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Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Operation Atlantic Resolve
"Well then, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. Bob France sitting in and yeah, you hear the music, you know where I'm coming to you from. Cleveland, Ohio, the home base, therelieffactor .com studios if you will. Our WHK radio, AM1420, the answer here in Cleveland, Ohio. An honor to be sitting in for Dennis once again. And of course today being Yom Kippur, which is why Dennis is off today. As he has of course been celebrating the holy days and starting back with Rosh Hashanah. The Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And it's a wonderful thing. It really is. I kind of have to familiarize myself not being Jewish myself. I have to familiarize myself with some of the days and some of the reasons and the explanations for the calendar. And Yom Kippur is one of the ones that to me is the most solemn. A Day of Atonement, a day of reflection and looking inside and asking for forgiveness for the shortcomings that perhaps we have and so forth. And so to Dennis and to everyone who is commemorating and or celebrating and or taking part in participating in the Yom Kippur day today. This very important Day of Atonement. God's blessings to you all. Seriously, really appreciate that. In the meantime, we've got work to do. We have a lot of very important things to talk about and I want you to be a part of the show. 8 Prager776, that's 877 -243 -7776. I want to know, is it acceptable for me to be concerned with the plight of others but being unwilling to do any more than I have already done? And yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about Ukraine. Yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about the 113 billion dollars we have already sent to Ukraine to help them ward off the invasion of the Soviet, well, the Russians. Who are trying to rebuild the Soviet empire, I suppose, if you think that they are going to not stop in Ukraine and then advance to other European nations and so forth. I don't think so. I don't think they have the ability to do that any longer. I don't think they are the fearsome foe they were when the Soviet bloc was, of course, raining havoc on Eastern Europe and raining havoc on the world. But I want to talk about the Ukrainian situation. Here's two reasons. Two reasons why. The first of which is the fact that in Canada, over the weekend in front of the Canadian Parliament, the Lord Mayor Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, who came to the United States for the second time, hat in hand, saying please drop all you can into the hat here so that we can go back and continue our war with Russia. They came looking for more money, asking for another 25 billion dollars. And again, I'll get to the point about how I feel about spending that money and how I feel about it going forward in a moment, but he came to the United States and then he went up to Canada. And he went up to Canada before the Canadian Parliament and he sat there and he asked for support and financial remunerations from the Canadians as well. And the Canadians, of course, listened happily. And, you know, we're all all for supporting this. But what they did after that is something that is quite simply incomprehensible to me. Canadian organizations Jewish are among those now slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving voice to and a standing ovation to a man who fought for the Nazis during World War II. All because he is Ukrainian. All because he's Ukrainian. Video and photos show the Canadian Parliament erupting into cheers on Friday after President Zelensky's visit to the capital of Ottawa, when Canadian lawmakers also honored Yaroslav Hunka, a 98 -year -old Ukrainian immigrant who fought for the 1st Ukrainian Division, according to the Toronto Star, the division also known as the Waffen -SS Galicia Division, which fought for the Nazis and its paramilitary arm. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement, the fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to... And by the way, this story that I'm starting with, this day, this first hour, this story is not because of today being the Jewish Day of Atonement. This is outrageous. This is when it happened is when it happened. Understand that. The fact that it is occurring, though that we're talking about this and it just happened during these holy days, is another point entirely. The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising anti -Semitism and Holocaust distortion, it's incredibly disturbing to see Canada's Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen -SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others, and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials. Some are calling for full -throated apologies from Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and from Ukrainian President Zelensky. This honor was given to a Ukrainian because everything now has to go Ukraine's way, because Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. We have to come up with untold, unlimited amounts of treasure and time for anything having to do with Ukraine. So they brought a Nazi military fighter, 98 -year -old Nazi fighter in World War II before the Canadian Parliament, and because he's Ukrainian, he got a standing ovation. That's how, beside ourselves, I think we've become with this, we have to do anything and everything we can to help Ukraine. So that's number one. The second reason, by the way, is we continue to try to make some sense out of the, you know, now that we have the actual official figures confirmed by the White House of $113 billion already spent in support of Ukraine. In addition to that, they say that our commitment to helping Ukraine has no end and there is no cost limit. They will do this no matter what the cost for however long it takes. The problem is, of course, there is no end game in sight. There's no end to the commitment that has been identified. When does it end? What standard would it be to say no matter how long it takes to finish the thought? Chuck Schumer? Joe Biden? Mitch McConnell? I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican. If you are giving an unended blank check, an unending blank check to Ukraine, what does that mean? What does that look like? You say for as long as it takes to... fill in the blank. What? Does every Russian in Ukraine have to retreat back across the border or is that not enough? Does every Russian have to leave Crimea, the peninsula that Russia took in 2014 when Obama was president? Or do they just have to stop bombing and stop the fighting? What exactly does it mean to say we're going to give this money until... or I'm sorry, no matter how long it takes to do what? Define the end game. There isn't one.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "ukrainian" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Were wounded the Ukrainian military said Friday's attack had targeted a meeting Russian Navy's leadership in the city of Sevastopol it is 535 after a summer of extreme weather more Americans say they are personally feeling the impacts of climate change but like many things these days there's a political divide the new poll found significant differences between Democrats and Republicans among those who did experience extreme weather 93 % of Democrats are more certain that climate change is a factor compared to just half of Republicans Ronald Livingston of Clute Texas says he's keeping an open mind he's not of sure human activity is causing climate change but he says it was so hot this summer he could barely go outside he also believes that hurricanes are getting stronger Associated Press reporter Jennifer Quinn the poll was conducted earlier this month by the Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research well coming up in money news after traffic in and five weather one americans are doing this i'm jeff label and then not all federal programs would be affected if there's a government shutdown we'll go into that 536 from taking on extra shifts to years the of hard work the success you've already had matters at university of maryland global campus because we're a school for real real life an accredited state university umgc lets you transfer
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) on the Crack-Up in the House GOP Caucus
"United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at CBP .gov slash career slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale, Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q4Hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Hi Canada, Hugh Hewitt live inside of Studio North here and on the Salem News Channel. Good morning. A lot happened overnight. The Ukrainian armored columns pushing towards the Sea of Azov broke through the last line of Russian defenses. It's a narrow breakthrough, but it is a breakout. The Telegraph of Great Britain reporting that the Ukrainian military punched through a section of Russia's main defensive line on the southern front with an armored assault for the first time. Video footage from the front lines is seen. The Wall Street Journal followed with Ukraine sends first armored vehicles through breach in Russian defenses. That would be a significant milestone in the three and a half month counter offensive aimed at cutting Russia's occupying army in two. Too bad they don't have the attack. Joe Biden has refused to send. This would be over at this point. Senator J .D. Vance made a good point yesterday that Joe Biden wants blank check. Doesn't have a strategy. Well, he's incoherent. That's why I didn't have a strategy. And as a result, some Republicans, I think up to 30 of the 265 senators and Republicans who are up there are turning against Ukraine aid because Joe Biden can't lead. He can't articulate. Speaking of which, presidents in a world of hurt this morning. I mean, a world of hurt. Not only is he getting crushed on the migrant invasion, it's not a flow, it's not an influx, it's not a new wave. It is quite simply an invasion. Hundreds of thousands of people, 10 ,000 people a day are being met, greeted and turned loose. And those are the people that we see at the border. And President Biden got up at a fundraiser last night, repeated the same thing twice within two minutes. John Lemire of AP reporting, giving people pause. Then he went over to the Congressional Latino Caucus to address them. And he said this again. It's the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he's talking to, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Joe Biden says this cut number 12. I mean, this is certainly my dad. You say everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "ukrainian" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"UAW members. He's doing that instead of taking part in the Republican debate set for Wednesday tonight now to the war in Ukraine Ukraine says it has killed a top Russian military figure in the attack on Russia's Black Sea fleet headquarters WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green tells us Admiral Viktor Sokolov the commander of Russia's Black Sea fleet according to multiple Ukrainian military sources was killed killed in a missile strike on the headquarters he according to these sources was not alone 33 were reportedly killed in perhaps the most audacious attack by Ukraine's military on the occupied peninsula of Crimea what this attack shows is that Crimea rather Ukraine has excellent signals intelligence collections capabilities because they said this attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials not only did 34 officers die and a number of them presumably high -ranking but another 105 Russian military personnel were wounded the Ukrainian military said Friday's attack had targeted a meeting Russian Navy's leadership in the city of Sevastopol it is 535
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 14 Ukraine's Top Tranny Gets Fired. Russell Brand vs. The World. Thinking About Rome?
"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, happy Saturday. Thought Crimes, how often do you think about the Roman Empire? We ask that question more than you might believe. We also talk about the differences between men and women, micro versus macro. We cover Russell Brand, Ukraine, and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Become a member to listen to our show advertiser free at charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. And as always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. What you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. The revolution continues, we can still commit thought crimes. For now, joining us tonight is fan favorite, 10 out of 10 rated, Blake Neff. Say hi, Blake. Hello. That's where he goes. Hi, Blake. Andrew. Andrew Colvitt. Yes. Hello, sir. Andrew and Jack Pessobic. I can't wait for the Halloween episode where Blake is like, Okay, let's dive right into it. Jack, true or false? We got a tranny fired. True. 100 % true. Although, if I might add, the tranny has not just been fired. This is in the quote unquote Sarah Ashton Cirillo, actually known as Mike Ashton Cirillo, the spokes tranny for the Ukrainian military. Not just fired, but actually placed under military investigation. So very excited. Not a good thing to be under military. So do we have the tape? We have the tape of her talking about the Russian devils. And then the question is, was there a Russian devil that was taken up by other means, which actually segues to our second topic? We'll see. That is a real thought, crime. But Jack, build this out. You're on some sort of Ukrainian hit list. Ukrainian government wants you dead. So Jack, tell us about it, and then we'll get to it. So yeah, the Ukrainian government, specifically their intelligence service, the SBU, has this roughly to peacemaker, but it's been referred to as a kill list or a hit list where they will place people that they consider to be quote enemies of Ukraine. And now Elon Musk appeared on this list at one point. The pope appeared on this list at one point. Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald are on this list. And while we might think it's funny or silly, there's actually an American hostage right now that's being held by the Ukrainian government, a blogger and YouTuber by the name of Gonzalo Lira, who was living in Ukraine and was posting on his YouTube channel that he disagreed with Zelensky's government. He was then summarily arrested by the special services of Ukraine and has since disappeared. There have also been people that were placed on this list, including an Italian journalist, Andrea Rochelli, and numerous Russian bloggers, as well as one girl who's the daughter of a Russian political figure who were assassinated in Russia using car bombs and other improvised explosive devices after being placed on this list. After their killings, their entries on this dossier list wrote liquidated. So I was placed on this list and I was made aware of that earlier this week, right around the same time that you were really exposing everything, this American, I guess the word is American recruit for Ukrainian forces. Ashton Cirillo was saying in this completely unhinged rant, saying all Russian propagandists will be hunted down wherever you are and your teeth will Nash as we we we show you justice, only he's not the one who was dishing out the justice. It turns out he's actually the one who's facing justice now. And so let's play the tape here. And this is now play cut 22. Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "ukrainian" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Jeff Gilbert, CBS News, Detroit. U .S. tanks are on the ground in Ukraine. CBS's Charlie Agra. Official confirmation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that American supplied Abrams tanks are already in Ukraine. It's the first of 31 promised tanks and it's ahead of schedule, although it's not certain how many have arrived in this first delivery. It comes as Ukrainian forces report a significant it blew to Russia's fleet in the Black Sea. Here at home, transportation officials have opened an investigation into a jet blue flight that hit severe turbulence today on its way from Ecuador to South Florida. Eight people, including a flight attendant, had to be taken to the hospital. Usher on CBS was mornings today talking about his big Super Bowl news. He's performing in the halftime show. 30 years ago I made a commitment to offer my best and here 30 years later now it's being rewarded with one of the most prestigious performances and stages anybody
The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"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 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, 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 at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Fresh update on "ukrainian" discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"I feel like that bumper music is being directed at me. Whenever I'm down, I call on you, my friend. Well, here's France saying, too bad, you can't call on me. I kind of feel like that was intentional. Whether it was or wasn't, I don't know. But I am struggling with this. When the Ukrainian war started, by the way, welcome back. Bob France sitting in for Dennis Prager happily here on The Dennis Prager Show. It's 21 minutes past the hour. We've got a couple of guests we're going to talk about some of this with, including Jim Jordan. That will be in the third hour today. When the Ukrainian conflict first started, and by that I mean let's call it what it is, when the Russian invasion first happened, I spoke with a Ukrainian soldier whose contact of there's a pretty strong Ukrainian-American population here in Northeast Ohio where I come to you live from today. A friend of a friend put me in contact with a soldier who was actually fighting for Ukraine. He said, I want to see just a few short weeks into the incursion or the invasion. We talked, and I talked about how our hearts were with them and our support was for them and we're going to help supply you with some weapons and so forth. Because it was just the right thing to do. It was the right way to feel. Because no one should have their borders violated, their sovereignty stolen, their people killed and so forth in such an aggressive manner by the way. That's just how I felt. I felt that way for quite some time. We can help them. Of course, we can't be alone in helping them. We have to do some things that are in concert with some of the other actions that are being taken by, let's say, I don't know, some of our NATO allies in Eastern Europe, the ones who are much, much more directly impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine than we are. But yeah, we can support. And as time has gone on and as the checks continue to flow, you know, the money from my paycheck and your paycheck and millions of Americans' paychecks that have money taken out of them every single week by the federal government against our will to be used for federal government purposes, many of which we support and some of which we say, you know, not really sure if I need to have any more of my money taken away from me and given to President Volodymyr Zelensky to be used in whatever ways I don't even know in Ukraine. I don't know. As far as I know, that money might be, you know, sent to Ukraine and then laundered and circled through, I don't know, one or 20 different shell companies through Ukrainian energy companies and ended up right in the pockets of the entire Biden family because that's a real concern. That's a real thing. I don't know. I want some transparency. I want some light shed on where the money is going. So as the time has gone on and now just literally about a month or so ago, we got confirmation from the White House, thanks to the demands put forth by Republicans in control in the House, to find out exactly how much, what's the price tag thus far been. And we got confirmation that it's $113 billion and growing. And again, they say, no matter how much, no matter how long it takes. Which brings me to the second part of my open here.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 05:00 09-22-2023 05:00
"Investment Advisors, switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. Including Bloomberg surveillance, Bloomberg Daybreak, Masters in Business, and Bloomberg Business Week are also available as podcasts. Listen today on Apple, Spotify, the Bloomberg Business app, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Lawmakers fail to make progress on talks as a U .S. government shutdown looms. Auto workers are set to ramp up their strike in Detroit. And Microsoft clears a major hurdle as it aims to acquire Activision Blizzard. It's believed a faulty tire caused a deadly bus crash in New York State, plus Ukrainian President Zelensky visits the White House. I'm Michael Barr, more ahead. I'm John Stasch here in Swartz, the giant beaten soundly by the 49ers, a loss for the Mets, a win for Garret Cole and the Yankees. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak, on Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington D .C., Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119, and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business app. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. And I'm Taryn Moscow, and U .S. stock index futures are higher this morning. S &P futures up about two -tenths of an inch.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "ukrainian" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Two hypersonic missiles launched toward the country overnight. Most of those attacks targeting Odessa. At the same time, Russia's air defense claims that it took down four Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and Crimean the peninsula. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's trip to North America last week secured new rounds of aid, including Washington's latest $325 million package. And those Abrams tanks that were promised back in January, well they have finally arrived on Ukrainian soil. In London, Alex Hogan, Fox News. Residents in Maui are finally being allowed back to their properties in Haina, which was mostly destroyed by this summer's wildfire. At least 97 people were killed by the flames and smoke last month. It's been nearly seven weeks since the Pegdilau family has walked around hometown their of Lahaina. Their painful first steps were made at this memorial to pay respect to their patriarch, Pablo Pegdilau III, another name added to a long row of crosses, each one a family member lost to the Lahaina in a fire. The family ended their visit together in prayer. For what is left. CBS Jonathan correspondent Vigliani, there are at least 2 ,000 and homes buildings were destroyed by the fire. Officials are urging people not to sift through the ashes for fear of raising missing toxic dust. The government is now offering free COVID tests. You can order up to four tests at no charge per household through covidtest .gov. That will link you to postal the service website. The first test is expected to be shipped out next week. The White House is reopening
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Week in Review - Episode 24
"Cycling isn't just cycling. It can be cycling or cycling or even cycling. Peloton isn't just one thing. We have classes that will ease you in and classes that will make you sweat and a range of instructors so you can find your match. Whatever you're in the mood for, we can get you in the zone. See for yourself with a worry free 30 day home trial. Visit one Peloton dot com slash home dash trial terms apply. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's just about everything that's happened this week. I'm Eric Hanson, and we begin with President Trump, who made some controversial statements about abortion this week and called Ron DeSantis's six week abortion ban a terrible mistake. We might as well get this out of the way. We got President Trump with an answer to Kristen Welker on NBC's Meet the Press and her debut as the new host, which gave a lot of ammunition to Trump haters who want to hurt him and try to wreck his chances of becoming the nominee in 2024. This is an interesting dilemma that Republicans have. Here's the dilemma. Pro -life fighting for the sanctity of those unborn babies, the sanctity of their lives, the sacredness of the innocent. That's a centerpiece that's foundational for the Republican Party. And whether we like it or not, this particular debate that we're having in America over abortion is crushing us at the ballot box. And Donald Trump, I believe, was trying to address that with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Let's get it out of the way. I've been dreading this all weekend. Well, it wasn't all weekend. I mean, this first broke, I think, Saturday. They gave a little preview of his answer. I don't love his answer, but I also don't love the way Trump critics are pouncing on him, claiming he's not pro -life. I got into a big knockdown drag out, as I expected I would with my friend Mark Davis in Dallas, because Mark is now hell bent on proclaiming that Donald Trump is not pro -life. And he's saying that because of this exchange with Kristen Welker yesterday on Meet the Press. If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were re -elected, would you sign it at 15 weeks? Are you talking about a complete ban? A ban at 15 weeks? Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now. Would you sign that? I would I would sit down with both sides and I negotiate something and we'll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years. I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, the sanctus would really design a five week and six week ban. Would you support that? I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. But we'll come up with a number. But at the same time, Democrats won't be able to go out in six months, seven months, eight months and allow an abortion. Now, there are people who took that answer and proclaimed that Donald Trump is not pro -life, like it's important to proclaim or make some kind of declaration that he is not pro -life. I believe it's ridiculous to claim that a guy who's the only president to ever attend the March for Life, the guy who promised to get Roe v. Wade overturned because that was terrible federal. That was a terrible federal ruling and appointed Supreme Court justices who did just that to claim that Donald Trump is not pro -life is preposterous. It's absurd. It's virtue signaling. And perhaps it's just. The opportunistic way you chalk up some points for Ron DeSantis, because clearly Team DeSantis is pouncing on Donald Trump over this remark. I believe two things can be true at the same time. You can be pro -life and you can acknowledge that this issue is killing us at the ballot box. And we're losing elections. So President Trump has some campaign trouble to manage. Meanwhile, our current president can barely navigate a simple speech. If you miss Joe Biden at the U .N. this week, well, buckle up. Remember when Trump went to the United Nations and gave a really good speech and the media freaked out and said how goofy and wild and unpresidential and unprecedented it was, they had a complete meltdown and he gave a really decent speech. Compare that to the appearance of Joe Biden yesterday at the U .N. Now, even as we have all our institutions and drive creative new partnerships. Let me be clear. Certain principles of our international system are sacrosanct. Both Biden and Kamala Harris do the same thing when they say, let me be clear, run for the hills, because when they say, let me be clear, you're going to see nothing but mud and gibberish. I mean, babbling incoherently in front of the United Nations. And if that wasn't wild enough, you've got the Ukrainian President Zelensky. He marches in with his entourage. You know, I used to say I was torn about Ukraine. People that I respect insist that we have got to continue to fund the Ukrainian battle with Russia, that the American people have to help Ukraine with its border. We dare not have a wall for our own border, but we better, by God, help Ukraine with theirs. We better fund them. We better give them the missiles they want. We got to give them the ammunition they need. We need to. We got to stop Vladimir Putin. And if you push back against that, you're a stooge for Vladimir Putin. You're a Putin puppet. Just ask Tucker Carlson. When Tucker dared to express the belief that the American people have bigger fish to fry than funding Ukraine, he was thoroughly denounced and renounced as a stooge of Vladimir Putin. So there goes Zelensky marching into the UN yesterday with his bodyguards and his entourage, and he gets up to that podium. And what he said was pretty stunning. I expected he would stand at that giant podium in front of that ugly green background at the UN and talk about the need to fund his military. Talk about Russia's aggression against the Ukrainian people. Talk about Ukraine's place in the whole worldview of things instead. We got this. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes. And then people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protest. We all have seen them and when people in Morocco and Libya and other countries die as a result of natural disasters and when islands and countries disappear underwater and when tornadoes and deserts are spreading into into new territories and when all of this is happening, one unnatural disaster in Moscow decided to launch a big war and killed the tens of thousands of people. No wonder loony leftists have the Ukrainian flag in their front yard. You would think the Ukrainian president had bigger problems than climate change. Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers hit the picket lines this week. They made a few modest demands like a 40 % pay raise in a four day work week. Speaking of the UAW strike, I watched Sean Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers Union on the Sunday morning news shows. And you know, I admit I'm not a real big fan of unions. In fact, quite the opposite. I kind of think that unions have helped destroy many aspects of our economic system. In fact, it's a commonly held view that pension plans that used to be in place contributed to the decline of the U S automakers. Well, now the UAW is demanding pensions come back. They want the old fashioned defined benefit plan. And as Bloomberg points out, pensions are not worth striking over. You know what I find interesting about the UAW dispute? I heard all the talking points about how the corporate executives at the big three automakers make too much money. That's a Bernie Sanders mantra. That's an Elizabeth Warren trope. The executives make too much. You know, a company can be producing billions of dollars of revenue, but the Bernie Sanders of the world want to cap what an executive at one of those companies earns, which I always find so fascinating. It's as if they want to equate the guy or gal on the assembly line with the big automakers. Well, they're not the same. I mean it'd be nice if everybody made the same amount of money in life hate to break it to your life doesn't work that way. Some people make more than others and admittedly a lot of it is luck. I don't deserve the living that I make, but I'm very blessed to make a good living. There are people make a lot more than I do and I don't begrudge them anything, but simply because somebody that might have a show on television might make 10 times what I make. I don't think I should make what they make simply because we do the same essentially same thing. I mean, and Democrats always have such hypocrisy on this issue. Like somebody just texted me, how many homes does Bernie Sanders have again? It's more than one. But here's something that I noticed when I heard Sean Fain, the president of the UAW talk about executives compensation and how we're not making enough and we're taking steps backwards. I mean, the fact of the matter is the union gave up the defined benefit pension plan in a previous negotiation. Now they want it back. When you give up a benefit like that, you're not going to get it back. That's not realistic. And here's what I'm interested in. You know what was missing from all the coverage of the UAW strike? They never talk about what auto make auto workers make. Now I kept hearing how somebody on the assembly line can't feed their family. Really? What do they make? I kept hearing that Sean Fain kept saying the auto workers have taken three steps backwards. Really? How much do they earn? I know what they want to make. They want a 40 % pay increase and they want to only work four days a week. Now that's a pretty good deal.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Nehls Shuts Down Rep. Nadler, Calls for AG Garland's Impeachment
"This decision making process correct so this is a really bad thing now i want you to watch and listen to the answer listen to the answer i was thinking on the podcast this is the answer but halfway through you can hear something you know twinkies jerry nadler the guy who uh... crap wrapped himself on the stage at a member that the wattle over the wattle you had like a diaper on some it really happen i show it to you but it's a radio show he's on the stage of you've never seen it is put in any search engine like uh... jerry nadler soils himself on stage and he's got a wattle off jerry nadler it's like the most cringy thing you've ever seen i owe you know where at my eyes go my eyes go down to the ankle cuz i mike is something like you know who's got to go somewhere so jerry nadler clearly an had accident so yesterday twinkies nadler thinks he's gonna interrupt nels who is definitely an alpha male and uh... nels is having none of it as he tells him to piped this out mister general what you just saw there was joe biden in his arrogance and role as the vice president in this country saying if you don't fire shokin the united states isn't given the one billion dollar loan why i would joe biden say that is the vice president why would he say such a thing was it policy was it our policy at the time yes or it wasn't i have documents here inter -agency policy committee dated information is the gentleman ever going to let the time on my time pipe down saying shocking had on the long -term reform texas he's made significant reforms choking did matter -of -fact john says he was impressive and you know within a few months after shocking was fired the appointed prosecutor that's it we're not going to look in the burisma anymore cancel it forget it we're not looking in the burisma boom here here comes the million dollars joe biden threaten the ukrainian president prime minister everybody can see it the fire shocking or the united states will get the billion dollars if that is not quick pro pro sir what is i i will tell you what it is in america agrees with me it's bribery and it's impeachable are you going to do something about
The Financial Guys
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.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: Reminder, Vladimir Putin Is the Criminal
"And that's a fair point. But why is it, why is it that if you have the view that the Ukrainian people and the country of Ukraine and the, the criminal here is Putin and his deletion of his army against the people of Ukraine and indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of and citizens kidnapping tens of thousands of children and bringing them into Russia to be taking them from their parents? You can understand, I think, why some people would say is that absolutely repulsive and unconscionable. So, what is this effort that constantly character assassinates Zelensky? First, to call him a neo -Nazi. He met with every rabbi, leading rabbi in the Chabad Orthodox Jewish from movement every community in Ukraine two weeks while the Jews are fleeing Russia, the rabbis are fleeing Russia. So, to call him a neo -Nazi when he lost, as well, family members in the church, it is just sickening. It is sickening. That is number one. Number two, if you stand with me, and if you don't, that is fine, but if you do, all then of a sudden, you are taking the same position
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 09-19-2023 12:00
"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. Buy that? Yeah, maybe they planted trees. Yeah, okay. And then they flew here. S &P 500 off six -tenths of one percent, NASDAQ off seven -tenths of one percent, 10 -year treasury 4 .33 percent. This is Bloomberg. There's no concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle, they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the U .S. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Radio. All right, coming up in this hour, we are waiting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to speak at the United Nations. When he does, we will bring that to you live. We're also going to check in with Siobhan Sutton, senior investment director, sustainable impact investing research at Cambridge Associates. Talk all about that, the climate, because it is climate week. It is climate week. So we're down with that. And the Instacart IPO, eventually it's going to get priced. We're going to check in with Mandeep Singh. He's a technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Get his thoughts on this company as he compares it to some of its peers as we wait for the trading of that one. But right now, let's kick this hour off with Charlie.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. J. D. Vance: Understanding the Military Threat Posed by China
"That's right and we're by and large not taking it seriously here's the way that I would put it is we can't disconnect the economic from the military power. I'm not saying you're trying to do that but a lot of people in Washington do. Why do we win World War II? Of because course of the brave troops but of course also because we had the most powerful military industrial capacity in the entire world. Let me throw a statistic out at you crazy crazy statistic and you and I agree on the Russia Ukraine war. I don't think we should be funding Ukrainians to the end of the world but set that aside. The Russians make in a day the number of artillery shells that the American military makes in a month. An economy one -tenth the size of our own is producing in a day what it takes us to produce them up. It's one of the reasons why so many Ukrainians have died and why the Russians still have a military edge to this day. If we cannot produce the modern weapons, the modern technology of war, and then the the Chinese are ultimately going to beat us and unfortunately what we've seen is we've lost the capacity to build our own weapons, to be self -sufficient, to have that powerful military industrial base that allowed us to win every war that the United States has ever fought. On top of that, the Chinese recognize this weakness advantage and of they're taking it. They're stealing more and more, they're spying more than more and I guess the message I'd give to you and your listeners Dan is we are probably 10 years ahead of this, more ahead of this than we think we that are. In other words, so much of Washington is looking 10 years in the past, we need to be looking 10 years in the future. The Chinese are thinking how can they get an edge? They already feel like they have a industrial military edge on us. One of the good things that we're really good at is producing next generation computer technology. They're trying to catch up as much as they possibly can because all the missiles and all the advanced weaponry requires those computer chips to function. So we're not taking this seriously. We're getting bogged down in Ukraine,
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Ukraine Mafia Threatens to Kill Tucker, Bannon, and Us
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Hey everybody, did the Ukrainian government just come out and say they want to murder American citizens that they don't like? Why is our government funding this in a chilling, shocking, almost hard to believe episode? We go through how the spokesperson for the Ukraine Defense Forces, who is trans, comes out and says that they will hunt down anyone who opposes the war in Russia, including yours truly. In this episode, you'll see how I proved the American government very well might be underwriting assassination threats against this podcast. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Support our program at charliekirk .com and click the membership button to become a member and to support us and keep these episodes going. If you want to listen to our episodes advertiser free, go to charliekirk .com and become a member. That is charliekirk .com and become a member. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com.
The Dan Bongino Show
'Mike Windell' Offers New Product Line of Evidence Against Joe Biden
"Why are we doing that? He's got a whole product line. I can't believe it. You know this whole, like, interesting phenomenon in the media about the Biden crime family, despite the litany of evidence from the SARs, to the prebop bank records, to the photos, to the emails, to the 1023s, to the FBI informant, to Bob Walensky, to Schwerin, to Devan Archer, to the meetings, to the voicemails, to the speakerphone calls, to the testimony, to the whistleblowers, all of that stuff. The liberal media continues to claim there's no evidence, and Lindell has struck again with a product line. It's the craziest. How he monetizes is amazing. Jim caught this on the dark web. It's just stunning. I just got to come out with this right away before we get to some other stuff. Check this Hello, I'm Mike Windbell. If you're looking for just the right things to convince you, Joe Biden was a foreign agent and involved in an influence peddling scheme with his family, I've got a deal for you. At My Evidence, I've got all the evidence you'll need. Check out our wide array of bank records, our crystal clear voicemails from Joe to Hunter, several choices of whistleblower testimony, plus premium king size emails, subscribble text messages, WhatsApp messages made exclusively with Egyptian cotton and so much more at My Evidence. And if you act now as a free gift, I'll fire a Ukrainian prosecutor. It's all available to you at the very low price of absolutely free. Just go to myevidence .com and enter promo code crackhead. Thank I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I screwed that up. That was when Mike with that totally different guy with a different and I don't know how I messed that up. I check ours. I say we can't Bill McCarthy,
Mark Levin
House Speaker McCarthy Launches Biden Impeachment Inquiry
"The Treasury Department alone has more than 150 transactions involving the Biden family and other business associates that were flagged as suspicious activity by U .S. banks. Even a trusted FBI informant has alleged a bribe to the Biden family. Biden used his official office to coordinate with Hunter Biden's business partners about Hunter's role in Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Finally, despite these serious allegations, it appears that the president's family has been offered special treatment to own administration, treatment that not otherwise would have received if they were not related to the president. These are allegations of abuse of power, corruption, and they warrant further investigation in business. Now, I can understand why Democrats reject this because they hate our country and they want power for themselves. So they're not to be taken seriously. They're dangerous a group that reprobates miscreants and malcontents. But I cannot understand a single Republican who would say no, no, there's not enough information there. Whether it's the Hunter Biden deal, which was really intended to protect Joe Biden, even the current, likely, they say, indictment on gun charges again, as I've explained from day one, intended to protect this president from any tax issues or other related issues. The cover -up the by mob boss, the so -called Attorney General of the United States, the IRS whistleblower testimony about obstruction into their
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.
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Monitor Show 23:00 09-06-2023 23:00
"Interactive brokers, clients earn up to USD 4 .83 % on their uninvested, instantly available cash balances rate subject to change. Visit IBKR dot com slash interest rates to learn more Friday at 6 p .m. Eastern right here on Bloomberg Radio. And that does it for this episode of Bloomberg Best. I'm Justin Milliner. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg dot com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. A heatwave is expected to bring 100 degree temperatures to tens of millions of Americans this week. The eastern and central U .S. were sizzled over the holiday weekend, with some cities seeing record highs. It was in the 90s Tuesday in places like Philadelphia, Washington, D .C., New York City and Chicago. The Biden administration says North Korea will pay a price if it provides weapons to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine. We will continue to call on North Korea to abide by its public commitments, not to supply weapons to Russia that will end up killing Ukrainians. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters today discussions between the two countries are actively advancing. He said Russia's defense minister recently made a trip to North Korea to ask for weapons. A Georgia judge says the state can resume its ban on health care for transgender youth. Senate Bill 140 initially took effect July 1st, but Judge Sarah Garrity put the bill on hold, saying transgender children faced imminent risks from the health care ban. On Tuesday, Judge Garrity announced keeping the injunction in place is no longer possible due to a ruling that allowed a similar ban in Alabama to take effect. California U .S. Representative Josh Harder is introduced to the bill.
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"It's going in the category with the gas stoves and all the rest. Absolutely not. Yes, it is. Yeah. Gas stoves, shower heads, toilets, dishwashers. Thank you for humoring me, Jeannie Shanzeno and Lisa Kamuso Miller. I guess we're playing this out, everybody. Grab a beer. We've got more to go here. In fact, we're going to look ahead to the return of Congress coming up next week. Yes, you too. You better rest up this weekend. I'm Joe Matthew. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. From four years that Biden has been there, people are going to say I was doing better then than I am now. Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy and perspective from D .C.'s top name. So you got to work to get people back to work, but not only that, but to higher paying jobs. The Russian threat is being degraded and unfortunately is being degraded at the cost of Ukrainian lives, blood, treasure. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. It's the last stop before Congress returns to D .C. Welcome to hour two of Sound On with jobs data now under the bridge today in the last blast of summer ahead this weekend. We look forward to next week when senators begin trickling back into the Capitol in a busy agenda that includes funding the government, keeping it from shutting down all amid questions over the health of Republican leader Mitch McConnell. We're going to get into it with Bloomberg congressional reporter Stephen Dennis. He's got his agenda ready with insights as well from Lester Munson at BGR Government Affairs. He was chief of staff for Senator Mark Kirk. When he.
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Monitor Show 13:00 09-01-2023 13:00
"In coordinates as far as some of the news that we've gotten out of some of these weight loss drugs but always great stuff uh Simone getting your perspective on all things this and always a pleasure being able to co -host with you as well. Oh thanks it's a pleasure being able to co -host with you too ahead of the Labor Day weekend. Right we do hear uh Matt Miller, Paul Sweeney we should be back next week so stay tuned for that but always a pleasure here but Jess Moon Foxman Sound On with Joe Mathew starts right now. We're totally different from four years that Biden has been there people are going to say I was doing better then than I am now. Bloomberg Sound On politics policy and perspective from DC's top name. So you got to work to get people back to work but not only that but to higher paying jobs. The Russian threat is being degraded and unfortunately it's being degraded at the cost of Ukrainian lives, blood, treasure. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Mathew on Bloomberg Radio. Is this the soft landing or the peak? Welcome to the fastest show in politics on this jobs day. We'll review another apparent Goldilocks report the White House is celebrating with the acting Secretary of Labor Julie Hsu with us in a moment here and we'll also take a deep dive with Mark Zandi the chief economist at Moody's Analytics who seems pretty upbeat about things so far today. President Biden as I mentioned celebrating the news we'll talk about that with our political panel. Bloomberg politics contributor democratic analyst Jeannie Shanzano joined today by Republican strategist Lisa Camuso Miller. She's back with us from Reset Public Affairs the former community.
WTOP
"ukrainian" Discussed on WTOP
"The destruction of a ukrainian dam an underwater expedition is under to fight is on to find a missing titanic tour submarine stay with us for more details on these stories in the minutes ahead it's 6 18. traffic a mother on the ace dave dole line in the wtop traffic center kyle beltway virginia outer loop slow route seven tyson's past 66 authorities are dragging the damaged cars involved in the crash from the left lane onto the right shoulder and right this very second all lanes are re -open on the outer loop all main and express lanes are open on 95 beltway south traffic is starting to loosen up near the american legion bridge but still sluggish on uh... residual a damp pavement but the rain has tapered off their thankfully so little relief in terms of traffic and weather 270 southbound few slow a stretches between urbana and german town on seventy eastbound slow traffic beyond moonsborough toward the south mountain rest area that's likely uh... the result of a new crash river road eastbound near bradley there was a crash reported earlier but that one is clear bay bridge traffic's getting better westbound just a couple miles of sluggish traffic through stevensville it's much better than it was earlier and uh... the pace is uh... improving greatly beyond baydale dr and richie highway eastbound moving well across ninety five bw parkway little southbound slowing your thirty two but not bad beltway to beltway well the tlp traffic now to seven news first alert meteorologist steve rudin we have marked pain you live mark what's the latest out there on the storms we've been tracking yeah
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"ukrainian" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Several weeks ago, Seymour hersh, a longtime, a lifelong leftist. Did a bombshell post on his substack, I believe, but certainly he did a blog post. Basically saying, I have evidence that the United States Navy divers from Florida blew up the Nord stream pipeline. And he gave a lot of detail, which was came out of nowhere. The most he was able to do is point a sources that were inside the U.S. government that told him this. And then there was a kind of long silence the media sort of not touching this article it sort of radioactive, even though Seymour hersh has a record of breaking major stories, I believe he broke the story of the my lai, the milai massacre in the Vietnam era. Nevertheless, this article has gone, you may say, untouched by the western media. I talked about it on the podcast, but it's coverage has been very muted. And now something very interesting from The New York Times, quote, intelligence suggests pro Ukrainian groups, sabotage pipelines, U.S. officials say. Now, according to this New York Times article, a huge change, obviously, for the first time here is a major media outlet acknowledging our side blew up the Nord stream pipeline. But they're saying not Biden, and they're saying not even zelensky. They're saying this is not something that was done by kind of Ukrainian officials or say, but some kind of renegade Ukrainian group. U.S. officials said there was much they did not know about the perpetrators and their affiliations. They did not specify the members of the group or who directed or paid for the operation. They implied was quote a proxy force with connections to the Ukrainian government.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"ukrainian" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Could be reached in 12 years time if interest rates remain elevated. She adds the bank could get there even sooner if it's able to cut costs and accelerate revenue growth. Those are our top stories this morning coming up next on Bloomberg daybreak, Europe will be getting back to our markets conversation and talking about what's moving with Janet mui head of market analysis at RBC brew and dolphin. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Ukraine defense minister adviser, Yuri sac. Now we have said a long time ago that with the courage and determination of the Ukrainian armed forces, we were able to and of course with the help of the military assistance that we received from our allies, we were able to stabilize the front and we are now getting ready for our counter offensive, which we hope will begin soon. Now, because our military objective remains the complete the occupation of Ukrainian territories and restoring peace in Ukraine as well as in Europe. So the tanks, the tanks, which will be provided to Ukraine by the tank coalition, international tank coalition will be instrumental in helping Ukrainian army break through the defense lines of the enemy on the temporary occupied territories and we are seeing that the tanks, the first tanks are already on their way, and we hope that the tank coalition will continue stepping up their efforts and sending us more. To move out another year in this terrible war, can those tanks drive to Crimea? Do you perceive a linkage of what Kyiv wants on Crimea with what the allies want on Crimea? I think the key and allies are aligned when it comes to the situation with Crimea because everybody recognizes that Crimea is an internationally recognized territory of Ukraine, which has been illegally annexed in 2014. But when it comes to the actual format in which Crimea will be returned to Ukraine, our military will take that decision
Bloomberg Radio New York
"ukrainian" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In your podcast feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Ukraine defense minister adviser. Yuri suck. Now, we have said a long time ago that with the courage and determination of the Ukrainian armed forces, we were able to and of course with the help of the military assistance that we received from our allies, we were able to stabilize the front and we are now getting ready for our counter offensive, which we hope will begin soon. Now, because our military objective remains the complete the occupation of Ukrainian territories and restoring peace in Ukraine as well as in Europe. So the tanks, the tanks, which will be provided to Ukraine by the tank coalition international tank coalition will be instrumental in helping Ukrainian army break through the defense lines of the enemy on the temporary occupied territories and we are seeing that the tanks, the first tanks are already on their way. And we hope that the tank coalition will continue stepping up their efforts and sending us more. To move out another year in this terrible war, can those tanks drive to Crimea? Do you perceive a linkage of what Kyiv wants on Crimea with what the allies want on Crimea? I think the key and allies are aligned when it comes to the situation with Crimea because everybody recognizes that Crimea is an internationally recognized territory of Ukraine, which has been illegally annexed in 2014. But when it comes to the actual format in which Crimea will be returned to Ukraine, our military will take that decision
AP News
"ukrainian" Discussed on AP News
"Here tense battles are continuing between Russian and Ukrainian forces. When Ukrainian soldier called vitali told the AP fighting as fierce along the front line and that positions change every day, part of the haq region is still under Russian control. Standing in a forest several kilometers from fighting positions, a priest sprinkled water to bless the soldiers of Ukraine's 14th separate mechanized brigade, today the whole world is amazed by your feet, he told them. The brigade also took part in the ceremony where some were given medals for bravery and attempt to boost morale as the war stretched on with no clear end in sight, a day after the grim one year anniversary was marked, Ukrainian officials reported dozens of new Russian strikes and attacks on cities in the east and south of Ukraine. I am Karen Chammas. Pope Francis has said that financial misconduct by Vatican personnel harms the church's mission, as scandalizes the faithful, Francis made the comments during an address to prosecutors as well as judges and staff at the Vatican City state tribunal at the start of the judicial year. The tribunal has had an ever growing caseload as it imposes new financial standards, a trial is currently ongoing into the holy season investment in a London property, lawyers for the ten defendants in the case have flagged shortcomings in the Vatican's legal system, while not mentioning the London case specifically Francis warned the focus should be on the seriousness of the conducts not on nitty Gritty. I'm Karen Chammas, a rally in Berlin, calling for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, has drawn thousands of people from across the political spectrum. Protesters chanted in
Bloomberg Radio New York
"ukrainian" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg surveillance podcast, a conversation with Ukraine, defense minister adviser, Yuri sac. Now we have said a long time ago that with the courage and determination of the Ukrainian armed forces, we were able to and of course with the help of the military assistance that we received from our allies, we were able to stabilize the front and we are now getting ready for our counter offensive, which we hope will begin soon. Now, because our military objective remains the complete the occupation of Ukrainian territories and restoring peace in Ukraine as well as in Europe. So the tanks, the tanks, which will be provided to Ukraine by the tank coalition international tank coalition will be instrumental in helping Ukrainian army break through the defense lines of the enemy on the temporary occupied territories and we are seeing that the tanks, the first tanks are already on their way. And we think that the tank coalition will continue stepping up their efforts and sending us more. To move out another year in this terrible war, can those tanks drive to Crimea? Do you perceive a linkage of what Kyiv wants on Crimea with what the allies want on Crimea? I think the key and allies are aligned when it comes to the situation with Crimea because everybody recognizes that Crimea is an internationally recognized territory of Ukraine, which has been illegally annexed in 2014. But when it comes to the actual format in which Crimea will be returned to Ukraine, our military will take that decision
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
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Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"As we talked about early in the show, it's been a year today since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. The war has cost thousands of lives and devastated many Ukrainian cities. During president Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv this week, he told Ukraine's president, the Americans stand with you. So far, the U.S. has given tens of billions of dollars worth of aid to Ukraine far more than any other country, most of it is for military and humanitarian purposes. But Ukraine has other less publicized needs as well from our European desk, marketplaces Stephen beard reports on the cultural resistance to the Russian invasion. In a subway station in Kyiv, scores of people shelter from a Russian missile attack. And a burst impromptu into a Ukrainian folk song. This says theater producer Viktor ruban is another form of resistance. The aim of this war is destroying the culture and the language and the identity of Ukrainians, which doesn't fit in the Soviet box that Russia is trying to put everybody back to. Rubin, co producer of this dystopian drama about war says that he and his fellow artists are performing an important role asserting the Ukraine in identity that Putin is trying to flatten. But artists like Ruben get a lot of their funding from the government and early in the war officials delivered a difficult though understandable message. They immediately wrote that we are sorry, but we have to give our budget to the army. So there will be no funding for the independent scene for this year. Funding for the performing arts has been cut by a 100% for the independence and more than 50% for the state sector. That's the big theaters opera houses and ballet companies, Bart says independent theater director Alex borovets, the vast majority of companies are still in business. We were able to survive only by the private donations from our Friends, theater makers and international supporters. We got a lot of support from UK from Europe from USA, but on the private. Many theater buildings have been damaged in the war others have been turned into centers for humanitarian aid, while the companies of relocated to smaller makeshift premises often underground, performances curtailed by the curfews disrupted by the constant blackouts. And interrupted by the frequent air raids, but says borovsky, the companies have kept going. Yes, Ukrainian theaters do have a lot of hardships and troubles. But at the same time, every Ukrainian theater put up new productions even in 2022. Yeah. Yeah. Productions of every genre, this one called Putin's trial examines the impact of autocracy while this one. Yeah. Here's a lighthearted, fast that's played to tiny audiences of around 30 in a cellar under a theater not far from the front of the war with Russia. This production called Agora looks to the future and explores the kind of society Ukraine will become after the war. This song by the way is in Greek underlining Ukraine's openness to other cultures, except one which is definitely out of bounds as culture organizer Veronica Scalia rover. No Ukrainian theater or concert producer. She says, we'll touch any Russian material, however, transcended. She says it's all been irredeemably tainted by the invasion. This culture and they have this foundation and they came here to kill their coming here raping Ukrainian women killing our kids. There is no space for Russian culture for anyone. And that includes tchaikovsky and Tolstoy. Definitely and tchaikovsky and Tolstoy. Ukrainian artists are mostly looking westward now, not least for financial support, producer Viktor ruban has raised around a $130,000 from the U.S. and Europe to help his struggling colleagues. Theater director Alex borowski says in the welcome drive to pour money into repelling the Russian military, donors should not forget the arts. What are we fighting for? If that's not the culture, if that's not the art if that's not the future. Call it the second front against the Russians, Ukraine's very own culture war. At the European desk, I'm
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"Coming up. What are we fighting for? If that's not the art, if that's not the future. Art, as resistance, but first, let's do the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave back 336 points, 1% to finish at 32,816, the NASDAQ was off 195 points, one in 7 tenths percent to end at 11,394. The S&P 500 shed 42 points, 1% to close at 39 70 for the week, the Dow fell 3%, the NASDAQ slipped three and three tenths percent, the S&P 500 subtracted two and 7 tenths percent, worst week of the year so far. Justin Ho was telling us about consumers spending more freely last month, even as their savings rose, looking at some retail stocks, target, added 8 tenths percent Walmart grew a quarter percent, bond prices fell the yield on the ten year Tina rose to 3.95%. You're listening to marketplace. Don't you love that sound? It's the best kind of notification. The sound of another sale on Shopify. The moment another business dream becomes a reality. Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of businesses worldwide. No matter what it is your business is selling, Shopify simplifies selling online and in person so you can focus on successfully growing your business. They have the tools that cover every element of your business from in person POS to ecommerce to social media promotion. And thanks to 20 four 7 help and an extensive business course library, Shopify is there to support your success every step of the way. So get serious about selling with Shopify's industry leading tools and take control over your business and your brand with endless possibilities powered by Shopify, sign up for a $1 per month trial at Shopify dot com slash marketplace all lower case, go to Shopify dot com slash marketplace to take your business to the next level today. Shopify dot com slash marketplace. Actually, you don't need vision to do most things in life. George Marriott develops software for BDO. Yes, I'm legally blind, and yes, I'm responsible for the user interface. Blindness is constantly about problem solving. How are you going to navigate a room that you have never been in and you don't know what the layout is? George's visual impairment helps him design screens that are easy to use. It translates into the user interface. Because you have to be very observant of the information that you're presenting a user. If I can see it and understand it quickly, anyone can. Whatever the project, George never loses sight of the goal. It's all about helping accountants make decisions, so if they can pick it up and run with it, if it's intuitive and it's helping make their lives easier. I think that's the most rewarding thing. Making complex things clear. That's how I help people thrive. Learn more at video dot com. People who know no video. This is marketplace. I'm Amy Scott. Ever since the cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed late last year calls for more regulation of the industry have been getting louder. Congress has talked about regulation, but with that body's current partisan makeup, legislation isn't likely. That leaves sorting out what to do to federal regulatory agencies. Yesterday, three of those agencies got together to warn banks about the risks of crypto related deposits. Marketplaces Kimberly Adams has more. This is the second statement on crypto in as many months from the Federal Reserve, the federal deposit insurance corporation, and the office of the controller of the currency. The bank regulators are focused on the interconnections between crypto and traditional banks. Timothy masset is director of the digital assets policy project at Harvard and former chair of the commodity futures trading commission. And they have wanted to limit those so as to protect the traditional banking system. He says those limits are why regulators believe the FTX fiasco didn't cause more damage to the economy. Now, the agencies are highlighting liquidity risks when it comes to crypto. Ananya Kumar tracks cryptocurrency regulation globally at the Atlantic council and says none of this technically is new regulation of crypto. So the way that these agencies are engaging in this is through their supervisory capacity as regulators of traditional financial institutions, not as regulators of crypto because it's unclear just who can regulate the crypto industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the commodity futures trading commission when we talk about some of the other agencies namely the SEC and CFTC. In this space, we know that there's an ongoing turf war. Jared loadholt works on crypto issues at the law firm ice Miller. He says banking regulators don't have that problem. They're very clearly defined lines who does what between the FDIC, the OCC and the Federal Reserve. And they aren't saying banks can't or shouldn't get into crypto, but
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"Okay, we've talked about saving and spending one more piece of the consumer picture comes today from the University of Michigan, whose consumer sentiment index hit a 13 month high in February, though it's still below the historical average. How people are feeling about the economy can affect how they shop. So it seems like a good time to check in with one of our retail regulars. Philip Rollins runs off beat, a record and comic book store in Jackson, Mississippi. This is right now at offbeat is going pretty well. We've had some busy days of starting to pick up. A lot of people have been buying records for like the sweetheart and stuff for Valentine's Day, so we had a big boost in that, and we started doing events again to, you know, help drive customers to come into the shop more and working with record labels as well for artists such as paramore and the gorillas and then we have our showings openings coming up as well too. Inventory right now, we're pretty, pretty stacked, honestly. I did some hover ordering, which is something I honestly need to stop doing. But kind of really preparing for record store day and free comic book day. Those are two big days coming up in April and May. And so I want to make sure I have enough product in for those days. But as of right now, I'm doing like weekly sales to kind of curb some of the bloat that I have in the shop right now. 'cause it is a little bit too much. At this moment because we have more stuff coming in weekly. As of right now, the biggest challenge would be just really still trying to get the name of the shop out there. I've been working with some college kids and started learning a student influencer program to where they can help tell other students about the shop and what we offer here and provide and being, you know, just more than a shot, but also a place for them to hang out. So there's a big disconnect between college students and businesses and a lot of college students really think there's nothing to do or nothing or the city has nothing to offer, which isn't true at all. Over the next year, I'm kind of anxious to see what's going to happen with this location. In a couple of weeks we have big Saint Patrick's Day parade. Here in the city and I'm think I'm close to the parade route. So I'm going to get some overflow like walk in foot traffic during that event, but yeah, I'm curious to see what would actually happen during that time. That's really it. I'm just kind of preparing to see what else you know being in this new location is offering and what else I can do as far as teaching people more about records and comics and the communities
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"Have to watch. Yeah. Well, we'll end there on a sad note, but an appropriate one, I think. So deep ready is a Politico, Catherine rampell is at The Washington Post. Thank you both so much and have a good weekend. Thanks, Amy. Great weekend. On Wall Street today, down, down, and more down. We'll have the details when
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"ukrainian" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"In Baltimore, I'm Amy Scott in for Kai riz doll. It's Friday, February 24th, good to have you with us. Today's message that the fed has more work to do to bring down inflation comes from the commerce department and its personal consumption expenditures index, which shows that inflation rose 6 tenths of a percent in January, more than expected for the year prices were up 4.7%. And that's where we'll start our weekly wrap with Catherine rampell at The Washington Post and sudeep Reddy at Politico. Welcome back to both of you. Hi, Amy. So Sadiq, for about a month there, we were talking about disinflation that is slower inflation. What happened? You know, I saw the numbers this morning at that. This is a hot mess. But then upon reflection would maybe call it a warm mess, but it's still a mess regardless. It always seemed foolish to think that this inflation problem was going to go away with a straight line down. It's obviously not going to. We've moved as we've discussed many times from the goods inflation, the whole problem with supply chains and ships and everything. Two services inflation, which gets more embedded in the economy, and we've seen this like a train of fed speakers in the last week come out and say, this is going to be a battle that goes on for some time. They say they're not going to let up, which is why the stock market adjusted in response to it. But they get really can't let up. This is not a battle you want to screw around with. And so they know that. And they need to beat the inflation dragon before it starts devouring more of the economy. We've got a warm mass, an inflation dragon, lots of good metaphors to get us going. So Catherine, we knew the fed wasn't going to let up. They've been indicating as much. But given the news today, they're meeting in less than a month from now. How does that change the calculation? Well, I mean, it is puzzling that after whatever it is 8 consecutive rate hikes were not seeing more disinflation more air coming out of the tires, the dragon slain or whatever metaphor you want to use. You know, I think the best possible scenario, the most optimistic way to read these numbers is maybe they're distorted by some weird seasonality. And like you shouldn't take them at face value. I mean, it's one month of data. You never want to read too much into one month of data. And there were some weird things January was an unusually warm month. And so that's what I mean by the seasonal adjustments could have been kind of wacky. But the best possible scenario being that the numbers are wrong is really not a great place to be. And I can imagine that the fed is probably not super happy with the trends that we've seen so far. And there will be more pressure. Set officials to actually a little bit more aggressively in the months ahead. Sudeep, what else is the fed weighing? I mean, we've seen this inflation number, obviously the job market has remained strong, but we did learn this week that GDP grew more slowly in the fourth quarter. Are there any other signs that fed policy, longer term is actually working to cool off the economy? Yeah, the weird problem for the fed right now is that the economy is actually pretty strong. For all the times in the last 15 years, we've talked about trouble in the economy. The economy is in a good place. It's fairly decent economic growth. There are all sorts of potential distortions in that. Obviously, this ridiculously strong job growth that we saw last month. I'm sure it will moderate before long. But the job market is holding up. So for the economy overall, for all of the beating that the economy has taken from the fed for it to be holding up this well is remarkable. I think it's surprising to all of us. This is Catherine said, it's just surprising. And so for the fed that just means they have to keep pushing and make sure that it does not turn into a disaster that they have to clean up later. But it does leave the soft landing question, but it also just opens the door to the possibility that this will be a very long road of dealing with the inflation problem. So one place where we have seen higher interest rates doing their job essentially cooling demand has been in housing and Catherine, I wanted to talk to you about that because we had news this week that sales of existing homes fell for the 12th month in a row, it's been a full year now, but new home sales have actually been picking up the past few months. And there is talk that maybe we're at or near the bottom. What do you think there? I mean, the housing market is the mo is arguably the most interest rate sensitive part of the economy, at least the fed is trying to influence right now. And the interest rates do seem to be doing their job. In the sense of bringing down home prices, bringing down the quantity of sales. To your question about what's going on with new home sales going up versus existing home sales going down. I wonder if that's partly just about the supply rather than demand for new homes that supply was really constrained for a long time. It was difficult to build. It was difficult to get garage doors and labor. And everything else that goes into building a home. So maybe given how long it took to build stuff, there's things actually finally coming on the market that are selling, you know, that it's really just about the people who were there to buy last year are finally able to buy. It could be that builders might respond more quickly to shocks like changes in interest rates, you know, they're borrowing short term, they're paying attention to the cost of capital. Maybe if you are selling an existing home, you haven't really adjusted your expectations. For what sales price is reasonable. So there's weird stuff going on, but I think the general trend in the housing market is that as it gets more expensive to borrow, that's going to weigh on prices. And we will probably, I think we will probably see house prices come down more. I don't think we've bottomed yet to answer your question. Yeah. Well, hopefully that means affordability improves for some people who've been cut out of the market. Before I let you two go on everyone's mind today, of course, it's been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine and the human toll is absolutely devastating. Some estimates say more than 300,000 people have been killed or wounded, millions more have been displaced. And sudeep, I wonder if you can talk about the sort of global economic impact of this war yesterday we had a piece on about food insecurity. This is affected food prices and energy prices, not just in Europe, but around the world. There are absolutely so many knock on effects. We dealt with the chaos of the pandemic and what that did to global trade and now we're obviously this is very different with Russia and its sanctions have been very targeted. The global particularly the U.S. and EU sanctions have been targeted. What we're seeing here, though, is the classic story of food and energy prices and a region that is important. It is remarkable a year later that we have not seen absolute devastation in energy markets. That is, I think, for the people who have been enacting sanctions, the success story here is that they did not wreck the global economy as a result of it, but this war is not over. They have not won it's ongoing and there are still all sorts of things hanging over us in the region and you hear about China and Iran and all the other players getting involved. And that's just going to hang over sentiment for a while because it's a risk factor that's kind of lurking in the background that will all
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
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Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
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"On this holiday, we're revisiting an episode we aired shortly after the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A war that has disrupted and ended many lives and destroyed homes, infrastructure, whole communities. But at the time, the cultural heritage of Ukraine was also at high risk. Some Ukrainian museum websites went offline as the servers hosting them lost connections or were destroyed in attacks. To prevent that information and cultural memory from disappearing entirely, more than a thousand archivists programmers and librarians volunteered to form a group called saving Ukrainian cultural heritage online, or such. They've been recording an archiving these websites before they go offline. Is an academic technology specialist at Stanford University who's been working on this project. Digital cultural heritage, I think, is an outgrowth of the way that the Internet has worked and people have developed websites for museums and for libraries and for archives that feature 3D models of particularly special objects, high resolution images, things like digitized texts and manuscripts that they talk about the history of Ukraine and we want to make sure that those materials continue to be available and continue to be presented in the way that they're a curator is intended. So how are you archiving these pages? We are sending URLs to the Internet archives wayback machine. We're also using an open-source software called web recorder. And what rubber corner does is it captures high fidelity versions of a website just as if a person we're navigating it. So with web recorder, we're able to capture virtual tours where you can walk through a museum. And these are things that are traditionally very difficult to capture through web archives, but web recorder allows us to do that. So can you give an example of a website that's been archived as part of the project and how it looked before and how people might experience it now? One of the sites that we've archived is the national museum of Ukrainian folk decorative art, a beautiful site with images of pottery and folk art and cultural manifestations. Dating back for centuries. And while the site is still up, thankfully, we have seen sites go down even shortly after we finish our archiving of them. And with the versions of the archive that we've created with web recorder, people will be able to navigate the site and browse through it and experience the content, the images as if the site were live, even if it goes down and ends up being irretrievable. What are some of the obstacles that you and your team and the volunteers are facing as you do this work? Honestly, it's time we have seen time running out on some of these sites with them going down shortly after their archived. Another challenge, though, is technical where our archiving crawls to the website where we load a whole bunch of pages at once and try to get through as much as the site as we can as quickly as possible. It's hard to differentiate that from a cyberattack from the server point of view. And so sometimes we have to slow down our rate of capturing pages to something that's more like a human level of browsing a site so that we don't get bounced from the site the way that they have sort of set up walls against legitimate cyberattacks. And why do you think it's important to do this work right now? Right now, understandably, everyone on the ground is too busy fighting for their survival to be worried about things like servers and documents. And things that are digital, there's a sense that they'll be preserved somewhere, and they don't need to worry about those. It's the same extent. So we're trying to be another node in that network of backups and support for the Ukrainian people. How do you want this archive to be used in the future? We really hope that it's not used. Nothing would make us happier than for all of these sites to remain safe for me on their original servers with their technical platforms. That said, if sites are destroyed, at least the way the site used to look is captured as an experience, but also we can extract some of the contents, the images that PDFs to help them reconstruct the sites. What's the risk if you don't do this work? That it's gone. It could be gone in the sense of servers being destroyed or worst case if the Russian government comes in and takes over these servers. There's the possibility of them subverting the message of these sites, making the argument that there isn't a Ukrainian national identity that is all Russian. Reframing the history of Ukraine as just another province of Russia and that's not something that we're okay with seeing heaven. Is an academic technology specialist at Stanford University.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"For Ukraine in the ongoing war against Russia Ukrainian officials are reporting a deadly Russian missile strike in the major seaport of Odessa a statement released on the city's official telegram channel said that infrastructure facilities were hit Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky said at least 5 people were killed including a young child Odessa is the third largest city in Ukraine The strike comes after Russian military officials said the goal of the invasion was to take quote full control of southern Ukraine in addition to the Donbass region That land grab would give Putin's army access to a separatist state in Moldova where Russian forces have been stationed since the 90s Police say a woman is under arrest for allegedly beating and throwing boiling water at an elderly woman during a home invasion in New York City Lisa Salvador has the latest 31 year old ebony Graham is facing charges which include attempted murder or robbery and assault CBS two reports the 89 year old victim was found by a relative on the floor of her apartment in the allerton section She was hospitalized with severe burns all over her body but they're not life threatening Police say Graham once inside the apartment demanded cash then poured boiling water on her and left with the woman's house keys The building has mostly seniors and some say a lock at the entrance is broken and they don't feel safe And President Biden is talking about his plans to reduce the cost of prescription drugs speaking at green river college in auburn Washington this week the president called on Congress to limit the price of insulin to $35 a month which is three times what it costs to make the drug Biden also wants to limit what seniors pay for prescription drugs He wants an oversight process for increases in drug prices And that's the very latest I'm Jim Forbes Police in Washington D.C. say the gunman in an apparent sniper attack is dead after wounding four people on Friday Two adults in a 12 year old child were shot and are in stable condition a fourth woman was grazed by a bullet investigators say 23 year old Raymond Spencer recorded the shooting on Friday and posted the video on social media He was found dead from an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound On earth day President Biden signed an executive order in Seattle park that says he will protect the nation's old growth forests Julie Ryan explains President Biden says the climate change crisis can't be ignored Speaking in Seattle during earth day Biden called it an opportunity to transition to a clean energy economy The president said that includes mass production of electric vehicles and charging stations across the U.S. Biden signed an executive order Friday on the changing climate effects on U.S. forests We're going to work with state and local and tribal governments.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"To be holding steady this Easter weekend The national average price for regular is at $4 and 7 cents a gallon for the third day in a row That's the latest I'm Julie Ryan Welcome back to Bloomberg opinion listeners As Russia's war in Ukraine passes its 50 day Mark I spoke with Ukrainian philosopher and chief editor of Ukraine world the latimer yera malenko to consider questions of Ukrainian identity and how it's changing as Ukrainians witness atrocities unthinkable just two months ago Also the very difficult questions that will face Ukraine in a future post war period Vladimir how do Ukrainians consider Russians these days the 144 million people not Russia the country are they aggressors victims Friends and family neighbors Most Ukrainians are saying that there is a kind of wool which is very difficult to get through because it seems that a big number of Russian support this war and don't really want to hear about the suffering produced by the Russian army And this is very difficult to understand of course So the increasing attitude to Russians is anger height very often and understandably so And Putin volodymyr if he were to be removed by his own people or an outside force would Russia look different Not sure not sure it will look different obviously the problem is not only put in himself and if there is a replacement for somebody else most probably will have the same personality or even worse personality Although it's difficult to imagine worse So Ukrainians do not have any illusion with regard to this We understand that Russia in its current form is seeing itself as a wounded empire which tries to regain what it understands its past glory and conquering Ukraine or even annihilating Ukraine Ukrainians independents And Ukrainian self consciousness is one of the key elements for restoring this empire So for us it's a real existential fight We understand that Russians want to conquer these territories and have the Ukraine without Ukrainians You wrote a thread attempting to put into words why Russians hate and dehumanize Ukrainians so much It's producing a lot of cognitive dissonance that Russia wants Ukraine to sort of come back into the cradle and at the same time there's so much hatred directed at Ukrainians I think we have to understand that Russia is not a nation It's an empire An illusion that sometimes you see it in America in Europe is to consider Russian consideration as a kind of a nation state where for example there are Russians living with certain homogeneity ethnic cultural linguistic et cetera It's not the case especially a continental empire which conquered so many different ethnicities which has its colonies inside its body So it also considered Ukrainians and revolutions as part of this kind of imperial body And when it for example sees Ukrainians saying that now look we are not Russians We are a different nation with different organizations of society culture language et cetera This produces very difficult feeling in Russia because it believes that Ukrainians and delusions and Russians is the same concept the same nation and every deviation from this Russian nation as they say is an example of Nazis So I think that they are lagging behind in developing their own nation identity They are concept of empire means that in part doesn't have borders in pi is always expanding Ukrainians develop this idea that while this is our land we have certain borders we don't want to go any further this borders but here inside our borders we organize our society in the way we like And we don't want to expand anywhere And so if Vladimir when people talk about a Soviet identity as a Ukrainian what does that make you think Is that relevant to the current Ukraine Well in Ukraine obviously there are people who have some kind of nostalgia about Soviet Union But much less than in Russia Russia really developed a political project of coming back to this glorious Soviet past Ukrainian political imagination is not centered on the past It centered on the future For Ukrainians to pass is a very traumatic thing So basically Russian slogan was we can do it again meaning the victory in the Second World War our major slogan is never again which is kind of a slogan also come up with Europeans Why Russians have developing this idea of ruskin or Russian world It's also an artificial construct to replace this idea of Soviet people There is a kind of artificial invention in which every particular group will be just assimilated into some kind of utopian Soviet people which is very much artificial Let's talk about NATO for a second Do Ukrainians accept that Ukraine can not be at least as the world is now part of NATO Well public opinion polls show support of NATO membership is very high It has never been as high as now over 70 80% But at the same time what is NATO NATO is a security guarantee And Ukrainians do need this because they are living with such a monster neighbor We understand that nature is composed of many different countries and you need consensus to get Ukraine into nature Maybe it's better to have bilateral security agreements with United States with United Kingdom with Poland The second thing is that Ukrainian army can be very efficient And in a way Ukraine can turn into kind of a security provider not only security recipient For other countries So I imagine for example Ukraine in the future to be a kind of a country which will share its military and security experience with other countries of the world Maybe with NATO members Do Ukrainians understand why Vladimir Putin might feel threatened by NATO No Ukrainians don't understand it We just look at the map of Russia and we can't understand how Russia can be encircled as they say or fear the attack of nature or whatever But the problem of Putin is that he creates a reality which he constructs in his imagination So can you propaganda was saying that Russia is not waging war with Ukraine on Ukrainian territory but the United States and NATO This was his propaganda for the past 8 ten years So basically Putin created a reality which he first invented in his head And now this is the reality that Ukrainians do have military support from the west Vladimir has the west lived up to its expectations and the eyes of Ukrainians particularly since Ukraine has always looked west has looked for leadership and guidance and inclusion Look Ukraine was not taking seriously all those years Our warnings were not heard So when we were telling the west that after Russian invasion of Georgia Ukraine will be next after Ukraine NATO countries will be next When Ukrainians were warning Europe that dependency on Russian gas and oil exports is very bad we were warning Europe at least since 2006 we were not very much hurt attentively And I think that Ukrainian self description is a kind of border land of the western civilization which is fighting against something Parvati and democratic And the enemy of the civilized democratic war This self description is now more and more accurate And therefore the west should stop looking for compromises.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"From the front lines at the Russia Ukraine border Richard Engel says the bullets are already flying These may be the opening shots of the war that could tear up the map of Europe Russian backed separatists fighting in a largely ignored conflict for 8 years against the Ukrainian government after dramatically stepped up artillery and mortar attack Firing on houses seemingly at random The invasion of Ukraine will be extremely violent according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan appearing on The Today Show Sullivan said should Russian tanks roll across the Ukraine border the loss of life will be devastating to both civilians and military personnel alike He also stated the invasion would be a war wage by Russia on the Ukrainian people intended to repress and crush them The shocker's convoy protesting COVID mandates may be headed for Washington D.C. the people's convoy had been hinting at a possible D.C. rally to coincide with President Biden's State of the Union address on March 1st That's the latest I'm Lisa Taylor And I'm Karen chase From the Bloomberg newsroom U.S. stock markets are dark today for the president's day holiday They will reopen tomorrow but overseas markets were open today and dropping The FTSE in London closed down 32 points the cac and Paris was down 154 two and a half percent of its value the Dax in Germany closed down 321 Also more than 2% of its value Credit Suisse managed to counts for clients involved in human rights abuses corruption and drug trafficking according to newspaper reports based on leaked data An anonymous whistleblower gave the information to journalists The report covers accounts open from the 1940s until well into the last decade and some of the accounts reportedly remain open Credit Suisse denies it saying the information is based on partial data taken out of context Hold on to your breakfast bowl Rice Krispies are the latest victim of global supply chain troubles Bloomberg's Charlie palette has the nuts so delicious details Karen shoppers around the country have taken to social media to probe the absence of the Kellogg cereal brand from their grocery store shelves the company confirms the problem citing a temporary shortage due to manufacturing constraints in a statement on Twitter Rice Krispies said quote we do not have an estimated date on when it will be back in stock but we can assure you we're working as fast as we can to get it back on store shelves Karen Agriculture secretary Tom vilsack says some recent price increases with the result of businesses taking advantage of the pandemic and supply chain disruptions to push up food costs Food prices have soared globally in the past year as economies recover from the pandemic amid a jump and energy and fertilizer costs Transporters are also struggling to cope with the extra demand for goods leading to huge delays at ports Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Karen chase And this is Bloomberg.