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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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"Hey, everybody. Let's discover crypto. I was seeing if it was going to come back in a camera frame. It is Tuesday, September 19th. It's 11 .33am. Thank you for joining, everybody. We got AJ and Drew on the 1s and 2s. How are we all doing today? Another day in the life. It's Tuesday. Okay, okay. I thought that said XRP for a second. No, that's EXP. Express. Yeah. Okay, okay. That's what I'm wearing. That's what I'm wearing. It's today's show brought to you by Express. Nice. You know it is brought to you by the Express conduit of information flowing directly into your brain. That is discover crypto. We also got Drew on the on the board here. Now, Drew, you were late today. You're looking for a F -35, right? Yeah. No luck. No, no luck. There is a debris field in South Carolina. I don't know if you've seen that. You know, it's kind of just incredible that you act like you can lose an F -35. You know that. I mean, you've got to assume that there's some tracking systems on one of the most advanced technologically advanced hardware. No, it has stealth capabilities, and they turn it on. It's like I understand, like, you know, losing your sunglasses. Yeah. You know, I understand losing your wallet or your cell phone or like my ID on a plane that has happened. But to lose an airplane, I don't know, man. It doesn't add up to me. Where are you at? So it is like they lose three million dollars on a seed phrase or a hard drive in a landfill. Right. That's easy to lose. That's easy. Yeah. It's you know, it's this small, you know, it's in a gigantic landfill. Yeah. No, we have something like cruising around. I've heard that NASA, they can track everything bigger than a football. So that probably means everything bigger than a softball. Pretty much. Yeah. Well, you know, the Pentagon does lose trillions of dollars at a time from here and there. So it does happen. I know that they misplaced trillions of dollars. Things happen. DN says they have one for sale. I don't know if you guys saw that. Was it Craigslist ad? And it was like F -35, I have to move this thing fast. You know, it's like in South Carolina. It was pretty funny. That's hilarious. Guys, make sure you are sub to the channel. We putting out the lives, putting out the shorts, putting out the videos on the regular AJ. What is your next price prediction? I think I'm going to do it on Casper. I've had a lot of people asking me about a Casper video, just so many because, you know, it's. But the thing with this video is that with the all the other videos, I can go back and like look at, you know, all the previous price action, the previous dominance levels, the previous market with this. It's like, here we go. It's basically just a video on its tokenomics and a range of like what's going to be possible with its market cap compared to other coins that are doing a similar, you know, kind of thing that they're doing. So I'm excited to dive into it. Haven't done it yet. Probably going to film Thursday. Well, make a price prediction video where it goes to a penny so that I could buy a bunch. But speaking of prices, let's look at the crypto prices for today. It looks like the markets are maybe slightly edging up. We're going to go ahead and refresh this just to make sure. Yeah, it is a slight movement to the upside here. 0 .3%. We have 24 hour volume coming in at 38 billion dollars. Bitcoin dominance. I think is up 0 .1. It was 47 .3 is now 47 .4. And we have gas really, really low coming in at 18 gwei. Bitcoin is up slightly 0 .6%. So not a whole lot. The one hour candle is bigger than the entire 24 hours. So we went from negative into the positive in the last 24 hours. Ethereum still playing catch up, still down slightly. BNB down slightly. Lido staked Ether down slightly, but Cardano up above 1 % and Dogecoin up above 1 % and Solana up exactly 1%. Matic 2 up .2%. Polkadot, I think it got a little bit of bad news lately, right? It's down 1 .1%. All these are not really moving too much. We have Chainlink cooling down. Cooling down, it was, you know, close to 10 % now coming in at 1 .6%. So 15 % for the week. What about the biggest gainers? And guys, I haven't checked this and today I have a good feeling. Today, none of my coins are going to be in the top losers. How do I know? I don't know. I'm just trying to manifest it because I think this is a simulation. If I say it and I believe it, I'll make it happen, everybody.
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"With the railroad improvements in our getting state a multi -million dollar boost from the federal infrastructure law very usual for a sitting US president tomorrow in Michigan President Biden is scheduled to join striking auto workers in a picket fine says he always supports the United Auto Workers Union White House press secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre this is the a president president that's made very very clear that he believes that corporate profits should lead to record UAW a record UAW contract seven Republican presidential contenders are confirmed by their party to have cleared all polling donor and pledging pledging benchmarks take part in Wednesdays debate in Simi Valley California Ron DeSantis Vivek army Tim Scott Nikki Haley Mike Pence Chris Christie and Doug Burgum the Senate will return to Washington tomorrow to try to help get a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government operating past Saturday night so far dispute among House Republicans is preventing a deal gasoline prices on a national average dropped four cents a gallon for regular over the past week says the Energy Department and Wall Street indexes closed fire Chuck Severson ABC News 1000 FM 97 77 stay connected stay informed good evening at 731 I'm Kelly flyer and here are top the local stories tens of millions of dollars in federal infrastructure money is coming to Washington State for freight rail improvements and to cut carbon emissions more from Northwest News Radio's Ryan Harris close to 77
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: Zeke Faux's Crypto Adventures and His Relationship With Former FTX CEO SBF
"Hi, everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor, Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 19th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. The game has changed. The Google Cloud Oracle built for layer zero is now securing every layer zero message by default. Their custom end -to -end solution sets itself up to bring its world -class security to web three and establish itself as the HTTPS within layer zero messaging. Visit layerzero .network to learn more. 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And I was arguing with my friend about the reasonableness of a betting on Dogecoin. It's like the height of the pandemic. And I don't know, I got kind of sucked into investigating crypto. Two years later, I was cut to I'm in the Bahamas, going to Sam Begman Fried's penthouse just before the cops showed up interviewing him about the collapse of FTX. And so you said that this was your period of going down the crypto rabbit hole. What had you been doing before? So I've been an investigative reporter for Bloomberg for a long time. And at Bloomberg, I generally write about kind of the shady side of Wall Street. So I'd written exposes of predatory lenders, penny stock scams. One of my favorites was about a Patriots fan who stole the New York Giants Super Bowl rings after the 2008 helmet catch game. So I'd always been looking for like wild stories to tell in this world of business and finance. But I kind of resisted crypto as a potential topic. I just didn't really see it as like, I mean, you're going to laugh at me now, but I just didn't really see it as like a good target for an investigative reporter. And it wasn't because I thought crypto was like the future. It's just like this may be hard to believe if you're like a big time crypto guy, but actually maybe not because I'm sure you talk about it with your family and everybody. But like outside in the traditional finance world, a lot of people are so skeptical about crypto that they were like investigating a crypto company and finding out something bad about it, you wouldn't find anything surprising. I don't even care about that story. But what I realized was that my first crypto conference was Bitcoin 2021 in Miami. And I showed up there and I just met, I realized there were so many crazy characters in crypto. There were so many people that I'd love to write about. And I'm like, these are the kind of people who I need to get to know. One of the first people I sat down with was I met Sam Bankman -Fried there. I met Alex Mashinsky of Celsius, who was very prominent there. I had Michael Saylor saying all sorts of crazy things about Bitcoin. And I came back and I told my editor, like, I was wrong. There's all sorts of weird stuff going on in crypto. This would be a great topic and it'll be, you know, it'll be a long time before. There's too many stories to choose from. Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny in terms of the years that you, quote unquote, went down the crypto rabbit hole. Those were two of the craziest years and in a way, like some of the more unusual years of crypto, I would say. Just so before we dive into, you know, the different escapades you underwent in your book, you mentioned earlier that you were both curious about crypto, but also skeptical. So, you know, before we dive into what you were looking into, I wanted to hear your overall take on crypto. You know, when you say you're a skeptic, how much of a skeptic because there are some people who are skeptics and they completely dismiss crypto, but I didn't get that feeling from reading your book. I'm sort of like a skeptic in general. I'm skeptical of everything. That's why, like, I'm an investigative reporter. So if somebody tells me, hey, like Alex Mashinsky did, hey, I'm going to pay 18 percent interest. And if you want a loan from me, I charge like as low as zero percent. This is like in the world of traditional finance, a very backwards business model. When you say something like that to me, I'm going to say, yeah, I'm kind of, can you provide some evidence, like what, how are you investing your money? How does this how does this make sense? But I tried to keep like an open mind. And the question I was always asking was, what does your product do when I meet crypto founders? Can I see it in action? Can I talk to your users? Is it being used in the real world somewhere? That's one of my favorite questions, because as a writer, it's hard to write about things if you can't see them being used. And so that took me to El Salvador to see the Bitcoin experiment there. But it also took me to Ape Fest to see what it was like to be a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. And I was pleased I got one of the first reviews for the book the other day from Jeff John Roberts in Fortune. And he's, I think, feels fairly positively about crypto. He thought that my take on crypto was a little shallow, but that the book was so funny, he didn't care. And I'm like, you know what? I'll take that. I think we can all enjoy reliving these last two crazy years. And like whatever your take is on crypto, like there are crazy things that happened that we have all just like so much has happened. There's no way to like remember it all. But I have done the work of writing it down so you can go read it. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was definitely it covered the range of events. But let's actually talk about one of the main through lines. And I believe, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, that this was actually meant to be a book about Tether. And because I remember like a long time reading that it was coming out and I think that's what it said. And you kind of keep saying this to yourself that you keep saying it yourself in the book that, you know, you're getting these tips about Tether and you're trying to investigate them. You keep coming up against these dead ends. So before we go into all that, why don't you at least just tell us, so what do you feel were your main findings about Tether and like what were you trying to resolve? So probably old for like most people listening, but Tether is a big stable coin. Each coin is supposed to be worth a dollar because each coin is supposed to be backed by real dollars that are held in a bank somewhere. And I when started out, I wrote like a story for Businessweek about Tether. That was sort of the start of this project. I always thought as kind of like a good jumping off point, I pitched the book as like, this is the craziest financial mania we've ever seen in the world and it's not going to last. And I want to be there to chronicle it. And I see this like interesting central mystery that is going to like take me through. And that was Tether. At the time when I started, Tether said that they had, I think it was around 50 billion dollars in the bank. It was weird because on the one hand, it was pretty widespread to be, and correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm describing what crypto people think, because you probably know better than me, but like even people who are pretty into crypto in when they were talking to me, they'd be like, yeah, I'm not so sure about their assets like this. I don't know what's going on with Tether. This is like a good question to be asking. And it was being asked at like the highest levels of the U .S. government. Like Janet Yellen called a meeting of all the top financial regulators and the topic was like, what's going on with Tether and like, could this affect the world And I just thought it was a little when I started looking into Tether and I saw that, you know, among its co -founders was a child actor from the Mighty Ducks. I was just like, what is this in that the company I write in the book, the company was quilted out of red flags, like in the world of traditional finance, you did never you would never find a company with so many weird things to look into. And yet here it was like at the center of the crypto world. And I just thought it was it was funny to me that the heads of state were discussing this coin that was like dreamed up by a child actor from from the Mighty Ducks. And I was like, this is my kind of mystery. I want to dive in. I'm going to try and find Tether's 50 billion dollars. I see. So, you know, as we mentioned at different points in the book, you do talk about how you feel like you keep coming up against dead ends in your investigation. So what's your conclusion about that fact? Like, do you think it means that concerns about Tether are overblown? Does it make you more convinced that like the company is just really hitting everything really well or like what are your thoughts? Right now, Tether has only grown bigger. Midway through my reporting, I found that Tether had invested a lot of its assets into Chinese commercial paper. And there's kind of like this conflict of interest at the heart of Tether's business model, which is that if you give your money to Tether, you want them to keep it really safe. So it's there when you go to cash in your Tether tokens. But Tether doesn't pay any interest in the way that Tether makes money is they can take the money that you trusted them with and they can go invest it. And so there was this theory that especially when interest rates were very low, they might be doing weird things with your money in order to earn higher profits. And that so I found that they were doing some unusual things that included the Chinese commercial paper and also making loans to crypto companies like Celsius and others. So to me, that seemed like that's kind of risky. What's going to happen there? And as I followed along in the summer of 2022, like crypto companies fell one after the other and Tether did not. And there was even like a little run on Tether where users cashed in, I don't know, five, 10 billion dollars of Tether. And I'm sure if those people did not get their money back, like we would have heard about it. Right.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "pence" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Good I'm evening, Dimitri Sotis with the top local stories we're following this hour. A teenager is dead after a shooting in Anacostia this afternoon as WTOP's Kyle Cooper tells us police are now searching for a car connected to the case. The teen whose exact age has not been released killed here near 16th and Green Streets in Southeast not far from the Frederick Douglass historical site. A young a young juvenile was just murdered. They say he was shot several times. Asiya Tamimi a community advocate for the neighborhood. NBC4 reports people heard around 30 shots fired and saw a car speed off. Police have a partial description of the car and of a possible suspect. Tamimi says this is lot a for this community to have to deal with. Just trying to be here for my community as well as the family. In Southeast Kyle Cooper WTLP news. Federal workers and contractors here in the Washington area are concerned about the possibility of a government shutdown this weekend late Saturday night and a teletown hall was held a little earlier this evening with a local lawmaker. We have a lot of federal government employees in my district. Maryland Congressman Glenn Ivey who represents the fourth district says well federal workers will eventually get paid if there's a shutdown that doesn't address immediate needs. Some of them are going to need the payments now to cover their rent their food immediate expenses. conditions. Doctor can also be He's talking also to been federal contractors who can have difficulties with payroll and other issues related to a shutdown town hall comes at a time when many lawmakers now believe a shutdown is likely this weekend. We have resources related to a possible shutdown. At wtop .com on Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, wtop news. Falls Church man is under arrest after police say he showed up to a Prince William County Church armed as wtop Mike Murillo reports. Before yesterday's arrest, the man was accused of making online threats against the church on Sunday morning. Someone in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, called in a tip about a threat seen on Instagram against the church in Haymarket, Virginia. Pastor Barry White of the Park Valley Church says the he's attended our church and so he was, that's one of the reasons why he was kind of upset. As police followed up the tip, year 35 old Ruiz Young entered the church. The moment he walked into the church, our team flagged him as a potential problem. Because he was in all black and in sunglasses. It was a rainy day, you didn't really need to wear sunglasses. Word would get to Prince William County Police that he was at the church and an off duty officer there confronted Young along with security. Prince William County Police say he had a handgun, extra magazine and knives. Young had a concealed weapons his permit. White says he thanks God that the situation came to a peaceful end and to the tipster. I would love to be able to thank them and thank them. Young is charged with making threats and for having a weapon at a place of worship. Mike Murillo, UTOP News 9 jurors were selected today to hear the case against former Loudon County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler 7 News is reporting the trial is set to last a couple of days. Opening statements begin tomorrow. Ziegler Wiggler was indicted by a special grand jury looking into how Loudon County Public Schools handled two sexual assaults by the same student at two different high schools. He is accused this is Ziegler is accused of improperly firing a teacher who testified before special grand jury. There are fresh concerns about hate and Montgomery bias in County and across Maryland after a recent report found students performing an offensive salute outside a high school. Here's WTOP's Kate Ryan. The time for simply talking about anti -semitism has quote long passed according to Alan Ronkin, regional director for the American Jewish Committee. In a statement released Saturday, Ronkin said the latest Maryland State Police report on hate and bias incidents shows anti the -semitic number of incidents in the state jumped from 48 the previous year to seven in 2022. Ronkin's statement followed the news that students at Montgomery County's Blair High School reportedly were making a video of themselves performing what Blair principal Renee Johnson said was an semitic anti salute outside the school building. Ronkin wants to see more concrete actions including education. Kate Ryan, WTOP News. This is breaking news involving campaign 2024. The Republican National Committee has just announced which candidates will be on stage the next presidential debate in California this week. Arkansas Governor, that is former Arkansas Governor to Hutchinson will not be there. He did not make the stage after he failed to meet the polling and fundraising criteria. Donald Trump won't be there. It's not because he hasn't qualified but because he's not taking part. So here are the candidates that will be on stage, seven of them. Doug Burgum, the North Dakota Governor, former New Jersey Chris Governor Christie, of course Florida's Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, the former Vice President and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy along with Senator Tim Scott. Asa Hutchinson not making the cut this time for the presidential debate coming up this week. We'll keep you updated here on WTOP, your election source. Also coming up next, our area could be particularly hard hit by a federal government shutdown if it comes to be this weekend. Are a lot of people starting their own businesses? Is that a trend? new Stay with us at 1008. Get a precision AC tune -up for only 1008. We'll be right back. Some work
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "pence" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"The story, how your EVs battery may not be as green as it seems, why a decrease in global rates birth could send countries scrambling to increase immigration. You get context, and context changes how you see things, how you change things, because context changes everything. Go to bloomberg .com to get context. is This Russell Shinsky, managing partner of Anshin Accountants and Advisors. In light of ongoing challenges this have year, you considered if your advisor is the right fit for your business? Are you getting the attention and responsiveness you need? Given the changing marketplace, you need established advisors who help find opportunities in the current business and tax environment. Anshin's accountants and advisors provide the resources and guidance that you and your business need to meet today's challenges. Visit anshin .com to contact us. Big names make news on Bloomberg Radio. Former Vice President Mike Pence. Wages have not been keeping up with inflation park investment ceo kathy wood i think we're on the other side of that massive interest straight increase former st louis fed president james bullock i think
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from New All Time High Coming? (Polkadot Price Prediction)
"Hey what's up everyone, my name is AJ writes crypto and this is the price prediction department. Every week in the comments, there are about 5 -10 people out there asking for a Polkadot price prediction. This one is for you, let's dive in and discover crypto. I'm going to start off by saying that Polkadot is a deep, deep dive. While some projects are relatively cut and dry, DOT is as complicated as it gets. If you really want to jump into the Polkadot rabbit hole, just a heads up, it's going to take weeks for you to get a well -rounded understanding of its complexities. I will link it down below in the description, but I have read the Polkadot whitepaper on two separate occasions now, and when you start seeing science class diagrams like this one here, understand that to do a full -fledged coin review on Polkadot would take at least three hours minimum. With that said, I'm going to give a brief overview and stick with the price prediction. Here is a quick explanation of Polkadot directly from that whitepaper. Polkadot provides the bedrock relay chain upon which a large number of validatable, globally coherent, dynamic data structures may be hosted side by side. We call these data structures parallelized, or parachains, though there is no specific need for them to be blockchained in nature. Understand that Polkadot's main focus is interoperability, or communication between blockchains who otherwise wouldn't be able to communicate. With that network of parachains and the XCM, or the cross -consensus message format, Polkadot has grown an ecosystem of over 600 projects who have the ability to communicate with each other. Another thing I really like about Polkadot is how they utilize their side canary chain Kusama. Kusama acts as a live testnet for Polkadot that is pretty much used as their science experiment to see what will and what won't work on the main chain. Without getting too far into the weeds, I want to point out that I know some people who are really big on Polkadot, and I also know some people who are completely against it. For those people who are completely against it, the complaints I've heard are either about Gavin Wood's personal life, which I will not get into, and I've also heard that the parachains were somewhat of a flop. When they started the original 41 parachain auctions back in November of 21, there were some projects that came out swinging, like Acala, Moonbeam, Astar, Clover Finance, but as the parachain auctions continued into 2022, there were less and less funds raised and less contributors to the projects as we ventured further into the bear market. I remember it used to be a really big deal when a project landed a parachain spot, but unfortunately as time went on, the more and more projects that landed them, the less and less it mattered. To be fair, the timing of the bear market really, really hurt their cause. But on the bright side, according to key insights from the Masari State of Polkadot Q2 update, OpenGov, their new decentralized governance model, launched back in June. This is significant because since Polkadot is a proof of stake blockchain, improving their governance is a big step forward for decentralization. Also, like I mentioned before, V3 of XCM recently launched, which is their cross consensus messaging format. This is basically like the key to the door of interoperability. The most bullish observation for Polkadot is earlier this year when the SEC was going hard in the pain against Binance and Coinbase, Polkadot was a lucky project that was not flagged by the SEC as the security. I mean, Gary Gensler has called every project under the sun a security, but not Polkadot. Let's give him a call and find out why. What's his number again? Oh yeah, six, six, six. Okay. Gary, how you doing, man? Yeah, I know that hearing was pretty rough, but hey, quick question. Why is Polkadot not a security? Wait, they paid you how much? And once again, he hung up on me. I will link that Masari update down below in the description. It is an excellent tool for those needs to know facts. I use Masari every day to keep track of all my favorite coins. Shout out to Ryan Selkis and Masari, not a paid advertisement. With all that said, let's get into the price prediction. Remember, the equation for price predictions is price equals market cap divided by circulating supply. Polkadot put in its all -time high of $55 on November 4th, 2021. At the time, its market cap was $56 .5 billion and its supply was north of $987 million. Today, DOT is 92 % down from its all -time high and it sets just over $4. Its market cap currently sits around $5 .15 billion and its supply is a little over $1 .27 billion, a 29 % increase from its previous all -time high. For perspective, if DOT put in its all -time high market cap with today's supply, that $55 Polkadot would now be a $44 Polkadot. As you can see, when the supply goes up, the market cap has so much extra work to do. The problem with this, though, is that DOT is inherently inflationary and it increases about 10 % every year. With that said, according to this chart here from TokenDOTUnlocks, its supply is projected to be $1 .688 billion by November of 2025, which is the projected top of the next bull run based off the Bitcoin halving cycle. For even more perspective, if we ran that supply against the previous all -time high market cap, that $55 DOT becomes a $33 .5 DOT. So for Polkadot to reach its previous all -time high with this new heightened supply, it would require a $92 .8 billion market cap, which is 64 % higher than its previous all -time high market cap. In other words, like I said, Polkadot has a lot of work to do. But to be fair, 46 % of the total supply was staked at the end of Q2 this year. So there is obviously a dedicated community and Polkadot has more active developers than any project in crypto. So my question is, what can that really do for the market cap? Of course, you probably know that I really like to use dominance as a gauge to see what's possible. For those of you that don't know, at the top of the last bull run, the total crypto market cap sat right around $3 trillion. When I use dominance for a gauge, it piggybacks off the idea that the total crypto market cap for the top of the next bull run is likely to range somewhere between $7 to $10 trillion. That is just an estimation. As you can see here, DOT has a relative support resistance line on its dominance chart at 0 .93%. The idea here is that if the total crypto market cap went to $7 to $10 trillion and Polkadot could get that 0 .93%, just less than one full percent, this would give us a range for its market cap. So when we pair that dominance level with the $7 trillion total cap, that would lead to a $65 .1 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, you're looking at about a $38 .70 DOT. If you pair the same dominance level against the $10 trillion total market cap, that would be a $93 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, ironically, we would have a $55 .09 Polkadot, which is only a few pennies higher than its previous all -time high. It is pretty funny how those numbers lined up like that, but I do want to point out that dominance is a guideline and it's not a law. I do like to use it as a tool to get an idea of the range to see what's possible, but to be honest, I do not think DOT is going to be able to put up a $93 billion market cap. So to be honest with you, this is one of those coins in my book that will not surpass its previous all -time high. Personally, for my price prediction, I see DOT probably landing somewhere between $25 to $37, where $37 is an 8 .4x and would require a $62 .5 billion market cap. Boom, there you go. There's my price prediction for Polkadot. Let me know down below in the comments what you thought. Am I too bearish? Am I too bullish? Let me know what you think. Also, I have the next two videos planned out, but after that, I want to know down below in the comments what coins you want to see me cover. I do read the comments, I do hear what you're saying, and I want to cover what you want to learn about. With all that being said, my name is A .J. Rights Crypto. Have yourself a great day.
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Starts Fresh Rally! (3 Things To Watch This Week)
"Good morning, everybody. It's time to discover crypto. It is September 18th. It's 11 .32am. How are we all doing today? We're going to talk about inflation. We're going to talk about Chainlink. We're going to talk about Bitcoin. We're going to talk about Solana. We're going to talk about hot wallet hacks. Is it? Is that what's going on? What is happening to everybody? And once again, we got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos. What's up, man? How was your weekend, Dizzy? My weekend was pretty good. I got heartburned for the first time ever. Weird. I've never had it. I think it's because I'm lactose intolerant. I think maybe I don't have enough acid in my stomach, but yeah, first time ever had it. Guys, that thing is tough. It's no joke. We didn't have any Tums. Never experienced it myself. It was from a chili oil and a rare ramen bowl. One of those, you know, there's like for real Asian ones. Okay. It's like a little pack. Mess me up. Mess me up. But you know what? It just gave me time to sit, be calm and investigate some more crypto. And I bought more crypto. I've bought more crypto in the past 24 hours. I might even share what it is. And I shaved the head. Point seven chain link or one whole chain link? How far are we going down the rabbit hole? It wasn't chain link because I bought chain link live. And so it's a new coin, everybody. Hey, AJ, your tweet convinced me to buy algo. Okay. Yeah. I've heard that a couple times throughout, you know, a couple times I've heard that. Look at the hair. It's actually getting closer to flock of seagulls. It is getting close to flock of seagulls in a good way, though, in a good way. And CCC says the best is because we're getting old. Yeah. I was like, I don't know what this is, babe. I don't know. Maybe it's heartburn, but I've never had heartburn. She's like, yeah, you're getting old. I got torn apart by heartburn this weekend. So what was your food? Mine was chili oil. What was yours? It was spaghetti with bison, homemade spaghetti, bison. That's a Drew meal if I've ever heard it. All right. You know what? I'm ready to eat. I'm ready to bite into some crypto prices right now. I want to bite off some more of that Bitcoin, everybody. Uh, it looks like, uh, the crypto market caps are pumping, baby. We are up 2 .1%. We are now at $1 .1 trillion, 24 hour volume. I'm surprised it's even this low. It's 37 billion bucks. We have Bitcoin dominance coming in at 47 and a half in gas, really low at 23 gwe. Heartburn, uh, when you can't get a calmness. Yeah, man. It was, I was laying, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just laying down, probably making it worse the whole time. All right. Uh, we have Bitcoin moving up, everybody. It is up 2 .7%. I just refreshed, but I want to do it again. 2 .9%. We have Eve pumping almost up to 2 % here. BNB up one and a half percent Lido stake ether up a also 1 .9%. Solana baby Solana is up 5%. Cardano ton coin on the weekly up 48 .50 % on the weekly. That's holograms coin skyrocketed the top 10. No one knows where it came from. You can see it right there. Just whew. And then it's actually a bit kind of low ever since then. Uh, who would have known that was good. Accumulation zone. Crazy. Maybe a lot of people knew crazy. I, we just put a video on ton coin out yesterday. Really interesting coin to look into. Definitely check out that video if you haven't yet. And to roof Rolf, uh, I cannot pronounce your name in the, um, in the chat there, guys, you know, where I can get AJ's full predictions. If you go to the playlist, there's a whole playlist of all of them in order of when they came out. So if you go to the YouTube channel right here, you click playlists, uh, then your scroll created a caffeinated price prediction department right there. There it is. Okay. That's where it'd be. That's where it would be. And we got, um, polka dot price predictions coming out today. Normally they come out Sunday, last week, things were really hectic. So the price prediction for polka dot is today and then it'll be Sunday from here on out. All right. All right. Uh, so is everybody ready to hit that like button? Cause I heard if you hit the like button, you increase the odds that your coins are going to pop up on the top gainers of the top hundred coins of the past 24 hours. So go ahead and hit that like button. I'll give you three seconds. I was to take a sip of water. They didn't hit the light button yet. Oh man. They just hit it. I relief is washing over me in an awesome way. All right. Uh, in the number one gainer for the day, it is E cash. Everybody E cash is up 15 % skyrocketing up to the 72 ranked here, but check how many zeros there are. I don't like coins when they have that many zeros. What about you, AJ? Yeah, I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan. I like, you know, if it's like, you know, zero, zero nine. All right. But once we get like past that third or fourth zero, I'm just kinda like, I don't, I don't know. I can't do this. It's a lot. It's hard math. I'm three thousandth of a penny. You miss out on a 10 X. Was it a 10 X? Did it reduce by 90 %? Like subtracting. Uh, I'm picturing drew in a tree knife and mouth about to jump down on the bison camouflage, black paint under his eyes, bandana, American bandana trailing in the sky. As he falls down with knives in hand, he can picture it. I can see it. I got jacked up by an entire hornet's nest. I cut down a tree and then I got in the tree to push it the way I wanted it to go and found a hornet's nest. And my entire body is full of Hornet poison. Is that why it was so swollen this morning at the urine? Are you looking like on purpose? Are you okay, dude? I'm great. I'm doing just fine. He seems, yeah, he's doing good. He's, he's covered head to toe in calamine, but he's good. Everyone smashed the like button for drew for being here. If I got stung by an entire hornet's nest, believe that I would be at home watching like Harry Potter or something. I wouldn't be here. I tell you that. Did you eat the insects? All right. Uh, so we have e -cash coming in as the top gainer, 15 .7, but number two is the coin that DZ bought live on air. It was up 9 .4 % on the news. Although there's a lot of whale activity. I think there's a 350 million volume just from the whales. Uh, 420 million 24 hour volume there stacks is up 7 .1 % ton coin. You know, part of the reason you see it up 50 % it is up 6 .5 % today. Casper up 6 % Solana 5 % coins are moving today and they're moving strong. Like coin up 4 .5 % Bitcoin cash up 4%. Uh, any of these coins, anything popping out Bitcoin is you never see Bitcoin, uh, you know, even this high of the top gainer. So ape coin was going on. It's a reverse DZ indicator today, but we still got to look at the losers and I haven't checked. I promise you I haven't checked. I don't know if any of my coins are going to be in there. I'm hoping not. I'm hoping it's like 0 .2 and then everything else is up to the upside. Uh, no. Oh my God. Can you do the show? I don't even want to do the show anymore. All right. I guys, I promise you. I didn't look, I don't know why roll bits. Very sad. Very sad day keeps on giving. Very sad. All right. Roll bits down top coins down. I did take some profit like two months ago and then I've just been riding in this emotional rollercoaster ever since. Uh, we have Iota and then we go into the low areas. Then it's 1 .3, 1 .2 % below actually infinity. I'm just looking for another one of my coins, but uh, no, it's just, just the second biggest loser of the day. Uh, but then yeah, very shortly after that we are in the green. So three, six, eight, eight coins and then we're flat. One of the eight is a stable coin. So pretty much markets are flat. Really not too much has fallen except for, you know, one of these coins. Of course. Uh, DZ cut his hair. Yeah. It's more aerodynamic when I trade. Uh, we need an inverse DZ fun. Okay. Interesting. Son of a gun. It's a great idea. It's great. I'm kidding. Well, what? The hair thing? No, the inverse DZ. Oh, the inverse DZ fun. Okay.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E10: City of London & Equal Opportunities Discussion
"Alright alright yeah they might join us well hopefully yes that'd be good yep so I'm ready when you are alright let's go okay so I've been looking at lighters and cigars lately oh yeah mainly the point lighters and yeah the point lighters st. the point the point later it's just been curious might be something I might want to do I might want to collect lighters for some weird reason I think it might be cool don't like the smoke I don't really have anything to celebrate so maybe not smoke them but it might be good to try one at least once yeah sweet I'm hoping that Faith be joins come on ask her what's her why she it's on your teeth yeah that'd be interesting I mean I on one hand I can understand where she's coming from with what's being said about him but on the other hand I think it's important to do research because you never know unless you understand the full context not not to say everyone doesn't understand but you never know if you'd be lied to what if what we see right now is just an illusion true make to believe what we want to believe then you can live in your own fantasy land yes and a matter how hard you tried to be red -pilled you're always gonna get blue pill out of nowhere yep you gotta have a sharp mind yes yes I don't get why she thinks that men thinks she was much who I don't get what she was talking about earlier well and get understand that she doesn't want men to take over but the country of the world was built by men it was built by it every major corporation was built by a man or the vast majority of them I'll give them that I'll give the there have been some very famous male sign to female scientists Madden Curry Mary not to mention I will give them the fact that they a woman did help create the atomic bomb well I did help Einstein create the atomic bomb basically finished the Manhattan Project so they did help build that I'm not saying they can't become the biggest richest man the richest person in the world but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime this century I could be wrong I think it takes determination for women to show that they could do whatever man can it's just that that little amount of determination that there is representation on their behalf they need they need they need there needs to be something that's shown that it is possible regardless of gender religion sexuality at most whatever people group whatever people group there is a chance that you can make it I am gonna say this not all women were Putin present not all women were given their position because they're a talent a vast majority of them and this is sad to say but it kind of means women success but which is true happenstance is the fact a vast majority of these women they were put in positions that they had no business being put into didn't have the skills enough talent they were just put in there because it what's fp they want to say oh we hired a first female VP yeah oh bug off this also experience was her background exactly they don't know it they do what they do it's just ridiculous I know there are people I'm not saying all women are all women were put in this position like this I'm sure there's some ones are very qualified for the jobs and they were put given this corrosion given these opportunities but you've got a quick question of a lot of them were they truly given this jokes of our talents or they just get promoted for worship for virtue like the GM CEO Mary Barra she's unqualified unfit and quite honestly I'm surprised she hasn't been sucked and she's gonna be one of the main reasons why General Motors probably goes under that's just one not to mention I think that will be there I personally believe the future of American companies are all being run by Indian India like so basically yeah Google Indian feel Microsoft Indian there's probably offers swells is there so uh have you heard the news what news up Obama might be gay well I already know that I'm talking about another thing what's over news okay you see no there's this new immigration rule for the UK what's the immigration law so basically in short even if you're a foreigner where you're allowed to enter the UK visa -free you still need something that's called an ETA so you need permission even if you're a foreigner in a country where you can answer enter the UK visa -free you'd certainly permission to come into the country to do whatever and you can stay no longer than six months with the exception of going there for work or even long or long -term study so even if you so they have to get they actually have to go for citizenship yes you need to ask permission to the government to enter the country apply for citizenship by it seems how's the vast majority taken that well what do you think well I shouldn't you should you should know that unless we don't have a fucking field day but let's be real here yes is a little bit concerning but something has to be done about immigration yeah but but not like this so what so what so what let's repeat what they're doing again so basically blocking anybody from coming into the country technical yes what they are promoting is they need to ask the government permission to enter the country even to foreigners in countries that are given free to free access into the UK you still need to ask the government hey can I come in and then if they say yes then you can go in I wonder how that I wonder if I'll stop the boats I don't think I don't think it's about the boats what do you think that that's a separate story what do you think it's about then what do you think it's about control or for it is well has soon that killed his opportunity of staying in in power or is he oh no he's killed his chances ages ago at this point people can people are safely saying then the next election labor majority as I'll never fucking happen that'll never fucking happen well the odds say otherwise I know you don't believe I don't believe everything here in the media I wouldn't trust I wouldn't trust stormer without ever could touch him with two pennies oh no I'm not I'm not painting this in the media the the book he's saying that well the bookies are always the bookies said but Trump would never win and he did win so he's still got his chances if he can fucking fix the economy cuz trust me it's not gonna get better under stormer storms a fucking idiot if you're under stormer Jamie you're gonna be getting rid of your oil and gas you'll be dependent on the thingy and we'll be literally sucking up will be sucking will be the LGBTQ will be plastered around every fucking set will be plastered all around England you've seen the state of Scotland don't let it come to that point I feel sorry for Scots we are gonna hit I hate the LGBTQ I think some a lot of nonsense called mentally ill people doesn't help fun to smoke the representative in my stay in my down the road representative in like one of my districts that is transgender I never happens it is very important to ask people why why are you feeling the way you are why are you doing the things that you're doing I think it's a lot of it I think it's mainly really for attention at least if what we need to do is stop giving these people attention stop giving these people stopping knowledge in their existence because we acknowledge your existence we're just encouraging their behavior it's like saying when you are when a baby when a cries baby cries you don't give it attention cuz it just it you're just rewarding it what we need to do is figure out a way to lower prices on properties what we need is cheap food we need the pricing on food to be as cheap as possible need the prices on property to be cheap so what I'm thinking to stop to solve that I'm thinking what if we were to create a bond what we were to create like a special thing right about basically help give give give everybody give people everyday people an opportunity to basically buy a house so basically cutting the prices in half right and give and give it it's only a certain type of thing that's only allowed for everyday people for the everyday people for the people and not and called big corporations can't use let use it what I'm suggesting we do is give like give massive loopholes for everyday people but bar and control property it's limit them at property but but like the likes of Blackrock the crop price Warhouse Cooper TSB and all these banks in Britain can buy so I've heard rumors that TSB is looking to get into the property market rental property markets which is quite interesting I so else's sir be bought into any new companies lately good strategy the changes in the stock market or the economy for that matter you got anything in pharmaceuticals besides John and Johnson and Johnson there's not much big father I'm investing in it till right now sure if things go away I think is you might be getting a shitload of money off Johnson Johnson soon because of the the sniff yes a district in California basically banned masks in backseat basically banned wearing on masks let's start yeah but it's a district that's always mainly Republican okay okay that makes sense you'd be surprised but there's a lot of Republicans in in California the only thing is so it's not enough to clear the state I do think that California is not big it should be split into two states I'm saying like it should be the north and the east of California one side we should do north of California and east of California and split it down the middle and basically one I personally think that should be it give more delicate seats but remember give more opportunities but not to mention it might be a thing that it might give over can I think all the all the side with Ellie I think everything to do with Ellie and Cupertino should be Cupertino LA California Cupertino all of that should be under one state and the rest of it should be the number let San Francisco I kind of like the north -south California divide yeah well I think in San Francisco part of California oh yeah it's a famous coastal city of California why can't we make that and why can't we make that and it surrounds areas its own state I don't think it's big I don't think it's big enough to be its own state I think it'll be as close as Rhode Island or Delaware it's it's the smallest area let's go but I'm saying the Bay Area maybe California big you know yeah I think I think San Francisco Bay and other neighboring neighborhoods that I think that should be enough to it for it to become its own stuff yeah it could be the next Washington DC what do you mean a shithole well yes but it's also like a district that's predominantly Democrats Washington DC ever since the u .s.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Store of Value and Proof of Work with Ben Justman, Founder of "Peony Lane Wine" - September 18th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Happy Monday. It is time for another awesome week in Bitcoin. Man. It is so cool getting up on a Monday morning. You know, most people are like, oh, God, it's another Monday. They don't even want to get out of bed. They're dragging ass. They're like, oh, but Bitcoiners are like, let's go. All right. Good morning to all of you, Lisa. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Mickey. Morning. Good morning. Don Bay Terrence. Good morning to all of you. Shout outs to my cobart in the audience. Joe Carla. Sorry. Hi, guys. Alex, the other Alex, there is another Alex. Alex talks tweets. She works at Swan. Shout out to you. You're welcome to come up. She does some amazing stuff. I'm not there's other people in the audience here who work for Swan. I'm not going to talk to you because you guys have some semi names. I don't know. Anyway, morning, Jacob as well. Welcome back from your golf excursion or the weekend. Tone vase morning there on you an invite. I just found out I'm on a panel with tone vase for Pacific Bitcoin. I'm moderating tone vase and Pierre Richard and Jimmy song. That's awesome. And I guess our mission is to talk about shit coins. So for whatever that's worth. All right. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin episode four hundred and thirty six. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange feature we call Bitcoin. Today's show, we're going to be discussing BTC performance versus other assets. There's a tweet Saylor put out with a really interesting chart. We'll be talking about that. United States interest payments are at insane levels and the near perfect energy arbitrage of Bitcoin later today. We have Ben Justman from Penny Lane Wine coming on the show. Very excited. He's an example of the Bitcoin circular economy. So you've got people who are craftsmen making really fine high end things and they're selling them directly to big winners. And man, I love to see it because this is the future. Like we're moving away from this entire consumer rush, rush, rush, get on the hamster wheel, make money that is constantly devaluing and then spend it on shit that you're going to replace one month or one year from now because it's garbage. But that's the entire consumer economy system. It's insane. But Bitcoin is switching that. I think we're going to flip this thing completely on its head. How long will it take? I have no idea. But I think it's coming. Anybody have any opening comments you want to make before we start digging in here? Just that the coffee and the Bitcoin charts are hitting hard this morning. So let's go. Yeah, what's up with that? I saw there was something like, I don't remember the exact stat, but the open interest has is skyrocketing, I guess. We went from twenty six, what is this, five ish to twenty seven thousand two hundred and thirty ish per Bitcoin right as of right now this morning. Lisa Huff, what did you do? You know, I missed the days when Bitcoin was actually volatile, like I am excited to see that it moved and I was also excited to see that it moved down last week. But as for me personally, Alex, what you said is correct. Bitcoiners were ready to get up and do it. And in the last several months, I have, because of Bob Burnett's lovely wife, Lola, I heard a comment that she said she made about health and fitness. She said you have to approach it like it is your lifestyle. Yeah, kind of kind of changes things up. I'm raring to go at like five o 'clock in the morning. Start workout, just went to Pilates. That's my whole life story, guys. Now you know it. Nice. I like it. I think it's awesome. Like I've shifted also because now I'm on the East Coast. So the showtime starts differently for me now. And I have time first thing in the morning, get up and go do physical things. And man, it's it's been amazing. It's been awesome. You've got to exercise for life to keep your life long and healthy. It is a lifetime thing. And finding something that you enjoy doing while you exercise is critical to that. Personally, since I'm on the West Coast, I make my bed and it's a successful day before Cafe Bitcoin. And I am not qualified to discuss anything, just so everybody knows. It's all good. Shout out to Mike Germano in the audience, throwing you an invite if you would like to come up here and obligation to do so. Alex, good morning. Welcome. I think this is the first time you've been up here now. Hey, good morning, everybody. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me up. This is a lot of fun. I'm always listening while changing diapers in the morning and doing the whole mom thing before I clock in. So thanks for having me. Yeah. What are you excited about in Bitcoin and with Swan and with everything? What are you excited about? Wow. That's a loaded question. But I mean, short term, I am stoked on Pacific Bitcoin coming up. I sent out an email blast this weekend. Hopefully many of you guys received it. And I heard you mention your panel, Alex. And the description in the email of that panel is... So the title is Shitcoin Slayers, but that's pretty awesome. And basically, shitcoiners are shaking in their boots and stand no chance against Alex, Tone Vays, Jimmy, Pierre. There'll definitely be some fighting words and not some subtle jabs. It's going to be an awesome talk. Yeah, just a lot of good stuff in the pipeline for PB. Hope to see you guys there. Tone Vays, good morning. We're on a panel together. Good morning. Yeah, I saw that in the email that you were sending that over. Yeah, so that's great. Do you guys know which day that would be? That first day or second day? I have no idea. I just literally just found out myself because I got the email just like everybody else. It's funny, right? They're like, they don't even tell me. Yeah, no, it's good. I actually tweeted out just last night. Ethereum had a brand new weekly low 12 -month close against Bitcoin. And that is a very weak TA symbol for Ethereum. And it's already going down a little bit today as well. So I think, yeah, shitcoins are in a bit of trouble. But the weird thing is, though, have you guys seen what is going on over in Singapore right now with token 2049, which pretty much has become the biggest shitcoin conference in the world? It is crazy. That conference is so scary to me. It tells me that shitcoiners still have an unreasonable amount of money. And maybe the bear market's not over yet. I don't know if anyone's seen the party videos from there. No. What I wonder about is, in this next cycle, are they tapping Asia? Are you going to see a lot of shitcoin conferences over in Asia? And are they going to be gigantic? Oh, I was going to just say probably. But the scary thing is that that conference was massive. And they're renting out sweets with the best views of the... Let's get some context. Let's get some context. What do you mean by massive? What does this mean? What does massive mean to you? Numbers? Do you have an idea of a number of attendees kind of thing? I don't. I'm assuming 5 ,000 to 10 ,000 people. I wasn't going to watch that much. But it was like the after party, right? Like renting out the most expensive restaurant in Singapore. Getting front row seats or the best views of F1, a race that was happening the day after the event. If you just do the hashtag token2049 and just look at their after parties, I don't think anyone really cares. It seemed like a borderline Bitcoin 2022 or one of their older ones. It was insane. And based on how well the shitcoin community is doing, I'm like, man, this bear market may not be over yet. Well, Tone, they're long on other people's fiat, but that tells me they're short on their own tokens. That's why they're spending so hard. It's possible. Is Ethereum ever going to make new highs against Bitcoin? Nope. No, no way. And I said that on a show. I was on Ben Cohen's podcast and a lot of his audience is apparently shitcoiners. And I said that no shitcoin has ever made a new high versus Bitcoin in the following bull market of Bitcoin. Like it's never happened. Actually, I did find one exception. That exception was Doge. But that's because of Elon Musk. It's not because of anything Doge did. And BNB, right? No, BNB never really pumped in the 2017 market because it was just launching then. So BNB's high is the 2021 bull market, and that will never be surpassed. In the case of Ethereum, it's the 2017 bull market. In the case of Litecoin, it's the 2013 bull market. So if a token has been around for like a full year before the bull market, that is its ultimate high. Like it never breaches it. Ethereum will never break its 2017 high. No way.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Are Millionaires Buying Bitcoin? (Time Is Running Out)
"Seven out of 22 private families have already deployed some of their money into Bitcoin or crypto that is seven out of 22 Call it a third tiny tiny bits two and a half million dollar allocation 397 ,000 families requires 37 million What's up everybody welcome to another Saturday edition of the alpha series with myself Kelly Kellum director the bit lab Academy I'm so excited to have an incredible guest on today. Another one. Mr Gary Cardone and we're gonna be diving into that here in a few moments And if you want to watch the full length of this interview The link is in the description down below and you also see a link at the end of this video Stick around because we have a lot that we're gonna be digging into about Bitcoin and aetherium and this digital asset ecosystem So without any further ado, it's mr. Gary Cardone. How are you doing my friend? I'm so happy to have you here Doing good, man doing good. It feels like it's the end of a week and it's only what thirsty So I've been to three states already and I think eight podcasts or some crazy number so it just keeps getting more interesting and I Think it's becoming very clear what the real opportunity is. So I'm doing good Well before we really dive into this I have to just express my gratitude for you being here I've had the opportunity to be on a number of different podcasts and spaces with you and You even kind of pulled me aside at one point we got on about our zoom call and just talking life and markets and so many people get so focused on the dollar and the you know, What is the thing that makes money and you did something that I absolutely commend in business in life? Which is who's the person who's the person underneath this? How can we how can I help you? How can you help me and I just want to say I thank you for that and I appreciate you and As we're diving into this before we even get into it What if somebody were to walk up to you on the street and pose the question or even the resistance about Bitcoin an? Opportunity that is or isn't there underlying What would be your brief sort of you know few minute? This is why whether your retail or institution? Why is Bitcoin? Despite the price action that's been going on. It might feel frustrating zoomed in on a one -hour chart Why is this something that is an absolute? Necessity for people's attention to at least pay attention to if not yet get involved in how many green lights do we need? Okay Now this is the math two and a half million dollars I have far more than two and a half million dollars and I am NOT a super hotnet war player Okay, which like I'm probably at the very bottom of the food chain Seven out of 22 private families have already deployed some of their money into Bitcoin or crypto that is seven out of 22 Call it a third tiny tiny bits two and a half million dollar allocation 397 ,000 families requires 37 million Bitcoin 37 million Bitcoin will allow a extremely wealthy guy like me to buy 92 Bitcoin. That's it So you guys consider and do the math all you want but like no everybody's thinking about the under bank We should think about the over bank. The over bank will drive this market I've been saying this forever The under bank are going to come along when this when the value of a Satoshi is somewhere between a penny and half a penny Then we'll see Satoshi's working But that means bitcoins price actually has to move so Satoshi's become something that can be exchanged In the meantime, you're gonna have a lot of tokens make up the little payment rails, right? Whether they're fake tokens or CD DC tokens or whatever tokens they are. They're gonna fill that gap until we're there So that that's my best explanation and by the way, that's before 62 millionaires across planet Earth deploy $2 ,500 So just Just $2 ,500 each for these millionaires Okay for the multi wealth the super well it's You can do it over ten years $25 ,000 a pop or you can do it all at one time. Okay, they need 5 .7 million Shit, the millionaires can't even buy $2 ,500 worth of crypto do without moving this market substantially Okay, there's not five million Bitcoin floating around So that is my thesis. Okay. I don't know any rich people that have ever found a product that They can beat their neighbor to bind like guys like us love doing that. Well, I can buy something you can't have that is awesome So I think we forget I can I think actually most high net worth players Have are already at max consumption That they look literally no more planes. They don't need anything else. I don't need anything else now. It's all just investment It's all the future so You can do that math any way you want. You can take those three hundred ninety seven thousand dollars and factor that down to 10 % I am wrong by 90 % It's still four million Bitcoin Okay, any way you work this number you can also back into it and say well The high net worth players are actually moving into an eight hundred trillion dollar market, you know I have assumed that no one even changes their allocation to eight hundred trillion.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Joshua Stone Interview - Bringing Books To Web3, Book.io Books on the Blockchain, Mark Cuban Investment, Cardano ADA
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Joshua Stone, who's the CEO and co -founder of Book .io. Joshua, great to have you on the show. Yeah, thanks for having me here. Appreciate it. Well, Joshua, I think it's timely that I'm speaking with you because I'm in the process of writing a book. And so I'm very curious about Book .io and what are the other options for me as a soon -to -be author where I can publish my book on the blockchain and get some additional benefits. Before we get into all that, though, tell us about yourself, where you're from, where you grew up. Yeah, for sure. So I grew up in Oklahoma. When I'm traveling, I like to tell people I grew up in Indian territory and, you know, kind of encapsulates this sort of free spirit, unregulated environment that I just kind of grew up in. And my dad was an electronics engineer. My mom is a really incredible amateur artist. So I grew up in a very left brain, right brain kind of background. And what was your professional career before founding or co -founding Book .io? Yeah. I got online. Like I said, my dad with the electronics engineering, I got online really, really early and kind of got fascinated with this intersection of graphic and engineering kind of where they cross over. So I really gravitated more towards like a product design and user experience strategy side of things. So I actually got my first large job out of school. I went to Oklahoma State University and worked on the very first version of Fandango for Subark. And that was back in 99 and then worked at some larger internet companies that did a bunch of stuff for AT &T, led the product group for hotels .com with Expedia, and then kind of got more into the startup scene, was in a social media startup that sold. And that kind of got my interest into the book publishing industry. So I actually previously had co -founded an ebook company that we specialized in bulk distribution of eBooks to universities and really large organizations. And we sold that back in 20, I think we sold in 2015, I stayed till 2018. And so, I had kind of approached the book industry from a technologist sort of standpoint. And yeah, and then took some time off after that, really got just super deep into crypto and tried to kind of determine my next startup. I wanted to be a Web3 based company. That's awesome, man. Because you have a Web1, well, you have experience in Web1 and Web2, and now you're building in Web3. That's pretty incredible. What was your first encounter with Bitcoin? I'm always fascinated by folks' different stories, and what was your aha moment? Yeah, I feel like a lot of the story is always like a story of frustration of, I wish I would have. And so, I read the first white paper pretty quickly after it came out, just because I was in a social media startup. So that stuff like circulated quickly of like, oh, there's this internet money thing. And I talked to some engineers and I'm not heavy engineer. I've done some engineering stuff, but at that time, I wasn't capable of studying, I guess I could have really went and stood up a stack and tried to figure out how to mine it, but I tried to convince some engineers to mine it. And that happened a couple of different times. And it was a kind of classic argument of like, hey, this will cost us more in electricity than we'll ever make. And in hindsight, it's like, dang it, I should have just put them in a headlock and made them do it. So, it wasn't really until 2017 that I came around and jumped back in where I could actually start to buy from exchanges easily. I think at that time, maybe Coinbase only had like four coins listed. And so, I spent a lot of time on like foreign based exchanges and just really like diving super, super deep and through all the kind of ICO crazes of 2018 and the crash and yeah, I think I really was becoming more obsessed with what does blockchain mean at like a bigger level from a, just like a decentralized nature and like how, my entire career up to that point, just like sort of thinking like what all would need to be re -architected in this way of like a decentralized blockchain based way. Oh yeah, for sure. So, tell us about book .io, how did that idea come about and what are the different services? How does it work and so forth? Yeah. So, Yeah. you know, one of the biggest hindrances in crypto in my mind has always been just like mass adoptability, right? Like making it accessible to the masses. A lot of times, like I pick on my mom and just say, you know, my mom's not going to use this, you know? Yeah. So, you know, it occurred to me at some point that, you know, all books could be decentralized, like the actual contents of them and be blockchain based. So, you know, a big issue in the book industry, which you'll definitely experience now that you're working on a book is, you know, if you buy an ebook or an audio book from Kindle or Audible or iBooks, you're not really buying the book. You just buy a license to view the content. So, you don't actually own anything, which is why you can't sell it or give it away when you're done reading it. So, making it a book, a blockchain based asset actually changes from a digital licensing to a digital ownership model and that allows you to resell the book. So, you know, when you look at the entire landscape of crypto, there's like, you know, less than a hundred million total wallets, but there's over a billion people that buy digital books every year. So, like by far and away, like digital books are the biggest digital asset that people currently buy on like an a la carte basis since most of music and movies are streaming. So, you know, we have a focus that's very, you know, targeted at true mass adoption and, you know, experiencing the tech benefits. So, really more of a, you know, web two usability, but with a web three functionality. And then even in, you know, inside of that current licensing model, what's really radical, you know, once you buy a book, of course it's stuck on your shelf, but then it also gives the retailer, the author, the publisher, anybody, the right to remove that book from you. It's like literally coming in your house and just like taking a book off your shelf that you bought or changing any of the contents inside of it. So, our mission really became two things. One is to decentralize all of human knowledge and put all books on the blockchain so they can't be changed or taken away. And then second is incentivizing reading. So, really, you know, the core kind of the process of how it works is like we take any media asset could be, you know, a book or a music or video, we break it into a bunch of shards and we encrypt all those and store them in decentralized storage. Then we have a DAP web based reader and we also have mobile apps, mobile reading apps that basically stream those contents in, reassemble and decrypt them and then allow you to read it. So, we sort of, you know, while we use an NFT and decentralized storage and like, you know, smart contracts to program and royalties and all that, we sort of summate all that into an asset that we call a decentralized encrypted asset. So, then you truly own it. You could lend it out. You can give it away. Has huge impact, you know, not just for the end user, but also for the creators, because as you know, you'll experience with your book, you know, once, you know, the traditional model on the payment side is very, is very archaic, you know, like you, if you go the traditional route, you're going to be looking at, you know, you might get some small advance. It's not nearly what the old advances were. And, and then it's going to be probably a year to 18 months before you see anything, you know, from that book. Whereas, you know, when it's blockchain based, it's immediate, it's instant, it's paid out. So yeah, we launched the platform a little over a year ago. We've already sold over 160 ,000 books. And, and we've had some books trade as high as like $10 ,000 for like really unique books. Wow. That's pretty incredible. So, and I want to make sure I emphasize the benefits because I know there's going to be people who are new to blockchain crypto and say, oh, so what I get my book on Amazon, but, um, as the author, uh, there, this feature creates a secondary market, right? For the book is let's say, um, Joe down the street buys my book. He has on a blockchain, he finished reading it. He's like, oh, you know what? I'm going to sell this. Now, if he sells it, he's making a return. And then I, as an author also getting a royalty there. Yeah, absolutely. So that, I mean, that really is the big difference, right? It's like on a traditional print side, you know, I have the freedom when I buy a print book, I can take it to a secondhand, you know, resell bookstore, but I don't even really know what it's worth, you know, and then they're giving me, you know, pennies on the dollar and I'm happy to take it. Cause I have no way to substantiate if that's what that book is worth versus if it's digital, then I can see, you know, multiple global marketplaces and see what the trading, you know, what the actual trading price for that book is right. And then every time it sells and resells and continues, like it's giving you the creator, you know, royalties back, which is really cool from a social side too. Right. So, you know, current kind of, you know, opaque kind of wall with, with an Amazon and iBooks is that, you know, publisher author doesn't have any connection to their audience. So they can't see who owns their books. They can't market to those people. So with this, it's like, it's all on chain, right? Like we couldn't hide it. If we wanted to hide it, they can see who has their book. So then as an author, right. You could go airdrop like, you know, an extra chapter of a book to everybody that has your book, or you could allow them, you know, if they have that book, then in their wallet, they could, they could get a discount on the second book. Like you can begin to merchandise and do things that are just like impossible in the traditional version. Wow. So that's pretty incredible. You said you can airdrop like additional chapters or I don't know, additional information or anything attached to the book. That's, that's pretty incredible. Yeah. It can be a short story or, you know, extra behind the scenes type stuff, like how the book was created. It could be video stuff, author interviews, like all kinds of additional content that you can't get or deliver in a traditional method. Plus, you know, like a social interactivity of, you know, we're building out a structure for, for book clubs as well. Right. So, you know, there's not, there hasn't really been a good solve for like online book clubs. And like, part of the problem is you get so many trolls that come in and you see this on Amazon, like with reviews, right. It's like a book hasn't even come out and all of a sudden it's got, you know, 8 ,000 negative reviews in our system. We can see and verify if you've actually read it. So not only would you have to own a book, but we could, we could put it in place where you have to own it and you would have had to read it in order to get access to a book club and maybe the authors in there participating as well. Right. So it creates a richer, like, you know, environment for discussion. Oh yeah. I was going to bring up the reviews thing and verifying users because that is a game or something that is gained, I should say, with ratings and reviews and it could be manipulated. Now you mentioned that there's a lending feature. So let's say once again, Joe down the street buys my book, he, that person, he or she can lend the book out. And tell us how that, how that works. Yeah. So a lot of times what we say is, you know, everybody's a bookstore, everybody's a library. Right. Because if I, if I have the ability, you know, globally to lend out my book or to sell it, like then you could come and you could rent it for a particular price. Right. And we put that in a smart contract. You could either pay it or it could just be like a free thing. And, you know, one party's covering the transaction costs or, you know, in our method, like we haven't really talked about yet, but we have a token, you know, the person reading it could earn the token that the person that owns it could read the token that somebody else is who's, who's borrowing it is, is reading it. Like there's a ton of different ways to, to construct it, but it really changes the, the idea of, you know, it almost like makes micro libraries of everybody. Right. Then I could borrow from anyone. That's great. Yeah. Because I think about that sometimes I see different books and I'm like, I don't know if I want to buy this or necessarily, and I don't want to have a ton of books in, in, in my home. I do appreciate physical books, but I do have some digital books, but to be able to rent something and then just go see, you know, is this, is this good or whatever, and, you know, I actually want to own this. That makes sense. So tell us about the incentivization of getting folks to read. Is that how the token plays a part in the ecosystem? And if you can tell us about the book token. Yeah, definitely. So it really, it really does like an issue inside of, of the publishing industry, really. And when you start to look at the statistics behind it, it's like, you know, people do buy books and the publishing industry in general is hoping that people read those books, but a lot of times it becomes like just very commoditized. And it's like, they're just trying to sell you the next book and selling the next book. And so when you look at the stats on like how many people per year are reading and like averaging down, and it's like, what we're trying to do is build in an incentive program. So people actually consume this knowledge because very clear data, you know, supports when people read books like society, like definitely progresses, there's less crime, there's more, you know, GDP. So the, you know, that kind of secondary part outside of decentralizing the incentivizing portion of it is we have a read to earn system. So whenever you get a book, you read it, you're earning tokens while you're reading it. And we have kind of a whole distribution schedule and like how the mechanics of all that work. We just released a new white paper that details in kind of great detail, like how all that functions. And then we actually have a initial token offering going on right now as well. We waited a long time to do that. Like we launched the product, we launched all the apps. We started selling books before, you know, and a lot of it was just like from a regulatory reason of wanting to do things exactly the right way. Oh yeah. Yeah, that definitely makes sense. Now there was news that Mark Cuban was collaborating with book .io to release an NFT ebook on the Polygon blockchain. Can you tell us about that and how that partnership came about? Yeah, for sure. So Mark was actually one of our earliest investors and came on board. And at the time we were Cardano based. So we argued back and forth a lot about other chains, which we had always had a very multi -chain strategy, which I'll say real quick too. Like our, you know, we deployed to four different blockchains. We deployed to Ethereum, to Polygon, to Cardano and to Algorand. But yeah, Mark was one of our first investors in. And so we worked through his publisher as well with him, created a bunch of different, the way that our construct kind of works is, we don't limit a book to like a single book cover, like it can have tons of different book covers. So that makes those different covers collectible for different reasons. So with him, I think we did about 400 different covers. Some of those were like rendered pictures of like him fighting sharks and stuff, like all kinds of fun stuff. And he actually thought it was really, really cool. So it just gives you a whole lot more flexibility. And I'll say too, like on the investor side, like Mark's been a great investor, like great advisor, lots of great like networking. I think I was a little hesitant, like just from all that, you know, what you see on Shark Tank, but like his group's fantastic. You know, we really only have two other investors. We have Ingram Content, which is the world's largest book distributor, and they actually distribute and warehouse all the books for Amazon. And then we also have Bertelsmann, which owns Penguin Random House, and they're the largest trade publisher. So we've tried to really be selective about our investors and working within the industry. But yeah, Mark's been great and all the guys at Polygon, the Polygon team has been great to work with as well. That's awesome. Are there other publishers that you're targeting and trying to work with and, you know, what's your strategy? Is it getting them to integrate book .io as another option? Tell us about that. And I don't know how much you can, you know, tell us about your strategy. Yeah. Yeah. So we've I think we, you know, we're somewhere around 20, maybe publishers or so that we've we've had sign up. You know, the publishing industry is very splintered. There's there's basically five main, you know, the big five publishers and they own a bunch of imprints and then there's a bunch of kind of mid tier and smaller ones. And so, like, you know, some total like our last publishing company, like we had close to 200000 different publishers signed with us. You kind of have to go like some of them you get like in big and big batches, right? Some of them are just like one on one. So like a lot of it right now, and especially over the last kind of beginning or last year was just a lot of experimentation, right? So it was going to publishers that we've worked with before in the past and saying, Hey, let's do like a test project together so we can like see what happens and gather some data and make some choices. So like this year's like much more on like the scale up side. We're going to be releasing audio books as well. And delving so into that and like how we do more mass ingestion. But, you know, ultimately, it's like what we're introducing back in is not necessarily say, you know, you know, we think we'll just dominate Amazon and it goes away or anything like that. It's more of a both end, right? Like you could, you know, I see that as like licensing and like streaming almost. And this is like ownership, right? So for the for the audiences and the authors and the people creators that care about ownership, like we provide like that mechanism and all the benefits that go with it. And it reintroduces the, you know, um, just the law of supply and demand, right? When it's digital licensing, there's, there's an infinite supply. It drives down, uh, you know, the price when there's a limited supply, then the price actually makes a difference. So then I can buy a book, you know, for $20, I can read it and maybe it's gone up in value and I can sell it for, you know, 25 or something. Even if I could sell it for half of what I bought it for, I still get more back than, than I do. If I buy that as an, you know, a licensed book. Yeah, no, that's great. And I love the secondary market options that open up with this new world of blockchain and tokenization. So Joshua, you know, you mentioned Amazon, uh, you guys are certainly a disruptive platform. Uh, if I could put it that way, let's say Amazon comes knocking on your door and saying, Hey, we want to acquire you. We want to integrate book .io into our, because we got the biggest marketplace, you know, what would be your thought process? And would you say yes, depending on the number? Yeah. I mean, you know, we get that question sort of semi often, which is kind of funny. Um, you know, I, I think that, uh, if, if this, if the situation was right and an Amazon was, you know, if, if we, if it was functioned in a way that like it kept the core model, right. So like if they didn't, uh, if, if the idea was to integrate and like expand what currently exists into digital ownership, right. Like, I think that makes sense. And some of the stuff they've done with like avalanche and, you know, some of the integration stuff, it's like, I think they, they see that, I think they're a bit more hesitant just from the regulatory perspective to like jump in to that kind of thing. And what we're doing is definitely, you know, quite, quite a bit different, but like, you know, we're, we're doing great. Like the team's grown in a bear market. Like we're adding employees and we're, you know, we're right at profitable. So we don't have any like reason to, to try to rush out and sell. And I think we're going to continue to grow. And I think we're, you know, we have an, you know, community that's, that has materialized behind it that just really agrees with the ethos of, you know, you really should own the things that you buy. So I don't see us, um, selling anytime soon. And even if we did, it would only be to like expand and, um, you know, continue the mission not to, to, uh, to end it or have it just shelved, you know? Oh yeah. I mean, I certainly, I think you and I being in this space, we can certainly agree. This is the future with block tokenization and fractionalization, secondary markets, and much more. It's just the adoption curve. And, uh, just like web one had its adoption curve web two, and now web three has its time. Um, you know, you mentioned Algorand, uh, polygon, Cardano and so forth. Are you planning to expand to other chains as well? Uh, yeah, we probably will. We don't have any plans to expand to any others. Right. Right now, um, we've done some interesting things with, with a few of the chains. Um, we gave a book away at consensus with Algorand to all the attendees. Like we're, we're doing some other expansion stuff or we'll be announcing some, some really cool stuff we're about to do with polygon as well. Um, so just trying to work with, with the chains that we have right now. And, you know, a big issue for publishers is really, uh, you know, I mean, when you get down to it, it's like they chop down trees to make print books. Right. So they, at first were very adverse to, um, to anything blockchain based, right. Especially when it was, you know, like when Ethereum was proof of stake. Um, so they, some of them have had corporate mandates where they would only work with it with a proof of work and they would only work with a proof of stake chain. So, you know, the ones that we've selected, I think, uh, encompass like a, a, a decent size portion of the market, not to say we won't integrate, but like, you know, kind of a thesis on being a multi -chain company is that we really want to be a platform. So creators could deploy to other chains. So we've talked to a couple of others as well. We just haven't put anything official on the roadmap yet. Hmm. Now more of a personal question for me and maybe other authors who are going to watch and listen to this, we'll have this question. So like I'm already in the process. I'm, I'm signed with a publisher. The book is right on tentative date launch next year. Could I go that traditional route, but also integrate with book .io and, you know, have you guys thought about a strategy for authors like myself who, you know, we would want to do both and how would that work? Yeah, for sure. So I think today, like of the hundred something books that we've done, like, um, a little over a third of them have been with, um, with publishers or with, um, with authors. So, you know, basically the way it works is, um, you know, you would just connect this with your publisher and then we work through like exactly what kind of program you would want to do. Right. So, um, we just kind of define those details. Um, we walked through with the publisher, what, you know, exactly how it works most of the time. Like, you know, we're doing limited quantity sort of collectible type stuff right now, but we have the capability to do like a mass, like we actually just, uh, sold a book yesterday that, you know, wasn't necessarily a collectible. It had just a regular singular cover. That's the same cover that's on the print book. Um, and, uh, you know, and it's sold out in like 20 seconds or something. Right. So the publisher's super excited because they've never seen anything like that in publishing. Um, and so it's a great way to drive, like kind of viral traffic and like excitement. So what we found too, is what ends up happening. We've seen this like multiple times in a row is like, we would do something with an author and then it will directly correlate to an increase in print sales because people get that book, they're excited about it. Then they would go and they're like, Hey, actually, you know, I want to own both. And so that's actually one of the things we're working on with our, our, um, uh, partnership with, with Ingram is what we call mint and print so that you could just buy the digital and automatically get the physical, uh, dropshipped to you at the same time. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's really cool. Um, so walk us through the user experience. Um, let's say someone's listening to this and like, you know, I want to go check out book .io. Maybe they have some books that I'll be interested in. Is there, obviously you have a website, is there an app and with purchasing, um, is it crypto and Fiat or both? Yeah. So, uh, so, I mean, we're trying to make it, um, very much, like I said, you know, web to functionality. So it's very easy to sign up. Um, we do take credit cards. So, um, on, uh, you know, you can, you can buy a book with a credit card. It's easy to set up an account. And actually like the, uh, the, the giveaway things that we're doing, the promotional stuff, like you don't even have to have a wallet. Um, we're getting to the point where you won't, you won't even have to have a wallet. You don't have to store seed phrase. You don't have to do any of that. All of it's like self -driven kind of in the background. Um, and so you don't have to buy with crypto. You don't have to know anything about crypto, um, and just making it real easy onboarding process for like, you know, the billion plus people that are honestly just not going to go take the time to learn crypto. Yeah. I've been talking a lot about that recently. With a variety of folks. Um, how do we make it easy for the next billion people? And like you, I've kind of used my mom, my dad as an example. Right. Cause like, they don't know that, like they see the wallet addresses. They're like, what the hell is that? They're scared of it. Right. It's intimidating. I still have to show my mom how to do certain things on her smartphone. So I, you know, but certainly like she's interested in, in crypto and blockchain and, you know, I've invested some of her funds in it, but yeah, to your point. How do we make it easy for the next billion people have the capabilities, but make it make the gooey easy for them. Right. Yeah. One of the funniest comments I got recently, which I won't say who it came from. Um, somebody within my family, um, was like, wait a minute, there's more than one blockchain. Cause like they thought blockchain was like internet, you know, thought it was one big blockchain, you know, which like from the outside, it was like, I never really thought about that, but it's like, if you really didn't know anything about it, you might think like, blockchain is just like internet. And they're like, you know, maybe there's only one and it's like, it's just, it's such a barrier. And so I feel like a lot of times, like in the crypto side, like we're in this bubble where it's like, you know, we're really excited about the technology and stuff, but other people just don't, they don't have the, it's not like, you know, intelligence thing. It's just like, they don't have the time to like onboard and figure all that stuff out. So like, how do we, how do we meet them where they are, bring the solutions and like the benefit of web three and what it actually provides to them, like directly to them. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think more, more companies building in a space need to think about that. Not just for the crypto native folks here, but yeah, like you said, the next billion people who, you know, they've heard about it in passing, they don't, they haven't used any type of crypto or done anything and we got to make it easy for them. So what's on the remainder of your roadmap for 2023? We do have quite a bit of stuff planned. So a lot of it, you know, like I said, you know, we launched like a year ago, so we're really trying to kind of scale up in a lot of different spots. So you know, at the top of that list right now is, is definitely audio books. And then we have a marketplace also that we're launching. And actually on the audio book side, we have one of the larger audio book companies that we just signed with, which is super exciting to have some like celebrity read audio books. And that's like a real growing market segment as well, just in general within publishing, which is very exciting. We have a lot of AI tools and development that are maybe more focused on publisher author, like, you know, helping them out you know, continue updating the reading apps. And then we have some really big author launches coming up that are going to be like, they're pretty massive, like celebrity level authors that are going to be launching some projects with us, which is super exciting. No, that's awesome. Well, I certainly after this conversation, you and I need to chat because of my own book. But yeah, that's exciting, man. And I love the idea of well, you know, you mentioned it's a growing part of the market of celebrity read books. Yeah, I certainly would want to listen to Morgan Freeman read a book.
The Breakdown
A highlight from How Impactful Will FTX Estate Selling Be on Crypto Markets?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 15th, and today we are talking about how much pressure FTX selling will put on the crypto markets. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, happy Friday. We have lots to catch up on today, starting with what has emerged as a key narrative. That is, of course, that FTX has been granted approval to begin selling their crypto assets. On Wednesday, the bankruptcy judge ratified the sale plan, which was filed in late August. Galaxy Digital has been appointed as the selling agent. At last count, FTX said it had $3 .4 billion worth of liquid crypto assets to sell. Galaxy has been authorized to sell $50 million worth of crypto this week and next week, then $100 million per week after that. Creditors can agree to increase this amount to $200 million per week on a temporary basis before seeking court approval. Galaxy has also been given permission to hedge their sales using Bitcoin and Ethereum derivatives without sizing limits and at their sole discretion. Staking of assets will also be allowed if Galaxy deems it necessary. During the hearing, the judge questioned the need to sell crypto rather than distribute it directly to customers. FTX lawyers explained that there was no meaningful segregation of customer assets and balances held didn't line up with customer accounts. They said, quote, it's all part of one pool. There are assets that are associated with the exchange we call the dot com customer pool and the US pool, but they don't necessarily match customer entitlements. So when we dispose of this, we'll be turning it into cash effectively and the cash will be available for distribution pursuant to the plan. Now, all parties appeared concerned with getting this liquidation moving quickly while also limiting the price impact on the portfolio. A lawyer representing the ad hoc creditors committee said, the sooner we can get this process rolling, the better. Now, the speculation all over Twitter has of course been that this would lead to incredible downward price pressure across the crypto markets with any asset that was being sold. However, Jeff Dorman, CIO of ARCA pushed back on notions that this liquidation will be an uncontrolled dump. Here's a summary of his Twitter thread. He pointed out that Galaxy Asset Management, not their trading desk won the bid. They must act as a fiduciary and sell gradually and opportunistically. He pointed out that Galaxy is receiving massive amounts of reverse inquiry already, some from real funds and some fishing expeditions, but over the counter sales will dominate the buying. In other words, we're less likely to see a lot of selling on exchanges or via TWOPS. As good bids come in, they will engage. Hedging, he points out, will be opportunistic, i .e. long puts to offset a large drop in the portfolio. And he points out that people thinking that Galaxy will rush to sell $3 billion in futures right away is crazy. The goal, he points out, is to outperform a static portfolio, not turn the estate into a long short fund. He reminds that Galaxy cannot front run the sales and profit internally, that that is very illegal and that their asset management business is completely walled off from their prop desk. Finally, he points out that this is not some half -baked plan. It involved months of working with the courts to win this business, and that the point of bankruptcies is to maximize the upside of the estate, not speed of distributions. In other words, this may be capped short -term gains due to opportunistic sales and to strength, but it is not a fire sale into weakness. Now getting even more granular, much of the speculation in recent weeks has specifically surrounded how sales of the hefty FTX Solana portfolio will impact that market. In their most recent accounting, FTX said they hold $1 .1 billion worth of Solana, which is able to be sold. That would be around 14 % of the current market cap. It was previously believed that much of this supply was staked and would be unlocked between 2025 and 2028, although the latest FTX filing threw this into question by lumping all of the Solana holdings in together. FundStrap published a report earlier this week detailing the FTX crypto holdings and claimed that less than $150 million worth of Solana is liquid and able to be sold off. Now, ultimately, no matter what people say, it's going to be very, very hard to get people away from the concern that this amount of selling will impact the market. Liquidity is incredibly thin right now, and probably the best that we can hope is that some of the negative price action over the last few weeks has been in anticipation of this and trying to front run it. But ultimately, the only way out is through, and so we just have to deal with this as the next thing we have to deal with. Now moving over to that other big exchange, two more Binance US executives have joined the exodus from that embattled company. The head of legal, Krishna Juvadi, and the chief risk officer, Sidney Majalia, are leaving the company according to WSJ sources. Juvadi was one of the firm's main contacts for communicating with the SEC, which is currently in active litigation with Binance. This makes three executives reported to be jumping ship from Binance US in less than a week. Remember on Tuesday, sources said that Binance US CEO Brian Schroeder had left his position. Now, Schroeder has not been active on social media since February, leading some to speculate on whether reporting was simply catching up on events that had quietly transpired much earlier. According to a company spokesperson, chief legal officer Norman Reed has stepped in as interim CEO. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Safart said the obvious thing when he tweeted, well, this cannot be a good sign for whatever is going on at Binance. On the flip side, crypto has at this point, I think, written off Binance US as a going concern. The Flow Horse writes, why does anyone care about Binance US employees leaving? They don't have a job to do. The exchange is a placeholder and no one uses it. Proof of Talent founder Rob Hayon writes, Binance US doing $9 million in 24 hour volume right now. At what point do they shutter the doors? Gotta be soon, right? Now, staying on the Binance train for a moment more, the SEC have accused Binance US of refusing to cooperate during the discovery process of their ongoing lawsuit. A court filing made on Thursday noted that only 220 documents had been produced by the exchange. Binance US had signed a consent order regarding the scope of discovery in June, but the SEC are claiming that many of the documents produced in accordance with that order, quote, consist of unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures. The SEC noted that Binance had refused to produce essential witnesses for depositions, including former CEO Brian Schroeder. Instead, they unilaterally limited the list of witnesses to just four employees. The SEC said that Binance US quote, has responded to requests for relevant communication with blanket objections and has refused to produce documents kept in the ordinary course of its business, claiming those documents do not exist only for the SEC to later receive such documents from other sources. Now the bulk of the SEC's filing related to SEFU, the wallet custody system at Binance US, which is provided by Binance International. The regulator called attention to contradictory statements about Binance's involvement in the management of US customer funds. They argued that the usage of SEFU violates the terms of a prior agreement that Binance US customer funds would not be diverted offshore. The heavily redacted filing also included information obtained by the SEC with the cooperation of a former Binance US auditor who has provided over 6 ,500 documents related to Binance's accounting. The SEC are treating the lack of disclosure of these documents from Binance US directly as evidence of a lack of transparency. Now continuing on the cleanup theme, three Eros Capital co -founders, Kyle Davies and Suzu have been slapped with a nine year ban from the regulated financial services industry in Singapore. The pair have been prohibited from taking part in the management of or being a major investor in any regulated firm involved in capital markets. Now MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore handed down the ban after concluding its investigation into the collapse of the once high flying Singapore based crypto fund. They found that 3AC had failed to notify the regulator of the appointment of a new fund manager, falsely claimed that this manager wasn't conducting regulated activities and failed to have in place appropriate risk management. MAS assistant managing director of policy payments and financial crime said in a statement, senior management of fund managers are required to implement robust risk management measures to protect the interests of investors. MAS takes a serious view of Mr. Zou and Mr. Davies flagrant disregard of MAS's regulatory requirements and dereliction of their directors duties. MAS will take action to weed out senior managers who commit such misconduct. Now, alongside spending much of the last year ignoring requests to engage with the 3AC bankruptcy process, Zou and Kyle launched a new offshore exchange based in the Seychelles. However, that crypto and bankruptcy claims marketplace was recently reprimanded by Dubai authorities for advertising within the emirate. They were issued a $2 .8 million fine, which big surprise remains unpaid. Moving on to yet another hanging chat on Wednesday, Digital Currency Group formally proposed their Creditor Agreement as part of the Genesis bankruptcy. The agreement seeks to refinance a $630 million intercompany loan owed by DCG, which fell due in May and remains unpaid. According to DCG, the plan could offer, quote, all unsecured creditors a 70 to 90 % recovery with a meaningful portion of the recovery in digital currencies. DCG claimed the repayment of loans over time using crypto would allow creditors to, quote, capture the appreciation of cryptocurrency up to $85 ,000 for Bitcoin and $8 ,500 for ETH. We'll come back to that in just a moment. DCG called the deal a, quote, remarkable outcome for any liquidating Chapter 11 case, let alone one in the volatile cryptocurrency industry. Now, the deal will, of course, require the agreement of creditors before moving forward. DCG have secured the consent of the unsecured creditors group. However, the major creditor, Gemini, have so far been silent on the deal. Gemini claims to be owed approximately $1 .1 billion in the bankruptcy on behalf of hundreds of thousands of their customers. The Gemini claim is in a much stronger position than unsecured creditors, as Genesis posted about 31 million GBTC shares as collateral when taking loans from Gemini customers. This collateral has appreciated significantly since the bankruptcy and represents about 60 % of the total balance owed to Gemini. DCG indeed claimed that Gemini customers could see an excess recovery of up to 110 % under the new agreement. They wrote in their filing, at current pricing, the Gemini user collateral is worth approximately 607 million. If Gemini agrees to provide 100 million to Gemini earned users under the proposed agreement as it previously did, or to distribute even a small portion of the Gemini user collateral to Gemini earned users, there would be little doubt Gemini earned users would receive a full recovery. DCG then contended that Gemini is failing to, quote, put its money where its mouth is. The filing stated that Gemini, quote, is not contributing a single penny to provide Gemini earned users a better recovery. Now, the crypto community was not as convinced as DCG made it out that this was a great deal. Lumina Wealth CEO Rama Lawalia writes, The deal between DCG and Genesis reeks of self -dealing at worst and incompetence at best. The deal presumes an $85 ,000 for Bitcoin and $8 ,500 for ETH. The defaulted party should make the creditors whole, not speculate yet again on a risky gamble on behalf of creditors. Creditors lent money expecting credit risk, not volatile equity -like risk. If DCG truly believes those numbers, they should ensure that outcome for creditors through an options contract. Genesis creditors should seek the removal of the Genesis CEO, who was conflicted in a party to the alleged fraudulent balance sheet statements, petition the judge to have a new trustee, pressure Genesis to focus on the turnover motion and resume litigation. What a mess. Now, speaking of Genesis, Genesis will also cease all trading services according to a company spokesperson. If you're surprised to hear that Genesis's trading services were continuing, you're not alone. Although the crypto lending arm of the firm declared bankruptcy in January, many other DCG subsidiaries which shared the Genesis branding continued to operate throughout this year. Earlier this month, the Genesis company which handles US -based over -the -counter trading announced it would be shutting down throughout September. At the time, it was believed that Genesis would continue providing offshore OTC trading from their British Virgin Island companies, but with this announcement, Genesis has signaled their exit from OTC and derivatives trading globally. A spokesperson for the firm said, this decision was made voluntarily and for business reasons. With this termination of services, Genesis no longer offers trading services through any of its business entities. Now, while this was highly expected, it still marks something of a big moment. Wayne Vaughn tweeted, the former largest OTC crypto trading desk is officially closed. Genesis announced today that they are no longer offering trading services through any of its business entities. Seems like a juggernaut falls with every cycle. In this cycle though, friends, I think we can agree that numerous juggernauts have fallen, but perhaps it is just to clear out the way for companies who will use that juggernaut status a little more responsibly. Anyways, friends, that is going to do it for today's episode. I appreciate you guys listening as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 09-15-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. All right, we told you about Mike Pence, he's gonna join us 5 p .m. Washington time on Balance of Power, and we're gonna bring it to you here on Bloomberg Radio. We'll meet you back then. Kaley, have a great weekend. You too, Jeff. Bloomberg Business Week starts right now. Live from the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio, streaming on YouTube and Bloomberg Originals. It is Friday, September 15th, 2023. I'm Jess Mitten, along with my co -host, Bloomberg TV correspondent, Simone Foxman, who we're both in for Carol Masser and Tim Stenovick, who do have the day off. Happy Friday, Simone. Happy Friday, Jess. Yeah, we're holding down the fort. We are. What an honor, right? Who's who in this situation? It's always a pleasure, though, filling in for both of them. But as you know, Simone, looking over at the U .S. stock market, though, unfortunately, jeopardizing those weekly gains because of today's losses really driven a lot. Not surprisingly, when you have a four trillion dollar triple witching event, especially in the options market, really amping up some of this volatility as we get into the weekend. But you know what? There was some brighter news. U .S. inflation expectations fell to the lowest in more than two years when you're looking at that latest University of Michigan survey. And consumers are growing more optimistic about that.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 9 Evangelism
"We are at Methods of New Testament Evangelism, number 2, page 26, and we have small letter A, Personal Evangelism, pair in one, examples, I've already given them to you before, I'll add one to it, Andrew brought Simon Peter to the Lord, and Philip brought Nathaniel to the Lord, another one is Paul led Onesimus, Philemon 10, Paul called Onesimus his son in the faith, and of course Paul called Timothy his son in the faith, and so you have those. Now the impact of these, number 2, the impact of these examples, the impact of personal evangelism is the very basic method of evangelism. That is basic, one on one, and reaching souls that way. If your church wins people to Christ, believe me, it's going to be one on one. They're going to be saved during the week and they just step forward on Sunday. Now I do believe it's important to have them step forward on Sunday, have them make a public profession, but you're not going to get very many who walk in the door and come forward and accept Christ. You get some, you're going to get them through personal witness during the week, and it's always good to get up and preach and know there are two people out there today going to come forward, because they've already been led to the Lord that week, and so the secret is getting people out there witnessing to them, getting people out there that will win them to Christ and bring them forward and see them come to know the Lord. And then we have public meetings. Right here is the, I forgot about this again, pardon me, now we're catching up. Public meetings, we'll catch you down on impact here. Public meetings, right here is the place where we make a big mistake. So often we've come to believe that unless a person comes to Christ through a public service, he'll not be saved. I don't know that that's plaguing any of you. In fact, many a believer depends on the services of the local church to do the work of the responsibility to be a witness. Now that is true. They figure we'll invite them to church, but it'll be the job of the church and the preacher to win them, and my responsibility is done with inviting them. Now they ought to invite them to church, but we need to train our people to witness and be witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ, and so very, very important to do that. And any public service, if the public service is the instrument that brought them to Christ, now I was brought that way. I got saved in a public service, but I had a mailman get out of his mail car on the farm and walk out across the field and stop me on a tractor. I pulled back the clutch on the John Deere and stopped and talked to the mailman, and I respected him, and he didn't witness to me, but he did invite me to Christ. Had anybody witnessed to me? Yes, they had. I had an uncle in Kansas City, and that uncle had gotten saved, and I saw the change in his life. My parents had put me on a train in Colorado to go down to Kansas City to see my uncle and aunt, and I think when I was 11 I went down, 12, 13, 14, right in those years. My uncle had a dime store business, and he was seeing it go forward in a tremendous way, and he was just so involved in it, and he had a series of dime stores that he sold out to TGNY, and he had a number of dime stores, had a couple of dry goods stores, and I went down there when I was 12, and he went to Lutheran Church on Sunday morning, and then Sunday afternoon I'd go to church with him, Sunday afternoon they'd have sandwiches for Sunday dinner, eat quickly, and then pull all the blinds in the house and turn on the lights, have it dark in there, and then they'd have the money bags, and they'd pour out the bags on the dining room table, and we spent Sunday afternoon, all Sunday afternoon, counting dimes and quarters and nickels and pennies and dollar bills, but primarily the small change. We'd count and count and count. I'd take an afternoon, and then he'd pack it up in bags and take it to the bank on Monday, and man, that really impressed me as a kid, wow, all that money, I thought maybe that's what I wanted to get into, was a dime store, and I was 13 and I went down, and on Sunday morning we went to the Lutheran Church, Sunday noon we had a Sunday dinner, Sunday afternoon they didn't draw the blinds, they didn't pull the shades, they didn't pour out any money, they didn't do anything like that. He said, let's go in, we're going to sit down and read the Bible, and he read the Bible to us, and then he said, now, you boys, I had two cousins there, and you can do some things outside, but we'll go to church tonight. That night, got in the car and we drove over to Central Bible Hall, Kansas City, where Walter Wilson was the preacher, and I heard Walter Wilson preach. As the first time I ever heard a sermon about the blood, he preached, tonight I'm going to speak on the blood of Jesus Christ, and I thought, blood, what an awful subject, and in church, and I decided I wasn't going to listen, I was going to go to sleep, which I can do pretty easily, I can relax and fall asleep, and so I tried to sleep, I was sitting right between my aunt and uncle, and I was about to fall asleep, and I'd nod my head this way, and she'd nudge me, and up I'd come, and then I'd need the other way, and he'd nudge me, and there I sat, the whole service, and heard the message about the blood. I didn't get saved, I never forgot it. My uncle witnessed to me, he'd take me on his, as he drove from one dime store to the other and looked him over and told him what he wanted, drove to his warehouse, he'd talked to me about the Lord. He had been genuinely converted, and changing his life, and became a right good preacher, a lay preacher, he became a very good preacher. He told me one time, he said, I held every position in the Lutheran Church except pastor. He said, I've been a member of the Synod, I've been the treasurer, I've been the chairman of the Synod board, I've had every position that's possible in the Lutheran Church except pastor, and I wasn't saved. So he witnessed to me, he would write me letters, and beg me to accept the Lord. There was another man that witnessed to me. I was about 18, 19, I was out of high school, and I wasn't able to be in World War II, I wanted to be and never got to be because I was injured on the farm in a bad accident with a runaway team of horses, and my heart was so damaged I couldn't, and my lungs, every rib in my body was broken, and so I never got to be in the service.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-12-2023 16:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. They still have time to maybe get in on this a little bit here. Yeah, I mean, interesting though on this day where we're seeing the NASDAQ really taking on the chin, the S &P only down a fractionally on the day, but believe it or not, the Dow holding up relatively unchanged on the day, the Russell similar as well. And the S &P 400 mid -caps actually in the green, though only fractionally. You put it all together, once again, a mixed market, you could call it a holding pattern if you will, as we wait, of course, for tomorrow, 8 .30 a .m. Washington time, that big CPI report. Here are the numbers here as we wait for them to settle, the Dow Jones Industrial Average down roughly 16 points, we're going to call that basically unchanged as we wait for the numbers to settle. The S &P down 25 points or about six -tenths of a percent, while the NASDAQ Composite is And the Russell 2000, as we speak, again, waiting for these numbers to settle, poking into the green. Looks like it's going to finish with a fractional gain, a tenth of a percent. There's a little, hey, we'll take it, there's a little bit of green on the screen. Taking a deeper look at the S &P 500. It's called picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Yeah, that's true. 212 stocks moving higher, 287, Scarlett, in the S &P declining today. All right, let's take a look at how the S &P 500 stacks up when you break it down by 24 industry groups. Energy in the lead there, up by 2 .3%. With all 23 big cap energy names higher on the day as oil prices climb, WTI approaching $89 a barrel. Banks also doing pretty well, led by the likes of Zions and PNC, as they make comments at an industry conference. On the flip side, software and services, that's Oracle. Oracle dragging that group lower. Household and personal products also lower by about 2 % on the day. Yeah, Scarlett hitting the nail on the head when it comes to the gainers that I picked for today.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from DON'T WASTE TIME - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"There are men around the world which are preparing, preparing, and there are men like you which are sitting there and not preparing. If failing to prepare is preparing to fail, you need a network and you need money. You need these two things. I can't stress this enough and I drew, I truly believe, I truly believe I have divine purpose on this planet. I am prepared to free you. This is what my purpose is. This is why I'm here. This is why I'm talking to you. If you listen to the things I say and you agree with them, but then you do not take action, you deserve the enslavement because that is what's coming. It will be bestowed upon you. You will eat the bugs. That's all you're going to be. Live in a pod and eat the bugs. Own nothing. You need money and you need it fast. You need to get in control of assets quickly. It's about to be have nots, have yachts, have Bentleys, have pennies, have jets, have debts. That's all it's going to be. I know which team I'm on. You are either lazy, arrogant, or stupid if you are poor. Yes. One of the three. You're one of the three. You're either lazy, you refuse to work, you're stupid, you can't learn, or you're arrogant. Most of you are arrogant.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"pence" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Former Governor Christie, thank you. You know, your staff's still not telling me when you're in New Hampshire. I'm going to be in Ann Arbor this weekend for my 40th law school reunion so I can't come down this weekend but please let me know when you're there. I'll drive down and see in person. I want to watch from the cheap seats. I will be in New Hampshire Monday and Tuesday, the 11th and 12th of September doing a big town hall meeting in Bedford on the 12th. Oh, count on it. I'm going to be down there. Chris, have your team send me something, please. I want to be in the cheap seats. I don't want to be up front. I just want to watch and see how the crowd reacts. Chris Christie, always great to have you on, Governor. Thank you for joining me at my invitation after Donald Trump yesterday. Coming back in Hour 3 America with former Vice President Pence because this is Switzerland and everybody gets to talk on the independent third party administrator. You buy the gold and the third party administrator puts it into a vault and they keep you posted on it and hopefully you add to it over the years. I want you to know that over the past 100 years, gold kept up with inflation. It is definitely your runaway money and if you want to diversify, not just stocks and bonds and cash but dirt and gold, well the latter two ought to make up at least 10% of your wealth and some of that should be in gold. I buy my gold from Birch Gold. You ought to as well. Go to hughgold.com. That's hughgold.com or text my name Hugh to 98-98-98. Thousands of you have made those inquiries. Many of you have opened up those depositories. Physical precious metals, physical gold. The one thing that won't slip away in the night. Hughgold.com text Hugh to 98-98-98. Welcome back America. I'm Hugh Hewitt joined by former Vice President Mike Pence. Good morning Mr. Vice President. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Good morning Hugh. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me on. Well I'm sorry I stepped on your big story yesterday with the interview with Donald Trump. You gave an important speech on conservatism and populism so I'd like to have you at least recap for people the core message that you delivered yesterday. You bet. Look I'm running for President of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble. I think Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad and I think the choice that we face in the Republican Party is not just not just who will be our standard bearer but what we will stand for.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Former VP Pence and former Governor Christie respond to former President Trump
"Welcome back America, I'm Hugh Hewitt, former President Trump yesterday talking about my next guest, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Governor Christie ran you over with a car yesterday, backed it up, ran you over a couple more times. You're used to that. Any reactions to yesterday's interview? Look Hugh, if it wasn't so disturbing that someone like him is actually running for president, you know, I would just feel badly for him. I mean, you know, this is a guy who offered me Secretary of Homeland Security twice, who offered me Secretary of Labor, who offered me White House Chief of Staff in December of 2018. All four of those jobs I turned down. He made me chairman of his transition in 2016 and prepared the entire transition from May of 16 through the election. He made me chairman of his opioid and drug abuse commission, and then adopted every one of the recommendations of the commission that I chaired. He asked me to prepare for the debate against Hillary Clinton in 2016 and I did so. He asked me to prepare for the debates in 2020 against Joe Biden and I did so. I would assume you wouldn't ask someone to do all those things if you really thought they were not very smart and deeply disturbed. So, you know, this is a guy who makes things up as he goes I along and tell you is obviously under an extraordinary amount of pressure given what he's done, what his conduct has been, and the ramifications of that conduct. So, you know, I'm concerned for him because I think he must not be doing well to say the things he said yesterday, but I think anybody who looks at what his objective actions have been over the course of his relationship with me and what he said yesterday, they know what he was saying yesterday is just so odd and disturbing that it should make everybody question whether this guy really has the psychological capacity to be a candidate for president, let alone president again. All right, Governor, before we get to the specifics of the race, and I want to spend most of my time there. I'm in Switzerland, I'm just watching all the troops deploy, and I've seen this movie before and we'll talk about that in a second, but he said he would testify. He also said that most of the indictments against him will be dismissed. I have no opinions on this. I just ask the questions. A, will most of the indictments against him be dismissed? B, should he testify? And C, am I right that the obstruction of justice charges the submarine aim below water midships? On the first question, I do not believe that most of the indictments will be dismissed. In fact, I doubt that any of them would be dismissed. As I said before, Hugh, I think both the New York indictment and the Atlanta indictment were unnecessary, and I would not have authorized those if I was the person in charge of either of those offices, but I don't think that they're legally deficient.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 12 Boycott the NFL? Liberty UnSafe? Is Obama Gay?
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, Thought Crimes, where we speak the truth. Unedited, is Obama gay? Yeah, we spent some time on that one. We talk about the NFL and whether or not you should watch football and more. Some pretty provocative topics this week. And also Pence and populism. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast and get involved with Turning Point USA. TPUSA .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The 110-Year War
"Full disclaimer, I will be watching NFL football tonight. I don't like it. They're a little too wokey for me. I just like football too much. I think it's the Chiefs and the Lions. Don't sleep on the Lions everybody. I'll tell you, they want it bad. So as tonight NFL football begins and it is the kickoff, if you will, of the NFL season. There's also another kickoff. You know, we asked Charlie, what about the 2024 election? The 2024 election is about a year and a way. No, no, no, it's happening right now, obviously. But there's a very, very important fight looming in real time right now. I believe it is the opening kick of the 2024 election. It's 930, September 30th. The federal government needs to pass a short -term funding bill by September 30th or there will be a government shutdown. Now, you may or may not remember this, but you remember about a year and a half ago, there was a massive bill that was passed, a huge bill, not a year. It was voted on by Senator Shelby from Alabama. He was the chief person who brought this forward where they basically robbed the House of Representatives, the incoming class. It was about 10 months ago of their ability to negotiate the budget, where they kicked it all the way to this date, September 30th. So the federal government needs to pass a short -term funding bill by September 30th. The Biden regime is asking that in addition to all the normal stuff, that Congress adds $44 billion on top of that in emergency spending, $16 billion for FEMA, $24 billion for Ukraine, on top of the $200 billion already spent on Ukraine. But the most important thing is this, is that we're seeing in real time the destruction, the erosion, the shredding of the United States Constitution. We see Jack Smith, an out -of -control rogue prosecutor, Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice. We see the number one political opponent to the regime who is beating him in the polls. Fact, he's beating him in the polls, whether they're truth polls or not. It's just fact, he's beating him in the polls, facing 500 years in federal prison. Many people are asking, Charlie, what can we do? What can we do? What can we do? How do we fight? How do we push back against? How do we fight? The 30th of September is a day where we can fight. It's a day where we can draw a line in the sand and we can defund the deep state. We have the House of Representatives. We have a majority. Now, I'm going to say something that is a little bit not unpopular, but it's different. I fully support the impeachment of Joe Biden. In fact, we should have done it three or four months ago. But I actually think defunding these agencies should be a bigger priority than the impeachment of Joe Biden. I'm not saying that we shouldn't impeach Joe Biden, but I actually think a more effective way to make long -lasting change, a more effective way to use the political power that the people gave the Republican majority is to defang the tyrants, is to go after these agencies. Now, let's play this out for a second. Joe Biden is a traitor to the nation. So I think that we should pass a clean impeachment resolution, send it to the Senate. But I don't think we should spend too much time on it. I think that's a very valuable time to go and impeach and investigate a guy that we already know who is an outright criminal. He's a traitor. He should be in Gitmo in federal prison for the rest of his life, as is his son. But does that have long -lasting change? Wouldn't it be more effective to tell the FBI you don't get your new building? You have to reduce your headcount by 20 or 30 percent. Tell the Department of Defense you're not allowed to have gay poems on aircraft carriers anymore, that trans whatever individuals are not going to be allowed in the military. Isn't this a more effective way? And the most important one that's obviously staring us in the face, Department of Justice. Are we going to keep on funding Merrick Garland? Will we have the leverage and we have the ability to say no? Now, the bad guys, the Democrats and the Uniparty Republicans, they want a clean resolution, a clean CR. Well, time out here. Hold on. You guys are going after every potential political dissident. Steve Bannon, 1 ,200 January 6 defendants. You're weaponizing the entire government and we're sitting there and taking it. And we've been saying on this program time and time again, well, where are the Republican AGs? Answer, not around. Not interested in doing anything bold or courageous. Where are the Republican DAs? They're not interested. They do not want to do anything bold or courageous. So how do we end this abuse? Now, understand this is not standard politics. This is a crisis. And in a crisis, we should act differently than we normally do. The one way we have to actually act at a federal level is for the House not to fund what Biden needs. So directly focus on five or six. Don't ask for the whole world. You're not going to get the world. But identify five or six of the Soviet Gestapo pressure points of the regime. Star of the beast. All funding must start in the House, period. Nothing the Biden regime does can happen without the House GOP offering up money for them to do it. Now, we should not fund a single dollar to Ukraine. But if we're thinking realistically, they're going to figure out some way to get Ukrainian funding. So if we were smart, we'd say, OK, they really want Ukraine funding. Use that as leverage then. Say, OK, so you really want Ukraine funding. Then there has to be border wall, border security. But more important than all of that, it is the lack of funding that we have to draw the line on. You don't get Jack Smith. You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith. And they'll say, well, you're going to shut down the government. OK. You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith. That's a popular position. And by the way, if you pick the fights, you can win. Majority of people are not in favor of the criminalization of Donald Trump. Jack Smith is the bright line. No Jack Smith, period. Jack Smith and his entire operation. Now, this is an interesting question, Blake and the team. Is Jack Smith an essential government worker or not if there was a shutdown? If we shut down the government, does that mean that Jack Smith and his team would still be operating? Now, again, one of the most frustrating things we go through every time there's a government shutdown is all of a sudden they say, well, these are essential and not essential government workers. If they're not essential, why do they have jobs? If they're not essential, why do they operate? Now, under Bob Mueller, when Bob Mueller was a special counsel, his office continued to work in the event of a government shutdown. OK, but even beyond a government shutdown, we need to defund Jack Smith, line item Jack Smith, carve it out and say, Jack Smith, you do not get another penny of U .S. taxpayer dollars, period. That's a good way to end Jack Smith. And the House Republicans have the entire ability to do that. We need to find the parts of the deep state that are grinding the American people to a halt. And it goes to the FBI, the DOJ, DHS, isolate them and starve that beast. And you're not going to get the entire budget down to zero. So get even more particular. Again, Congress, they don't do their job, unfortunately. So find Jack Smith's budget, which by the way, Jack Smith's budget is probably like $15 million. Like maybe, maybe, maybe like $9 million. And you could say in the funding resolution, you're done. Your team no longer authorized. These agencies have to go to Congress for money. And on the 30th of September, it is all bubbling up. Matt Gaetz and Andy Ogles have introduced similar pieces of legislation to deny federal funding for the special counsel. This is the line, everybody. We will not put up with our funding, our money to a Democrat super PAC, which is what Jack Smith has become. Jack Smith is a Democrat super PAC operator with subpoena power and the ability to put people in prison with handcuffs. Shut down the government over this, over the very specific principled stand. You go after Donald Trump and try to put him in 500 years in federal prison. The government's getting shut down. That would be hardball. I want to tell you guys about Good Ranchers. You heard me talk about it before, but it's new and improved Good Ranchers. I had Good Ranchers for our Shabbat dinner last week, and it was amazing. Look, Good Ranchers, they have better beef than ever. Their ground beef is better than ever. I had, I was like, wow, no antibiotics or hormones sourced from small family farms, humanely handled and USDA certified, 100 % cattle, Angus cattle. GoodRanchers .com. Look, I want to tell you, they're so delicious. It's all American meat and I love it. It's new and improved. So check it out right now. Two years of free high quality ground beef and a locked in price. No other meat company guarantees you 100 % American meat and a locked in price. That's because no one else is Good Ranchers. So check it out right now. GoodRanchers .com, promo code Charlie for $25 off and for $480 of free ground beef in your first two years. That is GoodRanchers .com. Support America, support Good Ranchers, American Ranchers, and support this program, GoodRanchers .com. If we go back to the roots of the Constitution, this is exactly why Congress is supposed to have the power of the purse.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"pence" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Let me talk a little bit about Alliance defending freedom What is the agenda for next year? Do you have anything before the court next year because you guys seem to win pretty much 9 out of 10 K What's your record over the last dozen years? 15 wins this is our 15th over 12 years. So we're we're extremely grateful Well, I want everyone to know that I want everyone to support Alliance defense org, but what's on tap for the next term? I'm always I always want to know what have you done for me lately. You just want a big free expression case What have you done for me lately? Well, we were so pleased to be on Mississippi's legal team in Dobbs Which overturned row and now this 303 creative case we have a petition right now It's called tingling which is before the court which is another free speech case and we're hoping that the court will take that Because a hundred jurisdictions have laws right now that are essentially suppressing the right of Parents to have their children seek counseling with licensed counselors and and have counseling consistent with their faith We also are watching the case that the court is granted on the Chevron deference again Making sure that that government overreach is reigned in and there will be more petitions as well last question Christian about a year ago Justice Barrett raised the question of what comes after we reverse employment division B Smith and she just put it out there It's gonna it's on the way. It's it's going out with the row era. What do you think ought to replace it? I Also think that even if it's a strict scrutiny analysis if the court reinstitutes what strict scrutiny means And and sort of reorients the lower court strict scrutiny would work as well We know that compelling interest at one point meant compelling interest And somehow the courts have activist courts have refused to honor that standard We have the court's decision in graph this last term as you saw where the court essentially said again This is what this means in this statute and it returned the lower courts to reading the statutes and reading the tests as they're meant To be so strict scrutiny certainly an option, but we also know the courts looking back at historical standards as well So you could root that standard in history and tradition as well Excellent answer quick exit question. Has anyone on the left stood up against the idiocy? Characterizing 303 creative is a made-up case has anyone on the left distinguish themselves for courage in other words Well, Nadine Strassen sure has she appeared with me at Yale on 303 and you know, frankly We wrote an op-ed together and can't get any major publication to print it after the 303 decision Nadine Strassen is the former president of the ACLU and and she doesn't agree with us on masterpiece cake shop in terms of whether cakes But she does agree with us on 303 and that free speech is for everyone and It's just been shocking to me that no one else is standing up and engaging on the merits But I think that's also why we're seeing acts against our our integrity Yeah, they're just they're just flat-out cornered and the silence on the left is deafening Kristen. Congratulations Well argued well-briefed well done as Alliance defending freedom continues to defend the freedom of every American go to alliance defends Dot-org and help them out because every term is a new term. Stay tuned America. I'm coming right back The it's always the right time deal. Hey want to go to Mickey D's for lunch. Ooh Let's go now, but it's not lunchtime yet. If we're going to McDonald's is always the right time.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"pence" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"What percent do you think Trump would get in the Democratic column? Huh? I don't well listen I will just base it on this is pure conjecture But given the fact that he lost New Hampshire pretty badly to Joe Biden and that polling shows him losing again Pretty badly today. I don't think he'd do that. Well, all right mark the contractor But all would be forgiven if he registered as a Democrat and get a plea deal as well Not a bad theory David M Drucker on Twitter good to talk to mr. Drucker come back next week I'll be right back America Mary Catherine ham joins me. I'm gonna pose the same question to her next When I grow up I want to work for a woke company like super woke when I grow up when I grow up I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes when I grow up I want to be offended by my co-workers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR words like Grandfather peanut gallery long time no see no can do when I grow up I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long when I grow up I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist I want to weaponize my pronouns What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work introducing the number one woke free job board in America red balloon dot work Welcome back America to you it full of cocaine bumps Mary Catherine ham knows nothing about cocaine I assume the University of Georgia was cocaine free when she was a bulldog. Good morning hammer. How are ya? Yeah, it was really more PBR Are you down George away for the holidays, I'm not in Georgia, I'm at but I'm at the lake so it's much the same vibe You know, I am I learned something new yesterday and you know, I've been around a while So this was I've never had a dog on the 4th of July. I learned that dogs and fireworks do not mix. Oh We have four dogs here and they must be very brave because none of the four of them have any issue with fireworks Oh my gosh, really very extraordinary dogs because they don't have it there. They were fine Tony the commercial real estate guy otherwise known as Tony matches what off the second Battle of Falmouth last night and I'll tell you Ralphie was going nuts Mary Catherine, I've got former vice president Pence on today and he's over in Iowa He's campaigning hard in Iowa and it seems to me that the Evangelical vote is the focus of both him and Tim Scott anybody Else competing in Iowa beside Donald Trump. I mean really competing or is it a three-way there? Yeah, I mean it seems to me that Tim Scott is the one who's been able to make Certainly with TV buys and with his very very good personality and and way of connecting with people has been able to sort of make some moments for himself Pence I think of course appeals to that type of voter But I do think a new face like Scott has a better chance of making inroads there And like I said, he has that a that very real treasure chest and he's that he's spending some of it there So mark the contractor says to me yesterday Had a barbecue, you know, Trump should run as a Democrat then he get a plea deal like hunters on everything and There as many Trump us in the Democratic Party as they're on the Republican Party which raised the question Can you run on both tickets in New Hampshire? Could the former president run as both a Republican and a Democrat like you can do in New York on two lines? Oh, that's interesting because Biden's taking a path, correct, right? Yeah, I mean, I don't think I don't know if you can get that together that quickly for ballot access or can you just do It well, you know, whatever it is. It depends on that. No one has ballot access issues Yeah, cuz I haven't set the date of the primary when they set the date of the primary that the deadline will go I just don't know if you're technically allowed under New Hampshire law to go for both We need to ask Sununu about this. Do you see the possibilities there? I Mean, I think there's a lot of interesting possibilities there with Biden taking the pass because I just I just can't imagine that somebody with A little bit of ambition the Democratic Party isn't like let me do something there my favorite Twitter post yesterday was out of Aspen where a Robert Kennedy banner was eliciting the applause of our very very enlightened woke Aspen Folk, what do you think about RFK jr. At this point? Look, I think you know I know it's gonna surprise you because I'm gonna laud Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times, but she wrote a piece about RFK saying that he is he sort of leads the coalition of the distrustful and oh very well put I think she's she's nailed that I think what a lot of people miss is they're trying to like pin RFK jr On the right in this weird way, even though he's a literal Kennedy running in the Democratic Party and picking up 15 to 22 percent They're sort of pinning him on the right because they don't like his thoughts But he what they're missing is that there is this huge overlap of right-leaning and left-leaning sort of I call them red-pilled hippies like Are distrustful of the government and I might be becoming one of them who are distrustful of the government look at big pharma with suspicion things that the left used to be Fine with right that was that was their thing But RFK has sort of picked up the banner for those people and it doesn't mean he's a great candidate or somebody Who has a lot of good thoughts, but he is a person who unites those feelings I actually think he ought to just run and stay out. He ought to use the Biden strategy Just put his name on the ballot and see what happens in terms of what he represents He is the the antitrust candidate and not traditional antitrust, but I have no trust in anybody candidate yesterday Louisiana District Court judge. I usually don't make much of district court decisions Enjoying the government from attempting and manipulate social media. Hooray for that Louisiana judge. Do you think Americans care about that Mary Catherine? They don't care about it as much as I want them to you They really don't and I kind of like the some the symbolism of it coming out of July 4th But not a lot of people are gonna be paying attention because the the story is gonna get a little old by the time We we get to it in the news So I hope that that that news gets out and I wish that people care that the government is using social media as its proxy To shut all of us up when we think the wrong thing But I'm not sure that they do RFK cares. That's I'll listen for the answer for this if we run out of question at time on the Getting hammered with Vic Madison Mary Catherine, that's the greatest podcast in mrs. Hewitt's universe if if you had to guess Will we find out the identity of the leaker of the Supreme Court opinion or the owner of the White House cocaine first? Oh I think cocaine first. Oh, I'm Did I tell you what the best tool is for figuring out who was doing lines the White House who what Occam's razor? I Get it, I'm not sure everyone else does but I get it, you know, it's on news audience You can do it. You can do it think really hard on that That is a mind teaser a brain teaser Mary Catherine and follower on Twitter and NK hammer Listen to getting hammered the podcast of choice for the fetching mrs Hewitt with Vic Mattes every week even on vacation weeks. Don't go anywhere America. I'll be right back hour number two of the Days Welcome back America all cocaine bumps today Bethany Mandel knows nothing about cocaine and I'm glad good morning, Bethany I understand you've got Genghis Kate's partner in crime sitting right there ready to jump up. I Do and she's been offered three chocolate chips if she doesn't disturb me. So oh my goodness That she may be looking for a fourth with a little what she's got good leverage right now got great leverage I Got a video of Genghis Kate yesterday who decided suddenly she could swim and did a twirl off a brick side And I thought oh there go the other teeth cuz you already got one chipped tooth, but she made it Yeah, and then the voice of her mother was let's not do that anymore. Okay, I want to ask you Bethany I've never been with a dog on a 4th of July before but my grand dog is with me How did Truman do last night? Not great. Not great. He was pretty much on top of me all night and like looking out the window Wondering why I wasn't alarmed that World War two is breaking out outside We had the second battle in Falmouth last night because the Tony matches that's his nickname Bethany I want to get to both Ben and Jerry's and your dressmaker now I don't know if you want to expand on the dressmaker. I leave it up to you, but at least tell us about Ben and Jerry's So, I mean I'll tell you about both these are two companies who hate their customer base so Ben and Jerry's tweeted yesterday America was was founded on stolen land and we should all just keep that in mind on Independence Day No, they said we should give it back Yes. Yes. I think that they should start giving back their profits like lead by example Ben and Jerry. I'm more radical I want to give back Vermont. I just want to start with Vermont And then we can go from there. Maybe Massachusetts is next but it's just such a stupid comment But Ben and Jerry's were used to I I can't believe the dress come at least not the kind of dress it looked like Yes. Yes, so I I have a I have a Sort of love of old-time linen dresses. I really want to look like I'm stepping out of like a 1950s housewife thing I think the aesthetic is amazing. I can't pull it off though But this dress company that I love who sells $400 dresses, so I've never actually purchased a dress featured a man in one of their advertisements three days ago, and they like formed a partnership with him and They have it on their Instagram page and instantly everyone was like unfollow not interested I'm no longer purchasing any dresses from you and I wrote about it for the spectator and I guess because The angry left weren't going to barbecues yesterday because America was founded on stolen land They had a field day the number of plates. I didn't know Your turn I mean I kind of I kind of am though like I Don't want to include men in women's faces, which is which is what a turf is And so, you know my my response is like this is the erasure of women It is sort of accepting the premise that anyone can be anything and that men should be fully welcomed into women's spaces But the end result of that is the erasure of women women become non-man. That's the that's the actual definition What was it Vanderbilt that made that definition women are non men and then? Understand is that comes after Bud Light It's been yeah. Yeah solid four months of disaster. Look who's sneaking in Look, can we see her? That was like a Freddy Krueger movie where the villain pops up Don't go into the garage don't run towards the Chainsaws anyway, what did the company say did they follow up? Yeah, I mean they just said, you know in a world where any you can choose to be anything choose to be kind as if it's One-kind for women to object to men invading in their spaces and that's that's the accusation That's always thrown at women who who dare to object it is just wall-to-wall misogyny and accusations that were being irrational and angry like no I'm actually being extremely rational because the end result of this ideology is men in locker rooms for women men in women's prisons Like the number of assaults that happen in bathrooms 80 80 something percent of them are in unisex bathrooms it is dangerous for women to have this ideology in place and have men welcomed into women's spaces and Even with a dress company. I mean, this is one of those instances where I'm able to use my purchasing power and say no I will literally not buy into this ideology and you have It is not anti-trans it isn't I just I just think it's absurd to argue that it's anti-trans and and the idea I'm not running with the Philadelphia shooter or the Nashville shooter is a story that in any way reflects on the tea community Because it doesn't it's just they're mentally these two people are mentally ill mentally ill people and and Every transvestite is not going to hurt you or invade your space or do anything like that or it's a 90% issue About people objecting to men in women's spaces. It's maybe a 95% issue. Don't you think? Yeah It's becoming less and less popular this ideology according to polling more and more individuals are Uncomfortable with the idea of men participating in women's sports. For example, this is a losing ideology And I think that unlike gay marriage They sort of thought that they could fully their way through it and eventually the tide would turn the tide isn't turning for that No, the tide is growing because common sense is everywhere Triumphing Bethany, thank you. Good luck with your I don't know if the fourth chocolate chip comes through I did love that bit though Two chocolate chips. All right, Bethany Mandel follower on Twitter at Bethany Shondark We all have her work at the spectator and I'll be right back Hi Canada, Hugh Hewitt live on July 5 from Studio North coming up at the bottom of the hour former vice president Mike Pence Joined me from Iowa. I start though with Kristin Wagoner She is CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom and congratulations are in order because not only is ADF having a great decade You won the Supreme Court case that has on most people's lips 303 creative you argued it Kristin. Congratulations That's got a fee. I've never experienced that satisfaction. I know what it's like to win at the circuit How does it feel to win at the Supreme Court? It feels amazing It has been a long journey and we have represented a number of clients including Laurie Smith Who just seek to be able to speak freely and so to have the court reaffirm that basic principle in this cultural moment It's just an amazing feeling It's a free speech win that followed by a day a free exercise win Generally speaking before I get into the specifics of 303 creative in the aftermath I believe that constitutional clown law casebooks will date the end of the row era to the last 14 months like Lochner Is over but I think it took 14 months to close the book. What do you think? Well, I certainly hope so That's what we're seeing and the discussion and debate is occurring in the states where it ought to have been in the first place And we're actively protecting life across the states right now So I do think that that air is over and I think a new era is coming in with the court in essentially reigning back Administrative overreach government overreach and returning to what the Constitution says other than what judges wanted to say I believe the end of the row era means more than the end of row and Casey but it goes to the entire Incoherence that began in 1973 I think the Warren Court was actually a very good functioning court in most of its major decisions and The Warren Court era is distinct that era was just marked by confusion and doctrinal absurdity And I think what 303 creative to go back Remember Justice Scalia writing once that abortion had destroyed First Amendment free expression speech because it had caused all this distortion in the law Part of that distortion is remedied by 303 creative. I think we really actually have a rule now How would you articulate the rule Kristin Wagoner? I? Would articulate it the same way the majority did which is that the government cannot force people to say things they don't believe It's that simple and the court made it that simple now certainly in this particular instance Nondiscrimination laws continue to apply to ensure that no one is denied Equal treatment access to goods and services because of a protected characteristic But the government cannot compel anyone to speak a message and misuse those laws in order to Silence censor or punish speech that it dislikes Kristin now, how would you explain the test because The hypotheticals I've used on my law students over the years are if you're a carer offering chairs and tables You've got to serve every same-sex wedding and heterosexual wedding out there But if you've got any artistic expression involved in your services, no, you don't that a fair summary in your view Yes, I mean as you know in law schools There's all kinds of crazy hypotheticals you can deal with but I think the court articulated the test the same way that it has For many many years, which is it's the effects the message test It is the government affecting the speaker's message And if it is then that's compelled speech and we see that test used throughout the the free speech jurisprudence over the years They simply applied it in this moment, which government officials haven't been wanting to do They've been wanting to misuse the law to compel speech in ways. They never have in the past Now I got to ask you about the blowback because almost instantly after a big 6-3 win There is oh, this is a fake case as though again bad legal takes are not uncommon on Twitter But stipulated facts are stipulated facts. Do you want to explain Kristin? I Because we knew that they would try to do everything they could to delegitimize the court and the decision But I have to tell you if you I've never seen anything quite like what we've experienced this last weekend You know Newsweek you may have seen reported that we the attorneys involved in the case should face criminal penalties or disbarment And it's it's just activist journalists reporting the facts that are being reported about the case are simply not true Never mind that as you said Colorado agreed to those facts But the facts that Colorado agreed to are accurate the second thing to remember about this is 13 federal judges have passed on this case and Even the one that ruled against us said there is a case for controversy here. There is standing This is not a fake case And I don't know how you could conclude otherwise when you've got someone like Laurie who's sitting there watching with the front row seat To Colorado aggressively pursuing Jack Phillips and suggest somehow that Colorado defending its law Seven years with Laurie. It's somehow this is a fake controversy They've said they will prosecutor and they have prosecuted Jack not once but twice He's still in court today under this same law the new narrative is simply fake news Next to a dictionary definition of fake news should be the left's critique of 303 creative in which they say Laurie Smith Invented a threat. No, she didn't the state of Colorado stipulated. It is bad journalism It's not reporting. It's actually just activism to report anything else it absolutely is and that the fact that we have prominent lawyers and even a current cabinet member of the Biden administration the former chief of Staff weighing in on this just blatantly and a Supreme Court advocate. Well known is Blatantly to story in the law Blatantly to story in the facts of this case and it's just it's deeply disheartening If you want to engage engage with the merits of the court's decision don't engage in Distorting and misrepresenting what actually happened? Well, I think the reason people don't on the left wanted to engage with the facts and the decision is that it's persuasive Kristen Wagoner it is simply whether you look at Dale I whether you look at Hurley all the case law is always the same the government may not Coerce people into adopting viewpoints that are not their own I didn't think of a live free or die to my south is New Hampshire They can't even make you where put that on your license plate And and yet that is abandoned in the in the analysis of 303 creative, which is a hallmark case It is and I would encourage every American to read it all of your leadership All of your audience members should read the decision for themselves It is a tour de force of First Amendment law goes through all the cases and why free speech is so important To us how it curbs government authority government tyranny how it allows us to have economic freedoms and other freedoms and just the fact That just the ability to reason and to think Hinges on this type of freedom and that if we want it for ourselves, we have to defend it for others people like Lori You may not agree with her views on marriage, but let me tell you if the government can compel her it can compel all of us Kristen Wagner, that is the bottom line.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"pence" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"I Was up last night we we are spending when we spent the 4th of July we're still here At Lake Michigan and so there was a great firework. Sorry Right over the water. I'm sorry. Were you in Michigan? I've been in Michigan near Grand Rapids I'm so sorry Pinpointed it for you. Yeah. Well, I'm doing my penance. I'm headed to New Hampshire Later today. Oh good. Who you gonna go see? Nikki Haley is is is primarily who I wanted to check out. We'll see if anybody else pops up There were a number of candidates walking parades yesterday. We'll see if anybody hangs around shows back up I'll be in New Hampshire for a couple days Well, I went down to see Nikki Haley in New Hampshire last week If you go to an event other than Nikki because I just saw the former governor and former ambassador Let me know I may drive down sit in the bleacher seats with you and observe I wanted to use July 5 David to review what John Ellis wrote yesterday in political news items I don't know if you read it, but it was an assessment by a quarter an assessment by another No, it's John's actual assessment that Donald Trump's hold on the Jacksonian populism base of the Republican Party is like an iron grip that it's more than 50% and it ain't moving and he said only one person can bring out the kind of crowd that the former president brought out in South Carolina agree or disagree with John Ellis of news items Yeah, I don't disagree with him at all I mean We'll see over the course of the campaign if the grip loosens a little bit or or some of this this this Trump base Some would expect too much, but some significant portion Looks to another candidate. I think it's a possible it's not necessarily likely But we all know that nobody brings out a crowd like like Trump, right? And and that may prove yet again to reflect polling over time it may not right like me You've seen campaigns before I always stress. It doesn't mean I'm saying I don't expect I'm not making a prediction either way. What I'm saying is sometimes yard signs are reflective of Polling and sometimes they're not sometimes crowd size. I remember in 2012 It was Barack Obama's reelection and there were lots of reports not only above Mitt Romney's growing crowd But the fact that people would show up to see Obama and disappear after five minutes like they were over it, right? He wasn't quite the same draw. He was but but in the sense he was So these things are sometimes reflected sometimes not but look we've never seen somebody and I wrote about this in my book who can do in politics with a crowd and You know who has the kind of high floor and Donald Trump has through thicker thin You know these days, you know 20 years ago if you would have said one day there's some leading candidate We'll get indicted, you know, 25 times and they'll still be leading in the polls We would have also that person was bonkers, but you know, here we are You know David Drucker last week I asked Nikki Haley how many times she had been in New Hampshire already and she'd already been there 31 times So she's obviously putting a lot of chips on the Granite State I think former Vice President Pence who will be my guest later today is putting a lot of chips on Iowa Is that your assessment as well? Yeah, it actually has been you know, Nikki Haley started out pretty equally distributing her time She doesn't have to spend a lot of time in South Carolina. That's a very and that's a state That's very favorable to Trump in any event that she's on. No, that's her home state and over time, you know, it struck me That she's spending more and more time in New Hampshire It makes sense from a financial standpoint unless you're raising a ton of money and it also makes sense If you're looking for a breakthrough of some sort Independents can vote in the New Hampshire primary that may have to pick one Democrat or Republican, but they can vote there So that's not how she's presenting herself as a centrist or a moderate, but but there's some more wiggle room there And I've noticed her spending less time in Iowa Well, Mike Pence was one of the few candidates there on the 4th of July. Yeah walking a parade and Yeah, so we'll see what happens over time I still kind of reserved my you know, what do I really think is happening until I see the debates? You know presuming there's more than one at least a couple of them But particularly the first one we have to see the second quarter fundraising reports second quarter ended Friday but nobody wanted to release them in the middle of a Holiday weekend and then maybe they're still tallying. So, you know, we slowly need some metrics here But yeah, we've got certain candidates in Iowa certain candidates in New Hampshire and you know, obviously Trump who hasn't done too many rallies yet But is able to draw a crowd and did so in South Carolina. He will be in Iowa I believe Thursday will be in council blocks was which is a particularly Trumpy part of Iowa. I Want to bring up senator Scott for a moment who is also investing heavily in Iowa In fact, I think he's looking for the same voters that vice president Pence are the evangelical west side of Iowa, which is very very very Dutch reform, right? That's what that is. And they're both putting a lot of chips on Western, Iowa Yeah, Northwestern Iowa in particular. That's where Mike Pence is gonna be today. My colleague Mike Warren is traveling with them That's where Rhonda Santas is putting a lot of his Chips, you know Northwest Iowa has they supported Trump, but they didn't Enjoy it as much as other people in Iowa did right. So Northwest Iowa is not just evangelical boat But these are conservative committed conservatives that are really I think looking for another choice Again, the northwest quadrant of Iowa that the southwest quadrant of Iowa where you can spot downtown Omaha from just across the river They're much more favorable to Trump down there So yeah, and you know, then you've got suburban Des Moines, which I think will be a mishmash of everybody Trying to get a piece of that And you know, we haven't even talked about that the rest of the state. Well, let me very quickly I think the debate stage will have the former president the former vice president as well as senator Scott governor Haley governor DeSantis Governor Christie Vivek Ramaswamy. I'm not sure that mayor Suarez governor Burgum Who is most likely in David Drucker's view of being the eighth person on the stage Well, Doug Burgum has the most personal money to spend to create the donor base, right? You've got to develop a small donor Donor base via email and social media. He's got the money to put into it When so I probably give him the nod first and he's got the money to run the ads To satisfy the polling threshold as well so that that you know, that would be my guess there Yeah, I actually don't believe mayor Suarez will hurt or Larry Elder will make it on the stage I done doubtful about Asa Hutchinson as well. What do you think? Well, I'm doubtful but you know, Wilford is also very open and if you will not find the pledge He thinks it's ridiculous if you won't sign it and you need to sign a pledge saying you'll support the eventual nominee And you can mock the pledge I mean Chris Christie's mocking the pledge and saying you know This is how he puts it This is not me and he will treat it with the same reverence that Donald Trump treats pledges, but he's gonna sign it, right? But Wilford is set out, right? I'm just not gonna sign it So that that you know Unless the pledge doesn't matter as a metric is a threshold and I don't see how he gets on the debate stage As far as I just can't figure out right now who he is or what he's doing that that could be on me Maybe we'll see more over time And Larry Elder listen, I mean I I'm from LA originally who you know this I think I listen to Larry Elder the first time on the air that he ever appeared in Los Angeles market as a substitute for Dennis Prager, but I'm familiar with Larry Elder He's a compelling person, but I just don't see any semblance of a campaign from him No, I don't know. He has complained about the 40,000 donor threshold So my assumption is you have no way he's gonna make that which is odd given that he was a well-funded candidate In the recall, but that's that I want to ask you about Gavin Newsom I've got an interview and request in to go the governor of California because I think he's the likely nominee of the Democrats because I Just don't believe the president's going to run if if Gavin Newsom got into it Would he be the favorite in your view or would the vice president be the favorite? Hard to tell but if Joe Biden does not run I just believe he's going to run but if for some reason if you're right And he's ultimately not the nominee then there are many candidates that will think of getting in And I don't think Gavin Newsom would be the only one To jump in other than you know, the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris So I just have to think that I just think there are more that would look at it and a couple that would jump in And I you know, you have to wonder how the party would handle that Gavin Newsom's a very interesting Compelling political figure California has a lot of problems and I think some Democrats would say to themselves We like you. We think you might be really good. But how you gonna overcome mister that problem? Maybe I should do this, you know, there's no plenty of Democrats want to be president The party does have some up-and-comers after the past couple of elections that they can look to You know Republicans will obviously find find find plenty of flaws with them But I don't think they have to look at Gavin Newsom or The vice president unless the party depending on timing if this whole thing developed too late I think the party would circle the wagons around the vice president and that would be bad There just wouldn't be time you have ballot access issues and primaries and caucuses as well. And if time has passed Then it just becomes the vice president. I got it. I got a quick yesterday I was at a barbecue with the the local folks who attempted to burn the house down last night Tony the commercial real estate guy other aka Tony matches wasn't there but I talked to mark the contractor mark wants Trump to run as a Democrat because then he'll be forgiven everything and they'll Do a plea deal with him for misdemeanors and then that gave me the thought it was just not a bad idea If the former can the former president run as both a Democrat and a Republican in New York City in New York State You get to run as a Republican and conservative you get to run on the liberal ticket or the socialist ticket and the Democratic Ticket can Trump run in both the Democratic and the Republican primaries in New Hampshire because I think he'd punch up Donald Trump pretty badly In the Democratic primary, I mean he punch up Joe Biden pretty badly in the Democratic primary Yeah, I don't think so I've never looked into this but parties do have some they control so little these days that seem to want to control so little But they do have control over who has their line on the ballot the line on the ballot belongs to them They tend to do The ballot access work, that's why that's one of the last things parties are really good for is ballot access work and infrastructure So I don't actually think that's possible Well, they say New Hampshire which has been exiled by the Democrats into last place in America Cuz they lose all their delegates because they're gonna go first because they have a state law that their primary stuff is all in state law So I got to go do some investigation of that and Figure out but generally speaking just assume for a moment that Trump could run as both a Republican and a Democrat in New Hampshire With Robert Kennedy and Joe Biden.
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"I I got to tell you we we got to stand by our men and women in uniform And I think job one Of the next Republican president is not just to catch up on the cuts that are being precipitated by the Biden administration but literally to engage the American people in Rebuilding a military or let me say it better building a military fitted to the challenges in the world of the 21st century We are not there. We don't have that vision But if I have the privilege of being president of the United States, we will will build a military That from from the Asia Pacific To the wider world of the Middle East to Europe will be fitted to the times and we'll have peace through strength Okay, mr. Vice president last question last week I drove down the New Hampshire to see Nikki Haley did a fabulous job Morgan Ortega is running a town hall when you're in New Hampshire, I hope you let me know so I can come down sit in the bleacher seats and watch from the back of the room But it's a talented field. You've got, you know, Governor Christie Governor DeSantis. You've got Nikki Haley You've got senator Scott and you have the former president. How do any of you how do any of you as John Ellis said yesterday? Loosen the former president's grip on his 55 to 60 percent of the Republican base Well, I just think look I have great confidence in Republican primary voters, you know Whether it's you know head out in a few minutes here in Sioux Center, Iowa will be in Well, you know will be in Lamar's will be will be dropping off at the Blue Bunny there, you know We're just we're just you know, we're going small town to small town I'm gonna visit all 99 counties here in Iowa and we're gonna do the same in New Hampshire and I think it's you know It the great thing about this process is the American people have a chance to take a fresh Look at all the candidates and I have every confidence The people of this country particularly Republican primary voters are going to are going to choose the right standard bearer For this time, you know, I've said before I nobody could have defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 other than Donald Trump Republican primary voters knew that like as you know I actually endorsed a different candidate in the Indiana primary in 2016 But I was proud to campaign with him proud to serve with him for four years We had a falling out at the end. We still have a profound difference of opinion on what the Constitution required of me that day But I'm proud of that record and I have every confidence that Republican primary voters going to choose wisely Once again, we're gonna have the right standard bearer and we're not only going to lead the victory in the White House in 2024 We're gonna win the White House. We're gonna win the Senate We're gonna have a wider majority in the House of Representatives state houses around the country and we're gonna bring America back Do you have time for one more bonus question? You just reminded me of this When you get to the White House If you've got the new majority in the Senate in the house, you get one big swing every year with reconciliation I mean one really substantive thing the tax code has not been changed from the Trump Pence reform What's the big swing that Mike Pence would take in reconciliation in 2025? Well, I think first thing you got to recognize nobody's talking about it either. Is it the Trump Pence tax cuts go away in 2025? Oh Plus they're extended. So you got to make those permanent You got it You got to you got to hit the accelerator on that and that's the other reason why I tell people I said this yesterday In Boone, Iowa, I said look it's gonna be important that we choose a standard-bearer That will also bring the House and Senate with them because that extraordinary record of accomplishment in those first two years of the Trump Pence Administration was because we had we had majorities in the House and Senate we used as you just said Very insightfully we used reconciliation To pass the largest tax cuts and tax reform in history mean to get the economy turned around We should go farther on tax cuts But people need to understand that what's going to be on the ballot in 2024 is those tax cuts and If we don't elect the Republican president and a house and Senate Under the Republican banner that you're gonna see a tax increase at the end of 2025 Which is exactly what the Democrats are angling for I did not know that and that's why I like to talk to the candidates Mr. Vice president have a great day at the Blue Bunny wherever that is and come back early and often Thank you. You're great to be with you. Always good to talk to you. Thank you. Mr. Vice president I Don't know if David Drucker knows what a rail is but Dwayne did and that alarmed me David Drucker of the Washington I'd be dispatch joins me chief political correspondent for the dispatch. Good morning, David. How are you on this 5th of July? I'm great you thank you very much. Were you up last night, you know setting off fireworks late.
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"All right, it's well first off. Let's just celebrate the decision I'd like I may go ahead and borrow your phrase here that you know that That we're in a new era. I thought I say we've come to a new beginning for life. Thanks to that Conservative majority that we we straight into a three appointments and to have seen Roe vs. Wade Said to the ash heap of history where it belongs is Gonna be a great great source of pride for me the rest of my life, but to your point I mean now this court is beginning to demonstrate that they're they're bringing that philosophy to to every decision and with regard to affirmative action first and foremost, I think it's I Think it's it's a recognition that there was a time I believe in this country where where we needed to open up the doors of higher education to minorities Particularly African Americans, but that time has passed And it was even Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who who said some 20 years ago that she assumed it would pass after after maybe a quarter of a century it went away quicker and I think it's a tribute to the incredible accomplishments of African Americans who've demonstrated the ability To compete and to succeed on any campus in this country and also other other minorities And so I I celebrate and welcome that decision greatly as moving us toward a colorblind society a society there everyone can achieve on the basis of hard work and merit and character just as Dr. Martin Luther King talked about in that extraordinary speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, but You know at the end of the day, I do think sorting all of this out. I'm still I'm You know I'm a great great champion of our military academies as well whether it's a legacy issue at these at these You know Ivy League schools or whether it be the exemption for military academies I you know, it seems to me that there's going to need to be More clarity from the courts about how this goes forward But we ought to I think we've got a court that is committed to our our ideal of having a colorblind Society and I couldn't be more proud about that. Mr. Vice President You remind me when you bring up the military academies that you are a military dad You've got an active duty son flying fighter pilot stuff and you've got an active duty son-in-law fine flying fighter pilot stuff One made the right choice and went in the Navy one made the choice and became a marine So I'm not sure the better pilot is but tell me what you think about this defense They'll tell you I know they'll tell you but I just I hope you never have to arbitrate that to me This defense budget does not keep pace with inflation That means things like training mission for fighter pilots get cut the gasoline gets cut the numbers of everything gets cut Do you hope they plus that up? You he would you're the only person in the country talking about it maybe other than me, but we look we The Biden administration has been cutting back on our defense spending at a time that the world is becoming more dangerous by the day And we you know We have we have members even in my own party that are talking about it kind of walking away from America's leadership in the world as war rages in Eastern Europe I mean we've spent three percent of our defense budget in Ukraine and Ukrainians are fighting and now making progress against this unconscionable Russian invasion But the truth of matter is that the the core of that anxiety is I think the American people know that we are we are not Resupplying the arsenal of democracy We are not building a military fitted for the new challenges in the balance of the 21st century There's real cost to all of this and as as you say is the as the father of of a marine the father-in-law of A naval aviator.
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"So we'll absolutely do that and you know the last time we talked to you you suggested the idea of At some point as if the good Lord and the American people continue to bless this opportunity for our family Giving greater definition to what that team would look like makes a whole lot of sense to me But I really do I really do believe me what compels us the sense of calling Karen and I have for this as I said here in Iowa yesterday and we'll say again today is I really believe with all humility that Based on my 20 years of service in the Congress and as a governor and as vice president serving at home and abroad We would know what to do and who to do it with on day one to turn this country around and that's what that's what Drives us to this campaign if you had a middle name, it would probably be probity I mean if we made one up for you would be probity. What do you think ought to put? What ought to drive selection for cabinet and senior staff members in a in a White House in a new administration? Well, I just think integrity You're gonna point people that share your view you're gonna point people that share your philosophy Whether it be about the economy whether it be about values whether it be about America's place in the world but then having men and women that will live that out with personal integrity that they'll assemble a team of character and then a team a team that will keep faith with With what those policies are is key, you know, Washington DC personnel is is policy I mean the the wreckage and ruin that the Biden administration has wrought on America in two and a half short years is as evidence not only of failed leadership at the top but failed leadership all across the board of their cabinet and so having men and women who Have have integrity not only to their in their character But also integrity to the policies that we know will turn this country around we can get it all back We can bring it all back and then some quicker than anybody could possibly imagine but it's going to take a team of experience and of character and A president with with the vision to drive that agenda Build on our highest American ideals that brings me. Mr Clowning achievements of the Trump Pence years Was clarity about the communists in China and you began that a series of five speeches that included the Attorney General Barr and FBI Director Wray National Security Advisor O'Brien and then at the Nixon Library Secretary of State Pompeo It was the repudiation of 45 years of a mistake, which was we thought they would evolve towards a free market economy What do you make of Janet Yellen going after Tony Blinken went it looks like appeasement to me What does it look like to Mike Pence appeasement has never worked any any time in history and I Just have to tell you after they floated a Chinese balloon across strategic sites In our country after they they buzzed our aircraft in the Asia Pacific and then you know cut off in front of it It was literally within days that we learned that the Secretary of State was going hat in hand It without even here was a thing without even a promise that he was gonna meet with you remember There it was not yet confirmed that Eva G was going to give him an audience And I got to tell you they got a term for that over that way. It's called kowtowing Yep, and that's that's something our administration never did. We never kowtowed to the Chinese. We stood firm with them We told them how things were going to be that things that things were going to change and that we were going to defend Freedom of navigation in the Asia Pacific. We're going to call them out on human rights we're going to call them out on on trade abuses and Intellectual property theft and and we impose 250 billion dollars in in in tariffs on them and frankly this administration while they haven't gone backwards on those tariffs, they should have been ratcheting it up and We also we're gonna have a longer conversation someday about what we ought to be doing in our national defense I mean, it's amazing to me to see Joe Biden spend the first two years of this administration Essentially cutting our national defense and even even this really recent debt ceiling deal, you know If they don't work out agreements and pass all their appropriations bill, you know that's gonna be you know that that's going to be about a 1% cut after inflation in our defense spending at a time that China's floating a new battleship I'm not surprised that Janet Yellen's heading over there because you know The you know, the the borrower's got to talk to the lender, right? I guess that's the attitude what we ought to do is we ought to be putting our fiscal house in order We ought to be reform and we ought to be reforming entitlements for younger Americans. We ought to put ourselves on a trajectory of fiscal solvency and then we won't have to go hat in the hand to To Chinese the Chinese communists or anybody else. We make America strong on our own. You know last week. Mr. Vice President mayor of Miami Suarez was on the program. He didn't know what the Uighurs were He said he didn't understand my pronunciation, but there's really only one pronunciation and he's entitled to his own defense But do you what do you think about the Uighurs ought? Republicans to be talking him genocide that the Trump-Pence administration declared formally on Mike Pompeo's last day as Secretary of State well, look it did when you think of essentially, what what amount to You know, I Assembled by the Chinese communists rounding up over a million Muslim Uighurs into these camps. It's uh, I think we got to call it the way we see it I think there is a there is an effort here at ethnic cleansing that's going on in China But it's just part and parcel of the repression in Communist China I mean you've had you've had a repression not only of Muslim Uighurs But you've also had you've had Christian pastors that have been jailed You've had other religious minorities that have been that have been repressed We just got to continue to speak the truth on the world stage about what's happening in China We also got to speak the truth about About the war crimes that are continuing to take place in Ukraine, you know, I was in Ukraine last week Spent a day. I not only got a security briefing from the Ukrainian military and met with President Zelensky But I walked I walked the streets of Where in the initial days of the Russian invasion the soldiers walked down that street and shot down more than five hundred men women and children of every age and left their bodies to rot on the sidewalks and then when the When the citizens of the town came to the Russians and said can we go collect our loved ones from the streets as they came? Out they began to shoot many of them as they were collecting their loved ones It was a mass grave that was built by the church. We laid a wreath last week I mean, I must tell you that what's going on and in in Ukraine right now is is not just war It's evil the kidnapping of Ukrainian children has not gotten much attention Did you discuss that with President Zelensky or anyone in Ukraine? Well, we didn't just discuss it We actually went by a relief organization that has been set up to to bring Ukrainian children back 19,000 kids have been Abducted and hauled off to Russia in the areas after the Russian invasion that are under their control and and They I think at the relief organization where we visited which these are incredible people. I think they said they had returned About 300 of the kids yet restored them back to their families. The Russians are stonewalling everything But I mean, it's just incredible. It's like what I said, I mean what's going on in Ukraine is not just Warfare it's it's evil And and frankly, I I really left more resolve than ever That it is in our national interest To give the Ukrainian military the support they need To fight and to repel this Russian invasion. I have no doubt that if if Vladimir Putin is now facing You know profound divisions within his own country and his own military I have no doubt that Vladimir Putin overran Ukraine It would not be too long Hugh before the Russian military crossed the border where we would have to send our fighting men and women To fight against them So I'm I'm a guy believes in that old Reagan doctrine if you're willing to fight the enemies of the United States on your soil We'll give you the means to fight him there So our men and women in uniform don't have to fight him and I'm gonna continue to be a voice for that in this campaign And all across this country Let me turn to another Hoosier fellow Hoosier with you Amy Coney Barrett justice Barrett wrote a concurrence last week on the major question Doctrine that must have made every Hoosier proud and every Notre Dame law grad proud and I'm sure every Indiana, but what did you make? her Concurrence and what'd you make of the term just concluded? Well, I must tell you I I haven't gotten to read all of the concurrences and all majority opinions from last week, but The people of Indiana couldn't be more proud of justice Amy Coney Barrett she is a principal strict constructionist a jurist and I know she's having a profound Influence but one of the things I love about her some of the clips I did read is she's willing to talk as an everyday American. I mean, she's brilliant, right? Yeah, but but but she's also, you know a Devoted mom devoted wife she and she's proud of it. She's proud of her family She's proud of her pro-life views and but the decisions last week You know whether it be moving us toward, you know a colorblind society by ending affirmative action or whether Whether it was two incredibly important decisions upholding religious liberty in this country I'm I'm I'm so proud of justice Barrett Justice Gorsuch and justice Cavanaugh and this strong conservative majority. That's That's upholding really the highest ideals and god-given liberties of the American people Let's talk briefly about the debates first of all, will you sign the pledge that Chairwoman and McDaniel is put forward that you will support the eventual nominee as a precondition of debate appearances Yeah, I've made that clear. Look I Started out in politics as a teenager as a Democrat you But I know you were already involved in politics back at that time But I it was the voice of Ronald Reagan that drew me to the Republican Party I mean I it was in his voice I heard the ideals that my combat veteran father who would have been 94 years old today And my grandfather who was an Irish immigrant, you know taught me to believe in so I joined the Republican Party I I have supported every Republican nominee for president since I joined the Republican Party in the 1980s and I'll be supporting the Republican nominee and Especially if it's me now, will you be at the first debate? I know you'll qualify. But will you go if everyone else doesn't go? I mean will you will Mike Pence be there regardless? I'm going because you know, look I have a little bit of experience with nationally televised debating and Some people think we did. All right, but to me the thing you got to remember about these debates And you've been involved with them on the other side of the table is you know, you know You're not talking to each other. You're talking to the American people I wouldn't pass up on the opportunity to talk to the American people about our vision our experience our love for this country for for anything so you better believe that I'm gonna be in Milwaukee will be on that debate stage and Wherever two or more Republican candidates for president are gathered there I will be also now the former president is not subtle when he got when he goes after people How are you going to deal with that since you two were joined at the hip for four years? And now you're divorced and he doesn't he doesn't hesitate to swing at anyone. I'm gonna deal with that Well, yeah people ask me all the time they said how do you how do you how do you envision you know debating Donald Trump? and I Tell them I've debated Donald Trump a thousand times with the camera So I know we look we did look we had a close working relationship for four years. I'm incredibly proud Well, some of the candidates for president are you know are criticizing the record of the Trump-Pence administration? I'm proud of the record of the Trump-Pence administration. I'll defend it everywhere I go, but Didn't mean the president and I always agreed and I know I know how to have a good policy debate with the president and I'd look forward to it and and I sure do hope he comes to every single one of those debates Now you are a very good lawyer And so, you know when I say the Lochner era marked a bad era in the Supreme Court when I say the row era Which I date from 1973 to last week. It's over. It's done Close with the Repudiation of affirmative action, which is the first case I ever learned because I had an undergraduate Archibald Cox Teaching me about Bakke I have seen the left push back on that decision and I have seen them argue that legacy admissions are somehow the same They are not and I think it's important for people to understand the difference. How do you defend? Schools that for example give an advantage to the children of alumni But do not and now are forbidden expressly by the court from taking race Ethnicity and religion into account.
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"What do you think ought to put? What ought to drive selection for cabinet and senior staff members in a in a White House in a new administration? Well, I just think integrity You're gonna point people that share your view you're gonna point people that share your philosophy Whether it be about the economy whether it be about values whether it be about America's place in the world but then having men and women that will live that out with personal integrity that they'll assemble a team of character and then a team a team that will keep faith with With what those policies are is key, you know, Washington DC personnel is is policy I mean the the wreckage and ruin that the Biden administration has wrought on America in two and a half short years is as evidence not only of failed leadership at the top but failed leadership all across the board of their cabinet and so having men and women who Have integrity have not only to their in their character But also integrity to the policies that we know will turn this country around we can get it all back We can bring it all back and then some quicker than anybody could possibly imagine but it's going to take a team of experience and of character and A president with with the vision to drive that agenda Build on our highest American ideals that brings me. Mr Clowning achievements of the Trump Pence years Was clarity about the communists in China and you began that a series of five speeches that included the Attorney General Barr and FBI Director Wray National Security Advisor O 'Brien and then at the Nixon Library Secretary of State Pompeo It was the repudiation of 45 years of a mistake, which was we thought they would evolve towards a free market economy What do you make of Janet Yellen going after Tony Blinken went it looks like appeasement to me What does it look like to Mike Pence appeasement has never worked any any time in history and I Just have to tell you after they floated a Chinese balloon across strategic sites In our country after they they buzzed our aircraft in the Asia Pacific and then you know cut off in front of it It was literally within days that we learned that the Secretary of State was going hat in hand It without even here was a thing without even a promise that he was gonna meet with you remember There it was not yet confirmed that Eva G was going to give him an audience And I got to tell you they got a term for that over that way. It's called kowtowing Yep, and that's that's something our administration never did. We never kowtowed to the Chinese. We stood firm with them We told them how things were going to be that things that things were going to change and that we were going to defend Freedom of navigation in the Asia Pacific. We're going to call them out on human rights we're going to call them out on on trade abuses and Intellectual property theft and and we impose 250 billion dollars in in in tariffs on them and frankly this administration while they haven't gone backwards on those tariffs, they should have been ratcheting it up and We also we're gonna have a longer conversation someday about what we ought to be doing in our national defense I mean, it's amazing to me to see Joe Biden spend the first two years of this administration Essentially cutting our national defense and even even this really recent debt ceiling deal, you know If they don't work out agreements and pass all their appropriations bill, you know that's gonna be you know that that's going to be about a 1 % cut after inflation in our defense spending at a time that China's floating a new battleship I'm not surprised that Janet Yellen's heading over there because you know The you know, the the borrower's got to talk to the lender, right? I guess that's the attitude what we ought to do is we ought to be putting our fiscal house in order We ought to be reform and we ought to be reforming entitlements for younger Americans. We ought to put ourselves on a trajectory of fiscal solvency and then we won't have to go hat in the hand to To Chinese the Chinese communists or anybody else..
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"Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College all things Hillsdale Hillsdale dot edu I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there And of course a listen to the Hillsdale dialogues all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale comm or just Google Apple iTunes and Hillsdale Welcome back America. I'm Hugh Hewitt from Studio North pleased to welcome back to the program former vice president Mike Pence. Good morning Mr. Vice president welcome back Good morning Hugh, thanks for having me on I was watching Twitter yesterday I saw you were campaigning in small-town, Iowa doing 4th of July parades. Where were you? We were in Urbandale, which is just a suburban Des Moines. I'll tell you it was It was a great 4th of July day in the heartland It was it was real hot and the crowd was huge and I got to tell you Karen and I just loved being out Celebrating Independence Day and being with so many friends. It was terrific. We're actually in Sioux Center, Iowa today We're gonna burn up most of the whole week Traveling across Iowa and just really encouraged almost now a month in from when we announced our Campaign for President of the United States and people can get more information. Of course you at at Mike Pence 2024 comm but we're we're hearing from folks all over Iowa all over the country and very very excited about the opportunity to Contend to lead not only this party but leave this country back to the strength and prosperity that The American people so richly deserve now by Fred Pence. I want to cover some serious stuff with you but I want to begin with just sort of a counterfactual if Cocaine had been found in the Trump Pence West Wing. What would the news cycle look like today? Unbelievable, it'd be it would be wall-to-wall and frankly it should be I mean if the news accounts I read are right This was in this was not in the White House complex, right? I mean you and I know the terrain real well This was in the residence itself. If I understand it was in the library in the White House and I Have to tell you I couldn't agree with you more I mean, I mean we ought to know who the leaker was at the Supreme Court who leaked the early version of the Dobbs case We ought to know we ought to know in real time who who brought and and left cocaine on a table In the residence in the White House, but I'm not holding my breath No, I've seen some other reporting that's in a workspace in the West Wing. Either way it would have been 24-7 on every cable channel and they would be getting leaks from everywhere except your staff which never leaked Mr. Vice President, let's get serious The best question that Bret Baier asked former President Trump is who would work for you? I'm paraphrasing it because he ran through everyone that the former president fired him was upset with and my question to you is do you Mike Pence could staff a better Administration than Donald Trump if if you succeed in getting the Republican nomination and not the former president I got to tell you we had a town hall and on the afternoon of the 4th of July in Boone Iowa yesterday the room was packed and it's one of the things I said To one of the one of the folks that were there. I said look one of the things that compels me and my wife Karen to step into this race is because I really do believe that the Relationships that we built when I was a conservative leader in the Congress the relationships I built when I served as governor of Indiana and the relationships I built as vice president Convinced me that not only would would I know what to do on day one to restore American strength and prosperity But I know we could assemble a team I think better than anybody else in the field That would turn this country around and and Hugh you've been at this a long time You know how you know how administrations work and it's not only about knowing what to do It's about being able to assemble a team that can help you get it done And and I really believe in my heart of hearts With all humility that because of the experience that we would bring to this we could we could assemble a better team than anybody else In the field a team of experience a team of character in a team that would know the Conservative principles and policies that will strengthen America at home and abroad You know a lot of Americans Would love to know sort of a short list of who's going to be who in a cabinet and there's always an argument that you Cannot promise people jobs, but as former President Trump demonstrated as you demonstrated in the campaign of 2016 You can't put out lists of people who might be in the administration Will you do that for justices and for maybe cabinet members? Oh, I think there's no question that that making it clear that we're going to continue to appoint Judges to our courts at every level that are going to strictly construe the Constitution that are going to that are going to apply the Law and not rewrite another law is job one and I think putting out a list I think I think it was one of the bold moves that candidate Donald Trump did in 2016 and then we live it up to that we added to the list but they were all men and women of the same caliber and character and the Decisions by the Supreme Court this past week alone give evidence of the fact That we kept faith with that standard.
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
"pence" Discussed on THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
"Coming up on 5 minute news. Mike Pence won't appeal subpoena compelling his testimony. Governor strikes 1931 abortion ban from Michigan law. And Britain and U.S. delegates walk out at UN during Russian speech. It's Thursday, April 6th. I'm Anthony Davis. A spokesman for the former vice president Mike Pence said he will not be appealing a judge's order compelling him to testify in the Justice Department's investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The decision sets up a possible appearance by Pence in the coming weeks before a federal grand jury scrutinizing attempts by the disgraced former president and supporters before the riot at the capitol on January 6th to undo Democrat Joe Biden's victory. Multiple Trump administration officials have testified in that investigation, as well as in a separate inquiry examining Trump's possession of classified documents, but pence would be the highest profile witness to answer questions before a grand jury. His closed door testimony could offer investigators a firsthand account of Trump's state of mind in the pivotal weeks after he lost to Biden and further exposed the rift in their relationship since the end of the administration. After Pence was subpoenaed months ago by the Justice Department's special counsel, lawyers for Trump objected on the grounds of executive privilege. But a federal judge in Washington last week rejected those arguments, forcing Pence to testify. U.S. district judge James Boers Berg did give Pence a win by accepting arguments from pence's lawyers that for constitutional reasons he could not be questioned about his actions on January 6th. They'd argued because Pence was serving in his capacity as president of the Senate that day, he was protected from being forced to testify under the constitution's speech or debate clause, which is intended to protect members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts. A near century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in Michigan history was repealed yesterday by governor Gretchen Whitmer, just months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state's constitution. Today we're going to take action to make sure that our statutes and our laws reflect our values and our constitution, witmer said at a bill signing outside of Detroit. The 1931 abortion ban made it a four year felony to assist in an abortion, roe V wade had made the law null and void until the landmark decision was overturned in June by the extreme right U.S. Supreme Court. Courts blocked the ban from taking effect while a citizen led initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution received more signatures than any other ballot proposal in state history to put the question before voters. Voters overwhelmingly approved the proposal in last November's midterms, making the 1931 law unconstitutional and unenforceable. The 1931 ban could have been enforced in the future had voters collected enough signatures to once again amend the state constitution and repeal abortion rights. Whitmer's signature on Wednesday eliminated that possibility erasing the law completely. Wednesday signing marked another victory for abortion rights supporters in Michigan, who joined California and Vermont last November in enshrining abortion rights in their state's constitution, Kentucky, a reliably red state rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion. The United States, Britain, Albania, and Malta walked out on Russia's envoy for children's rights. In the International Criminal Court, wants to arrest on war crimes charges, as she spoke by video to UN Security Council members on Wednesday. Britain and the United States blocked the informal meeting on Ukraine convened by Russia to focus on evacuating children from conflict zones from being webcast by the United Nations. The diplomats left the UN conference room where the discussion was being held as Russian commissioner Maria levo belova spoke, U.S. ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield told reporters that the United States joined Britain in blocking the webcast, so levo belova did not have an international podium to spread disinformation and to try to defend her horrible actions that are taking place in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court last month issued an arrest warrant against Russian president Vladimir Putin and lavo belova, accusing them of illegally deporting children from Ukraine and the unlawful transfer of people to Russia from Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24th last year. Moscow said the warrants were legally void as Russia was not a signatory to the treaty that established the ICC. Moscow has not concealed a program under which it has brought thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, but presents it as a humanitarian campaign to protect orphans and children abandoned in the war zone. Said that since February 2022, some 5 million Ukrainians, including 700,000 children, had traveled to Russia. Russia claims it is protecting these children instead, this is a calculated policy that seeks to erase Ukrainian identity and statehood British diplomat assimil gazi bouillon told the meeting, returning to the room after levo belova had spoken. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. This is Peter. And this is Tom. We want to tell you guys a little bit about our podcast. Tom and I met in college, became best friends, and then teachers almost 20 years ago. Sometimes school just does not allow us to elaborate on the topics that we find interesting. Like the real shark attacks that inspired a movie jaws, but a real historical context to Indiana Jones artifacts. Where does serial come from? Or zombies real? Does Ben Franklin really deserve to be on a $100 bill. On our podcast, just like in our class, there are no stupid questions. Just two primes haven't, lighthearted conversation about history, pop culture, and the context of current events. Listen to history teachers talk in podcasts from evergreen networks. Anywhere you get your podcasts.
CNN Political Briefing
"pence" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"For me to appear before the grand jury because I believe it's unconstitutional. And it's unprecedented. So what Pence is referring to there is a reliance in this argument on the constitution's speech and debate clause. And that is a section of the constitution which shields lawmakers from certain law enforcement actions which target their legislative conduct. So the idea is if somebody in the coequal legislative branch is going about their function inside the legislative branch, they're job responsibilities that their actions are protected from the executive branch, the law enforcement side of things, reaching in and trying to get a hold of testimony documents what have you. And as you know, the vice president serves as the president of the Senate. And Mike Pence believes in doing his official conduct presiding over the Senate on the 6th of January that he is protected from this inquiry of the executive DoJ, special counsel investigation. And Pence has made clear that he's willing to take his fight against this subpoena all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. But an interesting thing has happened in this debate about whether or not Pence is on solid legal ground here with that argument. Former conservative judge, J Michael ludig, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times today, totally opposing what Pence is proposing here is a strategy, a legal strategy to shield him from providing testimony. He does not think hence is on the right course, and he's an interesting figure to hear from on this because you'll recall, it was J Michael ludig once considered to be on a short list of potential Supreme Court nominees by George W. Bush and a truly highly respected conservative constitutional scholar. It was his advice to Pence at the time that he did not have any constitutional authority to do what Donald Trump was asking him to do in trying to thwart the counting of the electoral votes, and he testified before the January 6th committee stating as such. I would have laid my body across the road before I would have let the vice president overturn the 20 20 election on the basis of that historical precedent. As you no doubt know, hence followed Ludwig's advice. And now, the former judge writes in his op-ed, quote, we can expect the federal courts to make short shrift of this Hail Mary claim. And mister Pence doesn't have a chance in the world of winning his case in any federal court and avoiding testifying before the grand jury. In fact, looted predicts in the op-ed that pence's arguments will fail, writing that even if the courts find that Pence is entitled to some protections under the constitutional provision, they will quote unquestionably hold that mister Pence is nonetheless required to testify in response to mister smith's subpoena. Ludik believes that the resistance to the subpoena is really inviting a quote embarrassing spectacle. He delves into some political advice here too, which is not necessarily ludicrous Wheelhouse saying quote, a politician should be careful what he wishes for, no more so than when he's a possible presidential candidate who would have the Supreme Court decide a constitutional case that could undermine his viability in an upcoming campaign. That is Michael ludy saying the Mike Pence, this is not going to be a good look for you. Especially if you're running for president. The special counsel has already issued subpoenas for other members of Trump's inner circle as well on Wednesday The New York Times reported that Smith has subpoenaed Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and his son in law Jared Kushner for their testimony. Now you know both served in key roles in the Trump White House and provided key testimony to the January 6th committee. This is the president's daughter, commenting on Bill Barr's statement that the department found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election. It affected my perspective. I respect attorney general Barr. So I accepted what he was saying. Just like the January 6th committee, the special counsel is believed to be keenly interested in getting an understanding about whether or not those around Trump believed and expressed to Trump this belief that the election was legitimate. That that is an important thing to understand as to Trump's motivations and intentions. Meanwhile, this week, speaker Kevin McCarthy also announced that he's giving Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to security footage from the day of the insurrection. Now, you'll recall that Tucker Carlson has made some false claims about January 6th. Here's what he said on June 16th, 2021 on his Fox News prime time show. FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on January 6th, according to government documents. Now, why is McCarthy doing this? Well, he made a promise when he was scrambling for votes to become speaker that he would release this footage. This was one of the demands of the rebels. McCarthy defended his decision to The New York Times this week saying, quote, I was asked in the press about these tapes and I said they do belong to the American public, I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment. CNN is also reporting that McCarthy could have tasked his own committees with sorting through the footage and presenting it, but that a source close to McCarthy said he had long been wary of having this new House Republican majority looking like it's investigating or relitigating the January 6th attack. He does not believe that that is a wise course for his new majority. In a letter sent to McCarthy on Wednesday, Senate majority leader Democrat Chuck Schumer blasted McCarthy for the move, he said quote, it poses grave security risks to members of Congress and everyone who works on Capitol Hill. Schumer also called this move a quote sham. That's about pandering to maga election deniers, not the truth. It's not clear exactly how this footage is going to be utilized. If indeed, it will galvanize the as Chuck Schumer refers to them the maga election denying swath of the Republican Party in some way. This has been on their list of demands. That's it for today's edition of the political briefing. Thanks so much for listening. And if you like the show, please consider rating and reviewing us on Apple podcasts. CNN political briefing is a product of CNN audio. Steve lick tie is our executive producer. Greg peppers is our supervising producer.
CNN Political Briefing
"pence" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Hey everyone, I'm David challenging the CNN political director. This is the CNN political briefing. Here's what you need to know in politics for Friday, February 24th. It's possible former president Donald Trump and his vice president Mike Pence could face off in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But in court, Mike Pence is clearly trying not to take on his former boss. As you no doubt know, Donald Trump is under many different investigations, both at the state and federal level. One key investigation is the special counsel investigation into January 6th and all the activity that the then president Trump was engaging in, conversations around what ultimately resulted in the insurrection on the capitol and the attempt to thwart a legitimate election from being properly affirmed by the Congress as the constitution requires. And it is that investigation being conducted by Jack Smith, the man appointed to be the special counsel by Merrick Garland in this case, that is heating up in lots of different directions. But what is crystal clear from all of the moves is that Jack Smith is not playing around. He is looking to get his investigation right into the very heart of the Oval Office inside the Trump White House. And we're learning now that federal prosecutors really want to hear from one person in particular, and that is former vice president Mike Pence. A person familiar with the matter told CNN federal prosecutors have asked a judge to compel hence to testify. You'll recall Pence has been served a subpoena by special counsel Smith, who's looking for documents and testimony from Pence about all of his interactions with Trump in the lead up to the 2020 election and the day of the attack on the capitol on the 6th of January 2021. Attorneys for Donald Trump have asserted executive privilege over pence's testimony. Hence was in Iowa, where potential presidential candidates find themselves these days, and he said executive privilege is basically Donald Trump's claim to make. But that Mike Pence is fighting this special counsel subpoena on a different legal standard. I'm going to fight Biden DoJ's
Squawk Pod
"pence" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"In Times Square. I'm Joe kernan along with Andrew Ross Sorkin. Mike Pence, former vice president of the United States and you think about the what would be fair game to talk about. And it's like this. But this is squawk box. So we're like this. We got 20 minutes. We're not going to finish what I want to talk about. But most of it, we're going to stay in our lane in terms of money, spending, inflation, recessions. That sound good? That is why we love squawk box. Good to see you, Joe. Good to see you. Thank you for coming in. Thanks for coming. And no blazer. He's playing along with us. Because we're going to solve the problem we're going to work. It's a working breakfast. It's a working squawk breakfast. The death ceiling front and center, both sides seem to be entrenched. I understand both sides. I think during the Trump administration, Democrats voted for clean raises from time to time. They say, why not do that now? That's what the president wants, but I can see where speaker McCarthy says, when do we get a chance to really focus on these huge debt issues that we have now is the time to do it or we'll get another omnibus bill in December that we can't control. Who's right? And how does it get reconciled? Well, I mean, the constitution requires that we maintain the full faith and credit of the united states. And the Congress is going to figure that out. But I commend speaker McCarthy for saying that we ought to make a down payment on fiscal discipline that in a very real sense. Look, the issue is spending, as I travel all across this country, families are hurting. Inflation ignited to a 40 year high after the Democrat Congress two years ago spent $1.9 trillion in unnecessary COVID spending, another trillion nearly at the end of that Democrat majority. So I'm glad to see the Republican majority saying we need to use this debt ceiling to start us back in the direction of fiscal discipline. But look, we all know where the real issue is in terms of long-term debt for the United States. And that is that, well, I respect the speakers commitment to take social security and Medicare off the table for the debt ceiling negotiations. We've got to put them on the table in the long term. And right now, President Biden's policy is insolvency. I mean, we're looking at a debt crisis in this country over the next 25 years that is in the entitlement. Entitlements and nobody in Washington D.C. wants to talk about it. I've been going around the country. I'm going to continue to try and do my part. Are you talking about retirement? What would you do about it? Well, I think first and foremost, you have to explain to people what's going on. We've got a $32 trillion national debt right now, Andrew. Having a national debt, the same size as our nation's economy is unsustainable. Last time that happened was right after that. Oh, I don't disagree with you. I'm just curious, what's on the for you on entitlements? What's on the table? Well, I think it begins with education. It begins with having the American people understand that it doesn't stop at 32 trillion.
WBAP 820AM
"pence" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Pence And I'm going to tell you, um I appreciate, uh or NC co chair Tommy Hicks coming on. I didn't hear what I wanted to hear. I realize you've got to recall election with a really crummy governor that it should never have been elected before. But this is much broader than that. You know a lot of you say, Well, you carry the water for the Republicans. I carry the water for one group and one group. Only the American people. I didn't hear what I wanted to hear what I wanted to hear was. You know the orange is going to stand up legislatively. They're going to stand up. Um, litigious Lee. Whatever they have to do for the American people. This is wrong. And here's why it's wrong. A B C D didn't hear any of that. This is not a soapbox. For liberals or conservatives to come up and stand on and, you know, give the corporate bottom line. That's crap. I don't want to hear that. I want to hear specifics, something that the American people can do something with and I didn't hear it, so I'll continue to try to get that information. Um, In the meantime, you have received your marching orders. Um, from the monarch himself, Joe Biden. I don't know how many of you are going to be Affected by this, but at least 80 million workers out there are going to be impacted. This is this is exactly what I was talking about. If you don't listen. To any show I do this year. Listen to yesterdays show from beginning to end. You may have to, you know, Listen, go away, come back and listen again because the whole show Uh, was manifest by the orders of Joe Biden and his press conference. You know? Yeah, I realize you're the president. You can tell federal offices to do whatever you want them to do. But I was talking about the fact that Hey, we're in trouble. Um, as a Those people that want a socialist nation. When you start heavy handedly overreaching into the private sector, Then we become a socialist nation, and I'll be damned if that's not exactly what he did. All right, let's go to Mike. Mike. Thanks for waiting. I, Rick. How you doing? I'm well, thank you. You know, I listened to, uh what? Biden said, Um, and just an hour before Biden gave his Press. Kamila talked about the abortion. Uh, law here in Texas, and it almost appeared as though Biden this playing bad cop and common is playing good cop because that's exactly what they used about. Encroaching on individual liberty. Camilla was pro liberty and Biden was, of course, and I liberty It will. Come on. Come on, Harris is pro liberty as long as you have a right to kill your kid. Of course, yes, but what they're doing is they're setting up a bad cop. Good cop playing stage. I invoke the 25th. You don't think so? No, I think they're both to empty headed, even be doing that. I think what I agree with you on that What they're doing. They are. They are following the orders, um, that they are given what to say. What? What to do Where to go? How to act. Kamala Harris is even more empty headed than Joe Biden if that's even possible. They're just simply taking their marching orders every morning and going out and saying what they're told to say, Um I don't think it's a good cop, bad cop situation. I think it's it's basically totally incoherent. I hate America policy. And how do we get control over the American people? And they took a pretty big step last night. Appreciate it, Mike. Let's go to Jorge. Jorge. Thanks for waiting. How you doing? No problem Breakfast for taking my call in service to my country. 40 years ago, I got to travel through eastern Germany, East Berlin, and one thing that struck me If you want a member of the party, you had a choice if you want a member of the party They told you what job you could have your kids crank down to the good schools. Uh, they told you where he could shot where he could live. I don't want to conflate ER or do a direct comparison between what's going on here now. And there, but there's sure a lot of threats that seem similar. And it just doesn't sit well with me at all. No, I think you're absolutely right. I In my lifetime. I have never seen such a heavy handed aggressive, overreaching out of the scope of their authority. Federal government. As I did last night. I mean, this was beyond the pale. This was smells like it. It tastes like it. It looks like it. You know you're You're absolutely right. I appreciate your service. Thank you very much. Um, Is this a diversion? Of course it's a diversion. But its according to liberals, diversion with purpose. Uh, it does two things. First of all, Nancy Pelosi is trying to do the bums rush and getting this 3.5. Uh, trillion dollar plan pushed through before you know what's going on. As she always says, Well, we gotta pass it and then we can show you what's in it. Excuse me. Um, at the same time, the debacle that just monumental failure of the withdrawal of Afghanistan Well, look, Yeah, that was bad, but let's remember 9 11 20 years ago. They're doing everything they can to divert your attention and get what they want. At the same time. Um, this is this is beyond reprehensible. It just I don't even know what to say. In the really at this point, we already know what we're dealing with. The only voices that matter are the American voices. Yes, we need to memorialize 9 11 20 years ago tomorrow I get that that's absolutely important in the 3000. Innocent men, women and Children that died that day through no fault of their own, because we were attacked, um by those that want to tear this country apart and eradicated for something that they think is more important. Um, but that doesn't change the fact we still have Americans stuck in Afghanistan. You know, don't uh, I've got email after email after email from people that say, Don't don't say a word to me about mask mandates about vaccine mandates about. I'm going to lose my job if I don't get a shot when you've got tens of thousands of illegals pouring in the southern border. And this mandate, by the way, does not apply to them. You know, it's it's the same philosophy with gun control every time there's a crime, committed a mass shooting or whatever. You know these empty headed Democrats. We need more gun control. No, you need more people control. They never go to the core. The core problem, which is some demented moron or professional criminal that's been released so many times he now fuels 10 FT. Tall and bulletproof. No. The only thing they can do or want to do is affect the law abiding citizens. No, you can't arm yourself to defend yourself. Um well, wait a minute. I didn't shoot anybody doesn't matter. We can't really do anything to impact criminal behavior. But we can take away guns because we hate guns. Okay, fine. It's the same principle. The same flawed thinking. Absolutely. If you got your shot well after the president speak speech last night, I heard somebody say earlier. Well, imagine a lot of people go get their shots because they want to stay and they want to stay employed. They don't want to lose their job. How damn scary is that? In a supposed free country. I'm Rick Roberts News talking 20 w B a pig..
The Erick Erickson Show
"pence" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Because it become associated with the likes donald trump catherine even writing in vanity fair's written a lengthy expose drawing out the failure detail. One state department official wrote that his team had warned was warned not to investigate the origins of the pandemic. Because it could open a can of worms miles you. The state department's principal china's strategist tells. Even anyone who dare speak out would be ostracized after former. Cdc had robert redfield said he believed the virus were originated in the lab till i was threatened in ostracized because i proposed the hypothesis. Here's gathered even herself on this. Peter dash was involved in what appears to be manufacturing. A scientific consensus through an early article in the lancet in which he sort of stage managed it with a lot of people who work for him and that he pays Who were co signers on that statement but in fact at this point you know I wouldn't say that there is scientific consensus. And i think the people who say they know where this came from Probably don't know what they're talking about. I mean when. I investigated the loudly question and the wuhan institute of technology There is smoke coming out of every single window. You know but what i set out to do. As an investigative journalist is just track what happened to the legitimate questions that were being asked not the conspiracy theories and that was lot of the reporting to to to strip those away but what happened to the legitimate questions of credible doubters who looked at this fact pattern and said wait. A second doesn't deserve an equal investigation. You would think so but let me read you this from politico. This is a quote from catherine corn bluff. She's a senior fellow and director of the gm f- digital at the german marshall fund of the united states. Get out of this targeting. Dr fauci erodes trust in scientific institutions and makes them seem partisan just as universities are increasingly seen as partisan the the media the bureaucracy. These strategies don't have it easy response. You try to ignore them with her not that widespread and even if you eventually refused them at qassim he said she said the best strategy which the white house and fau ci seem to be taking is to push ahead with an alternate position narrative and action in this case around. Vaccinations targeting thao she erode trust in scientific institutions and makes them seem partisan. Is it that or is it that th ouchi makes them seem partisan speaking of i don't remember within that redacted but there i mean the idea i think is quite far fetched that the chinese deliberately engineered something so that they could kill themselves as well as other people. I think. that's a bit far out. John he doesn't think the chinese people. The chinese who are capable of driving abortion vans rally country and in killing children. Do you know what the chinese policy on nuclear war is that there are more of them than of us and so they would withstand and survive a nuclear attack and we would not going back to mazi dung. The institutional theorizing of china in nuclear war is that. Let's just have one because there are so many of us. Even though hundreds of millions of chinese would die we'd still have people and we could exterminate the americans that literally was the thinking of china. The thing of a country like that is the same thing of yeah. Let's experiment on this virus and get it out there and see what happens now. I don't think it was an intentional leak. But it wouldn't surprise me all that. They were experimenting on a virus. Even spice i. There's a story out today that they're trying to splice together the genome of a monkey and a human. What's the worst that could happen with that. I knew this was going to happen. I knew it. I could have told you it was all a scam. Where will the rage be. You know there will be rage. You know what i know it. Everybody knows it. And nothing's gonna get done. Joe biden is privately telling lawmakers not to expect much on reparations legislation. this is from politico. He was blunt about racism probably more blunt than any president before him in his remarks commemorated one hundred years since the tulsa race massacre tuesday. He called out how through the years. There have been members at elected office. Who were very public about. Their association membership with the kkk said corey bush of missouri. He set up the seat in his speech to take us into what was happening at the time. That was really powerful. I was glad to hear it but some attendees noted what they considered a glaring omission. Any mention of reparations for the survivors of the massacre and their descendants. Some of whom have sued the city and state for compensation and a full throated endorsement of hr forty which would create a commission to study reparations. The bill passed into the house. Judiciary committee in april for the first time since it was introduced in nineteen eighty nine as a candidate biden said. He supported a commission on reparations. But they've yet to actually endorse the bill. After speech tuesday the president met with the members of the congressional black caucus who brought up the need for hr forty which is named after the forty acres and a mule. Promise that symbolizes the lack of support formerly enslaved people receive funding from the federal government according to those involved in the conversations biden. Let them down gently. He's not going to go with reparations. there are a couple of problems for the democrats that you need to understand and one of the biggest ones is reparations. is actually unworkable. Who gets reparations. How're the reparations. Worked out how are they paid. Who has to pay them. Is that the federal government on behalf of everyone will why do immigrants to this country. Recent immigrants have to be covered. Why do people whose families were part of the confederacy have to pay him. Why can't families who lost loved ones in the union army in the civil war. Be exempted from them. None of it's workable in fact in evanston indiana. They've tried this. It was much praised by the american media and now the black residents of evanston indiana are very upset about it. This is from nbc news. Three months ago the city of evanston illinois where priscilla giles a retired teacher of english as a second language was born and raised approved. The first local reparations program in the country the city announced its first phase would play black evanston residents who experienced housing discrimination. Twenty five thousand dollars in the form of home. Improvement costs down payments and closing cost assistance and mortgage payments since giles's black lived in the city from nineteen nineteen nineteen sixty nine. She's automatically eligible but she's reluctant to apply because it's not reparation she said. And that's for sure. Hundreds of black residents have rallied behind the online group. Evanston reject racist reparations to demand the program. Be paused reevaluated. Meanwhile conservative nonprofit judicial watch project. I'm fair representation at threatened legal action so black residents of the city aren't happy by the way. They're paying for the reparations by taxing marijuana sales and some local officials an activists say reparations can only come from the federal government residents opposed to evanston plan. Say it puts too many restrictions on how they can use the money winners. Kit.
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"pence" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"End. rick There was a great quote by Yeah president of manpower group it was employees are acting like consumers and how they are consuming. Work and san francisco fed saying that extra benefits. Add an effect on job decisions. I think both of those things along with on my way to bowling last night in a one square mile of a commercial complex fourteen help wanted signs so i think all of those put together helped me derive helped me drive my number. He concluded that. Click off a little. Bit yeah you know. It's a problem. So i was in a bit of a fender bender. It was funny. So i buy all my cars dealership in atlanta called jamila. So i i buy all my vehicles. There was really thinking i need to just go on and take my denali in. It's got about forty five thousand miles on it. It's the resale value of it is way higher than what i owe on it as she and swapping out for the twenty twenty one model and that i was in a fender bender. Now i'm thinking maybe you get fixed and going and do it. The cars jinxed but You know i'm going to be put off in in trading it in because it's gonna take an extra week to fix the car. Just because of the delays and supplies in the labor shortages. It's taken them a longer. I tried to rent a car. He can't rent a car because people aren't turning the rental cars in because they can't get their old cars back because it's taken longer to fix them up there across the board. Shortages and inflation is on the rise and the governor's like temporary. Don't worry about it. We've got the leaks on the ufo report. Now let me just give you. The rundown here is the headline from the new york. Times it says. Us fines no evidence of alien technology and flying objects but can't rule it out either. A new report concedes that much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain including their acceleration as well as ability to change. Direction and submerge american intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by navy pilots in recent years our spacecraft but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report the report determines that a vast majority of more than one hundred twenty incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any american military or other advanced. Us government technology. The officials said that determination would appear to eliminate the possibility that navy pilots who reported seen unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs. The government meant to keep secret. But that's about the only conclusive finding in the classified indulgence report. The official said and while the forthcoming and classified version expected to be released to congress by june twenty fifth will present few other firm conclusions senior officials briefed on the intelligence concluded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft the report concedes that much about the observed phenomenon remains difficult to explain including their acceleration as well as the ability to change direction and submerge. One possible explanation that the phenomenon could be weather balloons or other research blues. Just not hold up. Cases because of changes in wind speed of the time of some of the interactions. The final report will include a classified. Annex officials said while the annex will not contain any evidence concluding that the phenomenon alien spacecraft the officials acknowledged that the fact that it would remain off limits to the public will likely continue to fuel speculation many of the more than one hundred twenty incidents examined in the report from navy personnel. The report also examined incidents involving foreign militaries over the last two decades intelligence officials believe at least some of the aerial phenomena could have been experimental technology from a rival power most likely russia or china one senior official briefed on the intelligence said without hesitation that us officials knew it was not american technology. He said there was worry. Among intelligence and military officials that china and russia could be experimenting with hypersonic. Technology has invested heavily in sight. Hyper sonics believing. The technology offers the ability to evade american missile defense technology. China has also developed hypersonic weaponry and included it in military parades. If the phenomena were chinese or russian aircraft that suggest the two powers hypersonic research has far outpaced american developments in what encounter strange objects like a spinning top movie against the wind appeared almost daily from the summer of two thousand fourteen to march twenty fifteen high in the skies of the east coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible ingen or infrared exhaust plumes. But they could reach thirty thousand feet and hypersonic speeds lieutenant ryan graves and f. A eighteen super hornet pilot. Who was with the navy for ten years told the new york times in an interview these things would-be out there. Every day and with speeds had other pilots observed he said twelve hours in the air at eleven hours longer than we'd expect in two thousand fourteen as super hoard pilot had a near collision with one of the objects and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were recorded video as well. Now what are st- hyper sonics. This is from two thousand and nineteen also with the washington post the russian military and fridays that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that flies at super fast speeds and can easily evade missile defense systems. American officials said they had little doubt that the russians have been working on hypersonic weapons which sit on top of a modified missile. It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead at speeds faster than three thousand eight hundred miles per hour. Moscow has been working on the technology for years and has invested heavily in it determined to reverse the pattern in the cold war where it was often struggling to catch up with american nuclear weapons systems. If the new sipa system called alvin guard works as putin boasted. When he described the weapon a year ago it would enhance moscow powerful nuclear force hypersonic weapons fly extremely fast and can maneuver along unpredictable trajectories. Making them extremely difficult for current system to track much less suit shootout senior administration officials and military officials said the united states plans to deploy. Its own hypersonic. Weapons by twenty twenty two but some experts believe the schedule may prove optimistic. So here's what we're looking at. We are looking at a possible weapons technology from china and russia that outpaces our old weapons technology or it could be aliens..
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"pence" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"A text the word army to three seven seven seven. I wanna speak very briefly about kyun on very briefly. Just i i just you got to follow me here. Because we're jumping away from cunanan. But i want to get to start with you and on cunanan on is a conspiracy theory in an often. They're the the guys who started it very canny. They make a lot of things un falsifiable. I mean a lot of things like for example. You hear them prove to me. The election was not stolen. Not don't not prove to me. The election was delivered proved to me. It was not stolen well That's i don't know that. I can prove to you. The election was not stolen. Because if you're convinced it is nothing i say will convince you. Otherwise that's cunanan and the original basis for cunanan was this belief that donald trump one window and said he could. It was a divine act because there is an organized effort of the global elite organized by the cia it is a satanic plot to molested abuse children and everything that can be tied to. It is tied to it. Jeffrey epstein is tied to it. Bill gates is tied to it. Bill clinton is tied to the british. Royal family is tied to it. Hillary clinton is tied to it. John podesta's tied to it. Hollywood actors tied to it. Harvey weinstein to everybody's died. Prove it prove it's not true. How do you do that. Proving negatives is actually kind of a hard thing to do. So it's always setup is proved negative. Prove to me. There's not a global conspiracy of human traffickers. Were satanists who are organized by the cia. Proved me. it's not true. Very hard to the left. Though i bring up and because i i've dismissive of it i don't believe it is true and the media roundly harped on a day every day. I read about how Churches are filled up with cunanan supporters. And i i've met. I've got friends of mine. Who are queuing on supporters. We've had q. Sympathetic members of congress. Now but it's kind of fading away. I'm now hearing way more members of the media. Talk about it. Then i am actual in the media actual human beings in the real world. Nobody seems to be focused on anymore. If anything because so much of it was not true it it got discredited the whole idea that donald trump was coming back. He was going to be to office etc etc etc. It hadn't happened. But there's a new conspiracy theory out there and it's not a conspiracy theory on the right. It's a conspiracy theory on the left. It's a conspiracy theory. Put out by the global elite. And you got to prove him wrong. But you can't really again really prove it wrong it. You can't really. you can't really say anything against it. Our play for you again. The story conway clip. I played earlier. Listen listen to part of this conversation but it really was a remarkable speech that he gave last night. I mean he's just downplaying. The most significant disagreement. You could ever possibly have which is whether or not democracy in the united states should continue. I mean the of former president basically tried to. He tried incited and insurrection. That was essentially trying to stop the election of his successor and mike pence vice president pence to his credit stood up for the law stood up for the constitution. It's just not something where you can just say. Well we don't quite see eye to eye about it like it might be whether or not you should spend fifty million dollars more or less on infrastructure. He's downplaying the most significant disagreement. You would ever possibly have. Which is whether or not democracy in the united states should continue and rachel Bit golfer is a democratic strategist sheet. She made her claim to fame was on polling. She's a statistician in believes. She can call elections right. She doesn't always call them right She got twenty eighteen. Twenty twenty right which you didn't have to be a super strategies to do but now that's made her some sort of intellectual heavyweight on the left but listen listen to this. This is her campaign and electioneering. A cemetry has left us in the position where we're watching democracy collapse so it is time i mean i. It's being you know attacked in pearl harbor. We had a horrible right. We've been living through it. It's been a slow running event but with trump's comments about the election integrity from the beginning the beginning of the presidential cycle. We now see a about thirty five percents of our fellow. Americans think that joe biden stunned up stole the presidency and they're seeing that message reinforced all through their ecosystem. Right and our side seeing is not that stuff right. Many people who vote voted in Like what. I call the trump against coalition. They've they are complacent democracy. We're about to lose. our democracy. Democracy is dying democracies going away. Matthew dowd i played this one as well from msnbc but if we can't even get a commission and the president has said he's not going to do a blue ribbon commission of his own on january. Six what else can be done to make sure that the full truth of january sixth comes out in your view. Well i mean the first part of the thing is to demonstrate that this is the most important issue of our time. And i think it's actually the most important issue in the last hundred and fifty years since the civil war because we're at that point in our history where this could really fall apart. Our our grand experiment could completely follow our our listening to what they're saying. Listen to this. This is the commentary on. Cnn animus nbc. Our democracy is falling apart. Our democracy is on the verge of glassy. We've got to have the the house of the senate they've gotta pass this one piece of legislation. How would one piece of legislation save the democracy. How is the republic to go on. This is a democratic conspiracy. Theory this cunanan for the left. They looked at january six. And what happened. On january six people moved into the capital stormy to the capital colored. Insurrection called a tourist mob. Whatever you want to go where they successful no in fact. What we saw is that in every state that mattered for the election. The governor's in charge. Did the right thing. Brian kemp in georgia did not violate his constitutional oath of office. Doug ducey in. Arizona did not violate his constitutional oath of office. The very secretaries of state and members of congress. They did not violate their oath of office even questioning. The electoral college vote was not a violation of their oath of office. They're allowed constitutionally allowed to question the the electric i would disagree with them on that In some of their conclusions but they're allowed to do it to say that our democracy is on the verge of collapse to say that the the days of the american republic are at an end is a conspiracy theory. It is a factual nonsense. It is not true and yet because members of the media believe it you yourself are supposed to believe it and you you by the way you you can't disprove it any more than you could disprove co q. On they think it's so so it must be so prove wrong. Prove them wrong and you say well what happened on. Jake's congress got the job but did you see the people that you see that people. Yeah i saw the people once accessible the e buffalo bison helmeted idiot it day and in the capital but but he was there he was there and what he's he's going to jail now but he was there and he's willing to jail about that.