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WLS-AM 890
"john edwards" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Like, I'm a young cop. I'm thinking about going into the FBI, the Secret Service. Was actually applying to go back to graduate school to do my neuropsychology degree. I mean, I had plans, man, I had hope, he was thinking of Viktor frankl's book, man's whole of a search for meaning, and he says, you know, you'll always stay alive if you had hope. And I always had hope, even though I hated my job at the time, I didn't particularly like being a police officer early and I just didn't. It was just a tough job and a tough preaching. It's an honorable profession. I have deep respect for the guys who do it, but I didn't fit in well. It was a bad precinct for me. It was a rough time, long story. I kind of write about it my next book, you'll understand why, but what happened and why I kind of soured on it fast but I had a lot of hope and his kid didn't really have any. His goal was to be like this loser thug. And the first thing that occurred to me was just how wrong the Democrats have it. And I remembered, you know, whatever it was years later and ever. I remember when John John Edwards, who was a vice presidential candidate for John Kerry, when he was running for president himself, he used to give this speech about two Americans. And I thought, you know, he's right, even though he's a liberal, but he's right for all the wrong reasons. There really are two Americas, and people like John Edwards created it. I this kid lived in a totally different America than I did. And folks, when I tell you it made me, not just upset at the government. And what they do to people, but I mean this in a responsible way, a serious way, but white, hot with rage. At what government has done to destroy people's lives. I'm not exaggerating. It started a lifelong love affair with politics. That's how this all started. That was the spark. That was the fuse. That led me one day to give up my job and run for office myself and found me here with
Mark Levin
Special Counsel Subpoenas Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
"Know Ivanka And Jared Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner They've been subpoenaed to testify In front of the rogue phony special counsel in Washington D.C. Jack the Ripper Smith Now Jack the Ripper Smith is subpoenaing anything that moves including things that don't move actually Because he's not interested in doing justice he's trying to seek and destroy and I've explained about this man's past in the recent past I was overturned by the Supreme Court in an 8 to zero ruling because he was way over zealous in his prosecution of bob McDonald the former Republican governor of Virginia I explained how he lost a jury trial In the John Edwards case with his girlfriend or pregnancy how they used money raised by donors to put her up in an apartment and take care of her and this guy Jack the Ripper Smith concluded that that violated the election laws and of course Edwards one of his defenses was I relied on the election law people Giving me advice the experts the lawyers And so Jack the Ripper lost that one too So they sent him off to The Hague They figured he'd be more comfortable hanging around genocidal mass murders And prosecuting them So the attorney general of the United States meritless Garland he decided that would be the perfect guide who the point is a special counsel to go after Trump And now what the guy's done He's tried to violate a privilege that goes back to at least the Roman Empire probably before the attorney client privilege Hence due process under our Bill of rights and our constitutional system
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"You look at them and you go, really? Okay, let's go. This is John Edwards. I have to go back to something that you said, Tom. And I thought it was a really stellar point. You did great. The Bed Bath & Beyond. Was this a company kept alive? By free money. And it raises another question on top of that, which is how many more Bed Bath & Beyond are they? How much is this going to become a common story versus the idiosyncratic tale of a company? Execution issues. Yeah, well said, what's it mean for retail? I mean, I don't want to name any other people. There's very serious laws on this. Don't mention the names. No, but there's like mid level department stores get killed. Is that the teenage stuff? What gets killed here? Yeah, I mean, I think that mid level area where it's difficult to see what their appeal is overall. They're not high end enough for the high end. They're not low end enough for people who are looking for true bargains. They're going to struggle. I think everybody likes to see a nice sort of transition from calendar year to calendar year, but as bad as 2000 as bad as 2022 was for a lot of these retailers, 2023 is not looking all that much better. A lot of these issues are still out there. The high inventories that they have to work through. So yeah, it's going to be a struggle, especially with money not being free. By the way, I love that as you talk about this. And I'm very interested. Tom is looking at Manchin's every year. I guarantee it. He's looking at the mansion tour and trying to come up with something to ask you about for his next purchase. Come on, this is Peter creek out in Colorado. 22 million. That says. I love that. Thank you. Honestly, I could just guarantee that. I dare that one. Yeah. 10,500 ft². Exactly. You know? That's for a select credit. But as you said, none of those people are going to be shopping in bed bath in the morning. But there is another question to this, which is how many of the retailers it's really are struggling still have real estate. And how much is that going to be helpful versus hurtful? Well, it's better than not having it. A lot of these companies have had real estate for a long time. And it hasn't been the panacea that people have thought. I think it can be hard to repurpose a lot of these retail facilities. Certainly ones that are connected to malls. If you sell the part that they own, it's still connected to them all that's probably failed. 15 seconds, your team leads on this. What do all these empty stores in America do? What do they do? I mean, a lot of them are working to repurpose, go to entertainment uses, experience, that kind of thing. There's need for more residential conversions. You think we're going to see residential conversions? Yeah, we're going to see more of them, yeah. We're out of time. John J Edwards, the third with us here with his true expertise, unreal estate. We'll have him on much more here through the year as well. I learned about, I never got Bed Bath & Beyond, but fine. Well, I don't make a joke about it. Pharaoh has the whole thing right. You walk in the inventory is overwhelming. Well, it's just hard to find what you want in an era of Internet sales. It seems like I do think I'm still thinking about the idea of repurposing some of these spaces. You ask this question. And what do we get a lot of axe throwing or escape rooms? Water parks. I'm just wondering what experiences have lasting power in some kind of capacity. Last time I walked into Bed Bath & Beyond was to get a shower curtain Nixon was president. How's the shower curtain? Exactly
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The fed will probably not reverse policy as quickly as people think and that's why the dots was indicated earlier are showing monetary policy probably won't reverse until 2024. So again, that Tom brought up that great chart. I've never seen before from the U.S. labor participation rate. When I see something like that and I see any kind of movement in demand for labor, it's gotta be in wages, so is wage price inflation that we hear about a lot. Is that a thing here that we need to be concerned about Well, certainly in an environment where the Federal Reserve is going to be taking down the demand, the ability of labor to extract wage increases from companies that are suffering from an earnings perspective is going to be limited. So with the fed is hoping to accomplish here is that people stop quitting their jobs because what we're discovering is in the labor market is so tight and people can quit their jobs and go find another job very, very easily. They wind up getting a substantial increase in prepay. If people wind up staying at their jobs, they are increasing pay is dramatically smaller. So in the environment that the fed is trying to create here is one in which the demand for employment comes off. So those wage pressures come off and you begin to rebalance the labor market a little bit between those people demand labor and those people who supply labor. And this is a difficult position for the Federal Reserve to be in. And to be honest, I said, this is a unique labor market environment. This is a unique position for the fed to be. And at this juncture, I think they're actually doing a pretty good job of it. Steven, thank you so much. Stephen Rosso, they're just really quite good on the court functions. The investment the government, the export imports and, of course, that ginormous consumption part of our economic chart. Again, I'll go back to the chart for radio. I mean, huge consistent growth coming out of World War II, as you mentioned, then in 1990, it just flatlines till today effectively. That's just amazing. As you think about it. I put this out on Twitter yesterday. Meltzer almost put a fork in my ear. It lunch once at Carnegie Mellon, the giant of Carnegie Mellon. He said, Tom, you have to aggregate. That's all we have. And that's professor Meltzer going back to 1947. And the beginning of all this modern statistics that we have, can we aggregate in America, Jeffrey Sachs a Columbia, who has two definitive books on the unemployed of America, would say it's really hard to aggregate, because there's part of think John Edwards as part of America. There's just unemployable. And that's how you get to the new economy. Exactly. Technology driven economy. Yeah, it's really interesting. The markets are all over the place this morning folks. We're just stammering here. Red and green on the screen, the vix up a stick now, 33.79. With our news in New York City is Michael Barr. Tom Paul, thank you
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"All of that in a moment, but first I want to get a look at the market stocks ending in the green after swinging between gains and losses. Cisco rising after an upbeat forecast and Bed Bath & Beyond sinking. On the back of a filing by GameStop chair Ryan Cohen's firm, Bloomberg's Christine Aquino, here to tell us all about the day. Christine, Emily, it really is all about the dip buyers today. Not a whole lot of conviction out there though, but in the absence of volume and clear negative news, the path of least resistance for stocks is definitely higher. Let's take a look at the tech complex here. Green across the board, as you can see, the NASDAQ finally delivering a game here. The first one in three days, and even semiconductors. They've been battered for the last few days, but they're finally ending the day higher here by 2.2%. As you mentioned, though, Bed Bath & Beyond definitely missing out on this rally after the news about Ryan Cohen wanting out of the stake in the company that has made for a plunge of nearly 20% on the day, that's the biggest since June, but the good news is that it is nearly not nearly enough to undo that 400% rally that we've seen since July. That's going to hurt though for retail traders still to have really plunged into this stock here. But one thing also to keep an eye in a tech complex though. It's having a good day today, but valuations definitely keep an eye on those because that's definitely creeping higher for the NASDAQ 100 here. Currently trading at a price multiple of 24 that's well above what we're seeing for the S&P 500 around 18 here. And you know, we have talked about investors thinking about that asset rotation and loading up on treasuries because those have reached cheaper levels earlier this week. And so if we see that tech valuation really creeping higher from here, that could be what finally tips the scale back into treasuries and out of these more expensive tech stocks here, Emily. All right, Christina kino. Thank you. Let's get back to that Bed Bath & Beyond stock. The latest meme stock target sliding, activist investor Ryan Cohen, first sparked this frenzy when his firm, RC ventures disclosed a 9.8% stake back in March and called for a sale of the company shares have plunged now that Cohen has officially taken a stake to zero. I want to bring in Bloomberg's John Edwards for more on this. John, what sort of Intel do we have on why Ryan Cohen sold out here? Well, we haven't heard from him directly yet, but it looks like he's just lost patience with this struggling retailer. You know, he came in back in the spring in March thinking that he could really affect a turnaround here. And it looks like he has lost patients with that and bailed out. He made a lot of changes, he brought in three independent directors, then in June, as that patient started wearing thin, he backed the ouster of the CEO, Mark tritton, and the thought then was that Cohen thought that Bed Bath & Beyond should sell either sell itself entirely or sell its buy buy baby unit, which is doing better than the rest of the chain. But it looks like he has just run out of patience and Bed Bath & Beyond is run out of time with him at least. Walk us through the timeline because obviously earlier in the day there was this filing from our C ventures, they might sell, then we learn they have officially sold out. Is there any potential for regulatory scrutiny here? Yeah, you know, some shareholders have made some noise about filing complaints about the way that Cohen has handled this. And again, came into the stock with a lot of fanfare. And then there's that filing that was made officially on Tuesday, but disclosed yesterday that they were thinking about getting out of their entire stake. And then, of course, the new filing that they have indeed taken their stake down to zero. So a lot of these retail investors who piled into the stock are certainly upset with Cohen at this point and some might be looking to take action, but it's unclear if he's actually done anything wrong. All right, we will keep following that. Bloopers John Edwards, thank you for that update. Meantime, billionaires
Black Love Matters
"john edwards" Discussed on Black Love Matters
"Niggas? I replayed the scene multiple times. Did you try to nail? I think I did. And I could not handle it. Who is it by? Is the others on the showtime? They ain't say cool nigga on it. Somebody else. They even get the same. We got to add to the sound board. Is Amazon, oh, John Edwards have Secret Service. What about John McCain, Mitt Romney? Probably not. Yeah. You know why? Why? You're a coup. You're a nigga. What about John McCain, Mitt Romney? Probably not. Yeah. Why? You know why? Why, Michelle? You're raccoons. You're a nigga. Running for president. What about John McCain? Probably not. You know why? Why? 'cause you're cool. You're a coup. You're a nigga. First of all, I don't think I've ever told something. We first got that doesn't sound bored. I don't think I've ever called Nero macomb. If I ever called you a cool. No. Well, that throw you all. Yes, it was. He ended his move. Yes. He was just like, what? So that set the fucking stage. If you're listening now is Monday they come on Sunday Night, you only two episodes behind. So go ahead and get that. So stuff like that, but keeping me above order. I really had to keep it up with the other type of bullshit low key. 'cause you were cool. You were nigga. Why is this happening? That's not how I'm gonna go to my direct report, so Brown. Why is this happening? Cool. 'cause you're a nigga. And I feel like their mama never told them that. Anywho, well, why we was out, well, we was out because we had some stuff to do when we was, you know, doing things, but chai machetes. You know, Naomi was down and out. Oh, what happened to him? The COVID.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is a Bloomberg money minute Starbucks gets a new CEO and he is blasting false promises by past management Howard Schultz is running the company once again He's in his third stint as the CEO John Edwards wrote the story for Bloomberg news They've got inflation issues supply chain issues to contend with And then there are workers forming unions Several Starbucks stores around the country are unionized and that's something that Schultz is going to be facing as a top priority during his current stand to see Schultz has been out listening to workers who've been complaining about repair times for broken ice and espresso machines along with other concerns Broader issues like difficulties with employee training and complaints about wage levels The Starbucks founder has been moving swiftly suspending share buybacks to spend more on stores and staff Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio What is dedication The thing that drives me every day is a dad is very honest We call them day to day for short Every day he's hungry for something whether it's attention affection knowledge and there's this huge responsibility and making sure that when he's no longer under my wing that he's a good person I think the advice I would give is you don't need to know all the answers The craziest thing was believing that your dad knew everything So as a dad you felt like you had to know everything You had to get everything right It's okay to make mistakes As long as it's coming from love then you know it kind of starts to work itself out I want him to be able to.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is a Bloomberg money minute Starbucks gets a new CEO and he is blasting false promises by past management Howard Schultz is running the company once again He's in his third stint as the CEO John Edwards wrote the story for Bloomberg news They've got inflation issues supply chain issues to contend with And then there are workers forming unions Several Starbucks stores around the country are unionized and that's something that Schultz is going to be facing as a top priority during his current stem to see Schultz has been out listening to workers who've been complaining about repair times for broken ice and espresso machines along with other concerns Broader issues like difficulties with employee training and complaints about wage levels The Starbucks founder has been moving swiftly suspending share buybacks to spend more on stores and staff Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio And JIT New Jersey institute of technology makes innovation happen The university helped biomedical engineering professor Tara Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy Our startup through NG it is called ocular motor technology We create virtual reality vision therapy in a head mounted display So it's gaming and basically for sugarcoating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy To accomplish this we need biomedical engineers which are here in on JIT campus a computer scientist artists people that are into story development and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just nj IT and the national science foundation but also to.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is a Bloomberg money minute Starbucks gets a new CEO and he is blasting false promises by past management Howard Schultz is running the company once again He's in his third stint as the CEO John Edwards wrote the story for Bloomberg news They've got inflation issues supply chain issues to contend with And then there are workers forming unions Several Starbucks stores around the country are unionizing And that's something that Schultz is going to be facing is a top priority during his current stand to see Schultz has been out listening to workers who've been complaining about repair times for broken ice and espresso machines along with other concerns Broader issues like difficulties with employee training and complaints about wage levels The Starbucks founder has been moving swiftly suspending share buybacks to spend more on stores and staff Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio And JIT New Jersey institute of technology makes innovation happen The university helped biomedical engineering professor Tara Alvarez launch a startup that may revolutionize vision therapy Our startup through NGT is called ocular motor technology We create virtual reality vision therapy in a head mounted display So it's gaming and basically sugarcoating the therapy so that children and young adolescents don't even realize they're doing therapy To accomplish this we need biomedical engineers which are here in on GIT campus a computer scientist artists people that are into story development and then we are collaborating with a lot of the large pediatric medical centers This idea of a startup culture is extremely important to not just NG IT and the national science foundation but also to.
WLS-AM 890
"john edwards" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Speaking of swamp rats talk about an unintentional segue but perfect nonetheless You know about BlackRock I've been warning you about BlackRock Folks we are rapidly moving into an oligarchy We are no longer a constitutional republic We are a constitutional Republican name only where a carino right now I wish we weren't but we are We're devolving into a society of have and have nots which is ironic because that's been the Democrat's sales pitch for a long time The two Americas theme it was even the theme of John Edwards our former presidential candidate but what John Edwards and the Democrats don't tell you is he have and have not America was created largely by them Now swampy Republicans have certainly played into that mix too But we are devolving into an oligarchy right now Where he connected class of powerful media people elites business people crony capitalist government and bureaucrats a guy in government bureaucrats work together in the symbiotic cabal to make your life miserable by further insulating themselves from the suffering of daily life One of the largest crony capitalists in that bunch is a guy by the name of Larry Fink He's the CEO of BlackRock Folks set your DVR now Saturday night at 9 o'clock My Fox show unfiltered Please don't miss this I'm going to have a monologue about just this the habit have nots and we are going to rip these people to shreds Showing you how we no longer live in a constitutional republic It is now an oligarch He said your DVR now if you can't make it live please don't miss it You'll never look the same way at this place again But one of the key crony capitalist players making sure you're one of the have nots why he has the way he's one of the halves is a God by the name of Larry Frank he think he runs this huge And I mean enormously influential investment fund That knows exactly where to invest and knows exactly how to vote the shares to make sure America goes left in corporate America plays along Jim queue up for me cut 12 This is one of the most dangerous people in my opinion in America right now Larry Fink BlackRock CEO here he is Speaking at a conference here talking about how his company they're going to use their influence to force other companies into doing quote behaviors And what he's talking about are left are woke culture left leaning behaviors Check this out A behaviors are going to have to change and this is one thing we're asking companies You have to force behaviors at BlackRock We are forcing behaviors Yeah BlackRock when you have hundreds of billions in assets and you can influence boards and you can influence major American corporations forcing them to do things that will make that may be make you money later but make America poor eh Sounds like an oligarchy to me Here's Larry Fink again for BlackRock queue up for me cut 13 It's about 20 seconds long With Larry Fink's like listen man markets you know we like predictability You know like totalitarian governments You don't like China and stuff You see how You see it out of these people are not our Friends folks Big business and crony capitalists were never our Friends Listen to this guy He thinks we should be more like the totalitarian Check this out Markets don't like.
WLS-AM 890
"john edwards" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Find yourself a political prisoner in the new Canadian dictatorship I'm not I'd stay out of there I would not deliver a damn thing to Canada until dictator Trudeau and the loser zero MPs who support him step down I wouldn't deliver anything to Canada Not a darn thing I wouldn't keep my money in Canadian banks They are unstable your money isn't at risk You have no due process They have confiscated people's bank accounts They have stopped people from being able to use the financial digital bloodlines to stay alive That's what the digital bloodlines are right now You can't get your cash out to feed your family they say no withdrawals your account is frozen You could starve to death They dictate our Trudeau doesn't care Dictators never care This silver spoon born loser Justin Trudeau The pre he reminds me of John Edwards Remember that political candidate here the pro guy with the $400 haircut Justin Trudeau He's the Canadian John Edwards That's who he is He's the proud guy I'll bet his haircuts Trudeau or 5 $600 Do not visit Canada Do not send any money to Canada to Canadian banks Do everything you can to stop this now I've got some audio coming up of Yara sacks another clown MP up there Suggesting now that honking your horn twice is the equivalent of Kim's laughing rate Of saying hail Hitler what if you say something like your friend's name is Howard you're like hey Howie hey hey That means hail Hitler Yara sacks said so Clown show Canadian MP What if you say something like you're a restaurant right And you say you're in a restaurant right And you want to have some duke's Mayo But you don't want to do which I don't know why you wouldn't do it was great And you want some helmet You're like how's the helmet's police.
Between The Lines
"john edwards" Discussed on Between The Lines
"On our end, this is between the lines I'm Tom Switzer up next. Historian John E Woods, Texas back to World War II and one of our nation's darkest days. And then without any warning. Free. Came out of the cloud. The 27 Japanese bombers which raided Darwin were escorted by 15 fighters. The enemy plane went up towards the east, one of our planes right on its tail. They got a full beard. Saturday, the 19th of February, the marks the 80th anniversary of the day Japanese aircraft bombed Darwin. It was the largest attack ever mounted on Australian soil by a foreign power. Now the prime minister 80 years ago was John Curtin and to help us remember those uncertain times and to reflect on the legacy and meaning of it today, let's turn to the distinguished historian John Edwards, a former RBI board member, John is a senior fellow at the lowy institute in Sydney and a junk professor with the John curtain institute of public policy at Kurt university in Perth. Now John Edwards is author of John curtain's war. It's published by penguin, volume one, subtitled, the coming of war in the Pacific and reinventing Australia and volume two triumph and decline. John, welcome back to between the lines. Thanks, Tom, a pleasure. Now take us back to February 1942. So this is 80 years ago this week. What sort of situation did our country find itself in? Well, the situation was exceedingly grim in mid January Japanese troops had landed at rebel, which was an Australian mandated territory. And landed in New Guinea and February 15. They had a 6th Singapore had surrendered and Australia's 8th division had been marched into prison camps. So it was a very, very unfriendly environment for Australia and no possibility at that point of finding substantial support against a threatened Japanese move. Yeah, and you make the point that the Darwin bombing occurred as the war cabinet was deciding on Winston Churchill's request to send the leading elements of the 7th division to Burma, right? That's right. And it played a role in that decision in that following the surrender of Singapore and indeed before it Churchill had suggested that Burma be reinforced against Japanese invasion and seized upon the fact that the returning Australian 7th division from the Middle East was nearby and asked to permit that division to be sent to Burma, to Rangoon, and curtain refused. And there was a protracted cable thought. Which actually climaxed on the day of the Darwin bombing the 19th, where the advisory war council meeting in Sydney had before it Churchill's request supported by Menzies, spender, page and London, that the 7th division be sent to Burma and the view of the Australian war cabinet, the labor war cabinet that it should proceed to Australia. And the Darwin bombing gave greater urgency in the view of the labor members at that advisory war council meeting because it demonstrated that very forcibly that Japan could attack Australia. At any point, it chose without opposition. Well, indeed, now this attack on Darwin so is a force of what 260 Japanese bombers and fought is now the two attacks on that fateful day John killed at least 252 people, wounded up to what 400 military and civilian personnel with a 160 of the dead being ship's crew. Now is a comparison to Pearl Harbor accurate. I mean, was it completely unforeseen? Well, it was unforeseen. I mean, there was a warning. As they flew over Beth asylum, which was not paid attention to, so that respected resembles Pearl Harbor, but on the other hand, Australia was at war at this point. It was this project, but then many of those attacks were surprised at tax. But in a sense, it shouldn't have been a surprise attack that Australia should have been better prepared to defend against a carrier based attack given the salient of Darwin to the defense of the Netherlands East Indies, which was, it wasn't an isolated incident, in the city was attacked repeatedly as were other coastal towns in northern Australia correct. Well, subsequently, and more than a hundred raids in all, but this was the first big attack and it was unexpected and Darwin almost completely undefended about 20 aircraft anti aircraft guns. Some planes that many which couldn't fly, which could put up very little opposition. Japan hugely successful right. My guess is John Edwards, author of two volumes of John Curtin's war, John, let's take the views of the military historian Peter Stanley. He argues that the battle for Australia in World War II is a complete myth. What would John couldn't think? Well, you've got to think, what would the circumstances tell in the circumstances at the time was that it was within Japan's power to invite Australia if it wished. In fact, the chase of staff told curtain that a week later, but 9 days after the Darwin bombing, they said it's within Japan's power, if it chose to do so to invade Australia, it chose not to. But there was a discussion as Peter Stanley recognizes there was a discussion in Tokyo about inviting Australia where the naval planning staff thought it was a good idea, the army not and the army prevailed. But the decision was to cut Australia off, leaving it a possibility of invasion open subsequently. Not everyone gets behind the war effort it, the historian the light historian Hal GB Cole patch. He points the finger at organized labor and the wharf is saying that they can be, quote, held directly responsible for the scale of the resultant carnage when the Japanese struck, what do you make of the kobach revisionist argument? John Edwards. Well, the waterside workers may have may have been slow down landing ships. But the waterside workers were not responsible for the fact that there were only 20 80 aircraft guns there. They weren't responsible for the fact that there was no plan on how to respond to an aircraft to a Japanese ride. And indeed a given the importance of Darwin for the defense of the Netherlands, East Indies, which the Australians and the Americans recognized, and were utilizing down for that purpose. The waterside workers would not respond to the fact that there were important.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"john edwards" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"On a Bloomberg television radio and YouTube I'm Tim sterke along with creedy Gupta and romaine bostick Well according to Mastercard spending pulse U.S. holiday sales jumped 8.5% from a year ago It's a pretty staggering figure For more let's bring in John Edwards who leads Bloomberg's U.S. consumer coverage He joins us from Massachusetts Hey John since the summer executives at major retailers have been on our air and they've been saying by early by often look we have to consider the source But I'm wondering how much that message resonating led to the increase in sales that we've seen already Yeah I think that message did got through loud and clear And consumers really responded they did push sales Up a little farther Forward into the holiday shopping season In part because they were urged to give in the supply chain constraints that were out there And that seems to have paid off Really retailers saw continued best strength right through the season And I think the moving forward of sales managed to mitigate some of those supply chain issues And help to keep shelves relatively well stocked And these numbers are not only good of course on a year over year basis but when you compare them to those pre-pandemic levels in 2019 still pretty impressive A 20% pretty much across the board I am curious about discounting here because I think a lot of folks after Thanksgiving you go into the websites you go in these stores expecting to see deals I didn't get a lot of deals this year That's right Yeah and you were not alone I think retailers saw that they had continued pricing power and they really wielded it all throughout the season They were pleased to not have to discount heavily and saw that sales still held up And so yeah this counts were by many measures of the lowest and at least 5 years We saw that on Black Friday where there was relatively little discounting compared with previous years and yet still relatively robust Sales up 30% over last year just on Black Friday itself And so retailers didn't want to leave any profit margin on the table And so they kept discounts relatively limited And customers continue to buy John let's talk about the savings right here for a second because at one point in the last two years you had savings higher than even depression era austerity And now it's kind of coming back down to earth How does that play into some of the consumption patterns we're seeing when it comes to the retail space Well I think in a lot of ways we're going to have to wait and see on that certainly consumers we've been waiting to see those high levels of savings get eaten into and start to see that show up in diminished sales figures We haven't really seen that yet And the inflation that's out there people have grumbled about it of course and said they're worried that it's going to start eating into sales but a lot of the inflation is demand driven It's the fact that the customer is so robust and so willing to spend So I think inevitably savings rates are going to decline People are going to start running out of the stimulus that's not going to be renewed But we haven't seen it quite yet And we'll be waiting to see when that really starts to hit In 2022 All right well John Edwards helps the lead our U.S. consumer coverage here The big headline today holiday sales jump in 8.5% a year over year That's according to Mastercard spending plus date of the other big headline out over the weekend was the Amazon labor board Settlement is crucial for union organizing Amazon basically agreeing to open the door to potentially I guess to more unionization Let's bring in Bloomberg's Brad stone who covers Amazon Better than no one else here And Brad this is being billed as an agreement between Amazon and its workers But of course this is something that had to be brokered through the national labor relations board something that Amazon had fought frankly very publicly for quite some time Great And it's very specific And it's not necessarily an Amazon opening the door to labor unions They prefer to keep that very very much shut But it's Amazon acknowledging in an agreement with the NLRB that it has violated labor laws And it agreed to email about 1 million of its current and former workers notifying them of their rights to organize And then this is going to sound very trivial but it's important allowing them of their rights to congregate insight facilities and to talk about labor organizing And that is something that Amazon's really fought against So this idea of at the beginning or the end of your shift talking to a colleague not a stranger from a union no but a colleague about organizing that's the change That's how Amazon now has to comply Hey Brad look romaine's right There's nobody who knows more about Amazon than you I mean you recently wrote the everything store back in 2013 and of course Amazon unbound earlier this year Why does Amazon fear labor unionization That's right Tim I mean it really has It's sort of like encrusted in the culture for 20 years And it's not too easy to say it's just about an hourly trade Amazon actually boosted starting pay for its seasonal workers to $18 an hour recently That's far above the minimum wage It really has much more to do with flexibility I mean based on us always saw the fulfillment centers as ebbing.
Pat Gray Unleashed
"john edwards" Discussed on Pat Gray Unleashed
"That makes me feel so much. We haven't reached that point. The white bread time line. We're getting their stop rushing katty kay. We'll get they're just not ready for it yet. It just takes a little bit longer in this country caddy because we have something called a constitution. Plus they're not gonna need to really have that to travel in the us since they're requiring everyone to be vaccinated as it is. Yeah i mean so you. Won't you're going to have to have you won't do the passport travel. 'cause you're gonna be vaccinated anyway. Yeah i know yeah well. Sixty percent of americans Support the biden mandate sixty percent. So we're almost ready. There's a giant percent black bold headline nearly sixty percent of american support biden's vaccine mandates according to a poll sixty percent crazy. That's so we're almost there panting. Just just be patient and then we'll just wait wait a few more months and we'll have done it. This country is well okay. Ovada specific fifty eight percent of americans say they support companies with at least one hundred policies mandating the vaccine or requiring unvaccinated employees to get tested weekly compared to just thirty six percent. Who said the opposite. I mean this you are kidding me we have just. We've lost our identity. We we've lost our will. We lost our core in this country. We can't even agree on freedom anymore. liberty choice. This is something that they're supposed to be all about his choice. Took my body might choice blah blah blah blah blah blah blah effects. Me okay you. Don't mind one hundred percent death rate of aborted children. You don't mind that at all with your body your choice nonsense. But if you've got a one percent chance of dying then oh my gosh. You've got to be protected from that. Yeah and how folks like foul and see all of these elites that are running the show you know they. They want a segregated. They see a vaccine and unvaccinated to america's john edwards right to america. It's actually the three americas because the third america is the elites like them who don't play by either of these rules and they don't care and they go to the met and they go to these events and they don't they don't last us. They laugh at us every chance they get. They're not wearing masks. You believe these lemmings. Yes what else. We don't care about awesome. They don't care about vaccination status always. I mean we even see i. I know it's joe biden and he's an idiot but we see him all the time doing the mask thing wrong. He wears his mask what he's away from people when he goes up to talk to people he takes it off supposed to be just the opposite doofus Point of wearing a mask or so. You're not spreading the when you're in that close proximity to other. Humans is point was really well. That's what it is. That's what he did. That's what it is now. You freaking now. I know thank you for that. I thought it was pointless to ask. Frank really wait yeah. That's what i thought well you. You recall justin trudeau..
Wall Street Breakfast
Hurricane Nicholas Disrupts Power to Some Louisiana Residents
"Hurricane nicholas made landfall along the texas coast today bringing the threat of up to twenty inches of rainfall to parts of the gulf coast. Louisiana governor john edwards declared a state of emergency sunday night ahead of the storm's arrival across louisiana. Almost one hundred and twenty thousand customers remain without power. As a monday
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Bizarre, Incoherent Contradiction of 'the Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
"A dawned on me as john. Edwards wrote this terrific piece in the new york post about the incoherent bizarre contradiction. You do realize that the whole point in calling this the pandemic of the unvaccinated the whole point insane we've gotta protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated. The whole point of the poor little old lady shrieking at me in the elevator the other day because she's got her mask on and i don't and she's vaccinated is that they don't believe in the effectiveness of the vaccine. That's the dirty little secret. They don't believe the vaccine works. And frankly with all the cases rising. I can understand people thinking that now. What we got to remember is if you're vaccinated. You're not likely to wind up in the hospital. If you get covert and you're vaccinated. That's the point of the vaccine was to prevent severe illness and death. And if you accept the ninety nine percent number. The people of the people dying from kobe today. Ninety nine percent of them are unvaccinated. You may not accept that number and that's okay you get to accept you can reject accept whatever you want to accept if you agree that most people who are dying of cogan are unvaccinated than that should give you some comfort in believing that the vaccine works but not joe biden as john says. How do you start out. Saying i'm going to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated but don't worry fully vaccinated. People are incredibly low risk. This is a cluster. This is a disgrace.
The Young Turks
"john edwards" Discussed on The Young Turks
"We did a lot of that But he he also again like he would he would be measured and he'd be careful in how he would go after people who identified as part of the left But when he would do it there was always a purpose for it right and he did do this quite a bit with jimmy door and i think that this mash up video this is part of a longer eleven minute long video which you guys can all watch on youtube if you want But someone did a mash up of his response to a caller about jimmy door and i think that what he says here is exactly what i wish. I did a better job in communicating. But what i think. He did a great job in communicating. So let's watch. Hillary calms director tweeted. Something or simple. Your vote shaming. That's a big phrase. They like well. That's exactly what you're doing. Look the the beef with jimmy. i'm not trying to create. hillary com. Director tweeted something. Or some and your vote shaming. That's a big phrase. They like well. That's exactly what you're doing. Look the pr the beef with jimmy door. I'm not trying to create broad reactive populism. I'm trying to create a left path to saving democracy and generating some type of what we call socialism which means different things to different people. But that's an actual thing and a major part of the thing is building alliances across lines that include not a necessarily alienating people who has an example sport andrew gillum and i know we have a reputation as being the most smug and arrogant show and youtube which is awesome and hilarious. And i'm definitely funnier but the endless. What aboutism the endless false equivalency is. The endless moralism an endless. Just focus on electoralism is is bolt in its substantively wrong. It's miss educating people about how to think about politics have nothing to do with how much you curse how much you hate near attendant. Or hillary clinton nothing to do with whether or not you want to be wonky or not. Jimmy is a funny entertaining an inner personally in my experience. Nice guy but for all of the substantive reasons those are problems and how you're doing politics and also includes recognizing than today's world. The primary threat is the fascist. Running it not something that john edwards said in two thousand nine that you can make a clip about to do a false equivalency. That's bull it's wrong then. You have to admit that he's a fox news on the last. No i don't know is not fox. News helps win. Fox news has a strategy. Fox news relentless. Do you think fox news would do over seventy percent of their clip on how he's not a real conservative. He's a sellout days. Not fox news on the left. All if you mean stylistically maybe so. And i keep telling you. That's the part. Have no problem with. I will match my support for bernie sanders and that primary against anybody's i- never was in a position of saying that people who voted the other way from me that we're normal..
The Dan Bongino Show
Two Americas Suggest 20-25% of Americans Hate the Country Right Now
"John Edwards was right. But for the wrong reasons, there are two Americas right now. We saw it again this weekend. And, sadly, folks, there's no middle ground. You see in those diagrams, you overlapping circles all the time. They believe in this. They believe in this and they overlap and you see, this is what they share their beliefs in the middle. Sadly, those two Americas those circles never intersect anymore. We have I don't want to overestimate the number. But I'd say roughly 2025%. Maybe even hopefully a little lower. I hope could be higher, but I hope it isn't I hope it is lower. But 2025% of the country that just hates the country right now. Not really hate it. They're not Bs ng. They're not lying. They're not spinning your wheels. They legit hate the country. They want you to believe the country is systemically racist. Although the systems are claiming a racist to run by liberals, which I always found paradoxical they apparently don't because they're too stupid to process it. The country's racist. It's irredeemable. It's full of oppressors and oppressed people. That the economy is engaged in class warfare, where only the successful can get ahead. Despite the United States, having one of the highest degrees of upward upward mobility anywhere in the world. They want us to emulate Scandinavian, Sweden, despite the fact that Sweden's Swedes in Sweden are worth less on average and Swedes in the United States. They just want you to put the police are out randomly shooting people that the police go to row calls every day. They sit there at the roll call, and they're like, Okay, how many black men are we going to hunt down? Tonight. They believe this happens. They it's It's insane. It's deranged. It's absolute lunacy. But they believe this. That's the one America Let's guess. 2025%. I pray it's lower. My fear is that it's higher
The Dan Bongino Show
"john edwards" Discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Give it a try. Your body will thank you. It's good stuff. I've been using it. Forever brickhouse nutrition dot com slash. Dan brickhouse nutrition dot com slash. Dan use promo code dead. Joe yeah it is. It is weird taking taking a monday off. We haven't done that in a while even worked. Well we did. We do the podcast. But i worked a radio show a couple of weeks ago so i got my car back this week. I just wanna tell you quickly. I want to give a big shout out to this young kid. Michael boyd in my neighborhood this kid. I don't know how all these eighteen or what. But he's running like a car detail business and it made me proud. I'm like i looked at the cat. Mike mike i'm proud of you brother. I'm eighteen years old. He's not like a car detailing business. He washes your car and gives it back with with a car new coat on. I mean he has like a whole professional business. The guy does this ceramic coating stuff iron. Wash things. i'm like bro. Super impressed he did. My car had a swap out the raptor to get one of these navigator things. I got it and black. He put ceramic coating that sucker. You go downstairs. You could like home your hair that baby. It's like a mirror. So if you live in south florida hook up my man look them up. Michael boy detail us on instagram. Cool cat and he's eighteen running a business proud of your brother proud of you nice work. My daughter's friend. That did the serious stuff folks. There are two america's john edwards was right. He wasn't right about much. Remember him the four hundred dollars haircut guy who plays four hundred dollars for a haircut. What are you doing to the hair coating it in. Twenty four karat gold. She thing to protect it from the sun remember him was a guy. One hundred dollar haircuts. Yeah you know how much my haircut caused you take. What do you think nothing. I don't know nothing. Yeah joe's right. Because i cut my hair myself and paula does the back because my bad elbows and i can't reach the my haircut costs zero. It's not really that expensive. John edwards four hundred bucks but he did say there were two america's and there. I believe there's no more middle ground folks and it depresses me to tell you that. What do i mean. This is in dickens tale of two cities but this is the tale of two videos. Let me play video number one i. This is a video taken in texas in a walmart and it appears just randomly that someone starts singing our national anthem. Everybody stops what they're doing. You can hear it if you're just listening on audio no problem. It's just wonderful. It's inspiring hand over the heart. Everybody joins in singing. This is the america. I and love and imperfect but trying to be perfect place that people love that people adore a bastion for freedom. A lighthouse for liberty. This is the america. We should all strive to obtain. Check this out. he's right he said beautiful stuff. That's absolutely right. I don't know about you. But that's the country i know and love country. I serve the country many of.
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"john edwards" Discussed on TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"And trial lawyer. Mm. Trial lawyer. Um John Edwards. And his two Americans speech. There are two Americas right now. There's an America that is comprised of liberals and conservatives. People of all faiths, people of all sexual preferences. People that are short, fat, ugly, handsome, beautiful people that are talk show producers, so they're kind of an income poops there all sorts of people. I don't think this is a division along political lines. I think this is a division belong that is between Civilized individuals. That may not have anything common in common when it comes to politics or anything in common when it comes to who were what you like to sleep with. That doesn't have anything in common in terms of the religious backgrounds or anything else, but you know what they believe in. They believe in an organized Free society. Worth. We have the rule of law. And we all agree to abide by the rule of law. And if we don't abide by whatever the rules are, then we know that we're going to pay the consequences. And that's the kind of society that we want to live in. And then there are those who are trying to destroy the society. The Marxist Leninists, the Communists, the fascist, the progressives, the far left. Crazy ass liberals that and by that, I mean the far far left. I could do with some just like pure, unadulterated liberalism, but that doesn't exist anymore. It is the destruction. Of this society. Because at the same time that I'm watching that video Ace hardware. Ace Ace hardware. Sorry. I don't know. I think this may be in Washington State, Of course, Washington State. Where a guy walks into a nice hardware that apparently is enforcing the mask rule. I'll get another mass story for you, too. Where They start shoving. Now, think about this. They're shoving the guy out of the ace hardware because he's not wearing a mask and the guy gets mad. You know, you shove me. I'm gonna push back. You shoved me. In fact, if you try to shove me to the ground, I might just pull a weapon on you. Because I had fear of my life at that point, and you know why? Because of the ace hardware employee had a baseball bat. You come at me with a baseball bat and shoved me to the ground boom. Yeah. That's the world we now live in. But wait, I tell you, my mask story. Yeah. I saw today. The proof. That America is in Decline and we always used to look to the younger generation that those would be.
106.1 FM WTKK
"john edwards" Discussed on 106.1 FM WTKK
"That's all that's left, and that's what That's what's not being I mean, you wouldn't even know like it looks like it's already been dismantled, and it's just a slab laying on the ground from the dismantling, but I think it's still attached, so it's technically not completely dismantled. Well, that's see. That's the gamesmanship that the city of Pittsboro utilized with their monument that was next to the food. The judge called the John Edwards Memorial Courthouse, You know, you know the where he channeled the dead child. Yeah. Great Channel The dead child in the trial. Know what you're talking about? From the illegitimate child. Yeah, well, no, no, no more specifically so that that courthouse that sits in the circle there in Pittsboro. Um, burned down. Remember when it burned down about nine years ago, 10 years ago. And no, I don't. So it burned down or it burned and they had to repair it. However, it caught on fire. I want to say two weeks after that sex tape. Remember, there was a sex tape of him and, uh, in horse face, Um, and it was literally being stored in a safe in the offices of one of the judges. They're in there, and then it catches fire. So that's one of my great North Carolina conspiracies. I've tried to start that he really goes with so well. It requires too much backstory and the key on promulgating. A good conspiracy theory is that you've got to have an easier hook something, you know, like, two words or something, right? Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know John Ed in their sex tape. John Edwards sex tape. And that was the thing for a while. Yeah. All right. If I can't get you to bite, then I'll probably just never bring that up again. But if you want to again, you should be following peed on Twitter's. You don't have to watch the press conferences, and if you want to hear remote pine that's easy to do Go to Pete calendars show. Dot com Pete calendars show dot com and check it out. So, um, thank.
Between The Lines
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID
"Australia's economic recovery in the wake of the pandemic. Well we all know. Australia has weathered the pandemic bit of the most nations. It's been five months since the last reported virus related death and several months since any serious community transmission. It's quite extraordinary. Isn't it in coming. Wakes the most vulnerable. Australians will have been vaccinated on april. Nineteen this news. This week there will be reopening of the trans tasman travel route although they remind risks and uncertainties it's fate aside that the pandemic is pretty much forced drawings. But what does all this main for the economy. John edwards is a senior fellow of the lowy institute and a former member of the board. His new book is called reconstruction australia covered. It's published by the low institute. Get i john. Welcome back to the shy unpleasant to be on for the past year. We've been told we face the most terrifying economic conditions for generations yet australia. You think about it. The unemployment rights less than six percent the stock market is within a few percent of its high level and according to the imf this week international monetary fund australia is poised to grow at its fastest pace in twenty two years. It's four point five percent this year. Indeed we are among the world's standout performance in the recovery from last year's covid recession john. What accounts for our economic resilience. Well first of all. I think we handle the health trip. Caught will lettuce. We responded promptly. We put in social distancing. We prepared our health system for a bigger emergency than one. We presumably and australians will comply with the health guam. So that's that's important that we we contained the pandemic tilting but on the economic side. I think we also risk owner will be response in monetary policy the reserve bank and a very big response from fiscal policy treasurer and the morrison government.
Red Eye Radio
Minneapolis police veteran testifies in Derek Chauvin trial
"Continues. Fox's Jeff Man also has the latest, the state Open Day five of the Derrick shelf and murder trial with John Edwards say Minneapolis police sergeants who testified that he secured and supervised 38th in Chicago, the scene of George Floyd's harassed, explaining the investigatory process into Floyd's death, and Minneapolis police Lieutenant Richard Zimmerman, who testified to prosecutors have you ever in all the years you've been working for the Minneapolis Police Department? Been trained. To kneel on the neck of someone who is handcuffed behind their back in a prone position. No, I haven't. That's Fox's Jeff Man. Also reporting today is
LGBTQ&A
Karine Jean-Pierre: The History-Making Lesbian on Biden's Staff
"Is so much being said right now about the incoming administrations communication seem to also celebrate. Especially on this podcast. Is that two of the seven names that been announced so far are queer. Airspeed towbar and corinne jean pierre. We're going to have to queer women of color in the white house and leadership positions acting as the face and voice of our government. It's wild that think about and for that reason. I wanted to bring you this interview. That i did with corinne that originally aired on a luminary app. We spoke almost exactly a year ago. When corinn's book moving forward was first published. The message of book is that all of us no matter what you might think of as a typical background or story for politician. All of us have a police in politics. If corinne jean-pierre a queer woman of color who immigrated to the us as a kid can make it in politics. She says so can you. When we spoke corinne was also appearing as a political analyst on nbc and msnbc. So you'll hear talk about that. As well as what she learned working for a wide wide wide array of politicians including john edwards anthony weiner and of course resident barack obama from the advocate magazine and partnership glad. I'm jeffrey masters. And this is lgbtq. And here's shop. Thank you for having me. Of course excited thank you. Let's jump in right that your story is not the typical political story. You're immigrant you're a woman or one of color you're a and that is not what we typically see in politics. Yeah and yet. I think it's easy to soon. That's changing with high profile examples. Like alexandria ocasio cortez omar and yet. Those are very much outliers right. Yes nor it is the norm and and like you were saying. I walk in so many different communities if you will like i present so many different communities and that was one of the parts of writing this book i wanted to. I think people get really afraid when a here politics and getting into politics or getting involved and so that's one part of it and they think the other part of it is that people always ask me even young people. They ask me all the time. I teach at columbia university. So i have young people taking my class yearly. And they say how did you get here. How did you get into the white house. Like how did you work in politics and get a different presidentials. So the purpose of the book is also to show. There's not one path and also as a person of color gay person a woman an immigrant. I wanted to show people who are all. Those things are one of those things like. Hey you know she did it. I can do it too. So i lay that out in a very detailed way. You know as an immigrant. I grew up being told. Oh you're going to be one of those three professions doctor lawyer or engineer. And that's i think anybody who's listening in. I grew up in an immigrant. Family could understand that and that didn't work out. I talk about that in the book. And then i talk about. I didn't get into politics until my mid twenties. And so but you're right. there's representation matters and there's not a lot of representation. Even now there are like aol see as you just mentioned others kind of outliers. It's still a very small percentage of women of color of people from different identities that are more diverse that's in the political arena. So the hope is that can encourage inspire people to not be afraid of the word politics And to just get involved because the way you make change is if you get involved you're yourself and you know watching tv even though you don't mention being gay every time it is a part. It is no secret nearly no. I've been out for a long long time. Yeah and i think that's something that is easy to see about you. Bring that up because i. I think there's a tension between you bring. Being gay does not need to come up in every conversations right. Yeah and yet. I think it so powerful to know that there is escape on tv. Like i also want you to for. He never really. I'm so glad you brought that up. Because i think about that sometimes because i'm like i'm out. It's not hard to know that. I'm that i'm out. I talk about my daughter. I talk about my partner in interviews. And it's out there but i don't lead with that you know it's like it's part of my multiple identities. I have multiple identities at so. It's a very interesting kind of way to be in the space and it's actually kind of funny when people are like. I didn't know you were gay. And i'm like how do you not know i'm gay. I've been out for a long time the like. Wow and so it's just. It's funny. But i am aware of it. I am conscious of it. I want to respect all of said all of the communities i represent in. Were you to bring it up every episode out. Say like oh my god. She brings every time he was like. What's wrong receiver. Don't bring up at like one like she didn't bring yeah. It's like you. Yeah yeah it's over. I don't know how people like majority of people feel about it. But i i just want to lead with my experience and kind of my smart. There's a reason at this table and everything else just complements me.
Ethan Bearman
Michael Cohen House testimony: what to expect
"Today is the first of three days of hearings that involved Michael Cohen, aka the rat. At least according to his former boss, President Trump today. We've had L E Hoenig of CNN legal analyst to give us kind of a preview of what we're going to see and the importance of it. And if I can't Elliot can before even getting into the specifics to what degree are these genuine hearings? I mean, everything in Washington is so thoroughly partisan, you know, which way each side's gonna vote anyway, don't you? Well, they're genuine hearings, but they will assuredly be very partisan isle. There's not going to be a vote at the end of this. This is a factor gathering hearing. I come from the criminal courts where you operate with a strict set of rules of procedure and rules of evidence. And you have a judge jury. We're going to have none of that all of which I think will contribute to the circus like atmosphere that we're going to see you're going to see presidents longtime personal attorney basically open game for a group of partisan politics. Both ways and all have their agendas, and they will all be looking to score points. Well, let's look at how they do it. If I'm a Republican I turn around. And I say, why do you want to believe this guy? This guy's already been convicted. He's a convicted felon. Yeah. The Republican attack is going to be very predictable. It's going to be the same way that defense lawyers attacked cooperating witnesses at criminal trials. It's going to be he's he's a liar. He's an admitted criminal throw them out the window. The president's already done the Sarah Sanders issued a statement this morning that was the most predictable statement ever where she said exactly that about Michael Cohen. I think it would be a little bit more credible for people on both sides of say we'll see what he has to say. And we'll assess it, but when you're announcing before he spoken one word that nothing. He says is believable. I think you undermine your own credibility Democrats on the advising the Democrats. I would say don't embrace this guy. Don't try to make him out to be the messiah earn angel. He's none of those things he's badly flawed individual. He's an admitted criminal. These are the kind of witnesses. We used to build cases row when I was a prosecutor. But that's how the system works. And the thing that I would tell the Democrats to focus on his focus on the facts. I don't think we need to get into all the personal stuff every little peccadillo that Trump had facts and things that can be verified or proven with documents or other evidence. Understood. But as far as the evidence is concerned there. No rules on evidence. Right. You can put anything in. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like Michael Collins actually going to appear with documents. I don't know if he's been a briefcase and sort of pop them out. But correct. I mean regular court they would have to go through a process that the prosecutor would have to offer them into evidence. The judge would review it the defense would object. Another judge would say it's in out. There will be no such thing when Michael tomorrow. So it's going to be wild west. All right, there are three different meetings that are going to take place today. We've got the Senate intelligence committee tomorrow, the house oversight committee and then on Thursday, Adam shifts committee, the house intelligence committee of the three the one that would probably get the most attention and tell me if I'm wrong Elliott would probably be the one tomorrow. Because after all it's going to be the only public one hundred miles. We may get leaks and secondhand account of what's happening behind closed doors, knowing congress, I would expect that but gosh, I mean, Michael Collins going to be sitting now there's going to be. Cameras in his face. He's going to be answering questions directly from the committee members. It's going to be a show, and yeah, that's where all the attention is going to be it's going to be a show. And what meanwhile at the same time, you've got the president of the United States sitting down with Kim Jong UN in Vietnam. And they'll probably be a split screen, which one goes, I, you know, the president's going to not be able to help themselves from watching Cohen interesting. I think it's twelve hours different. So it'd be at Phnom. So I think the Coen if he devise all day that's going to be through the night in Vietnam. But I saw a report earlier today that somebody says the president's planning to stay up all night and watch Cowan, and we know he likes his cable news. So I believe that well as long as FOX's there. That's not a problem CNN. He criticized. I know CNN is yours. How how could he not love CNN because he had Jim Acosta? That's his favorite reporter, isn't it? Sure. But sometimes it's obvious. He's watching you'll see an anchor say something, and then they'll jump on and say fake news. Hey, you know, it's one more viewers with me we're talking with Elian Hoenig CNN legal analyst. Let's talk a little bit about what they're trying to figure out for one thing. It's fairly obvious people are gonna zero in on these two payments made to the two women to kind of make sure that they weren't part of the actual campaign. They get to the bottom of that. I think so I think Michael Cohen is going to have chapter and verse on that every cooperator and considering cooperator analogous to want somebody who used to be involved in criminal activity with the person there now testifying against there are things that cooperator was directly involved in. And there are things that are cooperator may have only known a little bit or piece about this is the former this is going to be he was right in the middle of making these hush money payments. He should be able to detail not just President Trump's involvement, but the involvement of other organs. -secutive Z evolvement of David pecker in the payment made to Karen McDougal. He should have chapter endorse on it. I'm expecting probably has documents that communications on that as well. Well, is there any question? I mean, let's be realistic. You really going to turn around and pay money to these two women? If it wasn't at the direction of the president. Why are you doing it? What do you have a charity there? Well, I guess the argument would be these were people who were looking out for my interests. And I was running a large campaign at the time. And I don't know everything everyone is doing I just know people are out there trying to protect me. But the trick there is the legal defense that we've heard this from the president and his legal team is dispute that these payments happened they say, but it wasn't connected to the election. It was connected to protecting the president from these what they call false allegations. But personal embarrassment family embarrassment, and that's an important legal point because when John Edwards. We're remember. John Edwards ran for vice president he was a Senator from North Carolina. He was charged with the very similar crime. He had paid hush money to his mistress. Who had he had a child with? He was tried for that. And he was acquitted on most charges and the jury hung out others because the key point is it's only a campaign finance. Violation. If the payment was designed in large part to protect the person election. And so Edward defense was no it was primarily intended to protect me and my family fucking delegation. It wasn't really election connected. Well, first of all John Edwards allegedly gives pecker the opportunity to say see we were real paper. We broke that story and number two John Edwards is different. Because in this case, what else would it have been used for other than a campaign thing? I mean, otherwise, why would Trumpcare about these women and the timing is so telling here because the alleged affairs happened many many years before and the payments are made just a couple of weeks before the election. So I think that's hard to explain I think Edwards. The timing was not nearly so clear, I think in fact, I think the payments continued after he was out of the campaign. So there was a better argument there that they were not related to the campaign and one of the other really good questions. You ask is the Trump or anybody else ever talked to you or your lawyers about the possibility of a pardon Michael comb. What do I say that I think that's important point? There's been indicators out there that the president has dangled a partners people like to put it to Roger stone to Paul Manafort, and you can see it in his tweets. Right. He tweets out at Manafort and stone a brave and they've gotten backbone because there's staying silent. Meanwhile, when Michael Cohen cooperates tweets calling him a latte, which I I take that a lot of offensive that having prosecuted real cases, I did mafia cases here in New York. And that's a term that gets people killed. I mean, that's what mob bosses say I've done cases where people murdered other people because they thought they were rats. So for the president of the United States to say that is way out of line. I guess it all boil down to the very end when he takes off his shirt and if he's got an actual full tattoo of Donald Trump. That may have to come off. There's a name for that. You know, what that would be called, namely,
Erin Burnett OutFront
Trump defenders draw comparisons to John Edwards
"Were not a campaign finance violation or crime Trump's saying, quote, number one, it wasn't a campaign contribution. If it were it's only civil and even if it's only civil there was no violation based on what we did. Okay. Trump's allies, including Senator John Kennedy at the top of this program. I've been picked to mention former democratic Senator and vice presidential nominee John Edwards when they're defending Trump on this issue. But the two cases seem to be far from the same. Jessica dean is out front. After the southern district of New York implicated, President Donald Trump in two federal election crimes surrounding hush money payments to two alleged former mistresses affairs, the White House denies Trump defenders have been quick to point to one person. John edwards? Look at the John Edwards case we to twenty eleven then failed democratic presidential candidate. And former Senator John Edwards was indicted on six counts related to allegations. He accepted illegal campaign contributions to cover up an extramarital affair and hide his mistress from the public during the two thousand eight election. Those trying to keep this mistake that I made from becoming public prosecutors alleged to wealthy donors gave Edwards over nine hundred thousand dollars in legal contributions to hide his relationship with real hunter who gave birth to his child. There's no question that I've done wrong. All twenty twelve. The case went to trial. A jury acquitted Edwards on one charge and was deadlocked on the other five the Justice department than decided to drop the case. Some Republicans have argued the potential case against Trump would be much like the Edwards case ending without a conviction. The question is then whether or not this so-called hush money is a crime John John Edwards, obviously was prosecuted for the same thing and Justice department failed but the former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission. Larry noble says there are major differences between the two cases you have Trump's attorney who seems to be willing to say that the purpose of these expenditures were for the campaign. Prosecutors have Michael Cohen saying under oath the payments were made to affect the outcome of the election. They had no such witnesses in the Edwards trial. President Trump tweeted the payments were a quote simple private transaction. But noble points to the timing of the payments as a key factor in determining intent where they made simply to keep the alleged affairs, private or to influence the outcome of an election. Hi, everyone Edwards affair occurred during the election with at least one of the payments being made to hunter after the election was over it showed that the payments were being made irrespective of the campaign. They're being made because John Edwards did not want his wife to find out about it. In contrast, the alleged Trump affairs happened years before the critical part of this was was it to affect the election was it for the purpose of influence in the election. They've said previously that oh, no it was about his business reputation. Well, then why didn't they pay a long long before he ran for office that makes it for campaign purposes? And one more thing to think about when it comes to the Trump supporters out there who say look to the Edwards case for guidance here. Larry noble told me remember, John Edwards was indicted. Now, ultimately, he was acquitted on one charge and on the other five it was a hung jury. But he was alternately prosecuted in this case, and right now, of course, no formal charges against the president will wait to see what's next from prosecutors. Aaron all right. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Jessica next President Trump claiming he has so many