pled guilty for conspiracy to defraud the federal election committee, as well as a variety of other conspiracy charges. He was one of the people who appears to have served as effectively a straw -man donor for Sam Bankman Freed, and was advised in this process by Barbara Freed, Sam's mother. At one point when they were discussing donations to her organization Mind the Gap, and she suggested that, now that my connection to Sam is publicly known, because we don't want to create the impression that funding MTG is a family affair, as opposed to a collective effort by many people, including some mystery guy Nishad Singh, which is when she was suggesting that on their end, they would prefer if his name was the one that was donating to Mind the Gap instead of Sam Bankman Freed's. And similarly, she was worried about a lot of their political donations. There's a really telling one, where she's warning him in an email, And again, later, just the last one to really put kind of a cherry on top of her seeming knowledge of some of the criminal acts that Nishad Singh has pled guilty to. She said, And I think this, as well as some of the more specific tax advice that Bankman Freed was giving on FTX their specific finances and stuff like that, point towards potential knowledge of criminal acts. I tweeted out shortly after I read through this lawsuit, or as I was about halfway through reading this lawsuit, if I'm being honest, And as you alluded to previously, that is kind of what this feels like. It feels like these two law professors, who should have known better, had high -level knowledge of things that people have already pled guilty to, and were deeply involved in the business. Bankman specifically was even mentioned on an internal document as a member of the management of FTXUS, along with only a few other names. They had knowledge, they were inside the organization, and they had some amount of presence. One last thing that I think really hammers that home. When we went to consensus, and we talked about this in our episode that we did after that, Anthony Scaramucci was talking about his experiences in the lead -up to and aftermath of the FTX collapse. And one thing he said that seemed to be corroborated in the lawsuit is that Bankman was involved in them attempting to get the emergency funding. And as we said, and we shared the audio clip of Scaramucci saying it, Bankman apparently told Scaramucci, Anthony or intimated to him, that there was an asset liability mismatch at FTX. What happened to me is I was actually speaking in Sarasota, Florida. There was rumblings that day, I think it was November the 6th or something like that, or 7th. The Monday was the 7th. And then I got back to New York and I spoke to Sam's dad about the problem, and it was intimated to me that it was an asset liability mismatch, that they were leading redemptions and there were assets available, but they weren't necessarily liquid, and they needed time to get the liquidity, and they were looking for some rescue plans. And so at that time, I was a good citizen and a partner in the business. In fact, they owned a piece of my business. I was certainly trying to help them on their fundraising round.
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A highlight from HUGE HBAR NEWS! FEDNOW HEDERA DROPP - COINBASE CRYPTO REGULATIONS, ARGENTINA BITCOIN + COREUM
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start off by giving you some perspective about all markets and bad actors and good actors. You know, quite often we hear Gary Gensler say there's a lot of scammers and hucksters and whatever else in the crypto market, right? He's painting the whole industry and asset class with broad strokes. But we know that's a lie and he's just gaslighting, right? But if you look at all markets, there are bad actors there. For example, UBS, one of the largest banks to pay $1 .4 billion for fraud in mortgage backed securities. So great example that even a established, fully regulated industry still has fraud happening, JP Morgan and all these banks, Wells Fargo, they all get billions of dollars in fines almost every year because they're doing something shady. And that is because in civilization and humanity, there are bad people looking to do bad things. So it's not that the technology or the asset class is bad, but rather there needs to be proper regulations and we have to weed out the bad actors. Now one could argue it's not possible to weed out every bad actor because we don't know what's happening in the minds of people. We're not mind readers, but we at least have to have proper regulations. So when you see the likes of Gary Gensler and others who are anti -crypto, gaslighting and putting out sensationalized headlines, don't be dismayed and realize what's happening. They're trying to put out a narrative. And we know crypto is here to stay. There are a lot of folks building with the technology. Are there bad actors? Of course, just look at Sandbank -Meerfried, right? But Sandbank -Meerfried is crypto's Bernie Madoff. So you just see these things when you line up all markets, you see the bad actors and of course the good actors. So a great example here. Now folks, Michael Burry, the big short Michael Burry, apparently he is running some shorts here and it's at a market value of $1 .6 billion. Apparently he bought $890 million of the SPY puts, bought $740 million of the QQQ puts Now, we don't know what the expiration dates are on these. So we don't know what the timeline is here, but he's looking to short the stock market and we'll see how that works out because look, he was right with the 2008 mortgage backed security situation and everything that took place there. He was absolutely right, but he hasn't been right every time. And we'll see where this goes. But I think he's seeing something on the horizon that what many of us have been tracking, many analysts is that the stock market is retracing. I don't know if this is a move to all time highs. I honestly don't know. I took some profits recently because I'm like, I don't know. I'll walk away with some money on my stocks, but we'll see what happens. And, you know, as far as the stock market and we know Bitcoin and crypto has been correlated to it, you know, Bitcoin is at a pivotal moment right now. So one of analysts tweeted out sideways at $29K has run its course. So it's decision time for Bitcoin this week. Is our next significant move up or down? You all know. I'm hoping it's upwards. Right. I've been sharing a chart with you guys for over a year now where we've been following Bitcoin's retracement. You know, certainly it's going to be a roller coaster ride upwards, just like it was in 2019. Nothing goes up in a straight line. But boy, I hope there's another leg up that takes us to, you know, 40K plus. And that will be a nice retracement move, at which point I'll take some profits. But there's no guarantee of that. And right now, Bitcoin is still holding support here with this trend line. But boy, like I said, guys, I'm hoping for another move up. We'll see what the catalyst may be, maybe some bullish news, some other big player entered in the crypto market. But let's keep our eyes on this. Hopefully it's not a dump. All right, folks, we got some very huge Hedera HBAR news. You all know I hold HBAR in my portfolio. I am bullish on it. I continue to dollar cost average, you know, not financial advice. Please do your own research. So here's the headline. FedNow showcases DLT powered payment system as service provider. The United States Federal Reserve's instant payment system FedNow has added a company powered by the distributed ledger technology platform Hedera Hashgraph to its showcasing service providers. On August 14, FedNow's official website added DROPP, a micro payments platform built on Hedera to its FedNow service provider showcase section. The section aims to connect financial institutions and businesses with service providers that can help them innovate and implement instant payment products using the FedNow service. Folks, this is really huge. I mean, the Fed endorsing micro payments provider that is built on the Hedera blockchain. That is huge news. If you hold HBAR, remember, they don't necessarily have to be using the HBAR token, but we're talking about Metcalfe's law, network effects, right? The more building on a network, the more adoption, the more participants, the stronger the network becomes, the more valuable it also becomes. And of course, in this digital realm that we live in, in the token economy, the native token will increase in value, folks, because the tokens grease the blockchain, right, help to process and fund the blockchain. So this is huge news. I'm very, very bullish on HBAR. Once again, not financial advice. Please do your own research. According to the FedNow site, DROPP is a digital solution that was made so that merchants can accept payments at low cost. The company uses DLT and regulated banking tech to build its solution that allows merchants to accept payments without paying huge transaction fees. While the new updates seem like the Federal Reserve is warming up to the DLTs, the FedNow service also wrote on its website that materials are only presented as convenience to potential FedNow service participants. So huge news, folks. And remember, the folks who are part of the governing council for Hedera, their global governing council includes Boeing, Dell, Google, IBM, LG, ServiceNow, Standard Bank, much more huge, huge brands. This is one of the projects I think will come out of the whole speculation bubble and enter the utility phase and be one of the crypto blockchains that have lasting potential. So I'm very bullish on this. All right, let's move ahead. We got some updates here from Eric Balcones of Bloomberg around Cathie Wood's ARK Invest crypto ETFs. So he said new filing from ARK for a digital asset and blockchain thematic ETF will hold equities. So this is interesting. Cathie, we know she's trying to get a Bitcoin spot ETF. She's in line with BlackRock and the others, but they're also looking to build new ETFs, too. So here, Nate Geraci of the ETF store said, odd filing, given how saturated this space is. He's talking about the equity ETFs. Wonder if there is anything to read into here regarding ARK's confidence around spot Bitcoin approval, which if it happens, these blockchain ETFs would face an additional headwind in terms of competition. So maybe ARK is not that confident. So we shall see. Look, I think it's certainly almost guaranteed that BlackRock is going to get approved because of their record and because they pretty much run the world for the most part. But let's see what happens. There's no guarantees here, folks. And look, there could be a buy the rumor, sell the news event around these ETF approvals. So just be prepared for that. If an ETF is approved, that doesn't mean billions of dollars are coming in overnight. They have to set up the marketing, the structures. They have to get the RIA's onboarded, right? It doesn't happen overnight. They'll probably need a few months. If you look at the when the gold ETFs were approved, it didn't pump instantaneously. It pumped maybe like six months later the gold market. So something to keep in mind, folks, and, you know, know how to strategize. So I think there will be, once again, a buy the rumor, sell the news event. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been using Uphold since twenty eighteen, one of my go to exchanges, so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on this platform. If you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. All right, folks, let's move ahead because we got Jay Coward Clayton. Yes, former SEC chairman that I call a coward because he's the one who filed a lawsuit against Ripple and ran out the door the next day. He did not approve a Bitcoin spot ETF. And of course, we know he was doing some corruption in the back room with Bill Hinman and Ethereum to get them the free pass, nothing against Ethereum, but rather the SEC corruption, because guess what? These are the people who are supposed to have integrity. They're funded off our tax dollars and they're supposed to be stopping the bad guys, but they themselves are the bad guys doing fishy corruption in the back room, getting paid millions of dollars. So Jay, of course, making his biweekly appearance on CNBC Squawk Box this time, he was talking about Sandbag Refreed and of course, the Bitcoin spot ETF. And of course, the Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, Andrew Ross Sorkin and these folks failed to do their job. No questions about the Ripple ruling. Of course, there was no question when he came on the show, I think last week or the week before, because they're clearly and probably Jay doesn't want to answer anything and they're kowtowing to that. So it's pathetic. It is not how a journalist does their job trying to bury a story when the man who filed a lawsuit is sitting right in front of you. Right. And this ruling, we know how huge it is. Members of Congress are using it as a president to push their crypto bills through and much more so pathetic. Jay's a coward. And of course, he doesn't want to talk about it. Pathetic. They won't even ask him the question. It's not like they ask him the question. He's like, you know what? Good for Ripple, but I don't want to talk anymore. You know, it could have been that much. But guess what? No questions. Zero, zero questions. So, you know, there's a big cover up. There's a big Jay is just a coward. Like, don't even ask me that question. So screw Jay Clayton. He's a coward. Let's move ahead. Coinbase launches nonprofit to advance crypto legislation to stand with Crypto Alliance will prioritize supporting and advancing legislation in the US that supports the industry and investors. The stand with Crypto Alliance is something Coinbase obviously is trying to get going and they want you to participate and sign up. This is great, guys. We need need more of this, more advocacy, more education, more getting the word out there so that we can bring more folks together and unite against folks like Gary Gensler and corrupt bureaucrats and regulators like Gary Gensler. So the alliance is a 501 C for organization under the internal revenue service, meaning it is an exempt social welfare group. The current discussion around crypto policy in Washington, D .C., between centralized players and other big groups. Kara Calvert, Coinbase's head of US policy, said Monday during a Twitter Spaces event, but the stand with Crypto Alliance hopes to bring new voices into the picture. Here's a quote. The alliance completely embodies exactly what the crypto industry is all about. Calvert said it's all about decentralized efforts, decentralized power, decentralized access. And that's, I think, really what the stand with crypto movement is about. So this is great. I love it. I wish more crypto companies would unite and do this. And get the once again, the word out there. Education is a big key in D .C., getting our representatives educated about blockchain and crypto. We're seeing more and more bipartisan support for crypto. So our efforts are paying off, but we need to do more, of course. Now, folks, there's some interesting news coming out of Argentina. So pro Bitcoin candidate Triumph sees Bitcoin reach historic high against Argentinian peso. So we got a presidential candidate. I honestly don't know much about this person, but, you know, a lot of people are bullish on this because his name is Javier Mele, if I'm saying that right, won the country's primary presidential race. He's pro Bitcoin. And we know the folks there are dealing with insane inflation. Many have been moving to Bitcoin as a store of value, as well as stable coins. So hopefully, you know, some things could happen here where they can maybe make Bitcoin a legal tender, something along those lines like El Salvador. But there is something else happening in the mix here. So Mele's unexpected triumph is seen as a rejection of Argentina's entrenched political establishment. The pro Bitcoin candidate became anti establishment after proposing the dollarization of the economy and call for the abolishment of the central bank due to the country's economic woes. So they want to certainly use the US dollar over the Argentinian peso. And I don't blame them. So this could be a really big move. And once again, this guy's pro Bitcoin. So let's see where it goes. Moving ahead, new indictment alleges Sam Bankman -Fried gave more than $100 million to politicians. Bankman -Fried and his associates donated across party lines to various candidates and political action committees. Boy, look, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but man, this guy donated a lot of money and it's probably why he's been getting the easy path, right? Being able to stay at home in his parents' house. And obviously recently they were like, no, dude, you're trying to, you know, game the system. He released Caroline Ellison's diary. So witness tampering and all that. And they were like, all right, we're going to put you in jail. So that's a good thing. He's in jail. But look, there are some people saying he could have an Jeffrey Epstein situation, if you know what I mean. And that wouldn't surprise me, folks. This man has a lot of dirt on politicians. He made them all look like fools, right? And that's, I've often talked about it. Optics is a big thing in politics. It's narratives and optics. So right now he's not making a lot of people look good and they want him gone. As you can imagine, like get the hell out of here, whether it be in jail or you know what else. So it looks like they may try to bring back some of the campaigns, finance charges that had been previously dropped, but we shall see what happens. And hopefully, you know, he sits in jail for a long time because he committed the crime folks. He's the one that was committing fraud. He's the one that was okaying funds, leaving FTX and going to Alameda, which was his firm. They were trading that money and losing it. So straight up fraud, as I said earlier in the podcast, he's the Bernie Madoff of crypto. But let's hope justice is served here and we'll follow this as it continues. Now, here's some not so good news. Coindesk lays off 45 % of editorial staff as an eyes deal to sell company. Look, it's not so much that they laid people off, but it's in conjunction with what else has been happening with Digital Currency Group. So Digital Currency Group owns Grayscale, Coindesk, Genesis Trading and much more. And we all know what has been happening with the Genesis Trading and Gemini situation. So Barry Silbert and these guys, it's not looking good. And I would not be invested or involved in anything Digital Currency Group, guys. If you're holding Grayscale shares, just be careful. I don't know what's happening here with this whole parent group and they could be in big trouble. So especially with the Genesis Trading situation and who knows if there's going to be cross contamination, the fact that Genesis Trading is in a hole and they are going to have to pull money and sell Coindesk and all these things, it's just a mess. So I don't think these guys are running the business well. Once again, it doesn't have anything specific to do with the blockchains or the crypto currencies, but rather, you know, the risks that you take and how you run your business. So we shall see. Finally, guys, our partner, Quorium, and I highly recommend you check out this blockchain. It is a third generation blockchain. They announced here new wallet integration. Frontier is now supporting the Quorium mainnet, prioritizing security through real time fraud prevention. It says Frontier Wallet offers a swap aggregator and cross chain bridges, a key partner to manage Quorium assets effectively. So once again, guys, check out Quorium. They're doing some great things and they got a new wallet support here. And I personally hold a Quorium tokens, not financial advice. Please do your own research. As always, don't blindly invest because you hear me holding a token or somebody else, any influencer or any YouTube or a podcast or whatever it may be, always do your research. So definitely check out Quorium. They're doing some great things. All right, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below, hit the thumbs up button and leave a five star rating on the podcast platforms. And I'll talk to you all later. Bye.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from What is Hollywood Hiding?
"The sound of freedom continues to defy critics. Tens of millions of dollars in box office results already. And yet the media has decided to break their silence on the film. Typically, the media ignores successful endeavors that they don't exactly like. What is it now? All of a sudden, the media has come out the Guardian, Rolling Stone, attacking sound of freedom. I hear frequently from people, oh, Charlie, why is our country so divided? Why are we so divided as a nation? Well, hold on a second. Maybe the way the media has been covering sound of freedom can tell us part of the story. Sound of freedom is a true story. It's a story of a heroic man who decides to go and save a child from child sex trafficking. This is an ugly reality. Child sex trafficking happens in our country. Now, to what extent or to how widespread it is, we don't really know. We don't know if it's hundreds of thousands, millions, some people estimate. It's millions of children in the North American hemisphere. That could be true. But even if it's only a couple hundred, it's a disgusting and vile, evil, satanic practice that everybody should agree. It's unacceptable. It's not something we should put up with. And we do know that some of the most powerful people in the world have participated in a form of human trafficking, not exactly child trafficking, Jeffrey Epstein, for example. Bill Clinton wrote on the plane. We don't know if Bill Clinton was involved in the sex trafficking or not, but we could reasonably speculate as being a sex addict, he probably was. Members of the royal family. So we have evidence that people in the top levels of our government, of finance, of industry, of culture, have been actively involved in the sickest of all sins. And here is a film that should be met with bipartisan agreement, where people could just kind of lay down their typical keyboard warrior approach and say, all right, nice film. Thank you. You think it's the ultimate, how could you find something wrong with the film? How could you find something wrong with a movie that is about an individual's heroism to save a child from child sex trafficking? Well, the media is now in full out attack mode, as we predicted. They're trying to say this is a QAnon film.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"You're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida. It's just the stupidest garbage ever. That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend. Politico, which has just become essentially a talking points outlet for the Democratic Party as well, put out an article targeting Casey DeSantis. Now, let me I've met Casey several times. She's one of the most charming people on earth. Casey is a delight. Ron's wife is just a wonderful person. And this entire article is about how terrible she is. They literally compare her to Lady Macbeth in this article. Who do they quote to suggest that Casey DeSantis is, in fact, Lady Macbeth? They quote David Jolly, an ex GOP Florida congressperson who's now an MSNBC analyst. They quote a bunch of anonymous Republican lobbyists. They quote Roger Stone, who is a Trump devotee and a rat effort extraordinaire. That's literally his job. He's going to compare to Lady Macbeth. Quote, Stone's hyperbolic charge is part of a broader effort on the part of Trump to kill in the crib the candidacy they consider their greatest threat. They recently have scored a series of key, albeit early strategic wins, a flurry of in -state endorsements, for instance, contributing to the perception of a novice faltering DeSantis that's also visible in a slide in early primary polls. In the tragic drama, of course, Lady Macbeth prods her husband to kill the king so she can be the queen. At this juncture, the literary analogy only goes so far. And then that's because DeSantis isn't going so far after Trump, really. But they then quote a bunch of former DeSantis administration staffers. Quote, she sees ghosts in every corner. She's more paranoid than he is, said a second staffer. He's a vindictive mother effer. She's twice that, said a higher up on one of his campaigns. She's the scorekeeper. Does she sort of humanize the robot? Does she push him on the grip and grin, baby kissing, give him a cleaner, softer image? Yes, said another former gubernatorial staffer. Does she also feed into his worst instincts of being secluded in insular and standoffish with staff? Yes. So the idea here is that she's bad because he trusts her a lot and uses her as a political advisor. Obviously, that's terrible. Now, there's only one problem with this theory, which is that, again, Casey is rather delightful. As a cancer -surviving mother of several children, she also happens to be a pretty good political advisor to a guy who just won the state of Florida by 20 points. So it is obvious that this is effectively a two -person race. The entire media are allied not against Trump, but against DeSantis in the primaries. Trump has joined them, which is why he's attacking DeSantis from the left. You're going to see a series of ridiculous hits on DeSantis, despite the fact that Trump, the person that is supposedly the most dangerous person in the race and the most dangerous person in America, is running. The media know exactly who they want to be the nominee, pretty clearly at this point. Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the national debt fight. Believe it or not, Republicans are about to win a battle, and they should take yes for an answer. We'll get to that momentarily first. The CEO of Innovation Refunds and GetRefunds .com has been on TV explaining how they've helped so many small businesses with their ERC tax refunds. They've completed thousands
The Ben Shapiro Show
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Go check them out right now. Policygenius .com slash Shapiro. Okay. So according to CNN, the NAACP is warning people of color about traveling to Florida. They issued this travel advisory, quote, in direct response to DeSantis's aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools, the group said Saturday in a statement. Now remember, Florida requires the teaching of black history. You have to learn about slavery. You have to learn about Jim Crow. All of that is required by Florida law. It must be taught in Florida schools. As far as diversity, equity, and inclusion, what that means is that you're not allowed to essentially use affirmative action programs or Ibram X. Kennedy anti -racism training in any sort of publicly funded program. What does that have to do with the safety of black Americans? Nothing. It doesn't matter. The NAACP president, Derek Johnson, he was out there saying that it is literally unsafe for you to go to Florida right now. Here's what he had to say. You just heard the words of DeSantis himself calling this call by the NAACP a stunt. How do you respond? Well, the governor has perfected the art of doing stunts to gain campaign contributions. Unfortunately, this will impact people's lives. We should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people. And unfortunately, for a large percentage of the Floridians, that's what he has done. Therefore, we are advising African Americans and others that if you travel to Florida, beware that your life is not valued, that we have a political landscape that could cause harm as we prepare for the 2024 elections. All this proves the NAACP is just a democratic party apparatus and they've lost all relevance, like all political relevance. If the NAACP has been relegated to targeting racism by suggesting that if you travel to Florida, that your life is at stake, they're a joke at this point. And they clearly are a joke, by the way. How much of a joke are the members of the NAACP board? At least five members of the NAACP board have enjoyed vacationing in Florida under Governor DeSantis, according to Matt Wolking. Despite the recent warning that others should avoid traveling to the state, that includes NAACP board vice chair Karen Boykin -Towns, who went to a lovely Florida vacation in April of 2021. It has also been enjoyed by Claude Cummings Jr., another NAACP board member. Also, NAACP board member Theresa Deer visited Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis, said that she was having a delightful time. NAACP board member Michael Curry enjoyed time in Miami, Florida under Governor DeSantis as well. And NAACP board member Scott Estalli loves traveling around the great state of Florida under Governor DeSantis. He went multiple times to Florida, so obviously he is living in just virulent fear that he's going to be murdered on the streets of Florida because Governor DeSantis does not truck with diversity, equity, and inclusion. All of this is absurd on its face. The media are running with it anyway. Perhaps my favorite take on this comes courtesy of an MSNBC guest who is now suggesting that she went to Florida. She's a lesbian black woman, but she went to Florida for spring break, but she did so at risk to her own life, which is what you normally do on spring break down to Florida. Here we go. I think it was extremely clever and I really appreciate the NAACP's guidance on this issue. You know, I just took my family to spring break in Florida recently and I think about all of the folks who traveled there for sun and joy and peace and restoration. And to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where Florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in America. Certainly as a lesbian, as a black woman, I don't want to have anything to do with the place. So then why did you go there for spring break? That was like five minutes ago. Saisha Mills. Do you go to terrorist states normally for vacation? You know, places where you literally are going to be murdered for who you are. Is that something that you typically do? For actual vacation, not for ideological reasons. You just head on down to Florida because you as a lesbian black woman have your life in danger. Of course, this is unbelievably silly. Representative Byron Donald of Florida, he slammed the NAACP over all of this as he should. The NAACP hereby issues a travel advisory to African Americans and other people of color regarding the hostility towards African Americans in Florida. Why are they doing that? This is silly and it's dumb. It's political. It makes no sense. We should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve, which Florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states. Let's say New York or California or Washington state. We're doing a significantly better job helping black Americans succeed. And it's not just about me. It's about all the millions of black people that live in our state. They're talking about the they say regarding the hostility toward African Americans in Florida. Do you feel hostility? No, no. Again, this is so dumb. I don't even know what we're talking about, man. The only hostility I feel is this inflation hit in my pocketbook. I'll tell you that. Byron Donald's, of course, exactly right. That's coming from somebody who's already endorsed President Trump. It's one of the dumbest political hits I've ever seen. By the way, Florida's population is black and that Florida's black immigrant population saw an 81 percent growth from 2000 to 2019 with the addition of three hundred and fifty thousand people. That growth is larger than the entire 2019 black immigrant population of Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Indiana and Ohio combined. So, yeah, clearly you're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida. It's just the stupidest garbage ever. That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend. Politico, which has just become
The Ben Shapiro Show
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"By visiting expressvpn .com. My listeners will get an extra three months for free. Again, that's expressvpn .com. Do not allow yourself to be put in a dire position by hackers. Don't allow ISPs to control the data that you are putting out there. Don't allow the government to watch what you're doing. Go check out ExpressVPN right now. Expressvpn .com. Again, my listeners get an extra three months for free. Okay, meanwhile, the 2024 presidential race seems to be heating up. Tim Scott, the senator from South Carolina, has decided to launch what is largely considered a long -shot bid with Wall Street support. So Tim Scott's support is pretty soft on the ground. There are not a lot of grassroots Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy, but there are a lot of money Republicans who are very into the Tim Scott candidacy because, again, he represents a sort of kinder, more gentler brand of Republican politics. Doesn't mean that he doesn't have a lot of interesting things to say, but what Republican kind of the base is looking for right now is a candidate with edge, a candidate who is willing to cut, a candidate who is rough and is willing to battle with the media. And the question for Scott is whether he is up to something like that, whether he is too conciliatory in demeanor, whether, in fact, he appears to be somebody who's a go -long -to -get -along type. You know, that makes a huge difference in a Republican primary these days. So Scott is trying to run a different sort of campaign, sort of the bright, sunny, optimistic campaign. He argued that he can unify the GOP, according to Bloomberg, with a positive forward -looking message built around a compelling personal story and upbeat demeanor at an event in North Charleston, South Carolina. He let off his campaign, and here is what it sounded like. We live in the land of opportunity. We live in the land where it is absolutely possible for a kid raised in poverty in a single -parent household in a small apartment to one day serve in the people's house and maybe even the White House. Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb, and that's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president of the United States of America. Okay, so, you know, I'm not a big fan of the affect. I'll be honest with you. I mean, if we're going to sort of analyze affect when you are running, that's not an amazing affect when you have to yell into the microphone to generate excitement. And I can't say there's a huge amount of buzz about Tim Scott outside of sort of the intelligentsia of the Republican Party. Again, I find Tim Scott a very, very appealing person. I think he's a terrific senator from South Carolina. I think that if you have to kind of categorize him with the rest of the Republican candidates right now, he probably goes in the Nikki Haley, Mike Pence category, meaning people who are not Ron DeSantis who are sort of hoping that DeSantis falls down on the job. And again, the question is whether he can actually get a crowd going. He tried it a couple of times during his opening speech. People were making fun of him online because he sort of a Howard Dean moment. Howard Dean was the Vermont governor who ran for the presidential nomination on the Democratic Party ticket in 2004. He ended up not winning the nomination. He collapsed pretty late in the process when he had this very weird kind of screamy moment downstairs. It was very strange. Here's how Tim Scott led off his campaign. People were sort of making the comparison. Okay. Again, is the enthusiasm and the excitement there or does it seem to be, somewhat manufactured? It doesn't seem like there is a lot of kind of call and plan for Scott to be the guy, but there are a lot of Republicans, coastal Republicans in particular, who are looking for somebody who isn't so abrasive. The problem, of course, is that the base is looking for somebody who's abrasive because they feel like they're under constant assault from the media, which they are. They feel like they are under constant assault from Joe Biden, which they are. And so the question is, who is going to be able to participate in a knife fight? Again, the reason Donald Trump became the nominee in 2016 is largely because Republicans had run a couple of candidates who in effect were much more like Tim Scott. John McCain in 2008 was trying to run an upbeat, positive campaign. And then, of course, Mitt Romney tried to do the same thing, kind of too smooth, not rough around the edges, not willing to get combative. The question for Tim Scott is whether he is able to get combative and kind of smooth, almost use some sandpaper on himself in order to become less smooth, just in terms of his personal affect, the way that he approaches politics. Republicans want somebody abrasive. He's not abrasive enough. And again, being abrasive is a quality of authenticity. It's not really clear, by the way, that Scott has any sort of attack plan on Trump. And so he becomes also the latest Republican candidate not to have an attack plan with regard to President Trump. In the early polling, Scott isn't even, he's not even registering at this point. But again, I think that the plan for a lot of the Republicans who are in the race who are not Ron DeSantis is basically stand aside, let Trump rip down DeSantis, maybe you rip down DeSantis too, and then you step into the gap. If you are an anti -Trump person, this strategy was tried back in 2016 to no avail. Every other Republican candidate basically said, I'm going to avoid hitting Trump and I'm going to hit Ted Cruz. I'm going to hit Marco Rubio. And then everybody else collapsed. And the only one standing was Trump. Again, Scott is starting from way behind, but he does have some moneyed friends who are in this race. There are a couple of Republican colleagues who have already endorsed his bid that he South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds. Rounds called Scott the closest to Ronald Reagan that you will ever see. And Thune gave the opening prayer on Monday at Scott's campaign launch rally. He's also accepted something like $30 million from Larry Ellison. Bill Haslam is serving as Scott's national campaign co -chair. He is visiting Iowa. He's sort of banking everything on the idea that maybe he will perform in outsized fashion in Iowa. Again, just because he has a great optimistic story does not necessarily mean that he is going to have a lot of durability in this race. Democrats, I don't think, are very much afraid that Tim Scott is going to win the nomination. I don't think they're particularly afraid of him if he does win the nomination, again, because they think that he is too conciliatory. And I think the dead giveaway is how Donald Trump is responding to Tim Scott. We'll get to that momentarily. First, remember the last time you got one of those quote unquote free phones? You started out feeling great. Then came the hefty fees for line requirements and, of course, the binding contract. Peer Talk is giving you a free 5G Samsung Galaxy phone without the feeling that you've been duped. When you switch to Peer Talk's unlimited talk and text data
The Ben Shapiro Show
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"This is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone. He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet. I mean, there is a reason that people are flying to and from Epstein Island where he was pretty overtly trafficking in underage girls. Mila Antonova, Russian bridge player in question, declined to comment on Gates and said she didn't know who Epstein was when they met. She said, I had no idea he was a criminal or had any ulterior motive, I just thought he was a successful businessman and wanted to help. She added, I'm disgusted with Epstein and what he did. But again, this demonstrates exactly how Epstein was operating. He met with everybody around Bill Gates, apparently. He gained access to Bill Gates. And then while he was working on this charitable fund with JP Morgan Chase, he finally met in 2013 with Gates and other Norwegian officials visiting Epstein's townhouse. Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew these Norwegian officials and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio, at which point Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France. That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates and others at his townhouse. And again, so it looks like he would make a connection with somebody and then he would dig up dirt on that person and then he would blackmail that person. And this is not the only story that has emerged about Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last couple of months alone. It emerged a little bit earlier this month that Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270 ,000 from Noam Chomsky, the wild left linguist, and he also paid $150 ,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, he had financial dealings with the two academics. He had met with them multiple times as well. Again, we still do not have the entire list of what exactly Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all these people, but the baseline assumption has to be that if you had repeated contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of years, there's a good shot that you'd had dirt on you and then he was shaking you down for money. Remember, at the exact same time that he was shaking Bill Gates down for money, Bill Gates was pretty openly saying that he was not being blackmailed by Epstein. In fact, here is Bill Gates saying just that. Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. Is that what Melinda Okay, said? so that is Bill Gates pretty much openly lying to journalists, saying I was never shaken down by Epstein. We were just the best of friends, which raises a question about everybody else who says that they were best of friends with Jeffrey Epstein and raises the further question as to just how much Epstein was being protected by people in positions of power. I mean, the answer has to be some because otherwise how could he get away with this for decades on end being a registered sex offender? Well, in just a second, we'll turn to the 2024 presidential race, but I think suffice it to say that a lot of the conspiracy theories that people have about people in positions of elite power who are working with one another or who are blackmailing one another or who are engaging in improper behavior behind closed doors and that are making themselves susceptible to blackmail by state actors, that number is pretty shocking. When the full Epstein scandal eventually breaks, which I think it probably will, when that breaks, it's going to bring down a lot of worlds. Okay, we'll get to the 2024 race in just one moment. First, I want to talk to you about Daily Wire's most trusted privacy partner and premier sponsor of this show, ExpressVPN. Using the internet without ExpressVPN, it's like checking your baggage at the airport without a lock. You think your stuff is safe, but you never know who might be going through your belongings. When you go online without ExpressVPN, ISPs can see every single website you visit. They can then legally sell that information without your consent to ad companies and tech giants who then use that data to target you. When you use ExpressVPN, internet service providers can't see your online activity at all. Your identity is completely anonymized. Your data is also encrypted for maximum protection. I love ExpressVPN because it's really easy for
AP News Radio
US Virgin Islands seeks to subpoena Elon Musk in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit
"The U.S. Virgin Islands wants to subpoena Elon Musk in a Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit. The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands is asking a federal judgment to help it serve billionaire Elon Musk with a subpoena for documents in its lawsuit seeking to hold JPMorgan Chase liable for sex trafficking acts committed by businessman Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers asked a judgment to let them serve the subpoena on Tesla because they have not been able to give the papers to Musk or his lawyers. The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands said it believes Epstein may have referred or tried to refer Musk to JPMorgan, something Musk has denied, Musk has never been publicly accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 as he awaited sex trafficking charges in a federal jail in Manhattan. I'm Julie Walker
The Dan Bongino Show
Was Jeffrey Epstein Gathering Foreign Intel, Blackmailing Others?
"Story is simple The Epstein story is not so simple You know I don't like getting out ahead of my skis because it's unfair to you For me to sit here and speculate about a thousand different reasons Epstein may or may not have been involved with this person or that person It's unfair to you But I think the evidence is pointing in a pretty critical direction right now It appears to me at this point that Epstein may have had connections to these foreign intelligence outfits and they may have been using him to gather information to blackmail people And the people that they may have been gathering information about were very very powerful people And what I'm what I think they're worried about is the foreign entities that may have control of some of these tapes Epstein produced or may have produced at his house and on the plane Or they may have produced for him if you know what I mean That they can't control it anymore And ladies and gentlemen there's nothing more devastating that an information bomb where you don't have the timer or control of it Nothing more devastating So you're wondering why you're not hearing more about the Jeffrey Epstein case so let's start from the beginning here Cover this a little bit on Monday He's obviously dead Died under suspicious circumstances in a jail cell in Manhattan Facility I'm familiar with Be very hard to get in that facility Very hard There have been some indications that the death was strange I believe Michael Baden said some had something to say about that But what I found most fascinating about this recent release of information from Epstein's communications is the connections to Obama's fixer Her name is Catherine rumbler She's a White House lawyer under Clinton and Obama
The Dan Bongino Show
Kathy Ruemmler Claims Case for 'Obstruction' on Pee Tape Hoax
"The last hour I did this whole segment on how Kathy rumbler this bombshell Wall Street Journal story how the Obama's White House lawyer was meeting With Jeffrey Epstein like that came out this weekend He was Kathy rumler just in case you think I'm making this up Telling David axelrod former Obama inside man On his podcast telling her oh yeah yeah that pee pee hoax here They were onto some this Mueller They got evidence of stuff Here take a listen to this Based on the facts that were laid out there do you think there is a case for obstruction Personally yes I do Intent and motivation and the reasons for doing something matter throughout virtually every criminal statute on our books and so that's relevant And if the proof is there and I think I've said before that I thought that evidence of corrupt motivation and that's the way I would put it is really it's just littered throughout the report Sorry I missed that in the last hour but there it is folks In case you think she wasn't a big pee pee hoaxer Now what you know now you understand Why I'm suspicious that the Obama fixer was meeting with Jeffrey Epstein who thought they'd been connected to Middle Eastern intelligence When we know people involved with Middle Eastern intelligence where key figures in spygate two how deep is this go
Squawk Pod
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Einstein GPT is a combination of our proprietary AI from Salesforce and an open ecosystem of vetted generative AI partners. We announced OpenAI as one of our initial launch partners this week. But we also announced a $250 million generative AI fund from Salesforce ventures investing in other generative AI startups like cohere and anthropic. And so we're really taking an ecosystem approach. And when it comes to AI, we've actually been on this journey for over 7 years. We introduced Einstein AI in its original form to the market in 2016. And we've just seen exponential adoption and growth now delivering over 200 billion AI predictions every day. How much of the, you know, when a client uses a service like this and asks it to write a letter or a question. And by the way, provides details to the service in the course of the prompt, if you will. How much of that data then goes back to chachi PT? That is exactly the reason why companies don't want their employees using consumer chatbots for work. It's making sure that they're proprietary data doesn't get out there into the open for public use. And I think that's why so many customers have come to us and why there's been so much excitement around Einstein GPT because they know they've been trusting Salesforce for 24 years to keep their data protected and secure. But I think that part of the question becomes not just how much on the consumer grade version does it go back to chat GPT. In terms of your own ability to train the service, how much of that data gets therefore shared if you will between clients, not that the clients are sharing the information with each other, but sharing it with you effectively. We keep our customers data separate, we always have for the last 24 years. It's part of our multi tenant model. And so we're bringing that to bear in the AI space. Just like we have for the last 7 years. So it's a critical part of making sure that this is a trusted environment for using generative AI. And when you think about what this looks like long term, we keep having big conversations about labor. I mean, how much, how much labor do you think is going to be needed? Do you think this actually increases productivity? Remarkably, and therefore, but not just productivity, but you need as many people as you need before. Do you save yourself, you know what? We had, I don't know, a couple thousand people writing lots of emails and letters to people. And now we don't need all those people. I think short and medium term, you look at how salespeople work today. And most of them, they dread writing sales emails. They'd much rather be out there with customers. And so being able to offload those tasks that are Mormon Dane and more owner. Same with customer service agents. They don't like having to read through hundreds of pages of product documentation in terms and conditions. They want to focus on engaging with the customer and problem solving. And so I think that that's what we're seeing on the horizon. In terms of the far horizon and long term, because Salesforce is a big believer in continuous upskilling and reskilling. We have a community of what we call trailblazers. That's a conference we had this week. And so many of the people, everyone comes because they want to continuously learn as technology evolves. One of the broader questions in this goes to the issue of data and how the data gets used in siloed. Long term, how did you see this playing out? Because so much of what Chad GPT has done so successfully is to boil the ocean, if you will, of the Internet. And to make this work, the question is whether content creators, I mean, right now, what you're talking about is contextually people will have their own data that they'll train off of. But whether they're going to need other data to train off of and whether people will pay a licensing fee effectively to do that. Well, I think that's the difference between the consumer space as well as versus the enterprise space. In the enterprise, the use cases are well defined in terms of sales, marketing, commerce, service, IT. And so in some cases, we don't even need a large language model. You can use a medium language model and get very high precision high accuracy, not have to spend as much on compute, reduce your carbon footprint, and being able to combine that with what's happening in the broader space and do it in a secure way. I think that's the future for the enterprise. And when it comes to AI. And how worried are you right now about the accuracy of chat GPT? Because there are still mistakes there. And the other piece of it is the service at least as it's designed today. Maybe it's going to be designed differently through your service, doesn't necessarily provide footnotes or aware necessarily to double check the information. Well, we've all seen what's happened in the news. Again, in the consumer space where the queries are more open ended versus in the business world, it's very constrained, right? Specific not only to a salesperson or a customer service agent, but even specific to their industry. And with those constraints we're able to increase the accuracy of the data and the output. And then the other thing is AI is only as valuable as the quality and the trustworthiness of the data and Salesforce being the customer record. And the single source of truth, especially our data cloud, where our customers are putting all of that data, otherwise it's the old garbage in garbage out problem. What's the cost of a query? We have not determined the final pricing yet for Einstein GPT. Do you know what the underlying cost of a query is going to be? That is continuously shifting. We just heard an announcement from OpenAI last week that they were bringing the costs down despite launching the next generation of their technology. And so the different providers in our ecosystem have slightly different pricing from one another and over time we should see that fall as the cost of compute goes down. Okay, Clara, it's great to see you. We appreciate it. Thanks for waking up early on the West Coast. Thank you. Next on squawk pod, new consumer data from Bank of America, spending is increasing, but some sectors are seeing more of our dollars than others. Head of the Bank of America institute Liz Everett CRISPR. It is absolutely a services story. People are eating in restaurants where they're not spending money on goods and particularly we noticed on the home. Old school wisdom with a passion for what's possible. That's what you get from the Morgan Stanley client experience. You get listening more than talking and a personalized plan built on insights and innovative technology. You get grid, vision, and the creativity to guide you through a changing world. Old school grid, new world ideas, Morgan Stanley. To learn more, visit Morgan Stanley dot com slash yos. Investing involves risk, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. This is squawk pod with Joe kernan Becky quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Here's Becky. Bank of America out with its latest consumer spending data. Credit and debit card spending per household actually decelerated in February to 2.7% year over year. That was down from 5.1% in January. Joining us right now is Liz Everett CRISPR, who is the head of Bank of America institute. Liz, let's talk about this. Slowing to 2.7% is that suggests that things are dropping off a cliff or is still pretty healthy number. I don't think so. I mean, consumers are still spending. If you look actually at our total payments data that was up 9% in February, but as you said, credit and debit card spending up 2.7, not down from the pop of 5.1. In January, but they are still spending. I think we've essentially just got normalized to the decelerating growth that we saw
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Go to the Places You Trust
"Do you see it changing? Steve kroc, because uncovered doesn't leave me very optimistic. No, and I do try in the last chapter to lay out some potential solutions. The union comment is really about the idea that the general staffer in these newsrooms is not going to listen to their bosses. That ship has sailed. Will they listen to their colleagues potentially? And that's one avenue of doing it. I don't have high hopes. You know, frankly, I think the corporate press along with really the elite establishment in this country today is it has so much disdain for the average American and just wants to divide us in sort of warring tribes. They kind of benefit by that and from a media perspective, they benefit from that because that's where their viewers are. That's where the lowest hanging fruit is. Just grab onto the ones that you know are the closest to you because the business model is changing. Just try to just grasp on as we hold on for dear life. That's a problem. And that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. I think that what we need is a country that is united in a way that doesn't need the establishment geek keepers. And I do hope that by laying all the cards on the table by saying, here's the truth about these stories that we saw, a hundred Biden Jeffrey Epstein lab Lee, COVID, all of these stories over the last few years. Let's get on the same page together because then we really don't need that. We can go to independent press. We can go to places that we trust.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Signed the Arrest Warrant to Nab Jeffrey Epstein?
"That's actually easy to find out is, who signed the arrest warrant to arrest Jeffrey Epstein when he landed back from Paris if my memory serves me correctly, Newark international airport, Newark. I believe that and if I remember correctly, Ghislaine Maxwell was actually the one that told him to come home. If I remember correctly, Ghislaine Maxwell told him to come home or come back, he did it on trust and as soon as he landed in Newark airport, he was arrested. Play cut 36 of Ghislaine Maxwell, now expressing her thoughts. Play cut 36. I believe that he was magic. Wow shocked. Now what did it happen? Because the science team was saying to, I was sure you were going to appeal. And I was sure that he was covered under the non prosecution agreement. But I wasn't in the indictment. I wasn't mentioned. I wasn't even one of the Coke. I obviously wish I'd never met him. Now, we very well might be able to I'm sure we can find the name of some judge that signed the warrant to actually arrest him or the arresting agents. That's not the point. The point is who's actually in charge who decided, we want to take out Jeffrey Epstein. No, no, not just take him out, but arrest him. And if you were going to kill Jeffrey Epstein, why would you need to arrest him, put him in prison, and then do it in a way that will only invite criticism and questions. And it does beg the broader question, were there people within the government that were actually trying to do the right thing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jeffrey Epstein's 'Suicide' Was Anything But
"Remember back in the, I want to make sure I get my years right. I think this all happened in 2019 if I'm not mistaken. And I remember it was August or September 2019. If I'm remembering correctly. And Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. And Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. And a friend of mine, who remain nameless, who's very well sourced in the Intel community. He's been on our show before. I'll just give you that little heads up. I'll give you that little tease. We text often and he said Charlie urgent call me. So I picked up the phone and I spoke to him and said, hey, what's up? And he's like, I got 5 things. He was always on top of the ball and head of the game. And he said, Charlie, they're going to kill Epstein. I said, what are you talking about, man? I don't even. Is that the guy that's the pedophile with the young girls? I didn't know that much about him. I vaguely knew a little bit about the Lolita express in the island and but it was still a little bit of a foreign concept. And he said, no, no, I got sources. They're going to take out Epstein. I was like, all right, man, sure. What do you want me to do? He says, you got to tell Trump. You got to get him in a maximum security. You got to get Secret Service protection. It was like this whole thing. You got to deploy the agents that he is the nexus that he is the linchpin that if you are able to isolate and get a little bit of what Epstein knows, you could take down his words the entire cabal. And I kind of, and I'll be very honest, I was naive. I rolled my eyes. I was like, all right, man. Sure. And our team can tell me what the gap is between the arrest and the murder or the suicide, as we're supposed to believe. But everything that he predicted came true. And not only if I just add one more detail, he said they're going to make it look like he killed himself. Now, whether or not this person that I spoke to on the phone that was very well sourced and is what very well sourced. And by the way, he's been right about dozens of things as he's come on our program. He was right on things on Afghanistan. He was right on many different things. He was arrested on July 6th, 2019. And he died on August 10th, 2019. So about a 5 week gap, which makes sense. That means that the ruling class and the elite started to get very nervous and they started to put plans in place.
The Eric Metaxas Show
MorningStar Ministries' Chris Reed on the Conditionality of Prophecy
"I'm talking to Chris Reed of Morningstar ministry's Chris. I'm sure that there are just people stunned by what we're talking about. I encourage them to watch the video where you deliver this stuff at Morningstar TV dot com so they can get it. But so you said that, first of all, the, that the Prince Andrew, who has been plausibly tied to some of the Jeffrey Epstein stuff that this would overwhelm him to the point that you said he would try to take his life or he would be tempted to take his life. The thing that you just showed us on the screen implied that he would succeed in that. But when you spoke on December 29th, you told us to pray for him that you didn't see that as a theta complete. Yeah. Yeah, once again, I want to say, some of these things, you see in part, you see glimpses of it in these visionary experiences and I saw him in such a place of desperation and grief. I mean, of course he lost his mother and so on and so forth. And I saw him try to take his own life and it seemed like he was successful, but another part of me felt like that this could be prayed against. Just like this whole thing I saw with Ted Cruz. I thought a health crisis, you know, coming for senator Ted Cruz and I feel like that can be averted if enough people begin to pray because we need him. He's throwing conservative in Texas and I'm praying God will protect him and preserve him and keep him from harm. Well, so some of this stuff is conditional and you're just talking about what God showed you, but you did you did say that God clearly showed you that the marriage of Harry and Meghan would not last. He will be played the fool, yes. He will be he will realize at I can't, I don't know the exact date of this, okay? I'm sharing in 2023 things that could happen. I don't want to limit this to 2023. This may, you know, two or three years. I don't know, but I did see them split. Yes. And his attempt to reconcile with his family.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"A good morning and thank you now to one of the stories that are leading the front pages of the newspapers here in the UK today and Prince Andrew has agreed to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of sexually abusing a 17 year old girl introduced to him by financier Jeffrey Epstein called documents show that Prince Andrew will make a substantial donation to the charity of his accuser Virginia Jew fray and declared that he never meant him align her character according to the telegraph the queen will help pay for Andrews at 12 billion pounds settlement Andrew has consistently denied the accusation In earnings news Heineken is raising its prices to pass on raw material costs to consumers which may weigh on consumption full year BS sales in 2021 rose 4.6% on an organic basis just beating estimates but the brewer is still being cautious on the rebound from the pandemic Heineken is warning that a full recovery of business in bars and restaurants in Europe may take longer to bounce back than in the Asia Pacific region And Chinese state media is reporting president Xi Jinping is ordering Hong Kong to use all means to tackle its COVID outbreak The city may report more than 4000 cases later and another 3000 preliminary infections she's commentary as unusually direct and assigned that Carrie lannes government has little room to deviate from its COVID zero policy still Hong Kong's leader is sticking with plans to avoid a citywide lockdown Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries and the Ann gorans this is Bloomberg This is the big take The best of Bloomberg's in depth original reporting from around the globe We're running on a financial system that's running on old technology We're seeing post prices which fresh record highs China's government is known for its competency and controlling a banking crisis The big take on Bloomberg radio this is time for the big take story then here at Bloomberg sticking with China let's take a look at the subject of today's big take just a couple of years ago Chinese consumers were considered untapped gold mines for global brands Now nationalism has fundamentally changed the picture with global names from Nike to H and M and L'oreal seeing setbacks as they see ground to local brands to discuss our nationalism is changing the calculations of the world's biggest consumer companies we joined now for our big take analysis by reporter in Hong Kong Jin Shang Hong Jin nice to speak to you once again So tell us a bit about how rising nationalism in China is shifting consumer behavior And if we are seeing this shift how can we be sure that it's nationalism driving that not some other factor Yeah thanks for having me So we look at this exclusive data looking back four years of transaction volume on China's ecommerce platform And what we find actually quite surprisingly is that the boycotts against western brands like what happened in March last year during some brands denouncing the use of Xinjiang cotton is not going to be a blip anymore So we see the constant change for example in the sneaker industry where in the past Nike and Adidas always dominate the top position But now Chinese brands like Nike like anta and leaning broke through into the top tier And they are doing much better when consumers feel the nationalism drive At the same time they are also having better products better marketing skills So that also account for their success in the recent year So with this we are going to continue to see sustained pressure for western brands operating in China Your story is really interesting and you point out there that the drivers yes it's the nationalism It's also the way that the local brands are responding And your story does focus and it's really beautiful imagery on the big tech story so you can look at that online or NA bit NI big take is the function to use on the Bloomberg if you want to see it in full Technicolor It focuses on sneakers or trainers and sports brands but what about other product categories then Jin Shan What did you do on earth Yeah actually we look at many other categories and in our story we also have baby food cosmetics and soft drinks and apparel They are all seeing similar trends that consumers over different time frame are adopting more national brands when they have the options And actually what we see as the remaining round is like luxury goods and beauty care where the top brands are still international So that's an interesting future area to look at whether Chinese brands can actually break into the high end market And what about foreign brands just briefly what are they doing to try and fight back Yeah so if we look at Nike Adidas definitely they are having quite a difficult time They say the performance in China is improving quarter by quarter but still they see a very big difference between them and local players because when they try to hire endorsement from celebrities and top athletes they have that difficulty and like a lot of Chinese brands So going forward is just continue going to be an issue for them if they want to continue in China just how to walk that balance between this geopolitical tension as well as their marketing and products innovation Okay Jin Shan thank you very much Our reporter in Hong Kong with the latest on that big take story and I big take as I mentioned is the function to use when you Bloomberg if you want to see more on that or if you go to the Bloomberg website you can see the story there as well Now straight ahead on Bloomberg daybreak Europe will get back to.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Jeffrey Epstein Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios This is global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists nanos more than a 120 countries I'm like Lamar this is Bloomberg temple Megabyte Thanks so much We continue with our exclusive Netflix coverage with Paul Sweeney Michael bar you can chime in here because I know you're watching Netflix like 12 hours a day You see queen's gambit like 14 times right Right Yeah I do like this That's a show Yeah My wife watches a lot of those series At home I mean that's what it is You can just go episode to episode to episode We didn't do that We watched happy days 8 o'clock Tuesday night That's right Gunsmoke Wednesday you guys are too young to remember gunsmoke Anyway This is really important We're beginning to see minutes watched Yep Do the streamers care about that Or do they is this fiction that shows only matter Are they really just glued to how many minutes each house watch Yeah they really are focused on minutes watched your engagement is another way to say the more time you spend on it presumably the lower the churn you're gonna be a better customer and you're gonna be able to as we just witnessed take a price hike And so if you're really engaged with the service whatever service it is including a streaming service that's when the provider has more pricing power Income and substitution effect When you do a price hike is it about that entity or is it the substitution effect goes away where I don't switch to Hulu if Netflix went up Yeah and that kind of goes it is So that's that at elasticity there of demand and the substitution effect And so it goes to the quality of the programming That's why they spend upwards of 20 $1 billion on programming to make it so that when they do raise the price you're going to stick around Yeah You know Because I have to have that next season of The Queen's Gambit or whatever It is And they're spending $20 billion with no sports That's the amazing thing Yeah now that one yeah That one I get it because people want to be entertained They want to see the drama or they want to see the comedy this and that whatever And I've always said we always had the real deal when it came to the so called sports and everything like that from day one up until now We always used to watch it on linear TV And my world has changed It's all upside down so I have to get used to it Fascinated by it And I should say the success of the NFL this season is extraordinary Yep By the way NBC they.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"That this day would ever come and I just feel so grateful that the jury believed us and sent a strong message that perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation will be held accountable no matter how much power and privilege that they have That was Annie farmer a little more than a week ago after a jury found the lane Maxwell guilty of engaging in a ten year sex trafficking scheme with Jeffrey Epstein But now the verdict that was hailed as long delayed justice for the victims is in jeopardy In newspaper interviews a juror said that during the jury deliberations he revealed that he'd been the victim of sexual abuse as a child and that his story helped sway other jurors who questioned the credibility of some of Maxwell's accusers then a second juror made a similar disclosure Joining me is former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth a professor at cardozo law school Jessica explain why the revelations by these jurors are leading the defense to ask for a new trial A defendant is entitled to a trial by a jury that is fair and impartial That is a constitutional guarantee A defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial but at a minimum to a trial by a group that will decide the case based on the evidence presented in court and not influenced by any bias And so the problem that has been raised by these recent revelations by two jurors is the concern that they may have Harvard a bias against Maxwell based on their own prior experiences as victims of sexual abuse And so what the court is going to be trying to determine is whether essentially these jurors should not have been seated because of those prior experiences Clearly the questionnaire that the jurors had to fill out asks have you or a friend or a family member ever been the victim of sexual harassment sexual abuse or sexual assault So was there misrepresentation here by either juror Well there are a couple of things we still don't know So we don't know how he answered that question on his questionnaire because it's under seal So the lawyers may know but the general public doesn't know yet how in fact he answered that question And it seems unlikely that he answered it in a way that disclosed the abuse because if he had it is likely that the attorneys would have asked follow-up questions about it and according to the reporting the transcript of the vor gear does not reveal any follow-up questioning of this particular chair on that issue So that's suggest that if it not disclose it on his questionnaire and that's important for the next step of the inquiry because the court is going to inquire into his possible motive for not disclosing it assuming for present purposes if he did not disclose it If the court were to determine that he did not disclose it deliberately in order to get on the jury then that would be more indicative of bias than if he as he has suggested perhaps inadvertently failed to disclose it because he was rushing through the questionnaire And there are cases where courts have talked about the significance of a jurors motivations for failing to disclose information that seems relevant to determining bias because if it seems that the juror was determined or trying to get onto the jury that is often indicative in the course of you of harboring some bias and wanting to get onto the jury in order to render a verdict against the defendant Well the judge look into what happened in the jury room That's one of the more interesting aspects of this new turn in the case The judge is not going to consider testimony or other evidence about the jury deliberations in making her decision about whether or not to grant a new trial That's because there's a federal rule of evidence that expressly prohibits a judge from considering testimony or an affidavit from a juror about conductor statements that occurred during the jury's deliberation That's a rule of long-standing precedence And it's designed to protect the privacy of jury deliberations the concern is that if jurors are not assured of the privacy of their deliberations that they will be less candid Courts have been willing to accept the fact that this rule may result in occasional injustice but they have said that they do not think that the jury system could survive efforts to perfect it in this regard What kind of factors would the judge consider Will she consider the strength of the evidence against Maxwell Will she consider having to put the four victims who testified through another trial Well motions for a new trial are disfavored precisely because of the interest and finality in judgments once they've been rendered And those interests include not having to put victims and witnesses through another trial But that said the legal determination that the court will need to make is whether or not the record establishes that these jurors or sufficiently unbiased that they were appropriately seated as jurors in this case So I think the court is likely to hear from these jurors about their reasons for not disclosing this information if in fact they fail to disclose it and also their own views about the case when they went into the case Thanks Jessica That's professor Jessica Roth of cardozo law school coming up next The investigation into January 6th This is Bloomberg Progressive snapshot can save you money based on how you drive and how much.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Sure that this day would ever come and I just feel so grateful that the jury believed us and sent a strong message that perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation will be held accountable no matter how much power and privilege that they have That was Annie farmer a little more than a week ago after a jury found the lane Maxwell guilty of engaging in a ten year sex trafficking scheme with Jeffrey Epstein But now the verdict that was hailed as long delayed justice for the victims is in jeopardy In newspaper interviews a juror said that during the jury deliberations he revealed that he'd been the victim of sexual abuse as a child and that his story helped sway other jurors who questioned the credibility of some of Maxwell's accusers then a second juror made a similar disclosure Joining me is former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth a professor at cardozo law school Jessica explain why the revelations by these jurors are leading the defense to ask for a new trial A defendant is entitled to a trial by a jury that is fair and impartial That is a constitutional guarantee A defendant is not entitled to a person trial but at a minimum to a trial by a jury that will decide the case based on the evidence presented in court and not influenced by any bias And so the problem that has been raised by these recent revelations by two jurors is the concern that they may have Harvard a bias against Maxwell based on their own prior experiences as victims of sexual abuse And so what the court is going to be trying to determine is whether essentially these jurors should not have been seated because of those prior experiences Clearly the questionnaire that the jurors had to fill out asks have you or a friend or a family member ever been the victim of sexual harassment sexual abuse or sexual assault So was there misrepresentation here by either juror Well there are a couple of things we still don't know So we don't know how he answered that question on his questionnaire because it's under steal So the lawyers may know but the general public doesn't know yet how in fact he answered that question And it seems unlikely that he answered it in a way that disclosed the abuse because if he had it is likely that the attorneys would have asked follow-up questions about it and according to the reporting the transcript of the vor deer does not reveal any follow-up questioning of this particular juror on that issue So that's suggest that he did not disclose it on his questionnaire And that's important for the next step of the inquiry because the court is going to inquire into his possible motive for not disclosing it assuming for present purposes if he did not disclose it If the court were to determine that he did not disclose it deliberately in order to get on the jury then that would be more indicative of bias than if he has suggested perhaps inadvertently failed to disclose it because he was rushing through the questionnaire And there are cases where courts have talked about the significance of a jurors motivations for failing to disclose information that seems relevant to determining bias because if it seems that the juror was determined or trying to get onto the jury that is often indicative in the course of you of harboring some bias and wanting to get onto the jury in order to render a verdict against the defendant Will the judge look into what happened in the jury room That's one of the more interesting aspects of this new turn in the case The judge is not going to consider testimony or other evidence about the jury deliberations in making her decision about whether or not to grant a new trial That's because there's a federal rule of evidence that expressly prohibits a judge from considering testimony or an affidavit from a juror about conductor statements that occurred during the jury's deliberation Doctor rule of long-standing precedent and it's designed to protect the privacy of jury deliberation the concern is that if jurors are not assured of the privacy of their deliberations that they will be less candid Courts have been willing to accept the fact that this rule may result in occasional injustice but they have said that they do not think that the jury system could survive efforts to perfect it in this regard What kind of factors would the judge consider Will she consider the strength of the evidence against Maxwell Will she consider having to put the four victims who testified through another trial Well motions for a new trial are disfavored precisely because of the interest and finality in judgments once they've been rendered And those interests include not having to put victims and witnesses through another trial But that said the legal determination that the court will need to make is whether or not the record establishes that these jurors or sufficiently unbiased that they were appropriately seated as jurors in this case So I think the court is likely to hear from these jurors about their reasons for not disclosing this information if in fact they fail to disclose it and also their own views about the case when they went into the case Thanks Jessica That's professor Jessica Roth of cardozo law school coming up next The investigation into January 6th This is Bloomberg You come into bed Hun Yep honey I'll be right there I just.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"World Hank waters I'm Charlie paddock Ghislaine Maxwell guilty Maxwell found guilty in the case accusing her of luring and grooming underage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein a verdict but offers some long delayed justice for his victims the judge read the jury's verdict in Manhattan federal court after deliberating for about 5 days They found her guilty of 5 of the charges against her including sex trafficking of a minor which carries a possible prison sentence of up to 40 years in prison Maxwell did not appear to have any reaction to the verdict at one point brushing her hair aside and taking a drink of water again repeating Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty A day of records on Wall Street today with the S&P 500 Index up 6 to 47 93 a gain of one tenth of 1% Dow Jones Industrial Average also climbing to a record up 90 point up by three tenths of 1% as stack had a down day falling 15 points down one tenth of 1% but the tech heavy NASDAQ 100 index was higher up two points little changed up less than one tenth of 1% Ten year yield 1.53% spot gold 1804 the ons West Texas intermediate crude up by 8 tenths of 1% 76 56 arrow recapping records for the Dow and the S&P 500 Index I'm Charlie palapas a Bloomberg business flash You're listening to Bloomberg sound on with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg radio So to think we're going.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Privilege about Chef says the committee will move forward withholding Meadows in contempt of Congress if he does not appear for a rescheduled deposition One of Ghislaine Maxwell's accuser says the British socialite preyed on her when she was 14 years old for financier Jeffrey Epstein and his friends The witness identified only by her first name Caroline took the witness stand yesterday She became the third woman to testify at Maxwell's trial about the abuse the accusers said they endured at the hands of Epstein They alleged the abuse was facilitated by his close associate Maxwell The 59 year old Maxwell has denied the charges Republican led efforts to repeal President Biden's vaccine mandate on private businesses will once again get a vote in the Senate today and this time it is expected to pass The bill would still need to go over to the house where its fate is uncertain White House press secretary Jen Psaki We certainly hope the Senate Congress will stand up to the anti vaccine and testing crowd And we're going to continue to work to implement these If it comes to the president's desk he will veto it Psaki says 60% of businesses across the country are already implementing vaccine requirements A new study has found nearly 80% of U.S. college students have to choose between paying for food and paying for school The survey commission by intelligent dot com and conducted by poll fish found that 29% of students have had to skip meals daily to make ends meet Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick tag powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries I'm Michael Barr in this is Bloomberg Nathan Thank you Michael 6 O 9 on Wall Street time for the Bloomberg sports update with Jon Snow The next nets rangers and islanders were all on the road last night and they all won the Knicks end of the three game losing streak one 21 one O 9 at San Antonio the big story was RJ Barrett He had a 5 game stretch early in the season where he averaged 25 points a game but that stretch ended about a month ago and since then Barrett had failed to score 20 had made only 13 of 58 three pointers last night he scored 32 made 7 of 8 threes Knicks play again tonight at Indiana nets and Dallas came from 17 down to win one O two 99 so they stayed in first place in the east Kevin Durant 24 points James Harden 23 and a near triple double next play tonight in Houston where of course harden used to play 7th straight win for the rangers 6 two at Chicago big night for our Timmy Panera two goals to assist Chris Pryor scored his 17th of the season ten of those have been on the power play The blue shirts 17th where there are only one point out for most points in the NHL The islanders had lost 11 in a row Anders Lee scored twice second period of the isles won 5 three in Ottawa their first win in a month The giant spending the week in Arizona before playing the Chargers in LA on Sunday saquon Barkley happy to get out of New York If you're in college come into a college trip You get away Obviously you want to be a family but we could take advantage of this What 8 days or 9 days having made days were going to be out there We could take advantage of this As a trip to an all relaxed breed come together collectively figure out what we've got to do better The Giants.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is a Bloomberg business Probably mug European headquarters in the City of London and Laura Wright with this Bloomberg radio business flash a correction in markets yesterday the S&P 500 closing down 1.2% big correction following the discovery of an army Kron case in the United States Here in the Asian session mix picture Nikki 5 down 6 tenths of a percent the hanging up a tenth of a percent the CSI 300 up two tenths of a percent the ASX 200 just south of the red down a tenth of a percent and the cost beat the regional outperformer up 1.6% Looking ahead to futures imani's rebounding up 6 tenths of a percent Now's like 100 pictures up half a percent news in the early hours of this morning that Apple is seeing flowing demand for its new iPhone 13 That's coming from some of its suppliers reporting that you're a socks 50 features down 1.2% negative sentiment coming through will get unemployment data from European state later this morning in the bomb space U.S. tenure benchmark paper yielding 1.434% up three basis points The blue McDonald's book index table apps and 1183 handle the Turkish lira down 8% against the dollar of the 13 spot three 7 handle in commodities Brent crude price at $69 a barrel Up 1.3% the market anticipating that OPEC plus meeting later today on what it means for production increases or stability in the market that's the Bloomberg radio business but his guaranteed the world needs Laura good morning and thank you Australia's chief medical officer says there's no indication that oma krone is deadlier than other COVID strains Paul Kelly says of the 300 cases reported around the world all have been very mild or have shown no symptoms at all the first confirmed U.S. case of the variant has been detected in California The CDC says the patient is a San Francisco resident who had traveled to South Africa They were fully vaccinated and have only mild symptoms Now the youngest alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein has told a coach she did not invent a memory of Ghislaine Maxwell being involved in sexual abuse The witness known under the pseudonym James claims a British socialite took part in some encounters in the 90s Maxwell who has been in a U.S. prison since her arrest in July last year denies all the charges against him And as Christmas of foster approaches people should not kiss strangers under the mistletoe That's a suggestion from a government minister to raise coffee the work and pension secretary also told ITV the government was working hard so we can all enjoy a knees up Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and will then 120 countries and Leanne guerin's this is Bloomberg while practical advice in a pandemic Yeah so if you could even get mistletoe it's actually not that difficult quite expensive plant to buy in the UK I did just put that out there I did see some actually at my local florist he's got a lovely stand where I live And I haven't seen mistletoe for a long time but there was some hanging there But this also comes off the back of some mixed messages we've got isn't it Carolina for the last week from the government but it's just another warning to say make your Christmas party a little bit smaller and refrain from kissing strangers Yeah absolutely Thanks so much and Gary and said with the world news Let's talk about the markets then this morning Really very mixed We saw a stock sell off over in the U.S. yesterday and yet we are very much more positive in terms of stock futures now It was the reverse for Europe the U.S. Oxy features Carly down at 1% at the moment So drone Powell's comments buffeted the markets in the U.S. yesterday he reiterated that officials should consider a faster reduction of monetary stimulus amid higher inflation But then JPMorgan Chase strategists saying by the dip because could actually end up being a catalyst for a steepening of yield curves and a rotation from growth to value While joining us now is ST dweck chief investment officer at Flo bank Thank you so much as C for joining us on radio Overdone then in your view do you see a rally in reopening themes as JPMorgan does I tend to agree with that view I think it's still too early to tell It's going to take a couple of days or even weeks to really know what a Macron is like and how resistant it may or may not be the vaccines And again the part that really matters is against severe illness So it's going to take a bit of time to sample we have so far is really quite small And of course we're looking for them So we're finding some asymmetric asymptomatic cases as well But what we've seen is people and companies ability to adapt to COVID better and better with every wave every variant and with vaccination still accelerating around the world booster shots now getting delivered I would decide with the view that reopening is just being delayed a little bit further It is going to continue and we do still like cyclical stocks Okay So then in terms of the fed moves the market sees early summer may for a rise master telling Bloomberg she favors a faster taper so that the fed is then ready Is that something that you see No I don't think the mason scenario is likely The fed does want to end up taper wild before they start hiking whether they accelerate tapering is likely at the moment the momentum is very strong in growth and I think to some extent that is going to continue Inflation should be abating in this first half of the year It might take a couple more months but we're hearing anecdotal evidence that supply chain disruptions are improving a little bit And there is this view that inflation is going to dissipate gradually So I don't think there'll be as much urgency to hike And I do think the growth even in the U.S. is going to be slowing in the second half of the year So it would be an interesting timing for the fed to try to be more aggressive with hikes with a softening backdrop Yeah okay So what do you expect them from the U.S. jobs report on Friday expecting to see many more jobs created But that's going to be another kind of critical data point where only two weeks out from the next fed meeting I think Powell's comments this week have in a way derisked those two data points right We have the non farm payrolls this Friday We have inflation next week because he's opened the door to accelerating tapering It won't maybe be as much all eyes on those two data points trying to interpret at this point the market probably assumes we are going to get an acceleration in tapering I think the jobs report is going to come in similar to the October 1 relatively strong We saw the ADPs where quite strong yesterday So that's encouraging we know that the labor market isn't so much of a concern even though you have sort of under the hood still some discrepancies with race and with lower wage earners and participation rates compared to the overall unemployment number but the question is going to be more on inflation than on the jobs market Yeah okay Also in terms of just delving a little bit deeper into the equity picture the S&P 500 has closed at an all time high on the 18th of November so up almost 27% for the year Now it's pulled back 4% since then Is there an equity valuation issue for the U.S..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"School I hope that we can all rise to the occasion and wrap our arms around the families The affected children and school personnel and this community Governor Whitmer called it every parent's worst nightmare Testimony continues today in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell yesterday a woman on the stand who identified herself under the pseudonym of Jane says Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was 14 Nearly 30 years later Jane took the stand as one of four women who claimed they were abused by Epstein as miners and are expected to appear as prosecution witnesses in Maxwell's trial in Manhattan federal court The British socialite is accused of grooming them for Epstein and participating in some of their abuse herself Live in the Bloomberg interactive broker studios This is global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries I'm Michael Barr this is Bloomberg John Paul Thanks so much We got to talk Paul about one of the great unspoken within this news flow The moonshot known as Apple I just did a log study of Apple computer back to Ben laidler's beginning of the bull market at Christmas Eve 2000 18 I think Yeah And the pandemic and all that And I think completely unsaid in the last week or two has been up to 2.7 trillion Apple has put a new leg on Let's see what I know why You know it's interesting It's up 25% year to date It just feels like just another year for Apple But I think we're going to have Dan Ives on Bloomberg markets later this morning will get his thoughts because he's a Super Bowl there But it's been new products It's been services and it's been now the promise of maybe some new business lines like maybe a car like maybe some bigger television There's always so much for the bulls the hanging their hat on for this name and given the size of this company to see it put up such strong top line growth rates it's almost impossible I mean you got a company here with 365 billion of revenue It's just extraordinary It's been under the radar for like 6 weeks It's all Facebook never met a meta You know there were some visibility from Alphabet Google blah blah blah And radio silence on Apple across the zeitgeist Yeah absolutely And people just kind of continue to sit there and marvel at the top line growth and they don't deliver margin they think their profits and they deliver free cash flow We deliver a data check and we'll carry Moscow does it Better than we do but we'll fake it SPX up 55 points right now The Vic's 23.57 in a big 3.6 figures on the vix 23.57 death.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Prince Andrew Might Get Lucky
"Did you know that very quietly Prince Andrew? First of all, very quietly Prince Andrew was finally served the paper as a week or two ago. He finally let the people in, the security guards took the papers. What a bunch of bullshit, so now that went down smoothly, but now suddenly he has won the right to review a sealed 2009 settlement that has accuser Virginia giuffre Roberts or Robert drew freight reached with Jeffrey Epstein. And Prince Andrew thinks this will get him off the hook from her lawsuit against him. So this Manhattan district judge, Loretta preska, she gave Andrew's lawyers permission that they could get a copy of this confidential agreement that Epstein signed with Virginia Roberts you Frey. She's now suing Andrew, as you know, so this is kind of interesting news. He gets to see what this what this settlement says. And his attorney seems pretty happy about it as attorneys Andrew brettler. He said that this agreement that he's got his hands on now will completely absolve Prince Andrew from any and all liability. That's a big statement,
AP News Radio
Lawyer for Prince Andrew vows he'll fight 'baseless' lawsuit
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting prince Andrew intends to respond to a new lawsuit and attorney for Britain's prince Andrew says Andrew was not properly served a copy of a new lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was coerced into having sex with the royal when she was seventeen attorney Andrew Brettler told a judge in New York Monday the claim by Virginia's you free is baseless nonviable and potentially unlawful you free alleges she was one of many girls and young women sexually abused by convicted sex offender and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in her lawsuit and in interviews you free says she traveled to London with abstain in two thousand one and had sex with Andrew before two more sexual encounters with the prince in New York and the U. S. Virgin Islands Andrew has denied the allegations hi Mike Rossio
Today, Explained
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Out of justice thus far i think they do. I think that they They're still very angry and are skeptical. That prosecutors are going to continue this investigation beyond a jeffrey obscene and galen maxwell they believe that there were a lot of other people that were involved in particularly men who were engaging in sex with minors and they believe that authorities should go after everyone who helped epstein. And you know. I think that there there is some concern that authorities are going to charge. You know possibly convict galen maxwell and then not go any further with the case so There are some victims out there that are pressuring prosecutors to continue their investigation.
AP News Radio
Prince Andrew Served With US Civil Suit, Lawyers Say
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting attorneys say prince Andrew has been served with the U. S. civil suit attorneys representing Virginia Jew free have served Britain's prince Andrew with legal papers in a U. S. civil suit you free alleges she was sexually assaulted by the prince when she was seventeen your free content the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sexual encounters with Andrew in two thousand one and the prince knew she had been trafficked by Epstein attorney say the legal papers were handed over on August twenty seventh as first reported by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper failure to respond within twenty one days of the summons would be in a judgment against Andrew would be issued by default hi Mike Rossi up
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Prince Andrew Is Still on the Lam to Avoid Being Served Papers
"If you're not keeping tabs on what's happening, let me fill you in on this endless idiot. So last month, Virginia Jeffrey files this federal civil lawsuit. We talked about it on the show against Prince Andrew. The guy she's accused of sexually abusing her a bunch of times when she was a minor. And various houses or residences that belonged to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. And now Andrew has done everything in his powers to not get served this lawsuit. And he just continues to evade process service. Are they not trying hard enough? Can't they just fly in on a fucking jetpack and come up with a better idea? How are you not getting this guy? Jesus. And now he's hiding out at his mom's country home and Scotland. She's dead. I mean, I've never seen a royal work this hard. This is a lot of work, but since we know he can't sweat because of his fictitious condition, I guess he must look very gallant doing this. But right after the news broke of Virginia's lawsuit. Andrew's ex-wife Fergie makes an appearance and says, let's get out of here. I'll go with you. And they throw a couple of bags in a truck and they spit out a speed out of town, they go to Queen Elizabeth's country castle, balmoral. Balmoral. A few weeks after that, it was reported that Andrew had left balmoral and was hiding out at royal lodge in Windsor. But he's back on the run again. This guy is always fled to the safety of his mother's balmoral estate in Scotland and he's doing it for a second time now. A second time in a month he's back to this guy moves around more than I do. And he's believed to have made this big man dash up north in an attempt, obviously, to avoid being humiliated of being physically served papers in Virginia Robert drew Frey up cape upcoming civil lawsuit against him. I guess he thinks he's too good for
Ric Edelman
NYC's Metropolitan Correctional Center to Temporarily Close
"The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City will be closed. John Scott explains the facility where Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide will be closed, at least temporarily to address issues that have long plagued the facility, including lax security and crumbling infrastructure. The jail currently has 233 inmates, down from a normal population of 600, or more, most expected to be transferred to a federal jail in Brooklyn inmates have complained in recent Years that the jail was invested with mice, rats and Roaches and that multiple inmates were forced to share dirty sinks and
AP News Radio
Jeffrey Epstein, Mike Rossi And Prince Andrew discussed on AP News Radio
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting a longtime accuser of Jeffrey Epstein's suse prince Andrew alleging assault when she was seventeen Virginia Jew freight one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers sued prince Andrew Monday saying he sexually assaulted her when she was seventeen the lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court lawsuit alleges the prince abused you Frey on multiple occasions when she was under the age of eighteen at August twenty nineteen to Frey told reporters I was recruited at a very young age from Mar a Lago and
AP News Radio
Attorney Dershowitz Sues Netflix for $80M Over Epstein Show
"I might cross your reporting attorney Alan Dershowitz sues Netflix attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is suing Netflix for eighty million dollars for his portrayal in the series filthy rich about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the lawsuit filed in Miami federal court contends Netflix intentionally misled Dershowitz regarding his appearance in the series the lawsuit also claims Netflix defamed Dershowitz by falsely asserting he had sex with one of Epstein's victims Virginia to fray Dershowitz who once represented abstain has denied accusations from two free that they had sex Epstein died in August twenty nineteen at a New York jail in what was ruled a suicide hi Mike Rossi up
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"A lot of girls knew about it. A lot of girls were doing it. If anybody asks if you're over the age of 18 just go ahead and go with it. There was a wealthy man in Palm Beach who was offering young girls a way to make money. That man was Jeffrey Epstein, and he had set up a system designed to bring him under age girls, local police and the federal government would investigate. By their count. Find dozens of victims. Epstein would become one of the world's most infamous predators, a man who could have faced decades in prison but served just 13 months in his own wing of a county jail. Why would you cut this deal with Jeffrey Epstein? Epstein's abuse would spend years and cross state lines. New York PALM Beach, New Mexico, Paris. Virgin Islands and each one of those residences is an alleged crime scene. I'm a B C's Marc Graham, a lard and with a team of journalists from Okay, We're back my money back to tell me that I was 23. And the movie will in fact, start here in seven minutes. Looks like the Dow's about 60 points is where I think we're.
The Charles Moscowitz Podcast
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on The Charles Moscowitz Podcast
"I think that has been the underlying philosophy of the trans humanist movement of which jeffrey epstein was a major part here in boston the head professor at the media center to resign because associations with epstein and before his resignation on their website. He had all kinds of stuff about the what exactly. I'm talking about very openly. I mean trans. Humanism is the new future of nan. And it's going chew love disease nothing wrong with curing disease. But the point is they were trying to use it. In a way to do something that would have evolved manned would marginalized populations that was seen as less evolved which has always been the darker side of this whole agenda and our by the way on it used the term survival of the fittest in one of the later editions of his book and he was inspired by herbert spencer. Who was the ambassador of darwinism but I know you've done some talking to that. What we are we with the trans humanist movement right now I was looking into I went back. And i read Ghost in the machine. Not the whole book. That i read it many years ago and i read the chapters that are relevant to trans humanism at the end of ghosts in the machine kessler wrote And he projected that by the time that we're living right now we would be seeing precisely what we're saying and he admits fact that the government will have to do these secret programs because of course you know the public's too stupid they can't they can't understand this stuff so the the government will have to secretly put drugs in the water in the food even to the extent that he says the culture will have to be degenerated. We'll have to manipulate and do things back door through medicine. And i'm not trying to be a we'll hatter. I know there's nothing wrong with madison. I just went to the clinic the other day. i'm not. I'm not a luddite. I think there's nothing wrong with with modern medicine. But the point is that when you've got you know these groups that specifically say you know free tough coppers another one of these global leads who wrote a book turning point he said will use madison to.
News Radio 920 AM
"jeffrey epstein" Discussed on News Radio 920 AM
"One for music, radio and podcasts, all in one I. Heart radio goes one on one with Mono and Adam from YouTube, describing how they stay enthusiastic about their live performances. Feroz insist strangers wherever you are on a Tuesday night, you know, it has to be Friday night, and then you realized it has to be New Year's Eve. And that is a lot of things come down from, but to get up to. It takes really getting inside the songs. And if you really get inside the songs, you don't think that you're hungry because you're in them, and particularly for me as a singer, I have to be in them to be able to sing. Yeah. You know, if you get one of those great songs and then hard to come by, you don't mind playing them. You know you've given them to the audience, and they kind of give him back to you, so it's always fun to play them. Keep listening, Toe I heart radio for more of you two and all your favorite artists free I heart radio APP is number one for music, radio and podcasts, All in one discover a new podcast from our library of over 350,000 titles. Here's an I Heart Radio podcast preview in 2005 investigators in Palm Beach, Florida began uncovering a dark secret. A lot of girls knew about it, and a lot of girls were doing it if anybody asked If you're over the age of 18 just go ahead and go with it. There was a wealthy man in Palm Beach who was offering young girls a way to make money. That man was Jeffrey Epstein. And he had set up a system designed to bring him under age girls. Local police and the federal government would investigate. By their count. Find dozens of victims, Epstein would become one of the world's most infamous predators, a man who could have faced decades in prison. It served just 13 months in his own wing of a county jail. Why would you cut this deal with Jeffrey Epstein? Epstein's abuse would spend years and cross state lines. New York Palm Beach, New Mexico, Paris. Virgin Islands and each one of those residences is an alleged crime scene. I'm a B C's Marc Graham, a lard and with a team of journalists from the ABC News investigative unit. Some big news Jeff pesos going.